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Tiresias, the snakes and the pleasures of love .

by miramaze @ Thursday, 10. Apr, 2008 - 14:57:34

Tiresias was once watching two snakes copulating, and when he wounded the female he was turned into a woman; but later he saw the same snakes copulating again, and having wounded the male, he was transformed into a man.

Tiresias remained a woman for seven years, and became a man again in the eighth. It is told that when Zeus and Hera once disputed whether the pleasures of love are better enjoyed by women or by men, they referred to Tiresias for a decision on account of his knowledge of both sides of love. Tiresias then told them that

"Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart." [Apollodorus, Library 3.6.7]

For this utterance, they say, Hera blinded him, but Zeus bestowed on him the power of a seer.


 
 

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What if my enjoyed one ... enjoys all ten parts, too?

Smoking 4 (((SMOOOOOCH)))

miramazemiramaze [Member]
10/04/08 @ 20:29

:)) there's always an exception , isn't there ?

((((smoooch )) possom

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adamantixxadamantixx [Member]
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10/04/08 @ 21:34

there are 10 parts involved???
where are all the others hiding then? :(

chassychassy [Member]
11/04/08 @ 20:06

Why did Hera blind him for saying that?

miramazemiramaze [Member]
11/04/08 @ 23:30

I was wondering that too. Have you any ideas ?

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chassychassy [Member]
12/04/08 @ 14:01

None at all that can be based on any mythical knowledge, as I have only vague recollections of names and do not know the archetypal/psychological connections, however this link to Tiresias suggests it was because she thought him irreverant for revealing woman's greatest secret.

:wave: X.

miramazemiramaze [Member]
12/04/08 @ 18:51

Ah .. so she punished him for being irreverent and Zeus rewarded him with psychic abilities.

:wave:

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