![]() ![]() Aphrodite is the divine goddess whose powers are inflected throughout the world as the power of love, of the dynamics of the energy represented by Eros, who is Aphrodite’s child and a major deity of the classical pantheon – in Plato’s Symposium he is the original god of the world. And, in effect, many goddesses, each one with Her own coherence, integrity, and task.Īs Campbell writes in Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine:Īs I have said, every one of these goddesses is the whole Goddess, and the others are inflections of her powers. There is “archetype as concept” and there is “archetype as true Intuition.” And we can detect from our honed, intuitive faculty that there are many forms and expressions of Her. The goddess as an archetype can be proposed (if not also actually disclosed) by experience: through the faithful and skilled observation of our inner experience. ![]() Or as a side character in a metaverse game. Or She may appear in literature as a poetic figure. At best, the goddess is an interesting, curio relic within religious history and mythology. In our physicalist, rationalist, demythologized, deconstructed and utterly modern world there is but little space in our mental field for what is deemed to be spurious, goddess notions. ![]() Original photo by Jan van der Crabben used under CC 4.0. and now found at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Borghese Dancers: a marble relief depicting the Hours, the goddesses of time in Greek Mythology, accompanied by the Graces. ![]()
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