Olympus
One of these days, I don't know why, I asked myself how would a relationship have been between Socrates and Kant. Imagine if they had lived at the same time, imagine if they had been close, imagine if they had agreed to write together one single book... Imagine that was possible and ask: how would it be?
And after I asked aloud: And if Socrates and Kant had a love relationship? How would it be? And then, logically, Adverb asked:
- A homosexual relationship?
And I answered:
- Well, that idea did not even cross my mind.
And the fact is, it hadn't. Because to me a love relationship doesn't have to be necessarily between a man and a woman, and it doesn't have to be necessarily a sexual relationship. To me the world only needs two human beings to build a love or a hate relationship. What about procreation? Well, I don't want to talk about that now. And I got lost in my own thoughts until I remembered a beautiful story from Greek mythology about Hermaphrodite.
Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes and Aphrodite (yes, we know that Aphrodite was a very sensual lady and that she shared her bed with Hefesto, Dionysius and Poseidon) and he was the owner of a very rare beauty. One day, during his travels across Asia, he decided to take a bath in a fountain. There lived a nymph, Salamacis, who immediately fell in love with him and she asked the gods to link them forever. From that day on, they started to be one single person. And both became Hermaphrodite.
Very close to this is the Androgyny myth, invoked by Plato in the "Banquet". He tells us the story that in the beginning of time each person had both natures: masculine and feminine. But, and there is always a but, the gods were afraid of such beings and cut them in half. That's why now we have men and women.
And now I ask: Are we not similar to those gods sometimes? Don't we feel afraid of what is different, creating prejudices and dividing the world? I guess so. I just don't know how gods were so... Well, Olympus was a very interesting and paradoxical land...
See you.