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Gender and the Cosmic Shift
Natural History Museum of Bern, Switzerland is currently running an exhilarating, colourful exhibition called “Queer – Diversity is in our Nature.” The thesis of the curators seems to be that the animal kingdom is rich and diverse with numerous examples … Continue reading →
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Tagged androgyne, archetypes, Chaos, gender, gender bending, gender fluid, Greek myth, Hermaphroditus, identity, LGBT, love, Metamorphoses, nature, non-binary, Ovid, Plato, quantum entanglement, Salmacis, shifting identities, symbolism, symbols, Symposium
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Wanderings of Spirit: Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”
The joyful, anti-didactic spirit of Ovid’s Metamorphoses has always been close to my heart. As I have come across a new, modern translation by Charles Martin, I have decided to reread this timeless classic. I always remembered that Shakespeare loved … Continue reading →
Posted in Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Tagged change, Charles Martin, constancy, Greek myth, Metamorphoses, Ovid, Pythagoras, Scott Moncrieff, Soul, unity
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