Pure Heaven feels sexual desire for the Land;Earth is gripped by love for marital union.Rain pouring
Pure Heaven feels sexual desire for the Land;Earth is gripped by love for marital union.Rain pouring down in streams from Heavenquickens Earth and she bears for mortalsthe pasture for herds and Demeter’s bounty;from this moist marriage the tree’s ripe fruitis made perfect. Of these things I am the cause.Aphrodite describes how her power to induce sexual desire brings about the fertility of the land through the sacred marriage of Earth and Heaven. From a fragment of The Danaids, a lost tragedy by Aeschylus.Source: Greek and Roman Sexualities: A Source Book by Jennifer Larson. -- source link
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