Love words
"I am the people seem quite the true power of Eros not to be held now. But first we must know human nature and its development properly. Our former nature was in fact not the same as now, but very different. In origin there were three sexes of people, not like now, only two, male and female, but there was a third to which was the community of these two. androgynous, composed of the male and female were all these creatures twice, her figure was so round, so that the back and chest went around in circles, she had four hands and four legs and two faces on a round neck, and two-time private parts also, the two male men, two women, the female and one male and one female, the feminine man.
were on strength and power they now have large and powerful and arrogant thoughts, for they challenged the gods, as if they were equal to them. Zeus and the other gods were discussing now what to do, and did not know what. For it was not advisable to kill them, because it would have been lost with it all honors and offerings. After many efforts, the father of the gods had the idea to share all the members of the gender that they should have only two legs and genitals. If they won with their exuberance Proceed, he wanted to cut further, that they would have to go on one leg like tops. And so he cut them all, and Apollo healed their wounds, but the people were very unhappy: Everyone longed for his other half, and so they came together, embraced with the arms and twined together in the desire to grow together again . And this desire and pursuit of the whole is called love. "
Luciano De Crescenzo, from" The power of love "