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TROY AS MYTHOLOGICAL PLOY & APHRODITE AS TOY
”The three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite) asked Zeus to present the apple of discord — a beautiful gold sphere — to the one who deserved the title kallista ‘most beautiful’. I know some of the other gods were surprised … Continue reading
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WHEN IN ROME
Rome, as the freshly abdicated ex-queen Christina saw it on her arrival, was a city in the process of being transformed by the genius of Bernini. Everywhere, churches and palaces were being rebuilt, and handsome piazzas laid out, in all … Continue reading
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GYPSY QUEENS & ALCHEMY KINGS
One was quite homely and unfeminine, and the other a beauty.Queen Christina of Sweden and Greta Garbo. Yet their destinies crossed into a fusion of karmic proportions that continues to invite question and pique curiosity. For both, the determination to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexia Sinclair, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Descartes, Faith Compton Mackenzie, Garbo, Greta Garbo, Gustavus Adolphus Sweden, Ivan Michael Praetorius, Jason Kovar, Johann Adler Salvius, Johannes Franck, John Gilbert, Louis de Geer, Mata Hari, mata Hari Garbo, Oxenstierna, Queen Christina of Sweden, Rosicrucians, Rouben Mamoulian, Salka Viertel, Sybil of the North, Torrey Philemon, Tracy Marks, William Daniels, www.doctormacro.com, www.garboforever.com, www.goodfight.org, www.windweaver.com
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THE ANDROGYNOUS STRAIN
“…if we conceive the world in that vast extension you give it, it is impossible that man conserve himself therein in this honorable rank, on the contrary, he shall consider himself along with the entire earth he inhabits as in … Continue reading
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LOVE THE STORM AND FEAR THE CALM
Christina of Sweden( 1626-89) was the paradoxical monarch. ”Astrologers predict she will be a boy, and when she is born with a caul over her pelvis, she is believed at first to be a boy. Her mother rejects her because … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Bonnie Zimmerman, Feminism, Greta Garbo, Ivan Michael Praetorius, Jacob Elbfas, Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Joanne mattern, Lesbian Studies, Queen Christina of Sweden, Rene Descartes, Sarah Waters, Suzanna Akerman, Torrey Philemon, Tracy Marks, Women's Studies, www.levity.com, www.windweaver.com
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