Wednesday February 14

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!

'What dreams may come'

LOVE: many different meanings to the one word

you can love your dog, family, significant 'otter' or even chocolate, but they don't all mean the same thing

Aphrodite: Venus, the goddess of love, she was so beautiful that she left you weak in the knees (which makes you collapse because you are just in the presence of them)

She was the mother of Eros, who was the male equivalent of her. He was also known as Cupid, and not the Cupid we know, a beautiful male-god.

Hesiod

Aphrodite Urania: born from Uranos, possesses the pure, spiritual, platonic type of love

Aphrodite Pandemos: the goddess of physical love, who has the power of erotic possession

Cupid and psyche

November 7th is the anniversary of the symposium

soulmate: the one who completes your soul

Hetaera: courtesans and Geisha

Ishtar: Aphrodite => 'ritual prostitution'

The trilogy of Oedipus:

1. Oedipus
2. Oedipus at Colonus
3. Antigone

'Everything is tragic' ~1st Buddhist truth

'It is best never to have been born at all, next best to die young, and that old age is the worst that can befall man" ~Oedipus at Colonus

Lawrence Welk