S O U L M A T E Z A R E B A C K I N S T Y L E

So apparently back in the beginning timez, people were not just pink or blue. There were men, there were women, and then there were the Androgyne. Basically, this was a man and a woman, back to back. They had all their parts and were completely alike, but one sort of circular body.

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Tha man was the child of the Sun, and the man-woman was of the moon, which is made up of sun and earth. They were round, and moved like their parents (because planets are basically big circle spheres) so they rolled around.

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Androgyne were greedy though, and they were very powerful (imagine a man and a woman in one body, every strength and every weakness balanced out) and they dared to scale the heavens, and made an attack on the Gods.

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The Gods took council and Zeus discovered a way to humble their pride and improve their manners. They would continue to exist, but he cut them in two.

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After the division, the two parts, each wanting the other half, came together throwing their arms around one another, intertwined in mutual embraces, longing to grow into one; they were on the point of dying from hunger and self-neglect because they did not like to do anything apart; and when one of the halves died and the other survived, the survivor sought a mate, man or woman, as we call them--and clung to that.

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They were just destroying themselves when Zeus, in pity of them, invented a new plan. He turned the parts of generation round to the front, for this had not always been their position, and they sowed the seed no longer as hitherto like grasshoppers, in the ground, but in one another. After the transposition the male generated in the female in order that by mutual embraces of man and woman they might breed and the race might continue or if man came to man they might be satisfied and rest. and go their ways to the business of life: so ancient if the desire of one another which is implanted within us, reuniting our original nature, making one of two, and healing the state of man.

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Each of us, when separated, having one side only, like a flat fish, is but the indenture of a man, and is always looking for his other half. When one of them meets with the other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment. These are the people who pass their whole lives together yet they could not explain what they desire of one another. For the intense yearning which each of them has for the other does not appear to be the desire of lovers' intercourse, but of something else which the soulof either evidently desires and cannot tell, and of which she has only a dark and doubtful presentiment.

((Most/all of this is directly copied from the link provided. I changed a few words and took out ellipses, just because that's how I roll.))

I think this is an amazing and beautiful way to look at like. It's an idea and belief I've always had, but never knew a word for. I'm so glad to know it's not just something

I M A D E U P I N M Y H E A D.

Enjoy.

The Androgyne :

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