[MD] Love as Quality

[MarshaV]

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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