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[mik3cap]

The ancient Greeks considered the planet Venus to be the goddess of love.
The ancient Mayans considered the planet Venus to be the god of war.

Just thought that was interesting.

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[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be cool to have a name like "Jaguar Mirror"? I think I'll name my first kid Jaguar Mirror Caprio.

[invader-haywire.livejournal.com]

Ahh but did the Mayans think that Mars was the planet of Love?

That would be very interesting!

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Apparently: "In one of the ancient Mayan books, the Dresden Codex, Mars is represented by a series of pictures of a long-nosed beast shown descending to varying depths from a sky band, the segmented body of a sky serpent that hangs over the scene (Sheinkopf)."

So uh... long-nosed beast descending to varying depths?

Not sure if that's the planet of love. heh.

[moviemuff.livejournal.com]

http://www.jcf.org/works.php

Go to the library and watch some Joseph Campbell (PBS) tapes.
You'll understand, why war and love are on an equal level.
The idea of death as the most important thing in life.

primordial neurob.

[meerkitty.livejournal.com]

mayhaps an attest to the evolutionary vestige of the lizard brain, sex and violence are not far from ea. other evolutionarily, if we believe the comparitive genomics. :)

Re: primordial neurob.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. Expressions of passion arising from the same source? Sex and power seem to go together sometimes...

Re: primordial neurob.

[meerkitty.livejournal.com]

more interestingly they are epigenetically linked. 5 years ago i was actually up on this reading. i'm a neuro. slacker now, and know just enough to be dangerous.

[bonisagus.livejournal.com]

Hmm let us look at history and compare love and war...

100 Years War - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. His marriage, by many accounts was a passionate one, expands his territory in France to include Brittany, Maine, Poitou, Touraine, Gascony, Anjou, Aquitane, and Normandy. Henry was technically a feudal vassal of the king of France but, in reality, owned more territory and was more powerful than his French lord. Kings dislike competition and you know what happened from there.

Trojan War - Helene of Troy, the face that launched a 1000 ships...enuf said.

The Civil War Between Octavian and Mark Anthony - Cleopatra is purported to have had a hand in that little adventure.

The brief conflict between Tsar Peter III and Tsarina Catherine - They were married he was a nutball. He dies and she's Tsarina of all the Russias.

I can't see the nookie but it's certain that it and love have played a hand it governmental policy and the wars that nations have fought.