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Other #77068 Plato's Symposium

My interpretation about "love" between man and boys in ancient Greek text refers to teaching and a (spiritual) teacher - student relationship. With the difference that people had much closer and open friendships back than, such as they had no problem sleeping together (not sex), or being naked even in front of strangers, they also had public toilets and bathrooms where they shat and shower with each other even with strangers (although most people knew each other in cities).

With that, a spiritual teacher had deep relationship with their initiates, they had the most holy thing in common which is walking the path of the Gods.
 
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A lot of things in Greek mythology and philosophy is allegorical. We do not think in allegories like Ancient Greeks did and this is why so much difficulty is in understanding their literature. We usually put things more straight. Ancient culture is shock full of such allegories that usually shock the soul out of the most such as this one:


I guess 99% of Greek mythology was also deliberately "translated" this way by kikes and xian monks.

Other example of such crazy allegory is Zeus (and most Gods and Goddesses) being "in love" with almost everyone and having children with people around literalization of which has obviously no sense. While if read with Zevist lenses, it can be seen that in literally every myth you have a Teacher/Student relationship and spiritual school initiations. For example Zeus taking Ganymede to Heaven in Eagle form and now we have his Eagle-Serpent allegory:


Now here you have actual chronology for this myth:

"The earliest forms of the myth have no erotic content, but by the 5th century BCE it was believed that Zeus had a sexual passion for him. Socrates says that Zeus was in love with Ganymede, called "desire" in Plato's Phaedrus. But in Xenophon's Symposium, Socrates argues Zeus loved him for his mind and their relationship was not sexual. By the Early Modern Period, the event was termed a "rape" with little distinction from equivalent female abductees like Io, Europa, or Callisto."

So first it was not erotic, then it became "rape", now we see that not only Ganymede-like but all female situations were into the same old Hellenic terminological scheme, and here you have it: Socrates' / Plato's cipher decoded.

Another one. Semele died seeing Zeus in his "whole Glory". Isn't it instruction to Priesthood to not open to initiates too much enlightenment at once?

Other insane thing is "sacrificing a bull" all over Eurasia - India and Greece in the most. Bulls are "sacrificed" in almost every myth. Here it is - conquering your creative powers and talents, mastering your gifts in chart:
Depicted in obvious manner:

So what I want to say is that not only "weird" types of love such as "love" between adults and kids is an allegory of teacher/student relationship but also any general love between Gods and men / women / boys as well as between two humans was normally used as an allegory of what was going on in Ancient spiritual schools / mysteries. We have to decode everything. There might have been some hints on actual reality as well, but the most texture of myth have to be allegorical because things mostly put into it are spiritual and had to be encoded.
 

Al Jilwah: Chapter IV

"It is my desire that all my followers unite in a bond of unity, lest those who are without prevail against them." - Shaitan

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