The American Minervan

Tag: Eros

  • These Seven Kinds of Love will Change your Attitude to Life

    These Seven Kinds of Love will Change your Attitude to Life

    LOVE (EROS), like the god PAN, is an important god (one of the primordial ancient Greek gods). Eros does not simply refer to an intense Erotic Love, but is an exulted Divine Ideal, that can be a frightening and dangerous POWER. It is considered to be a quickening FIRE, or psychic force that burns out…

  • Carl Orff: Tempus es Iocundum and Dulcissime

    Carl Orff: Tempus es Iocundum and Dulcissime

    Dulcissime Dulcissime, Sweetest one! Ah! totam tibi subdo me! I give myself to you totally! tempus est iocundum This is a joyful time Tempus es iocundum, This is the joyful time, o virgines, O maidens, modo congaudete rejoice with them, vos iuvenes. young men!    (Baritone) Oh, oh, oh, Oh! Oh! Oh! totus floreo, I am…

  • The Tragedy of Pan the Great: From Primordial Deity to Rustic Sex-Craving God

    The Tragedy of Pan the Great: From Primordial Deity to Rustic Sex-Craving God

    Ofelia: “My name is Ofelia. Who are you?” Pan: “Me? I’ve had so many names. Old names that only the wind and the trees can pronounce. I am the mountain, the forest and the earth. I am… I am a faun. Your most humble servant, Your Highness.” (Pan’s Labyrinth, film) PAN A PRIMORDIAL GOD AND…