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"This split in the masculine psyche and the regular darkening of the moon in woman together explain the remarkable fact that the woman is accused of all the darkness in a man, while he himself basks in the thought that he is a veritable fount of vitality and illumination for the females in his environment. The novilunium of woman is a source of countless disappointments for man which easily turns to bitterness, though they could equally well be a source of wisdom if they were understood."
-C.G. Jung
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MELIAE: Honey nymphs.
In Greek mythology, the meliae were nymphs of the ash tree. Ash trees exude a sweet substance the ancient Greeks called méli, "honey," also known as manna. Manna of the ash ferments into a potent beverage said to bring the drinker the touch of the gods.
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Pygmalion & Galatea
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la Fée Verte
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INNERNET!
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"Dunno. Innernet?"
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Botticelli's Birth of Venus
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AIKIDO: Harmonious Energy Way "An opponent with his heart set on not having his sword taken is so busy thinking about how to avoid losing his sword he has forgotten how to cut and will be unable to cut. Facing such an opponent, we are already victorious, because the objective of our training is not learning to disarm, and victory is not getting cut."
-Heiho Kadensho
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Pollock's Number Five
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"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.”
-Marquis De Sade, Juliette
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BEE DIES!
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(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)
-E.E. Cummings,
may i feel said he
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BISHI, adj. slang,
"being bishōnen."
Lit. trans. "beautiful youth," bishōnen is an aesthetic of masculine perfection inspired by Eastern pop culture that idealizes feminine and androgynous traits.
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SUBLIME, v.
1. To make higher, nobler, or more pure. 2. To heat a substance and convert it from its solid state into a vapour without an intermediate liquid stage 3. Said of a substance: to change from a solid to a vapour without passing through the liquid state.
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SAPPHO, the Tenth Muse
Lyric poet of the isle of Lesbos, held in high regard by Plato and his contemporaries of Ancient Greece. The vast majority of her work has been lost, but fragments of her love poems-addressed to men and women alike-remain to vex and tantalize classics scholars.
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"That man seems to me to be equal to a god. That man, if it is right to say, seems to surpass the gods, who sitting opposite to you repeatedly looks at you and hears your sweet laughter, something which robs miserable me of all feelings: for as soon as I look at you, Lesbia, no voice remains in my mouth."
-Catullus Carmen 51
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SYMPATHETIC MAGIC The belief that things can act on each other at a distance through a secret sympathy created by the similarities between them or the contact they once shared. The term was coined in 1922 by J. G. Frazer in The Golden Bough, a text discredited by anthropologists but embraced by modern occultists.
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EURYDICE (Pronunciation)Dryad (tree nymph), beloved wife of Orpheus, son of the god Apollo and muse Calliope and the ancient world's finest singer, who brought her to life from her tree with the power of his voice. Pursued by Aristaeus, the first cultivator of honeybee honey. Died on her wedding night with Orpheus, then died a second time when Orpheus' journey to the Underworld failed. See Orpheus and Eurydice, Bulfinch's Mythology. |
NYX, Substance of Night
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EPSILON ZETA, Fictional SororityE-Z is an entirely fictional sorority. Any resemblances to any real sororities are entirely coincidental. Delta Zeta, for example, is a real sorority with over 100 years of history. It's not my fault that the Dizzies and so many other Greek societies have Epsilon Zeta chapter houses. The laws of narrative require every sorority girl in a porn story be E-Z, that's all. Honest! |
YVAIN, the Knight with the Lion"Than Sir Yvayn made him bown
Forto sucore the lyoun;
His shelde bifore his face he fest
For the fyre that the dragon kest;
He strake the dragon in at the chavyl,
That it come out at the navyl.
Sunder strake he the throte-boll,
That fra the body went the choll."
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SHAMHAT, Temple-Harlot"Then Shamhat unclutched her bosom, exposed her sex, and Enkidu took in her voluptuousness. She was not restrained, but took his energy. She spread out her robe and he lay upon her. His lust groaned over her; for six days and seven nights Enkidu stayed aroused, and copulated with the harlot until he was sated with her charms."
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GILGAMESH, First King-Hero"Who can compare in his kingliness? Who can can say like Gilgamesh, 'I am King!'? Two-thirds of him is god, one third of him is human. The Great Goddess designed the model of his body, she prepared his form, beautiful, most handsome of men, [and] perfect."
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KUZBU, n. divine sex appealAkkadian word meaning "sexual allure," considered to be a sacred and divine power; an energy that emanates from the possessor to arouse the observer. Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, Enkidu, warrior of the wild, and Shamhat, Temple-Harlot of Ishtar, are described as possessors of great kuzbu in the Epic of Gilgamesh. |
TOMOE, fire wheel
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KUDZU, Pueraria lobataA creeper vine native to Japan and China, but transplanted to the Americas in the 19th Century where it became known as the "plant that ate the South." Many southern states provide the ideal climate for the plant (now classified as a invading exotic weed in the US), leading to the explosive and destructive growth of about twelve inches per day in Summer months.
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KENSHO, enlightenmentLiterally "seeing the nature" in Japanese, the kensho experience is the initial awakening toward Zen Buddhist enlightenment, that of seeing your true nature, and the realization that, after this moment, you will always know that you have become forever changed. |
NEMESISGreek goddess of vengeance and retribution, punisher of hubris or pride. Often depicted as a winged beauty, Nemesis pursued those who angered her without remorse, mercy, or relent, earning her the name Adrasteia, "She Whom None Can Escape."
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IDE & ADRASTEIA
Nursemaids of Zeus Twin sisters, the nymph daughters of Melisseus, called the meliae. Ide (i-dee) and Adrasteia (ah-dras-tee-uh), along with the nymph-goat Amalthea (source of cornucopia, horn of plenty), nursed the infant Zeus on their milk and honey in a cave on Mount Ida in Crete, mountain sacred to Rhea. Adrasteia later became known as the winged Nemesis.
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MAGIC SQUARES A square grid of numbers where the sum of each row, each column, and each diagonal are the same. Although mostly used as recreational puzzles today, magic squares were first used as powerful magic talismans in many ancient cultures. Magic squares were believed to help prolong life, predict the future, bind demons, banish disease, contact the divine, and purify the soul.
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JOHN KEAT'S LAMIAShe was a maid more beautiful than ever twisted braid: a virgin purest lipp'd, yet in the lore of love deep learned to the red heart's core: not one hour old, yet of sciential brain to unperplex bliss from its neighbour pain; intrigue with the specious chaos, and dispart its most ambiguous atoms with sure art; as though in Cupid's college she had spent sweet days a lovely graduate, still unshent, and kept his rosy terms in idle languishment.
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TIAMATIn the ancient Babylonian epic Enuma elish, Tiamat is the creator of magic, gods and monsters. She is portrayed as a lustful woman, a draconic chimera, and the infinite saltwater ocean. The poem describes her in all these forms, and more, simultaneously. She even makes a guest appearance in the Bible in her sea-chaos form: in the Book Genesis, she is "The Deep" that exists before God divides night from day.
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ACHILLESRage—Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles,
Of Peleus' son, murderous, man-killer, fated to die,
Sing of the rage that cost the Achaeans so many good men,
And sent so many vital souls down to the dreary House of Death,
Great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion,
Feasts for the dogs and birds,
And the will of Zeus moving towards its end.
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MAENADS, Sisters of the Frenzy
Lit. "raving ones," the first ravers, female cultists of Dionysus, Greek god of wine, mystery, and appetite. Driven by wine and the psychotropic meli, they would enter frenzies of dance, blood, and sex. In one such frenzy, the maenads slew Orpheus because he would not shut up about Eurydice.
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