Prologue

Prologue

Once upon a time, there were three kinds of people: male, descended from the sun; female, descended from the earth; and hermaphrodite, with both male and female parts, descended from the moon.

These early people were completely round, each with four arms and four legs, two faces on opposite sides of a head with four ears. 

They were wild and unruly and threatened to scale the heavens. So Zeus, the father of the gods, cut each one of them in half and scattered them, separating the souls who belonged together.

After that fateful day, people searched all over the world for their other half. When they finally found it, they wrapped themselves around it very tightly and did not let go.

This is the Origin of Love. Our desire to  be whole again, to be restored to our original nature and share in a common fate.

Plato - The Origin of Love.