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 Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:25 pm
Okay, so I heard for the first time by my boyfriend cause he read it on some facebook image thingg..
Heres what he told me not word for word: "In Greek Mythology their people use to have two heads and two arms and two legs, and were split into two somehow and someway. The person you end up with as a lover and spouse in life is this person who is your other half, leading back to the two bodies one soul thing from the start."
First i heard of this. Was wondering if this is for real somewhere and I just missed it? Or made up. eek
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:29 pm
We learned that when we studied Mythology in English 9 too. Might be true, though I would check with those who know more about it.
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:31 pm
LOL! Okay, I wasn't suree. xD I just thought my boyfriend was BSing me or something. I'll have to check this out.
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 7:59 am
I've seen a different version of that floating around but let me ask Zane to see if he knows anything about it. Edit: Ok found the version I've seen Quote: “According to greek mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.” -Plato As for if its true or not I'm still looking. Zane's currently at work Bit of summarized context for the quote that I found: Quote: He at first skips his turn because of a bout of hiccups. His speech has become a focus of subsequent scholarly debate, as his contribution has been seen as mere comic relief, and sometimes as satire: the creation myth he puts forward to account for heterosexuals and homosexuals may be read as poking fun at the myths of man origin numerous in classical Greek mythology. Before launching his speech, Aristophanes warns the group that his eulogy to love may be more absurd than funny. His speech is an explanation of why people in love say they feel "whole" when they have found their love partner. He begins by explaining that people must understand human nature before they can interpret the origins of love and how it affects the then present time. It is, he says, because in primal times people had doubled bodies, with faces and limbs turned away from one another. As somewhat spherical creatures who wheeled around like clowns doing cartwheels (190a), these original people were very powerful. There were three sexes: the all male, the all female, and the "androgynous," who was half male, half female. The males were said to have descended from the sun, the females from the earth and the androgynous couples from the moon. The creatures tried to scale the heights of heaven and planned to set upon the gods (190b-c). Zeus thought about blasting them to death with thunderbolts, but did not want to deprive himself of their devotions and offerings, so he decided to cripple them by chopping them in half, in effect separating the two bodies. Zeus then commanded Apollo to turn their faces around and pulled the skin tight and stitched it up to form the navel which he chose not to heal so Man would always be reminded of this event. Ever since that time, people run around saying they are looking for their other half because they are really trying to recover their primal nature. The women who were separated from women run after their own kind, thus creating lesbians. The men split from other men also run after their own kind and love being embraced by other men (191e). He says some people think homosexuals are shameless, but he thinks they are the bravest, most manly of all (192a), and that many heterosexuals are adulterous men and unfaithful wives (191e). Aristophanes then claims that when two people who were separated from each other find each other, they never again want to be separated (192c). This feeling is like a riddle, and cannot be explained. Aristophanes ends on a cautionary note. He says that men should fear the gods, and not neglect to worship them, lest they wield the axe again and we have to go about with our noses split apart (193a). If man works with the god of Love, they will escape this fate and instead find wholeness.
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 9:33 am
So the story exists by in all likelihood is not an actual traditional myth. Personally I find it interesting but flawed as it fails to account for polyamourous relationships like my own. Also there's a really cool video to go along with it from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zU3U7E1Odc
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 8:48 pm
It also doesn't explain bisexuals either.
And Zane's never heard it before. So...
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 9:54 pm
The creation myth in Hesiod's Theogeny has women being created later as a punishment for Prometheus stealing fire.
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 10:27 pm
I've been reading Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Mythology off and on and they talk about that mythos. Can't find the book though and it's driving me crazy!
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 10:29 pm
Yay for us being punishment?
I just wasn't sure if it was actual "canon" or not. I must spend too much time with my head in Egyptian mythology cat_rofl
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 10:35 pm
CalledTheRaven So the story exists by in all likelihood is not an actual traditional myth. Personally I find it interesting but flawed as it fails to account for polyamourous relationships like my own. Also there's a really cool video to go along with it from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. That]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zU3U7E1OdcThat part of the movie always bugged me.
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 12:19 am
Sanguina Cruenta The creation myth in Hesiod's Theogeny has women being created later as a punishment for Prometheus stealing fire. To my recollection wasn't that the whole point of Pandora?
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 12:20 am
Salmenella CalledTheRaven So the story exists by in all likelihood is not an actual traditional myth. Personally I find it interesting but flawed as it fails to account for polyamourous relationships like my own. Also there's a really cool video to go along with it from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. That]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zU3U7E1OdcThat part of the movie always bugged me.Whyfor?
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 1:06 am
CalledTheRaven Salmenella CalledTheRaven So the story exists by in all likelihood is not an actual traditional myth. Personally I find it interesting but flawed as it fails to account for polyamourous relationships like my own. Also there's a really cool video to go along with it from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. That]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zU3U7E1OdcThat part of the movie always bugged me. Whyfor?Mixing deities into a Greek/Roman mythos. Thor was not in that story, nor was any Hindu deity.
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 10:37 am
CalledTheRaven Sanguina Cruenta The creation myth in Hesiod's Theogeny has women being created later as a punishment for Prometheus stealing fire. To my recollection wasn't that the whole point of Pandora? From what I read yes
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 12:14 pm
Salmenella CalledTheRaven Salmenella That part of the movie always bugged me. Whyfor? Mixing deities into a Greek/Roman mythos. Thor was not in that story, nor was any Hindu deity. I can understand that. At the time I didn't realize that was it's origin though, as I'd never heard it before so it never bothered me.
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