Soul mates refer me to the androgynous myth. Greek mythology says there were originally three sexes: male, female and their union. They had four arms and four legs. They also had a head with two opposite faces and a rounded shape.
They could walk back and forth, they had immense power and they could also ride. The andromyns were: male (andros) and female (gynecologists). These near-perfect beings, children of the Sun, Earth, and Moon, became ambitious and wanted to become equal to the gods, but Zeus (the God of Olympus) decided to teach them a lesson, split them in half like apples, and while Apollo turned their faces forward, so that they would look forever at the amputated part, and molded and sewed them.
- Then they became similar to the first two sexes (male and female).
- However.
- They were no longer complete.
- Caused these people to die of hunger and despair.
- Embraced and stayed like this until death.
- The first to die made the other lose in the world.
- And without his half.
- He ended up dying too.
But Zeus (God) is merciful and, having mercy on the creatures, then turned their reproductive parts that were with their backs to the new forehead where their faces were now so that, in a hug, they could join again. Once they copulated with the earth (Mother Nature) they could now copulate with each other, but the soul would know that only the encounter with their first half in a hug would free them from eternal desire and search.
And that’s our story. One day we were perfect, full and whole, powerful bearers of the love that only God has today. We split in two and learned what is lack, desire, we live the incessant search for the embrace of our soul mates that will make us feel complete again.
This is the myth of Andr-gino and is in the “Banquet”, written by the philosopher Plato. Myths are not folklore, nor fables. Myths come from the collective unconscious, come from our intuition and become tales, which perhaps refers to heterosexual couples.
In fact, the myth of soul mates was created by Plato, who in his book?The banquet? Try to define what love is. And in this quest, many guests to a party, each at once, praise the god Eros (god of love). One of the most fascinating moments of the text is when the comedian Aristophanes speaks, who makes a beautiful speech and has been immortalized. as a soul mate theory.
Every time I mention this story, I am always asked how mythology explains same-sex couples, you see, here two hypotheses can be accepted, the first is that they do not belong to the shared human species, after all, the myth refers to the existence of three sexes at first, then homosexuals would be the existing species, male and female.
There is also the reincarnationist hypothesis that clearly shows us that we occupy the male and female bodies according to the evolutionary march.
The truth is that there are myths to explain our feelings and behaviors using poetic language, this myth, in particular, always has a lot of meaning for humanity because at all times, in stories, legends and also in real life, human beings relate pain. of desire and the search for half that can finally bring them the meaning of an entire existence and peace in a hug.
Life is not a joke, friend. Life is the art of meeting. Although there is so much disagreement in life. There is always a woman who awaits you with eyes full of affection And hands full of forgiveness. Put love in your life.
? Vinicius de Moraes?