Taken from the Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of World Religions

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Today’s religious topic is as follows:

”Androgyny”,  in mythology, the state of having the characteristics of both male and female. Androgyny, as the union of male and female can represent totality, completeness, or perfection; hence in some mythical traditions, a primal mythic being (i.e. a creator or first human) is androgynous and thereby expresses in his or her person a union of disparate features or opposites. This does not express a chaotic hybrid but rather a creative totality (the “coincidence of opposites”). In other systems human procreation is explained in terms of a division of a complete, originally androgynous being (as in Plato’s Symposium and in the Gnostic Gospel of Philip).

Cleavage of the primordial androgyny, Greek vase, 2400 BC The Torah and the Midrash

(Comeback on 10/22/14 and continue to learn about religion. Tomorrow you’ll read and learn more about “Andromache”.

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