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By Martini Fisher Posted on 16 Nov 201820 Feb 2021

Huitzilopochli: the Birth of a War God

… the spirit of her unborn infant came and spoke to her and gave her words of encouragement, soothing her troubled heart.

Categories: mythologyTags: aztec, aztec mythology, mexico, mythology, war, war god

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In Plato’s Symposium (c. 385–370 BCE), Socrates mentions that, in his youth, he was taught “the philosophy of love” by a woman named Diotima, a priestess from Mantinea. She taught Socrates the concept of love as a means of ascent to contemplation of the divine, arguing that the goal of love is immortality, either through the creation of children or beautiful things. This is an ancient concept. So ancient, in fact, that there are many love stories that were so great that they gave birth to changes in the world and new knowledges that we take for granted today.

Conspiracy plate against the evil goddess Lamashtu, called "Plaque of the Hells". Neo-assyrian time. She is right at the centre.

Durga, riding on her lion, attacking Mahisasur.

A Balinese dancer wearing the mask of Rangda (1929).

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