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<title><![CDATA[Cupido flechó a Lady Balarezo en Latin American Idol]]></title>
<link>http://cpnenbocadetodos.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/cupido-flecho-a-lady-balarezo-en-latin-american-idol/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lady Balarezo La cantante Lady Balarezo dejó entrever que fue flechada por cupido en el reality Lati]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Divinidades Clásicas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gea/Gaia La Tierra. La Diosa Madre. Surgió tras el Caos, y concebió por sí misma a Urano con quien t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hefestos.jpg"></a>Gea/Gaia</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-66" title="Gea" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dia20d20tierra20gea20ii2.jpg?w=144" alt="Gea" width="144" height="150" /></p>
<p>La Tierra. La Diosa Madre. Surgió tras el Caos, y concebió por sí misma a Urano con quien tendría dieciocho hijos. Ella fue la fundadora de los posteriores Dioses del Olimpo.</p>
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<p><strong>Urano</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-74" title="urano" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/urano.jpg?w=123" alt="urano" width="123" height="150" /></p>
<p>Es el principal dios del cielo. Hijo y esposo de Gea con quien tuvo dieciocho hijos. Cuenta el mito que no los quería, por eso encerró a los más jóvenes en las profundidades y la oscuridad. Cronos, el más pequeño, le cortó los genitales como venganza.</p>
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<p><strong>Rea</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-71" title="Rea" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/180px-rhea_mkl1888.png?w=100" alt="Rea" width="100" height="150" />Hija de Gea y Urano. Hermana y esposa de Cronos. Madre de los principales Dioses del Olimpo (Hades, Hestia, Poseidón, Hera, Deméter y Zeus). Fuertemente asociada a la diosa Cibeles, se la representaba montada en un carro tirado por leones. Se le rinde culto para pedir ayuda en los partos.</p>
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<p><strong>Cronos /Saturno</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-75" title="cronos" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/t190606-03.jpg?w=150" alt="cronos" width="150" height="139" />Hijo de Gea y Urano. Hermano y esposo de Rea. Padre de los Dioses del Olimpo. Cuando el oráculo le advirtió de que uno de sus hijos le destronaría, comenzó a comerselos. Se los comió a todos excepto a Zeus que logró salvarse gracias a Rea. Éste logró arrebatarle el poder y convertirse en el rey de los dioses. Fue considerado el protector de las cosechas y se le representaba con una hoz.</p>
<p><strong>Zeus/Júpiter</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-76" title="Zeus1" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/zeus-greek-mythology-687267_1024_768.jpg?w=150" alt="Zeus1" width="150" height="112" /></p>
<p>Rey de dioses y mortales. Gobierna todo el Olimpo. Es el dios de los fenómenos atmosféricos y sus atributos son el rayo, el águila, el toro y el roble. Era hermano y esposo de Hera con quien tuvo tres hijos: Ares, Hebe y Hefesto (otros dicen que fue Ilitía). Pero tuvo más hijos con otras diosas y mortales.</p>
<p><strong>Hera/Juno</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-77" title="hera" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hera_jpg.jpg?w=85" alt="hera" width="85" height="150" /></p>
<p>Hermana y esposa de Zeus. Su principal labor era presidir los nacimientos y las bodas. Sus atributos son la vaca, el pavo real y el león. Se la representa con corona, símbolo de las grandes diosas, y una granada en la mano, símbolo de la fertilidad. Se la conocía como una diosa celosa y vengativa con las diosas y mortales con las que Zeus la engañaba.</p>
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<p><strong> </strong><strong>Hades/ Plutón</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-78" title="hades" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2_hades_cerbero.jpg?w=91" alt="hades" width="91" height="150" /></p>
<p>Dios del inframundo y de los muertos. Considerado como el invisible gracias a un casco que porta, reinaba sobre los muertos con la ayuda de los demonios que controlaba. El mito cuenta que vive en el inframundo con Perséfone, hija de Zeus y Deméter, a quién raptó y convirtió en reina. Era un dios temido y muy respetado, y aunque se creía que era cruel y malvado, en realidad era un dios bastante pasivo y justo.</p>
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<p><strong>Hestia/Vesta</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-79" title="Hestia" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hestia01-l.jpg?w=105" alt="Hestia" width="105" height="150" />Diosa del fuego que calienta y da vida a los hogares. Prometió a Zeus que permanecería virgen y este le relegó cuidar los hogares y de las familias, por eso apenas sale del Olimpo y se mantiene alejada de las disputas entre dioses y mortales.</p>
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<p><strong>Poseidón/Neptuno</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-80" title="Poseidon" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/imgposeidon4.jpg?w=149" alt="Poseidon" width="149" height="150" />Dios del mar y los terremotos. Cuando estaba tranquilo mantenía el mar en clama y protegía las islas de las fuertes mareas, pero cuando se enfadaba golpeaba el fondo del mar con su tridente y provocaba terremotos, hundimientos y naufragios. Los navegantes le dedicaban sus oraciones antes de zarpar. Era esposo de la ninfa Anfítrite y con ella tuvo muchos hijos, la mayoría héroes.</p>
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<p><strong>Deméter/Ceres</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/demeter.png"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-106" title="demeter" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/demeter.png?w=109" alt="" width="109" height="150" /></a>Diosa de la agricultura, protectora del matrimonio y las leyes sagradas. Controla las estaciones del año. Fruto de su relación con Zeus nació Perséfone, que fue raptada por Hades. La diosa decidió paralizar la vida de la Tierra mientras la buscaba hasta que Zeus intervino. Se decidió que Perséfone pasaría seis meses con Hades y otros seis con su madre. Por eso cuando Perséfone esta en la Tierra, ésta es fértil y los campos florecen; y cuando está con Hades los campos se secan.</p>
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<p><strong>Atenea/Minerva</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/atenea_parthenos_grecia.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-83" title="atenea" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/atenea_parthenos_grecia.jpg?w=70" alt="" width="70" height="150" /></a>Diosa de la sabiduría y la guerra justa. Fue considerada el principal apoyo de los héroes. Era la protectora de la ciudad de Atenas. No se le conoce ningún amante y por eso se la consideraba una diosa virgen. Nació de la cabeza de Zeus cuando éste engulló a Metis mientras estaba embarazada. Sus símbolos son el olivo y la lechuza y se la representa armada con su égida y su armadura. Es una diosa guerrera que participó en varias batallas clásicas como la guerra de Troya.</p>
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<p><strong>Apolo/Febo</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/apolo.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-87" title="apolo" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/apolo.jpg?w=150" alt="" width="150" height="112" /></a>Hijo de Zeus y Leto y hermano gemelo de Ártemis. Es el dios del sol y la belleza humana. Considerado un dios apuesto tuvo muchos amantes, pero a quien realmente quería era a Dafne, una ninfa a quien su padre transformó en laurel. Por eso, el símbolo de este dios es precisamente el laurel; además de otros como el delfín o el cuervo.</p>
<p><strong>Ártemis/Diana</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/artemis.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-88" title="artemis" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/artemis.jpg?w=107" alt="" width="107" height="150" /></a>Hija de Zeus y Leto y hermana gemela de Apolo. Se mueve por los bosques y parajes salvajes en donde caza junto con sus ninfas. Es una diosa vírgen, cruel y muy vengativa, aunque atractiva y de aspecto muy femenino. Dice el mito que el cazador Acteón la vio desnuda mientras se bañaba y ésta lo transformó en ciervo. También se dice que castigaba a todos aquellos mortales que la olvidaban en sus cultos, o cuando ésta les ordenaba algo y no lo cumplían. Se la representa cazando rodeada de animales salvajes.</p>
<p><strong>Ares/Marte</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ares1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-108" title="ares" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ares1.jpg?w=93" alt="" width="93" height="150" /></a>Hijo de Zeus y Hera. Es el dios de la guerra y, como tal, disfrutaba de las matanzas y el derramamiento de sangre. Todos los demás dioses le odiaban excepto su amante Afrodita y su tío Hades, porque enviaba al inframundo a los guerreros jóvenes que mataba. Aunque era un dios guerrero, en ocasiones era humillado en combate por otros dioses. Sus símbolos son el perro y el buitre y se le representa armado de pie o en un carro tirado por corceles.</p>
<p><strong>Afrodita/Venus</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-90" title="venus" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/venus.jpg?w=137" alt="" width="137" height="150" />La diosa del amor y la belleza femenina nació de la espuma que generaron los genitales de su padre Urano cuando fueron arrojados al mar. Siempre llevaba un cinturón bordado que provocaba un amor irresistible y por eso era envidiada por las demás diosas. Estaba casada con Hefesto, pero le era infiel con dioses y mortales, entre ellos Adonis y Ares. Se la suele representar con corona y vestidos provocativos, aunque es más común representarla desnuda.</p>
<p><strong>Hefesto/Vulcano<a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hefestos3.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-94" title="hefestos" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hefestos3.jpg?w=93" alt="" width="93" height="150" /></a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hefestos.jpg"></a><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hefestos1.jpg"></a>Dios del fuego y los metales. También es dios de los volcanes. Se dedi<a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hefestos2.jpg"></a>ca, desde su fragua, a fabricar armas para dioses y héroes y regalos para las diosas. Es hijo de Hera, aunque no está tan claro si también lo es de Zeus. Hay varias versiones sobre su infancia, pero todas coinciden en que fue arrojado al mar y se quedó cojo. Aunque era feo se casó con Afrodita quien le fue infiel con Ares. Éste confesó todo al sufrido marido, lo que le provocó un enorme enfado. Por eso un día, diseñó una red y la colocó en la cama de los amantes. Cuando estos se tumbaron quedaron enredados y Hefesto, para vengarse, llamó a todos los dioses del Olimpo para que los mirasen.</p>
<p><strong>Hermes/Mercurio</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hermes_1_lg.gif"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-98" title="hermes" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hermes_1_lg.gif?w=101" alt="" width="101" height="150" /></a>El mensajero de los dioses era el protector de comerciantes, ladrones y tramposos porque era embustero y habilidoso. Además de ser mensajero, ayudaba a las almas a llegar al inframundo de Hades. Era hijo de Zeus y de Maya y se le representa llevando un casco con una pluma, símbolo de los viajeros, o un gorro alado. También lleva zapatillas aladas y una vara mágica. En los relatos clásicos se cuenta que apoyó a los griegos en la guerra de Troya, y que ayudó a Ulises a escapar de la isla de Calipso.</p>
<p><strong>Dioniso/BacoLíber</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dioniso3.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-99" title="Dioniso" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dioniso3.jpg?w=125" alt="" width="125" height="150" /></a>Dios del vino, de la locura y del éxtasis. Era hojo de Zeus y de Sémele. Su misión como dios era hacer que todo el mundo olvidase sus penas, y la mayoría de las veces lo conseguía bebiendo y montando orgías. Sus principales simbolos son el vino, la serpiente, el toro y la hiedra. Las llamadas Bacanales, eran las fiestas donde se le rendía culto y se realizaban actividades contrarias a todo tipo de ley, por eso se prohibieron. En Roma estaba identificado con el antiguo dios itálico Líber Pater.</p>
<p><strong>Eros/Cupido</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/180px-eros_farnese_man_napoli_6353.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-101" title="Eros" src="http://mitodei.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/180px-eros_farnese_man_napoli_6353.jpg?w=71" alt="" width="71" height="150" /></a>Dios de la atracción sexual, el amor y el sexo.<strong> </strong>Su equivalente romano era Cupido, también llamado Amor. Es representado con aspecto de niño y con alas, aunque éstas no siempre aparecen. Su procedencia no está del todo clara: unos dicen que nació del Caos; otros, que era hijo de Hermes y Afrodita. Los poetas lo reflejan como un dios que, aunque con aspecto infantil, es capaz de producir profundas heridas con sus flechas. Cuentan que Apolo se burló de su capacidad como arquero y en venganza hizo que se enamorara perdídamente de Dafne.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[¿Dónde acaba la familia?]]></title>
<link>http://elduendedelaradio.com/2009/11/16/%c2%bfdonde-acaba-la-familia/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>El Duende de la Radio</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[...Y aunque estas jovencitas no pudieron ir a la fiesta, también descienden del mismo tronco y perte]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="attachment_2837" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://elduendedelaradio.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/sl730109.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2837" title="SL730109" src="http://elduendedelaradio.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/sl730109.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">...Y aunque estas jovencitas no pudieron ir a la fiesta, también descienden del mismo tronco y pertenecen a la gran familia</p></div>
<p>Se preguntó siempre <strong>el Duende</strong> a lo largo de su vida dónde empieza y dónde termina la familia. Sospecha que sólo en los países  latinos se estira el concepto tanto como para amparar  a tíos, primos, tíos abuelos, sobrinos, sobrino segundos… En España desde luego es difícil saber su límite. El Duende ya casi no conocía a su familia materna, porque gran parte de sus ramas se han desparramado. Pero acudió a ella y la familia respondió con creces.</p>
<p>Una de las pocas razones por las que  al Duende le hubiera gustado ser millonario sería para recomprar el <strong>Monte el Rincón</strong>, una hermosa finca  recortada por los ríos <a href="http://www.guiadegredos.com/valle-del-tietar.html" target="_blank"><strong>Tiétar</strong> y <strong>Arbillas</strong></a>, en el límite sur de la provincia de <strong>Ávila</strong>, que fue el territorio de su infancia compartido con esta familia. Casi todos los descendientes de su bisabuelo Augusto Lletget, que fue quien lo compró en 1871, se reunieron el pasado sábado para la presentación del libro de la prima/tía/tía abuela Mary. En el acto, al Duende se le olvidó parafrasear,  a propósito de la autora, lo que  <strong><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno" target="_blank">Unamuno</a> </strong>decía de<strong> Dios</strong>: <em>si no hubiera prima Mary, habría que inventarla. </em>Aunque sólo fuera para comprobar el juego que dio su abuela Rosa, tronco común de donde procedían la mayoría de los asistentes.</p>
<p>Por la noche, el Duende soñó que el <strong>Monte el Rincón</strong> era ahora suyo. Lo que en realidad acabó siendo un caserío destartalado era en el sueño como <strong><em>Brideshead </em></strong> o <strong><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h-e4CnBgZA" target="_blank">Manderley</a>, </em></strong>esas propiedades que aparecen en la literatura y en el cine ingleses con una enorme mansión perfectamente mantenida por una nube de sirvientes. En ella coinciden multitud de familiares de distintas generaciones y todos son ricos, guapos, y elegantes. Unos juegan al billar, otras al crocket, otros se van a pescar, el más exótico, como el tío <a href="http://es.wordpress.com/tag/augusto-gil-lletget/" target="_blank"><strong>Augusto Gil Lletget</strong></a>, que era ornitólogo, prepara la taxidermia de un martín pescador, aquel monta el telescopio para mirar las estrellas por la noche, algunos escuchan tangos de <a href="http://www.guiadegredos.com/valle-del-tietar.html" target="_blank"><strong>Garde</strong>l</a> en la vieja gramola manual con aguja de <strong><em>La voz de su amo, </em></strong>cuya caja de hojalata es hoy una preciosa reliquia, las tías montan a caballo a lo amazona y con sombrerito, otros más cazan pluma, un grupo pasea por el bosque  mientras la pareja de primitos más despabilada se  cita con <strong>Cupido</strong> en el pajar para estudiar   anatomía de sus cuerpos y, de paso, eliminar toxinas. La vida misma.</p>
<p>La vida de mentira, claro, donde luego te sientas a la mesa y unas doncellas con guante blanco te sirven faisán relleno con ciruelas y malvavisco. Nada parecido a la realidad. El Monte el Rincón que el Duende conoció era ya decadencia. Como mucho, carillas, patatas revolconas o macarrones con chorizo en una vajilla desportillada. Eso sí, la vajilla  de cerámica talaverana, y con el nombre de la finca en cada plato. Poco importaba. Era sobre todo el descubrimiento de la naturaleza, el poder correr a tu albedrío por el campo, ver parir a las vacas y a las ovejas, chapotear en los arroyos, comer el pan y quesillo de las acacias y trepar por los madroños del jardín mirando  desde allí al Almanzor,  buscar galápagos , observar a las grullas y compartir un cacho de pan y queso con tu amigo el pastor al amor de una fogata. Y todo eso, con muchos primos y tíos alrededor. Nada parecido a las películas de aristócratas ingleses o a <strong><em>Los cuatro robles </em></strong>de <strong>Escarlata O´Hara</strong>, pero sí algo bello y muy entrañable para ir llenando el macuto de la memoria sentimental.</p>
<p>Decía el señor de <strong><a href="http://www.bookaffinity.com/book/bearn-o-la-sala-de-las-munecas-llorenc-villalonga" target="_blank">Bearn</a> </strong>en la muy recomendable novela del mismo nombre que <em>no hay mas paraísos que los perdidos. </em>Añade el Duende: o los que están por llegar. Paraíso es al cabo, lo que el cerebro almacena y el corazón ilusionado procesa como perfume de la vida.  La finca cambió de manos. Era un préstamo que la fortuna había hecho a la familia sin más mérito aparente que la de tener un antepasado boyante. El Monte el Rincón se diluyó en la lejanía, pero no pasó nada, porque quedó el recuerdo de aquel tiempo y nacieron a cambio otros muchos pequeños paraísos. Uno de los sobrinos que corrían por allí es hoy el traumatólogo Fernando Baró, que después de no verse con el Duende durante casi medio siglo le va a arreglar ahora un hueso. Otro es catedrático y decano de la <strong>Facultad</strong><strong> de Derecho de Santander</strong>.  Aquella es bióloga, este arquitecto, el de mas allá ingeniero de caminos…Entre estos sobrinos nietos lejanos hay  una profesora de colegio llamada Inés por la que dan ganas meterse en el túnel del tiempo y volver a matricularse en primaria. <em>Tempus fugit,</em> y entretanto la familia, como mandó el Señor, creció y se multiplicó.</p>
<p>Por cierto,  el Señor no tuvo en cuenta que en España el personal se apunta a un bombardeo, y olvidó recordarnos en qué grado se acaba la familia. Y así pasa lo que pasa, que presenta un libro una novel madurita y acude casi tanta gente como si fuera un <strong>Nobel </strong>de los de <strong>Estocolmo</strong>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Transneptunian Massacre...]]></title>
<link>http://chirotic.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/the-transneptunian-massacre/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chirotic</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Alfred Witte Today I wish to examine certain of the so-called Transneptunians, those hypothetical po]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 192px"><img src="http://www.solsticepoint.com/astrologersmemorial/wittephoto-russ.jpg" alt="http://www.solsticepoint.com/astrologersmemorial/wittephoto-russ.jpg" width="182" height="260" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Alfred Witte</p></div>
<p>Today I wish to examine certain of the so-called Transneptunians, those hypothetical points proposed by Alfred Witte, founder of the Hamburg School during the 1920s and 1930s. The fact that the Transneptunian points are not known to physically exist was as much a problem for astrologers back then as it is for some today; indeed, as a result of the widespread ridicule he received for these theories and his subsequent disfavour with the Nazi regime, Witte committed suicide in 1941.</p>
<p>I am challenged with the view that these points are meaningless often, and I reject the argument that these points are therefore ineffective. The immateriality of the TNPs is a conundrum, but I have never overvalued the concrete especially thus far in life, so I do not tend to struggle with this dilemma. Such material logic contests that cars have greater intrinsic value than love. So, I test the theory instead and try not to become too entangled in the dimensions of the real.</p>
<p>I find that without question, the TNPs are true, powerful and profoundly useful and in order to demonstrate this validity, I am going to look in some depth at the case of Martin Bryant, the perpetrator of the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania in 1996, where Bryant, acting alone and with apparent premeditation, gunned down 35 bystanders in a bloody rampage at a popular Tasmanian tourist spot, just days before his 29th birthday. There is a great deal of pertinent and useful background information available in this case and if you are interested in some of the finer detail then you should <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/a-dangerous-mind-what-turned-martin-bryant-into-a-mass-murderer-20090427-ajo6.html?page=-1" target="_blank">read this article</a> from Australian news source The Age; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siun7RHSyqA" target="_blank">video recounting the tragedy</a> is available from Youtube.</p>
<p><a href="http://chirotic.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/martin_bryant_nativity2.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-931" title="martin_bryant_nativity2" src="http://chirotic.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/martin_bryant_nativity2.gif" alt="martin_bryant_nativity2" width="454" height="465" /></a>Even without knowing Bryant&#8217;s story, we can apprehend a number of intriguing qualities that are suggested by these configurations:</p>
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<li>Saturn rises, <em>isolation </em>is therefore a theme of this life story, and with Saturn in fall and near aspectually peregrine, the planet will struggle to express its quality.</li>
<li>Mars is in profound difficulty, in fall, within the boundary of the 8th, he is also slow, retrograde and occidental. Mars is therefore struggling and this is key, any archetype which has no route into manifestation will become uncomfortable and might threaten to overwhelm the nativity (and in the case of Mars, that would surely result in an act of violence, or a habit of episodic violence).</li>
<li>Chiron rises (not shown) and thus forms a grand water trine which includes the chart ruler Neptune in the 9th. Here is a closed circuit of emotional self-sufficiency that will only increase the isolation implicit in Saturn rising. Whereas &#8211; for the majority &#8211; a grand trine might be a refuge, in this case it would certainly be of borderline benefit, making something of a prison of the life. In the years leading up to the incident Bryant travelled extensively:</li>
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<blockquote><p>In the two years to the end of 1995, Bryant visited Europe six times and the US and South-East Asia three times, as well as New Zealand and Japan. The summary of his domestic travel over the same period would take three pages to list, travelling to Queensland and South Australia but most often to Melbourne, where he loved the zoo. But had the travel filled the void? No, he would tell Professor Mullen: &#8220;Mr Bryant stated that the best part of his international trips was the long plane journey. It transpired that the attraction of the long aeroplane journey was that he could speak to the people next to him, who presumably being strapped to their seats had no choice but to at least appear friendly. Mr Bryant became quite animated in describing some of what he regarded as the more successful interactions with fellow travellers.</p></blockquote>
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<li>Bryant loved animals (he travelled repeatedly to the Melbourne zoo) but also kept a fair menagerie of pets. The asteroid Diana rises, a degree into the 1st house. Keeping pets was therefore part of his identity and how he related to the world. To others though, this just made him appear strange as he would drive around with dogs, birds &#8211; even the occasional small pony &#8211; in his car. It exacerbated his isolation from normal society.</li>
<li>In the chart the asteroid Sappho falls at the midpoint of Neptune and Ascendant, the Sappho-Neptune trine is exact to less than 50 seconds of arc! He loved to talk (Asc) to fellow passengers (Sappho) while travelling to exotic (Neptune) foreign destinations (in the 9th). This is a typical trine arrangement, enjoyment is subjectively experienced when the factors are combined.</li>
<li>One of the most fascinating aspects of Bryant&#8217;s life before the Port Arthur massacre was his relationship with Helen Harvey a wealthy heiress who lived alone with her mother. Bryant befriended her after she employed him to be their handyman.</li>
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<blockquote><p>The two misfits forged a bond&#8230; The tragic consequences of their relationship, however, began early. As the friendship moved from employer-employee to friends and then constant companions, Helen&#8217;s mother, Hilza, was left increasingly alone inside what was fast becoming a filthy hell hole. She had been moved downstairs into the kitchen at some stage, and it was here that the old woman was forced to sleep, upright in a chair, writhing and wriggling in a bid to gain relief from an undiagnosed and untreated broken hip for most of the last two years of her life.</p>
<p>In June 1990, after someone made a report to the health authorities, medics arrived to find both Hilza and Helen in need of urgent hospital treatment with infected leg ulcers and living in squalor in the kitchen, surrounded not only by roaming animals, but unwashed dishes and saucepans and bowls with mould so high it was climbing out of the oven.</p>
<p>Seventy-nine-year-old Hilza Harvey was an abject horror of neglect, sitting untended with her broken hip and withering slowly in the kitchen on her chair.</p></blockquote>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/70000/images/_70091_bryant.jpg" alt="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/70000/images/_70091_bryant.jpg" width="150" height="180" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Martin Bryant</p></div>
<p>This is where the Transneptunians begin to make their play: Hades is in Bryant&#8217;s nativity Cazimi<em>, </em>which means that it finds a pure expression; it becomes an unadulterated facet of identity, and the themes of Hades are to do with all things unpleasant, squalid, unwholesome, there are qualities of slow decay, gradual disintegration and decline, encroaching morbidity and general and pervasive unpleasantness; it is exactly the kind of squalor described which was visited upon Helen Harvey&#8217;s mother. Sun &#8211; Hades is to be involved with instances of lingering illness and wasting disease. The Cazimi conjunction applies to the 3rd and describes the gradual deterioration of those mental faculties which became apparent as he grew older in childhood. Something was &#8216;wrong&#8217; with Martin Bryant, but that realisation was slowly revealed.</p>
<p>And then there is the astoundingly close conjunction between Mars, Cupido and Poseidon. We already understand that Mars is deeply awkward in this position and any Martian expression will inevitably be blended with the flavours and influences of Cupido and Poseidon. If we join these ideas together we have a complex impetus:</p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Mars</strong>/<strong>Libra</strong>/<strong>8</strong></span>: an inability to confront, wanting to negotiate anger (but with deteriorating mental faculties: no way out!), sudden outbursts, a need to control outcomes in partnership, ruled by Venus in the 4th, the father a pacifying influence (his father Maurice, committed suicide in 1993: Stella Sampson, his former teacher, would later tell the media: &#8220;My personal view is that his dad <em>kept him in check, and when he died he didn&#8217;t have that restraining influence any longer</em>.&#8221;) Mars rules Saturn rising, that anger held in check contributes, <em>creates</em> his isolation (&#8220;The kids were wary of him,&#8221; one neighbour would recount. &#8220;They understood instinctively that <em>he was someone to stay away from</em>. He was just a little scary.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Then <strong>Mars is conjunct Cupido</strong>: and Cupido has associations with partnership, family history, group involvements, it certainly ramps up the Libran energy in this placement, no doubt inhibiting the natural expression of Mars still further. There is an acute awareness of family conflict here, what happened in childhood that limited the natural expression of Martian energy?</p>
<blockquote><p>By the time Martin was 16 months old, however, he was not only walking but running, climbing &#8211; and escaping &#8211; and his mother was starting to find it difficult to cope&#8230; He would disappear regularly from their house, his parents finding him in the strangest places, once on top of the chook pen next door or even further afield, playing quietly on a swing way across the other side of the railway line that ran north from Hobart along the Derwent&#8217;s western foreshore.</p>
<p>Martin Bryant was not the first toddler to love wandering, to show a spirit for adventure or levels of energy that could try a saint. But his mum&#8217;s response was an unusual one: &#8220;I started to leave him on the house veranda, with a harness and lead to secure him, with plenty of toys all around him. Some person made a complaint about us tying him up like a dog. But of course as his mother, I knew he was happy and safe.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Mars is conjunct Poseidon:</strong> and this creates a very unusual blend, Poseidon attests to one&#8217;s spiritual ideal (but retrograde! A <em>lack</em> of spiritual ideals could result, the code is missing), and with Mars in Libra and the 8th, there is this sense that committing violence toward the other person might be in some way spiritually liberating, but remember the entire group is ruled by Venus, it is held together by the father and when he exits the picture (Venus squares Uranus (suddenly!) and <em>Chiron in Pisces</em> (Suicide, drugs and water, Maurice Bryant <em>drowned </em>himself after taking an <em>overdose</em>!))</p>
<p>And of course <strong>Cupido conjuncts Poseidon</strong> too: and the result is a philosophy or ideal based on a family history that seeks to avoid conflict, to hold violence in check, to negotiate anger rather than deal with it. Father dies, all bets are off. Can you feel these combinations? Violence held in check by the father, because of a family conditioning, because of <em>being leashed </em>and a lack of a spiritual or moral code.</p>
<p>Taurus finds its way into the life arc uncannily. He became the lifelong companion of Helen Harvey, they bought a house together and named it Taurusville! She died after the car they were both in crashed, her <em>neck broken</em>. He broke two vertebrae in his neck as well. She left him a millionaire, he had become enormously wealthy through the death of the only person who would give him companionship, he became further isolated. The Port Arthur massacre loomed.</p>
<p>The fateful day arrives.</p>
<blockquote><p>Bryant has provided conflicting and confused accounts of what led him to kill 35 people at the Port Arthur site on 28 April 1996. It appears his desire for attention (he allegedly told a next door neighbour &#8220;I&#8217;ll do something that will make everyone remember me&#8221;), as well as mounting frustration at his social isolation (Saturn) had made him unbearably angry (Mars &#8211; ruler of Saturn!).</p>
<p>His first victims, David and Sally Martin, owned the B &#38; B guest house &#8220;Seascape&#8221;. Bryant later described them as &#8220;very mean people&#8221; and as &#8220;the worse people in my life&#8221;. The Martins had bought the B &#38; B that Bryant&#8217;s father had wanted to buy and he often complained to his son of the &#8220;double dealing&#8221; the Martins had done to secure the purchase. Bryant apparently believed the Martins had deliberately bought the property to hurt his family and blamed the Martins for the depression that led to his father&#8217;s death (Cupido &#8211; Mars, anger through family history, but held in check byt he father). He shot them in that guest house before traveling to the Port Arthur ruins. Bryant entered The Broad Arrow Café on the historical site&#8217;s grounds, carrying a large blue duffel bag. Upon sitting down to eat a meal in the front balcony area, he remarked &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of wasps (Mars) about today&#8221; to no one in particular. Once he finished, Bryant moved towards the back of the café and set a video camera on a vacant table. He took out an AR15 semi-automatic rifle (Mars) and began shooting patrons and staff. Within a matter of seconds, he had killed 20 people and wounded 15. He then fled, shooting at people in the parking lot and from his yellow Volvo sedan as he drove away. Bryant drove three hundred metres down the road, to where a woman and her two children were walking. He stopped and fired two shots killing the woman and the child she was carrying. The older child fled, but Bryant followed her and killed her with a single shot. He then stole a gold-coloured BMW by killing the occupants. A short distance down the road he stopped beside a couple in a white Toyota and, drawing his weapon, ordered the male occupant into the trunk of the BMW. After shutting the trunk he fired two shots into the windshield of the Toyota, killing the female driver. He returned to the guest house, set the stolen car alight (Mars) and took his hostage inside with the Martins&#8217; corpses (Hades). The police soon arrived and tried to negotiate with Martin for many hours before the battery in the phone Bryant was using died, ending communication. Bryant&#8217;s only demand was to be transported in an army helicopter to an airport. Sometime during the negotiations, Bryant killed his hostage.</p>
<p>The next morning, 18 hours later, Bryant set fire (Mars) to the guest house and attempted to escape in the confusion. Suffering burns (Mars) to his back and buttocks, he was captured and taken to Royal Hobart Hospital where he was treated and kept under heavy guard.</p></blockquote>
<p>And all this seems very straightforward until you realise that the Mars/Cupido/Poseidon conjunction applied to partile opposition of the Sun/Hades conjunction <strong>by Solar Ar</strong>c in 1996.</p>
<ol>
<li>Poseidon opp. Sun, SA-Na (28 January)</li>
<li>Poseidon opposition Hades (15 March 1996)</li>
<li>Port Arthur massacre (28th April 1996)</li>
<li>Mars opposition Sun (5 May 1996)</li>
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<p>Within <em>a week</em> of the Solar Arc oppositions completing, Bryant had murdered 35 people in cold blood.</p>
<p>(NB: The influence of Poseidon is especially odd in my view since it is normally associated with enlightening qualities. Is it simply a coincidence then that Fred West, the British serial killer had Poseidon Cazimi? And what does Hades look like? <a href="http://news.boisestate.edu/newsrelease/archive/2007/082007/GH%20photo%201-cropped.jpg" target="_blank">Here is former US Senator Gary Hart</a>: Hades rising in Aries, exactly conj. Asc.)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Asteroids and Vocation]]></title>
<link>http://alicestrology.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/asteroids-and-vocation/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>erisian</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alicestrology.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/asteroids-and-vocation/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s well and truly into his asteroids, my lovely astrologer. Like the thirstiest of sponges h]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>He&#8217;s well and truly into his asteroids, my lovely astrologer. Like the thirstiest of sponges he&#8217;s soaking up this information as though his life depended on it.</p>
<p><em><strong>My </strong></em>life, right now, is punctuated with such gems as:</p>
<p>&#8220;You have a Cazimi Cupido. Barbara Cartland had a Cazimi Cupido. You could make a fortune writing romance novels.&#8221;</p>
<p>Or bodice-rippers as my mother used to call them&#8230;</p>
<p>I tell him, a little spooked, &#8220;Barbara Cartland was born on the 9th July, like me.&#8221; (I have told him before how I used to skive my P.E. classes at school and hide in my dorm reading Mills &#38; Boon &#8211; all too Venus/Pluto as well, methinks&#8230;) Seems my birthday and the delightful Ms Cartland&#8217;s aren&#8217;t all we have in common, then. But in spite of the life I live punctuated with blue (oh, so many sons) I refuse to wear fluffy pink, keep a lapdog or glue on false eyelashes every morning. You can go too far, in my humble&#8230;</p>
<p>He also tells me, in the next breath, that I have Asclepius conjunct Hygeia on the astrologers&#8217; degree of Leo. Allegedly, that means I should be more than capable of being a fabulous medical astrologer, aiding those with health and weight problems.</p>
<p>How does <em>that </em>sit with weaving tales of unrequited love? Sigh&#8230; Decisions, decisions.</p>
<div id="attachment_132" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-132" title="La Cartland" src="http://alicestrology.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/babs.jpg" alt="La Cartland" width="500" height="151" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Decisions, decisions...</p></div>
<p>I did, of course, put this conundrum to him and he kindly obliged with this pertinent information. The Cupido in my astrology is not quite the same as the delightful Barbara&#8217;s. Mine is Cupido A which, apparently, relates much more to the appearance. You see where I&#8217;m going with this? Perhaps they are not such very different things after all?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Astrological Peculiarities]]></title>
<link>http://sixtywords.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/astrological-peculiarities/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>erisian</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sixtywords.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/astrological-peculiarities/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Did you know your Sun was conjunct my Don Quixote?&#8221; Erm&#8230; Nope. &#8220;And you hav]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>&#8220;Did you know your Sun was conjunct my Don Quixote?&#8221;</p>
<p>Erm&#8230; Nope.</p>
<p>&#8220;And you have a Cazimi Cupido?&#8221;</p>
<p>Nope again.</p>
<p>&#8220;You know&#8230; You could make a fortune writing romance novels.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an asteroid called Fanny. Shall I tell you where yours is? It&#8217;s conjunct the Royal Star Regulus, on an astrologers&#8217; degree.</p>
<p>You have a Royal Fanny.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well&#8230; go figure!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[El ABC del amor]]></title>
<link>http://laopcionb.com/2009/11/01/el-abc-del-amor/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pedro Bravo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://laopcionb.com/2009/11/01/el-abc-del-amor/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Otro reportaje de la serie Zona Prohibida, para la revista GQ. En esta ocasión, se trataba de viajar]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Leseliste Oktober 2009]]></title>
<link>http://woerterkatze.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/leseliste-oktober-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>woerterkatze</dc:creator>
<guid>http://woerterkatze.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/leseliste-oktober-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Der Oktober ist vorbei und es wird mal wieder Zeit für die Monatsliste: Janwillem van de Weetering ]]></description>
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<p>Der Oktober ist vorbei und es wird mal wieder Zeit für die Monatsliste:</p>
<ol>
<li>Janwillem van de Weetering &#8211; Outsider in Amsterdam (253 Seiten) <span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>**</strong></span></li>
<li>Miss Read &#8211; Dorfschule (260 Seiten) <span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>****</strong></span></li>
<li>Anne Holt &#8211; Die Wahrheit dahinter (385 Seiten)<span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong> *****</strong></span></li>
<li>Meg Cabot &#8211; Naschkatze (377 Seiten) <span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>****</strong></span></li>
<li>Leo Tolstoi &#8211; Anna Karenina (1024 Seiten) <span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>****</strong></span></li>
<li>Jilliane Hoffman &#8211; Cupido (477 Seiten) <span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>*****</strong></span></li>
<li>Armistead Maupin &#8211; Noch mehr Stadtgeschichten (341 Seiten)<strong> <span style="color:#ff9900;">*****</span></strong></li>
<li>Nalini Singh &#8211; Jäger der Nacht (372 Seiten) <span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>*****</strong></span></li>
<li>Yoyo van Gemerde &#8211; Sushi &#38; Chardonnay (223 Seiten) <span style="color:#ff9900;">****</span></li>
<li>Magdalen Nabb &#8211; Tod einer Verrückten (316 Seiten) <span style="color:#ff9900;">****</span></li>
<li>Christoph Born &#8211; Das Gutenberg-Komplott (315 Seiten)<span style="color:#ff9900;"> ****</span></li>
</ol>
<p>Und gehört habe ich:</p>
<ol>
<li>Leonie Swann &#8211; Glennkill (gelesen  von Andrea Sawatzki) <strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">*****</span></strong></li>
<li>Jana Hensel &#8211; Zonenkinder (gelesen von Jana Hensel)<span style="color:#ff9900;">*</span></li>
<li>Jane Austen &#8211; Sinn und Sinnlichkeit (gelesen von Sibel Kekili) <span style="color:#ff9900;">*</span></li>
</ol>
<p>Highlight des Monats: Jilliane Hoffman &#8211; Cupido</p>
<p>Flop des Monats: Janwillem van de Weetering &#8211; Outsider in Amsterdam</p>
<p>Gelesene Seiten: 4343</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Profissão Cupido]]></title>
<link>http://quetrampo.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/profissao-cupido/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://quetrampo.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/profissao-cupido/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fora a Eva e o Adão, é bem provável que todos os outros relacionamentos tenham começado graças a alg]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-259" title="cupido" src="http://quetrampo.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/cupido.jpg" alt="cupido" width="500" height="197" /></p>
<p>Fora a Eva e o Adão, é bem provável que todos os outros relacionamentos tenham começado graças a alguém. Sempre tem um amigo em comum ou uma amiga que elogiou tanto que você acabou se interessando pelo cara. Mesmo o conhecido esbarrão no metrô não daria em nada se na primeira vez que você apresentasse a sua <em>estranha metade</em> pra alguém ouvisse logo um “xiiii&#8230; cai fora!”</p>
<p>Em tempos virtuais tem muita gente conhecendo, namorando e casando pela Internet, que nesse caso, assume o papel do amigo(a).</p>
<p>A verdade é que nós temos tanto instinto pra namorar quanto pra juntar pessoas. Seja pra rachar a conta, viajar no mesmo carro ou formar os times pro truco é sempre bom ter pelo menos um casal amigo.</p>
<p>Assim desde aquela <em>ajeitada</em> na escola, as agências de namoro e os sites de relacionameto está provado que na <strong>profissão cupido</strong> nós já nascemos com alguma experiência.</p>
<p>De qualquer forma são necessários alguns requisitos pra quem quiser explorar seu talento e bater asas por aí de arco e flacha na mão.</p>
<p>Quem já trabalha nessa área diz que depois da vocação pra formar pares é preciso uma assistência psicológica para as entrevistas, além de um bom canal de comunicação. Outra indicação é que o mercado está saturado em quantidade mas pra quem quer se destacar pela qualidade parece muito próspero.</p>
<p>Veja alguns exemplos de quem se deu bem como Cupido no blog <a href="http://pecademissaoevatrabalhar.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/o-grande-negocio-de-ser-cupido/" target="_blank">Peça Demissão e Vá Trabalhar! </a></p>
<p>Boas flechadas!</p>
<p>Ivan Leal  <a href="http://twitter.com/ivanlegal" target="_blank">@ivanlegal</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cupido - einfach klasse]]></title>
<link>http://woerterkatze.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/cupido-einfach-klasse/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>woerterkatze</dc:creator>
<guid>http://woerterkatze.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/cupido-einfach-klasse/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Gestern habe ich Cupido beendet und das Buch ist wirklich klasse.  Natira&#8217;s Tipp war klasse. H]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Gestern habe ich Cupido beendet und das Buch ist wirklich klasse.  <a href="http://natiraszeit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Natira</a>&#8217;s Tipp war klasse. Heute frag ich mich, weshalb das Buch so lange gesubt hat. Ich befürchte, dass ich das noch bei  einigen meiner SuB-Bücher denken werde. Eine ausführliche Rezension zu Cupido folgt noch.<br />
Jedenfalls kann ich jedem Thriller-Fan das Buch nur empfehlen.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A outra metade da laranja]]></title>
<link>http://satirizay.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/a-outra-metade-da-laranja/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bruno Almeida, Eduardo Fernandes, Isabela Couto, Rafael Monteiro e Vinícius Altoé. Coletivo Satirizay</dc:creator>
<guid>http://satirizay.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/a-outra-metade-da-laranja/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[O que a carência faz com as pessoas&#8230; Com um público cada vez mais sedento por sexo amor, progr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>O que a carência faz com as pessoas&#8230;</p>
<p>Com um público cada vez mais sedento por <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">sexo</span> amor, programas variados resolveram atacar de cupido.</p>
<p>Há duas grandes correntes:</p>
<p><strong>Cupido chique</strong> &#8211; Aposta em especialistas anti-encalhados, responsáveis em revigorar o visual e a mente(?) dos desprovidos de amor.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/gLte0Bod2y0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/gLte0Bod2y0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><strong>Cupido fatal </strong>- Aqui, os participantes podem saciar suas necessidades mais carnais. Um verdadeiro açougue humano.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/hoKvlb7iuCY&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/hoKvlb7iuCY&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>É a TV cumprindo o seu papel.</p>
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<link>http://sitiodascitacoes.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/19205/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sitiodascitacoes.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/19205/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;O amor é cego e os amantes não dão conta das lindas loucuras que cometem; se assim não fosse,]]></description>
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<h5 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#33cccc;">&#8220;O amor é cego e os amantes não dão conta das lindas loucuras que cometem; se assim não fosse, o próprio Cupido coraria de me ver disfarçada de pajem.&#8221;</span></h5>
<pre style="text-align:center;">William Shakespeare (O Mercador de Veneza)</pre>
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<title><![CDATA[Interprete di se]]></title>
<link>http://emmedigi.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/interprete-di-se/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
<guid>http://emmedigi.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/interprete-di-se/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Non so come mi son cacciato in questo guaio, ma ormai ci sono anche se non ci sguazzo. E’ che ci son]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SuB-Abbau 2009]]></title>
<link>http://woerterkatze.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/sub-abbau-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>woerterkatze</dc:creator>
<guid>http://woerterkatze.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/sub-abbau-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Der Abbau geht voran. Anne Holts &#8220;Die Wahrheit dahinter&#8221; habe ich gestern Abend beendet ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-272" title="bücher" src="http://woerterkatze.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/bucher1.jpg" alt="bücher" width="100" height="86" />Der Abbau geht voran. Anne Holts &#8220;Die Wahrheit dahinter&#8221; habe ich gestern Abend beendet und somit ist wieder ein Buch runter vom SuB-Abbauplan 2009. Mittlerweile stehen nur noch 42 Bücher drauf und der gesamt SuB ist auf 265 geschrumpft. Nun ja immer noch genug. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Auf Empfehlung von Natira lese ich nun, neben meiner lustigen Lektüre &#8220;Naschkatze&#8221; von Meg Cabot, &#8220;Cupido&#8221; von Jilliane Hoffman. Das Buch subt schon eine ganze Weile und irgendwann muss es ja mal gelesen werden.<br />
Und wenn dieser Tipp funktioniert habe ich nichts dagegen, wenn jemand mir noch einen Tipp aus dem SuB-Abbau-Liste 2009 gibt.<br />
Übrigens steht die Liste nun bis zum Ende des Jahres als Seite fest.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cupido distratto]]></title>
<link>http://ilnuovomondodigalatea.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/cupido-distratto/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ilmondodigalatea</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ilnuovomondodigalatea.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/cupido-distratto/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[E poi con lui ti senti proprio bene. Rilassata. Scherzi, ridi. Di gusto. Lo conosci quel tanto che s]]></description>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2847" title="cupido morto" src="http://ilnuovomondodigalatea.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/cupido-morto.jpg?w=300" alt="cupido morto" width="300" height="239" /></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">E poi con lui ti senti proprio bene.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Rilassata.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Scherzi, ridi.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Di gusto.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Lo conosci quel tanto che serve perché non ci siano stupidi equivoci, fraintendimenti. Perché non sia necessario prendere le misure alle parole onde evitare lo scatenarsi di musi lunghi e ripicche infantili.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">È spiritoso. Senza essere fatuo.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">È colto. Senza essere pedante.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Basta uno sguardo per capirsi al volo.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Alle volte, non serve neppure quello. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Basta il tono di voce e ci si capisce persino alla cieca, così.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">E anche lui, con te, si sente bene.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Rilassato.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Scherza, ride.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Di gusto.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Per un attimo le sue mani, le sue belle mani affusolate che gira e rigira senza posa, sempre, trovano requie, la sua eterna, covante malinconia si placa. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Sorride, e le piccole rughe d&#8217;espressione, vicino agli occhi, svaniscono.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Sorridi, e le piccole rughe di scontento agli angoli della bocca svaniscono pure a te.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">La sala, attorno, in quell&#8217;istante sembra sparire.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">O chetarsi, come se trattenesse il respiro, mentre tu e lui vi guardate, per un lungo silenzioso momento.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Quel momento in cui, se Cupido scoccasse la freccia, farebbe secchi per sempre tutti e due.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Il guaio è che non accade.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><em>Al solito, è un racconto di fantasia. Ma se becco dove s&#8217;imbosca quell&#8217;idiota di Cupido quando serve, lo spenno, giuro, eh! <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </em></span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Prisioneira]]></title>
<link>http://manualdoquarto.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/prisioneira/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>manualdoquarto</dc:creator>
<guid>http://manualdoquarto.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/prisioneira/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Meu pensamento lascivo enche a noite com infinitos pensamentos, e acorrenta minha alma a porões géli]]></description>
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enche a noite<br />
com infinitos pensamentos,<br />
e acorrenta minha alma<br />
a porões gélidos,<br />
fazendo-me prisioneira<br />
de uma vontade<br />
que me persegue.</p>
<p>Se toda prisão eu repudio<br />
presa nos teus braços eu sou feliz.<br />
Quero mergulhar em teus olhos,<br />
beber o teu perfume<br />
e dele me embriagar&#8230;<br />
Cair outra vez exausta,<br />
sem sentido<br />
tornando infinito esse momento de torpor.</p>
<p>Saudade.<br />
Vontade.<br />
Apego.<br />
Necessidade desse sabor.<br />
O que fazer quando nenhuma palavra<br />
Pode traduzir o que sinto?<br />
Eu troco de cupido<br />
E recomeço a sonhar.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-102" title="cupido" src="http://manualdoquarto.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/cupido.jpg" alt="cupido" width="173" height="163" /></p>
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<link>http://espaciossecretos.com/2009/09/29/cupid-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Felix Muñoz</dc:creator>
<guid>http://espaciossecretos.com/2009/09/29/cupid-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Título Original: Cupid Año: 2009 Reparto: Bobby Cannavale, Sarah Paulson, Rick Gomez, Camille Guaty,]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LAUSAC ART]]></title>
<link>http://lausac.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/lausac-art-33/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lausac</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lausac.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/lausac-art-33/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Cupido – Acrílica s/ tela – 80 x 120 cm – Curitiba/2003]]></description>
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<link>http://jesusrocha.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/cupido-me-cuestiona-sobre-amor/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jesús Rocha</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jesusrocha.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/cupido-me-cuestiona-sobre-amor/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bueno, os dejo aquí un poema con una probatura que hago mezclando verso endecasílabo con octosílabo ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Bueno, os dejo aquí un poema con una probatura que hago mezclando verso endecasílabo con octosílabo en rima A-B-A-B&#8230; A ver que os parece. Recordad, genius at work, jajajaja.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Pasó Cupido ayer por mi balcón,</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">vino a pedirme consejo,</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">¡qué desorden para toda razón!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">¡que descuido el del arquero!.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">¿Cómo lo pides si lanzas el amor</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">con un tino tan certero,</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">que incluso Don Juan por amor murió</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">por flechazo traicionero?.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">¿Tú querubín? ¿con roto corazón?</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Ahora entiendo tu desvelo</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">cuando te falta esa eterna pasión</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">que me consume por dentro.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Te falta sentir cuando oyes adiós</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">sin aire dentro del pecho,</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">te falta escuchar la hermosa canción</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">a la que suena un te quiero.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Así va la vida&#8230;</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Jesús Rocha<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Wie is Cupido?]]></title>
<link>http://valentijn.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/wie-is-cupido/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>namjelus</dc:creator>
<guid>http://valentijn.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/wie-is-cupido/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Cupido of Amor (Nederlands verouderd ook: Cupied) is in de Romeinse mythologie het hulpje van de god]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>Cupido</strong> of <strong>Amor</strong> (Nederlands verouderd ook: <em>Cupied</em>) is in de <a title="Namen in Griekse en Romeinse mythologie" href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namen_in_Griekse_en_Romeinse_mythologie">Romeinse mythologie</a> het hulpje van de <a title="Godin" href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godin">godin</a> van de <a title="Liefde" href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liefde">liefde</a>, Venus. Hij wordt meestal afgebeeld als een (bijna) naakt jongetje met vleugeltjes en een pijl en boog. Hij schiet, volgens de legende, pijlen in harten van mensen en goden om deze <a title="Verliefdheid" href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verliefdheid">verliefd</a> te laten worden.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://blacklabradortygo.punt.nl/upload/cupido10.jpeg" alt="http://blacklabradortygo.punt.nl/upload/cupido10.jpeg" width="164" height="181" /></p>
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<link>http://graficaturas.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/flechado/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomáz</dc:creator>
<guid>http://graficaturas.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/flechado/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[LAUSAC ART]]></title>
<link>http://lausac.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/lausac-art-29/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lausac</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lausac.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/lausac-art-29/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[O CUPIDO – Acrílico s/ tela – 60 x 80 cm – Curitiba/2002]]></description>
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<link>http://animalcivilizado.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/no-reino-de-glome-c-s-lewis/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>C. Alexandra</dc:creator>
<guid>http://animalcivilizado.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/no-reino-de-glome-c-s-lewis/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  C. S. Lewis nasceu em 1898, na Irlanda. É um conhecido romancista e ensaísta, devido à popularidad]]></description>
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<p>C. S. Lewis nasceu em 1898, na Irlanda. É um conhecido romancista e ensaísta, devido à popularidade que algumas das suas obras de fantasia e ficção científica alcançaram, nomeadamente a série <em>As Crónicas de Nárnia</em>, traduzida em mais de trinta línguas e em parte, transposta para o teatro e o cinema. Para tal também contribuiu a sua amizade com J. R. Tolkien, autor de <em>O Senhor dos Anéis</em>.</p>
<p><em>No reino de Glome </em>não é das obras mais conhecidas de C. S. Lewis. Quando comecei a ler o livro, não compreendi a razão dessa particularidade. Dos livros que li até hoje, considero que este tem um dos melhores inícios. Orual, umas das princesas do Reino de Glome, apresenta-se e inicia o relato da sua história.</p>
<p>«<em>Agora já estou velha e não temo a fúria dos deuses. Não tenho marido nem filhos, nem tão pouco amigos através dos quais me possa prejudicar. O meu corpo, esta massa curvada e decadente, que ainda tem de ser lavado, alimentado e vestido, passa por inúmeras transformações diárias que o poderão matar subitamente.</em></p>
<p><em>Estando, por todas estas razões, livre de receios, irei escrever neste livro tudo aquilo que uma pessoa que é feliz nãos e atreveria a escrever. Vou acusar os deuses, especialmente o deus da Montanha Grey. Vou contar tudo o que ele me fez, como se estivesse a apresentar a minha acusação perante um juiz. Mas não há julgamento possível entre homens e deuses, e o deus da montanha não me dará uma resposta. Terrores e pragas não são respostas. Escrevo em grego tal e qual o meu mestre me ensinou. Pode ser que algum dia um viajante da Grécia se instale neste palácio e o leia. Depois, falará sobre esse juízo com os gregos, entre os quais existe uma grande liberdade de expressão, até sobre os próprios deuses. Talvez os seus lábios saibam avaliar se a minha acusação tem fundamento ou se o deus poderia defender-se, caso me respondesse</em>.»</p>
<p>O texto adverte, não se trata de uma história comum. É inspirada na história de Cupido e Psique, que foi contada inicialmente no romance «Metamorfose» (também intitulado «O Asno de Ouro») de Lucius Apuleius Platonicus (nascido por volta de 125 d.C.). O mito de Psique é sobre a filha mais nova de um rei e uma rainha, de seu nome Psique. Venerada pelos homens devido à sua beleza, enquanto o culto de Vénus era negligenciado. Por inveja, Vénus incumbiu o filho, Cupido, de fazer com que a rapariga se apaixonasse pelo mais desprezível dos homens. Ao ver Psique, Cupido apaixonou-se e pediu ao Vento Oeste que a levasse para um local secreto. Posteriormente, as irmãs da jovem princesa arquitectaram um plano para destruir a felicidade da irmã, da qual tinham inveja. E ela deambulou perdida até cair nas mãos de Vénus, que a obrigou a realizar tarefas impossíveis de realizar. Por fim, reconciliou-se com Cupido e tornou-se uma deusa.</p>
<p>Embora tenha introduzido algumas alterações à história da mitologia grega, em que se inspirou, o autor não introduziu alterações profundas. A história recriada por C. S. Lewis decorre, predominantemente, no Reino de Glome, situado nas montanhas da fronteira com a Antiga Grécia. Onde se pratica o culto à cruel deusa do amor Ungit, e ao seu filho, o deus da montanha, correspondentes aos deuses gregos Afrodite e Cupido. Apesar da severidade do rei Trom para com as suas filhas, Orual e a sua irmã levam uma vida sossegada, até ao dia em que o rei casa novamente. Desse curto casamento nasce Psique. Sem uma mãe que se encarregue da criança e com um pai pouco preocupado com o bem-estar das filhas, Orual começa a desempenhar o papel de irmã mais velha e de mãe, com o auxílio do escravo grego encarregue de ensinar a princesas a ler, escrever e fazer cálculos, acompanhando as suas alegrias, tristezas e peripécias.</p>
<p>Após a leitura dos primeiros capítulos rendi-me à escrita do autor, pela simplicidade e habilidade. Porém, se o início do livro encantou-me, o entusiasmo não permaneceu ao longo de toda a leitura. A partir do momento em que a protagonista é sentenciada à pena de também ela ser Psique, a trama acelera, enquanto prossegue o relato da vida de Orual, mais lúgubre e vazia após o desaparecimento da irmã. Saltam-se anos, situações ficam por descrever e pequenas pontas do enredo por encaixar. Não obstante, algumas passagens sobre  deuses e humanos são verdadeiramente interessantes.</p>
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