New Age Deception Files

According to a philosophical myth told by Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium, humans were originally round-shaped beings with four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, which faced in opposite directions, four ears and two private areas. There are three types of human beings, and these are male-male, female-female and male-female. These beings were so powerful and proud that they began to challenge and threaten the gods with their strength and arrogance. Alarmed by this, Zeus split them in half to weaken and humble them. Since then, everyone has been in constant search of their other half to become whole once again. In Symposium (189e-190d) it says: (189e) The form of each person was round all over, with back and sides encompassing it every way; each had four arms and legs to match these, and two faces perfectly alike  (190a) on a cylindrical neck. There was one head to the two faces, which looked opposite ways; there were four ears, two privy members and all the other parts...

A critical examination of Plato's myth of the split human as a metaphor for love, identity and the human condition. A painting of Plato's Symposium by Anselm Feuerbach, completed in 1869 . According to a philosophical myth told by Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium, humans were originally round-shaped beings with four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, which faced in opposite directions, four ears and two private areas. There are three types of human beings, and these are male-male, female-female and male-female. These beings were so powerful and proud that they began to challenge and threaten the gods with their strength and arrogance. Alarmed by this, Zeus split them in half to weaken and humble them. Since then, everyone has been in constant search of their other half to become whole once again. In Symposium (189e-190d) it says: (189e) The form of each person was round all over, with back and sides encompassing it every way; each had four arms and legs to match the...