Hiding in the Odyssey

This is nothing new to those who have studied the Odyssey and and have a knowledge of Greek, but I have just a smattering of Greek so it struck me as fascinating. The word Apocalupsis (from which our English word Revelation is taken) means unveiling or unhiding. This immediately has eschatalogical implications that I am not even going to consider here. At the beginning of the Odyssey, Odysseus is on the island of Kalypso. Kalypso, is a root of Apocalypse. Let's go ahead and put two and two together here. Odysseus is hidden while he is on the island of Kalypso and he begins going through an Apocalypse, or an unhiding, from the moment he heaves the island.
Initially he is reluctant to reveal much about himself. On the island of the Phaiakians, he only reveals his identity after Demodokus' song affects him deeply. When he first arrives back on Ithaka, he is disguised by Athene and slowly reveals himself to Eumaios, Telemachos, and finally the entire household. The revealing of Odysseus is an event that is built toward throughout the poem. As he is slowly revealed, order begins to be re-established in Ithaka.
What does this tell us about our own quest for anonymity? We know that God established a Church through His son, not a mass of individual believers. Peter refers to each of us as living stones (1 Peter 2:5). Paul's favorite analogy is of body parts that must work together for the mutual edification of the whole man. No single part is independent of the others.
The world is in chaos at the beginning of the Odyssey, while Odysseus is hidden. As he is revealed, order begins to be established. If we find our world in chaos and the church ineffectual, perhaps we should examine our own level of hidden-ness. Perhaps we need to be revealed as children of the living God and then act that way. Perhaps then, like in the Odyssey, order would be restored. Perhaps we have hidden from the world far too long.