At 08:52 AM 6/26/2009, you wrote:
the following from wiki:
Throughout Greek thought, there appear to be two sides to the
conception of Eros;
in the first, he is a primeval deity who embodies not only the force
of erotic love
but also the creative urge of ever-flowing nature, the firstborn
Light for the
coming into being and ordering of all things in the cosmos. In
Hesiod's Theogony,
the most famous Greek creation myth, Eros sprang forth from the
primordial Chaos
together with Gaea, the Earth, and Tartarus, the underworld;
according to Aristophanes'
play The Birds (c. 414 BC), he burgeons forth from an egg laid by
Nyx (Night) conceived
with Erebus (Darkness). In the Eleusinian Mysteries, he was
worshiped as Protogonus,
the first-born.
The Birds is a comedy, and I thought the Eleusinian Mysteries were
still pretty much a mystery. Are those damn scholars making up
stories again!!!
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