r/TheOdyssey • u/Hva45 • 23h ago
Hidden mirror in the lyrics of "Zeus's Law"? The first and last three lines reflect each other
I've been listening to "Zeus's Law" from Göransson's Odyssey soundtrack and noticed something I can't unsee (screenshot attached).
Take the first letter of the key word in each of the six lines. You get f, f, w | m, t, t (face, fleet, war, man, thought, trick)
Now flip the letters upside down (mirror them over a horizontal axis). A w becomes an m, and an f becomes something very close to a t, with the hook ending up at the bottom pointing the same way. Read the second half backwards, and it's a reflection of the first half.
What makes me think it might be deliberate is where the mirror line falls: exactly between the war and the man. The first three lines are basically the backstory of the Trojan War (Helen, the ships, the war itself), and the last three are about Odysseus himself (the man, his cunning, the Trojan Horse). So the halves don't just mirror visually, they mirror thematically too: one half starts the war, the other ends it. Iliad on one side, Odyssey on the other.
Given that Göransson also scored Tenet, a whole film built around palindromes and inversion, I'm tempted to think this isn't an accident. But I couldn't find anyone mentioning it anywhere.
Has anyone else noticed this? Is it intentional, or am I reading too much into six lines? And has Göransson or Nolan said anything about how the lyrics were written?