Io e la piccola Nea

Nome: Nea
Noto anche come: la geisha – la fagiola
Segni particolari: piccola e delicata, massaggia il clitoride come una giapponese d’altri tempi
Dimensioni: da borsetta
Materiale: ABS
Prezzo: 74 €
Produttore: LELO

Nea

Funzionamento: già il fatto che con 2 ore di carica si hanno 7 ore di vibrazioni dovrebbe dirla lunga. In più, questo grazioso vibratore clitorideo con motivi floreali ha 5 velocità e 5 programmi di stimolazione, di cui 4 a pulsazione altamente orgasmici e adatti ad accarezzare ogni desiderio. Soprattutto, Nea è un sex toys davvero alla mano: facile ma maneggiare e impugnare nei momenti topici, e ancora più semplice da portare in giro, grazie alle sue dimensioni micro. Sopratutto, basta infilarlo in borsetta e trovare un luogo appartato per dare libero sfogo alle sue potenti ma discretissime vibrazioni. Il tocco di classe? Nea è bisessuale: va con donne, uomini e con coppie disposte a provare nuove ed eccitanti sensazioni.

Pro: piccolo, versatile, silenzioso. Un ninja!

Contro: non è un vibratore per interni, ma per quello c’è Gigi

Nea

What a feeling! La cosa meravigliosa di questo giochino è che è divertente, così tanto che mi faccio tesing & denial da sola, il che – vista la durata delle batterie – potrebbe tranquillamente durare quanto un viaggio da Tokyo a Kyoto. E poi, sta tutto in una mano, racchiuso come un piccolo segreto e non lo uso solo da sola. I comandi sono intuitivi e divertenti come quelli del Game Boy ed è utilissimo per essere impugnato con sicura voluttà e stimolare il clitoride (e tutte le altre zone erogene, tipo schiena e capezzoli) durante masturbazioni solitarie a lume di candela, cavalcate selvagge da samurai e per essere appoggiato oziosamente sulla pancia di chi sta di sotto, sempre che il suo ventre sia abbastanza patto da non farlo rotolare, e fortunatamente quello del mio Lui lo è. Dalla prima volta che l’ho provato e in ogni modo io l’abbia provato non mi ha mai delusa. Orgasmo assicurato sia in modalità Fast and Furious, sia in mood 100 anni di solitudine (lussuriosa). Enjoy!

Fallo godere: mettigli un po’ di lubrificante sul pisello, tieni Nea nel palmo della mano e massaggialo lentamente, quasi sfiorandolo… e poi lavora di fantasia: la prova che gli piace sarà a portata di mano.

Voto: 9++

COMPRA NEA

Sex toy courtesy of LELO

AL FINAL, LA NOVELA DE LOS AMANTES PLATÓNICOS CAMBIA DE NOMBRE. SE VA A LLAMAR “UNA HISTORIA DIGNA DE CONTAR”. AQUÍ OS DEJO COMO EMPIEZA LA HISTORIA: EL PRINCIPIO DEL PRIMER CAPÍTULO. ESPERO QUE OS GUSTE.

“La historia de Marga no empezó – ni siquiera para ella misma – el cinco de Febrero de aquel lejano año en el que nació. Su verdadera historia arrancó un cinco de Marzo, treinta y cinco años después.
Todo comenzó como un juego… Como siempre, pero esta vez era verdad. Todo comenzó con una partida de ajedrez, y las partidas de tan noble y elegante juego de mesa o terminan en tablas (y todos tan contentos) o alguien hace un jaque, y el otro queda “mate”. Pues así pasó todo.
Marga vivió, y amó, pero en eso del amor siempre hay algo más, algo que hay que guardar en secreto… Aunque no siempre se consigue…”

en pdf…………….principio de novela

‘The whole power productive of water they called Oceanus, and named its symbolic figure Tethys. But of the whole, the drinking-water produced is called Achelous; and the sea-water Poseidon; while again that which makes the sea, inasmuch as it is productive, is Amphitrite. Of the sweet waters the particular powers are called Nymphs, and those of the sea-waters Nereids.

Again, the power of fire they called Hephaestus, and have made his image in the form of a man, but put on it a blue cap as a symbol of the revolution of the heavens, because the archetypal and purest form of fire is there. But the fire brought down from heaven to earth is less intense, and wants the strengthening and support which is found in matter: wherefore he is lame, as needing matter to support him.

Also they supposed a power of this kind to belong to the sun and called it Apollo, from the pulsation of his beams. There are also nine Muses singing to his lyre, which are the sublunar sphere, and seven spheres of the planets, and one of the fixed stars. And they crowned him with laurel, partly because the plant is full of fire, and therefore hated by daemons; and partly because it crackles in burning, to represent the god’s prophetic art.

But inasmuch as the sun wards off the evils of the earth, they called him Heracles (from his clashing against the air) in passing from east to west. And they invented fables of his performing twelve labours, as the symbol of the division of the signs of the zodiac in heaven; and they arrayed him with a club and a lion’s skin, the one as an indication of his uneven motion, and the other representative of his strength in “Leo” the sign of the zodiac.

Of the sun’s healing power Asclepius is the symbol, and to him they have given the staff as a sign of the support and rest of the sick, and the serpent is wound round it, as significant of his preservation of body and soul: for the animal is most full of spirit, and shuffles off the weakness of the body. It seems also to have a great faculty for healing: for it found the remedy for giving clear sight, and is said in a legend to know a certain plant which restores life.

But the fiery power of his revolving and circling motion, whereby he ripens the crops, is called Dionysus, not in the same sense as the power which produces the juicy fruits, but either from the sun’s rotation, or from his completing his orbit in the heaven. And whereas he revolves round the cosmical seasons and is the maker of “times and tides,” the sun is on this account called Horus.

Of his power over agriculture, whereon depend the gifts of wealth, the symbol is Pluto. He has, however, equally the power of destroying, on which account they make Sarapis share the temple of Pluto: and the purple tunic they make the symbol of the light that has sunk beneath the earth, and the sceptre broken at the top that of his power below, and the posture of the hand the symbol of his departure into the unseen world.

Cerberus is represented with three heads, because the positions of the sun above the earth are three-rising, midday, and setting.

The moon, conceived according to her brightness, they called Artemis, as it were, “cutting the air.” And Artemis, though herself a virgin, presides over childbirth, because the power of the new moon is helpful to parturition.

What Apollo is to the sun, that Athena is to the moon: for the moon is a symbol of wisdom, and so a kind of Athena.

But, again, the moon is Hecate, the symbol of her varying phases and of her power dependent on the phases. Wherefore her power appears in three forms, having as symbol of the new moon the figure in the white robe and golden sandals, and torches lighted: the basket, which she bears when she has mounted high, is the symbol of the cultivation of the crops, which she makes to grow up according to the increase of her light: and again the symbol of the full moon is the goddess of the brazen sandals.

Or even from the branch of olive one might infer her fiery nature, and from the poppy her productiveness, and the multitude of the souls who find an abode in her as in a city, for the poppy is an emblem of a city. She bears a bow, like Artemis, because of the sharpness of the pangs of labour.

And, again, the Fates are referred to her powers, Clotho to the generative, and Lachesis to the nutritive, and Atropos to the inexorable will of the deity.

Also, the power productive of corn-crops, which is Demeter, they associate with her, as producing power in her. The moon is also a supporter of Kore. They set Dionysus also beside her, both on account of their growth of horns, and because of the region of clouds lying beneath the lower world.

The power of Kronos they perceived to be sluggish and slow and cold, and therefore attributed to him the power of time: and they figure him standing, and grey-headed, to indicate that time is growing old.

The Curetes, attending on Chronos, are symbols of the seasons, because time journeys on through seasons.

Of the Hours, some are the Olympian, belonging to the sun, which also open the gates in the air: and others are earthly, belonging to Demeter, and hold a basket, one symbolic of the flowers of spring, and the other of the wheat-ears of summer.

The power of Ares they perceived to be fiery, and represented it as causing war and bloodshed, and capable both of harm and benefit.

The star of Aphrodite they observed as tending to fecundity, being the cause of desire and offspring, and represented it as a woman because of generation, and as beautiful, because it is also the evening star-

“Hesper, the fairest star that shines in heaven.” [Homer, Iliad 22:318]

And Eros they set by her because of desire. She veils her breasts and other parts, because their power is the source of generation and nourishment. She comes from the sea, a watery element, and warm, and in constant movement, and foaming because of its commotion, whereby they intimate the seminal power.

Hermes is the representative of reason and speech, which both accomplish and interpret all things. The phallic Hermes represents vigour, but also indicates the generative law that pervades all things.

Further, reason is composite: in the sun it is called Hermes; in the moon Hecate; and that which is in the All Hermopan, for the generative and creative reason extends over all things. Hermanubis also is composite, and as it were half Greek, being found among the Egyptians also. Since speech is also connected with the power of love, Eros represents this power: wherefore Eros is represented as the son of Hermes, but as an infant, because of his sudden impulses of desire.

They made Pan the symbol of the universe, and gave him his horns as symbols of sun and moon, and the fawn skin as emblem of the stars in heaven, or of the variety of the universe.’

‘O Love, Love, that from the eyes diffusest soft desire, bringing on the souls of those, whom thou dost camp against, sweet grace, O never in evil mood appear to me, nor out of time and tune approach! Nor fire nor meteor hurls a mightier bolt than Aphrodite’s shaft shot by the hands of Love, the child of Zeus.

Idly, idly by the streams of Alpheus and in the Pythian shrines of Phoebus, Hellas heaps the slaughtered steers; while Love we worship not, Love, the king of men, who holds the key to Aphrodite’s sweetest bower,-worship not him who, when he comes, lays waste and marks his path to mortal hearts by wide-spread woe.’

(PALAT. ANT. BOOK V – 170)
Nothing is sweeter than Love; and every other joy
is second to it: even the honey I spit out of my mouth.
Thus Nossis says: and who didn’t love Kypris,
doesn’t know what sort of roses her flowers are.

(PALAT. ANT. BOOK VI – 275)
With pleasure Aphrodite received the lovable offering
of the small bonnet which wound the head of Samyta:
It’s really of exquisite workmanship and it gently smells of the nectar
with which the goddess sprinkles the handsome Adonis.

(PALAT. ANT. BOOK IX – 332)
Arrived in front of the temple we gaze at this statue of Aphrodite
embellished by a dress embroidered with gold.
Polyarchis offered it, having made out a large fortune
from the beauty of her own body.

(PALAT. ANT. BOOK IX – 605)
In the temple of the blonde Aphrodite Kallò dedicated this picture
painted with a portrait exactly alike her.
What a tidy attitude! And which grace pervades her!
Hail! Of all your life nothing could be blamed.

– More here.

Per tutte le giovani fanciulle/ragazze/femmine/donne che hanno la fortuna di arrivare su questo spazio, fate un pensiero senza pregiudizi a mettere a disposizione il vostro corpo (e la vostra anima) per la realizzazione di una opera d’arte carica di eros e di passione, provate a pensare il vostro corpo dipinto con colori naturali ed edibili per un gioco erotico e di espressione artistica allo stesso tempo.

Provate ad immaginarvi parte di una realizzazione che si fa oggetto tridimensionale, può divenire parte di una registrazione di immagini in movimento o divenire immagine statica da rielaborare in post- produzione in un processo di continua evoluzione ed elaborazione.

Fatevi arte, eros e passione allo stesso tempo e bloccate la bellezza del vostro corpo in una icona che il tempo non potrà che valorizzare.

Tutti i corpi sono adatti, perché tutti hanno una loro specificità e possono essere valorizzzati proprio in funzione delle loro caratteristiche uniche. I fisici abbondanti e prosperosi sono in  modo particolare potenziali opere d’arte, pensate ai soggetti dell’arte di Botero.

Quindi a qualsiasi tipologia appartenga il tuo fisico, sii certa che possiamo trovare insieme la soluzione per valorizzarlo al massimo, meglio di quanto possa fare qualsiasi capo di abbigliamento.

Erika Lust – Per lei – Pink Book

Erika Lust – Per lei – Pink Book
http://www.erikalust.com/libro_en.html

My fascination with colour theory has led me into studying not just the science of colours but also their associated anomalies: colour blindness, synesthesia, and to total blindness itself. Make no mistake: blind people see… just not with their eyes.

“Eros” is an incredible short by Tom Geraedts that explores this idea. Our senses are all indelibly connected to our thoughts, emotions, feelings, and all over senses. The lack of one actually augments all the others. So what does a blind person see through their mind’s eye when their brain starts to feel; the part of the brain that creates “sight” is still active, it’s the connection to the eyes that’s decided not to co-operate. With its normal route cut off, where does it detour to to visualize the world that’s being sensed around it?

Look closely at the cover of Barely Private (Taschen)… that’s Brooke Shields in Cherokee headdress and stilettos, about to mount a hog. A fetish shoot or just image-retrofitting? Like a zigzag neon arrow, a shapely leg points to the entrance, dares us to have a peek.

And, of course, we do.

It’s been ten years since the publication of Santo D Orazio’s hot A Private View, and the shutterbug-Saint is back with another collaged scrapbook, packed with artful Eros. From Spain to Italy to the cliffs of Montauk, here are inspired grab shots, boozy, behind-the-about-to-beobscenes shots, outtakes and take-offs, complete with handwritten notes and painted scrawls and sketches. Religious iconography rubs shoulders with naked fashionistas, shedding sin.

Amazing what this photographer can do with a digicam and  lousy light,

The point, of course, isn’t tack sharp studio perfection, but the spirit of movement… the rustle of sheets and hustling on the dance floor. Personality must be laid bare, revealed and peeled. This book is what a saint sees between blinks on a speeding train.

The layout reminds me of the notebooks William S. Burroughs kept—self-conscious, certainly, but always teetering on the edge of visual revelation. Mirrored images captured in shattered shards which have been exquisitely resurrected, painted and arranged. A jetset jigsaw. Poetry and graffiti punctuated by tattooed flesh and handguns. Even a crucifix or two, to remind us somebody died for ours sins, if not our fashions.

Unlike the Burroughs diaries, you won’t find any beatniks loitering in Barely Private, unless you count Mickey Rourke or Peter Beard—admittedly first class misfits. Instead, we’re treated to high fashion models (Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, et al.) with cameo appearances by Pam Anderson and Christina Aguilera. The photographer uncovers a bevy of  covergirls from Elle, and superstars like the mouth-watering Angelina Jolie. The women are seen letting their manes down…tripping, stripping, and dripping in hotels, bars, on beaches and in hotel rooms. Kiss-kiss, wave at the camera, bounce on the bed. It’s a par-tay like there was no tomorrow, only there was…and it’s here. This, then, is a gift of captured fragments…burst à la mode … brazen, pouty, and slightly mad. Turn the pages and experience a quickie between the shoots.

Gotta love it. After all, in a culture that feeds on Facebook and Twitter, we are all voyeurs…so why not enjoy the face time without makeup. Besides, Soho is only a few blocks from Vogue now. (BTW, Ed Ruscha wrote the foreword.)

Sante D Orazio is, indeed, a saint. How else to explain how he managed to keep the camera at eye-level in the middle of a hurricane. Barely Private is one of the sexiest, wind-blown books of the year.

Order it  on Amazon.

Aun

a sabiendas

de que jamás me

gustó la geometría, me

metí en un triángulo amoroso

repleto de anomalías. Con la ingrata

cualidad de la mentira a sí mismo como

la gran verdad. Peor que un escaleno. Peor.

Peor que suicidarse -peor- y darse cuenta luego

de que existe la reencarnación. Triste y furiosa, así

estoy, queriendo arrancarme a golpes el corazón. Queriendo

romper a golpes la desazón de saberme impotente. Incierta. Inútil.

Incontablemente estúpida. Y fuera de control. Rabiosa y enchufada,

trifásica, electrocutada por la ira.  Ahora más que nunca sé  que jamás

me va a gustar la geometría…………………………………………………………………………

Erkelerde cinsel problem denildiği zaman akla ilk gelen gelen iktidarsızlık ya da diğer bir adıyla sertleşme problemidir. Erkeklerde sertleşme sorunu, bireyin cinsel açıdan istekli olduğu halde, penisinin cinsel ilişkiye girecek yeterli sertliğe ulaşamama durumudur. Bu sorunun temeli genellikle psikolojiktir ve yeterli cinsel ilişki performansı için gerekli penis sertleşmesi sağlanamaz. Özellikle gençler ilk deneyimleri sırasında bulunduğu ortamın şartları nedeniyle cinsel organında, sertleşmemeyi sağlayamamışsa bu sorunun ömür boyu devam edeceğini ve kendisinin cinsel ilişki açıdan sorunlu olduğunu düşünerek bu olayın ruh halini bozmasına sebep olmakta Gençlerde yaşanan bu ilk deneyim şoku toplum yapımızı düşündüğümüzde ömür boyu sürecek bir sorun olarak tezahur edebiliyor. Cinsel problemlerini uzmanlara danışarak tabu yapmaktan çıkaran hastalar kısa sürede tedavi olabiliyorlar. Sertleşme sorunu her ne kadar psikolojik temeli olsa da yüksek tansiyon, şeker hastalığı, prostat kanseri, yüksek kolesterol, damar sertliği, sigara kullanımı, omurilik hasarı, hormonal bozukluklar, aşırı alkol veya uyuşturucu kullanımı erkeklerin sertleşme problemi yaşamasına neden olabilir. Erkekler için cinsel ilişki performansını etkileyen önemli düşüncelerden biri de penis boyutudur. Penisinin cinsel ilişki performansı için yeterli olmadığı düşünen kişiler doktor onayından geçmiş bitkisel temelli penis büyütücü haplarla bu durumdan kurtulabilir. Yurtdışında uzun bir süredir kullanılan penis büyütücü haplar, erkeğin cinsel organına pompalanan kan miktarını arttırarak penis büyütmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bitkisel esaslı ürünleri kullanan kişiler, yaşadıkları cinsel ilişkilerden daha fazla haz almakta ve kendilerini sürekli dinç hissetmektedirler. hepsiprezervatif.com

“I wonder if you wonder.”

Great layers of inuendo and connotation in an exchange of wits between Barbara Stanwyck and Jimmy Stewart in the film noir classic, Double Indemnity (1944):

And here’s another great example of insinuation in a different genre:

Lilitha - the fight

Lilitha - behind

Lilitha - Feuer&Wasser

Feuer&Wasser kommt nicht zusammen,

kann man nicht binden,

sind nicht verwandt

(Rammstein : Feuer und Wasser)

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As requested: More observations from Italia!

Mosquitoes

-Italy has ninja mosquitoes. I’m serious. Even with all the windows closed they still magically made it into our apartment. Every morning during the warm weather me and my roommates would wake up and compare the new bites we had gotten during the night. I usually got 2 or 3 on my arms.

-Not only are these mosquitoes ninjas, they are also impenetrable to cold! It’s the end of November and I woke up with 3 bites the other day. Ridiculous!

Caffè

-A Caffè is really an espresso shot.

-A Macchiato is a Caffè plus a little milk.

-A Macchiato Latte is a cup of milk with a little espresso.

-A Cappuccino is a Caffè with steamed milk, and is very frothy.

-A Caffè Corretto is a Caffè plus Grapa or Brandy

-And finally, a Caffè Lungo or Caffè Americano is what we drink back home.

These are the things you learn in Italy =)

Musica

-I came here expecting to listen to Italian music, I mean why wouldn’t I? This didn’t really happen because it seems wherever I am, whether the discoteca or the supermercato, all’s they play is American music. It’s random but amusing to be walking down the pasta isle singing along to Lady Gaga on the radio.

-Even so, this is all fine because of what I’ve heard of Italian music I don’t like. I’m no expert but even the Italians, when they ask if we like their music, say that’s it is “different”. What they mean is that it is very…sweet. I mean like sugary 90’s boy band sweet, like 12 year old-Twilight-obsessed-girl sweet. Take this guy Eros Romazzotti, he’s a perfect example…

Watch his video here if you want, since the man won’t let his videos be embedded, but beware I couldn’t even make it half way through so I don’t really expect you to! Lol.

Then again if were talking the classics you can’t beat Andrea Boceli =) You might not recognize the name but you should recognize the song.

That’s all I got for now. If you want more let me know! There might even be part 3, who knows!? =D

Ever wondered what the gods of Olympus would be like in today’s world?  Well, Artemis is a control freak who walks dogs for a living and pines for her hunting beasts that she had to put down when they moved into a smaller house.  Apollo shags anything that moves and is trying to start up a tv show where he predicts the future.  Eros believes he is a Christian, and tries to convert his mother Aphrodite, who works for a phone sex company.  Zeus has gone mad and lives in the attic.

 All in London.  Where they are all getting tired and grey and sick of life.  This book,  Gods behaving badly by Marie Phillips, is certainly a humorous take on the ‘where are they now’ plot.  It wends its way through the underworld and the meaning of death, and just how much a good cleaner is worth when the carpet hasn’t been swept for 400 years. 

I’d like to say that it explores religion and the value of belief, but really it just touches the surface.  Which makes it a better story for my part, because then I get to think about what it could all mean.  It’s a good story that flies by.  And makes you ponder just how long life can be sometimes.

Mani forti e delicate

che plasmano

le morbidezze del corpo sensibile,

proteso indecentemente,

svergognato e vinto.

Punta di  lingua vellutata

che delinea

i  profili della pelle increspata,

offerta spudoratamente,

succube e vibrante.

Sfiorarsi appena nell’oscurità,

per morire di piacere.

” Les États-Unis ? Comment voulez- vous qu’une culture qui a inventé la poupée gonflable ait une notion de la sensualité ?”

Arman

Essayant ses montures :
forcément tes yeux tombaient
entre ses seins

d.(20/11/09)

Gea/Gaia

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.

Urano

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.

Rea

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.

Cronos /Saturno

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.

Zeus/Júpiter

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.

Hera/Juno

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.

 Hades/ Plutón

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.

Hestia/Vesta

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.

Poseidón/Neptuno

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.

Deméter/Ceres

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.

Atenea/Minerva

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.

Apolo/Febo

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.

Ártemis/Diana

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.

Ares/Marte

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.

Afrodita/Venus

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.

Hefesto/Vulcano

Dios del fuego y los metales. También es dios de los volcanes. Se dedica, 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.

Hermes/Mercurio

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.

Dioniso/BacoLíber

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.

Eros/Cupido

Dios de la atracción sexual, el amor y el sexo. 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.

Waterloo Bridge (dir. James Whale, 1931): A refreshingly different pre-code film from the afore-discussed Red-Headed Woman and Baby Face, this one sticks to your basic melodrama motifs, very D.W. Griffith style but minus the epic scope. WWI bombs dropping on London form the catalyst for the melodrama, ending up with feel reminiscent of A Farewell to Arms (which came a year later) and the like.

The Dangerous Thread of Things (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 2004): Typical but atypical Antonioni. Great to see some of those big shots of alienation and juxtaposition again, along with perfectly square and perfectly diagonal angles like only a Neorealist who loves Eisenstein can pull off. Dialogue is atrocious. This probably would have worked better not as a silent film, but without any talking. Hard to see what the big guy is getting at, but apparently he sees his “sickness of eros” as having some kind of hedonistic cure.

Broken Blossoms (dir. D.W. Griffith, 1919): A case study of any issue within a hundred miles of gender, this one is a tight, cohesive, and theoretically pornographic (in its etymological sense) excuse to watch a bunch of people die: the macho male “ideal,” the helpless damsel, and the aww-aren’t-you-sweet foreigner who attempts to rescue said damsel before coming to his own pathetic end. So much for proselytizing Buddhism and spreading world peace; the poor devil goes from missionary to creep, in the end making life even worse for poor Lucy and her pure-evil father/husband figure Battling Burroughs. We have Griffith to thank or to blame for so many of these now-common features of narrative cinema. Check it out here.