HR!Day412 - Honoring the Goddess of Love

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On Valentines Day, we contemplate the Greek Goddess Aphrodite, the goddess of sexuality and love.

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What is love? We can approach this question from a mythological perspective and ask instead: who is love? When love is the Greek goddess Aphrodite, she cuts a colossal figure. Her crown is in heaven; her feet walk upon and fertilize the earth; and she plummets broken-hearted into the underworld—as low down as her heavenly ascent is high. Her underground and heavenly aspects were taken off the table in the Classical era and in Homeric verse, but we can piece her back together by reading between the lines, from local cults, pre-Homeric verse, Platonic dialogue, and by tracing her back to her eastern roots and further back to the great mother goddess. The method and magic of comparative mythology allows us to see Aphrodite, hence love, as simultaneously life-giving, death-bringing, and initiatory. Who among us has not been abducted, killed, transformed, and resurrected by Aphrodite? Today we linger awhile on the full stature of the goddess so we may accept her in her light and dark totality, and praise her for the entirety of her awesome mystery.

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  • Maryam Sayyad is a mythologist and designer. She earned undergraduate degrees in philosophy and art, a masters degree in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology, and is currently wrapping up a PhD in this field at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Convener:

  • Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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