From: litewave99@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 6:15:13 AM UTC+2, myriadsma...@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > > If that doesn't work out there is still the Publius Enigma and the art of   
   having sex between the two sides of yourself.   
   >    
   > "If one goes right back to the early days of Greek civilisation, to the   
   Mycenaean world which held sway from the middle of the second millennium till   
   about 1100 BC, long before the age of Homer, it becomes clear that very   
   important influences    
   originated from the cross-fertilisation of East and West. The paintings of   
   Mycenae attest to the exchange of the mythology of dread, which had   
   characterised Egyptian culture and art, for one of lightness and mirth. The   
   severely hierarchical relationships    
   that characterised Egyptian art give way to the portrayal of relaxed, equal   
   relationships, not just of man with man, but of men with women, something   
   observed for the very first time in Mycenaean art in Crete. 112 Surely these,   
   it seems to me, represent    
   the most positive aspects of the left hemisphere, in its guise as Lucifer, the   
   bringer of light?   
   >    
   > "Here the left hemisphere appears to be in harmony with the workings of the   
   right, which are abundantly evidenced in the fascination with the living   
   animal world in all its particularity, and a lively imagination.   
   >    
   > "‘Plants and animals were painted everywhere on walls and vases’, writes   
   Braudel: here a spike of grass, there a bunch of crocuses or irises, a spray   
   of lilies against the ochre background of a vase, or the Pompeian red of a   
   wall-painting; reeds    
   arranged in a continuous almost abstract design, a branch of flowering olive,   
   an octopus with tangled arms, dolphins and starfish, a blue flying fish, a   
   circle of huge dragon flies … Frescoes and pottery all lent themselves to   
   this inventive fantasy.    
   It is remarkable to find the same plant or marine motifs handled in a thousand   
   different ways on so many vases turned out by the potter's wheel and exported   
   by the hundred – as if the artists wanted to relive the pleasure of creation   
   every time." 113   
      
   And then came the philosophers carrying the torch of reason. Followed by   
   Christians shifting the balance toward faith. And then scholastics,   
   scientists, engineers and bureaucrats. Mixed with esoteric revival and   
   infusion of Eastern spirituality, while    
   the East was infused with Western science and technology. Population explosion   
   electrified by literacy and information and communication technology. Thus man   
   awakens from his long slumber.   
      
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