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Γραικύλος schrieb am 21.10.2021 um 15:32 Uhr (Zitieren)

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An Inventory of Perversions in Myth would be too lengthy; a preliminary classification of the data showed that some 30-50 types were represented. No other mythology seems to mention so many; no mythological personage has as varied inclinations as Herakles. I must content myself with high-lighting striking absences and a few especially peculiar reactions.

Male Supernaturals do not cohabit with male animals, nor, except for Dionysos, are they passively homosexual (supra). They do not commit homosexual incest, and they are neither sexually sadistic nor necrophiliac. A Satyr tries to kiss the fire. (A. Pyrph. Fr. 207 N.)

Female Supernaturals, though they, too, do not cohabit with female animals, are more perverted than male ones. Artemis and her companions seem lesbian; disguised as Artemis, Zeus approaches Kallisto (Eratosth. Cat. 1 p. 50 R.) The Sphinx cruelly rapes (coitus inversus, clawing) men and perhaps devours them. Hephaistos is a ‘windchild’ (Luc. de Sacrif. 6).

Men do not practice homosexual incest or homosexual bestiality, nor do they cohabit with amorphous objects.

Women: No lesbian incest or cohabitation with female animals. They do, however, cohabit with amorphous objects and with natural forces: lightning (Semele); rain of gold (Danae); water (Tyro); wind (Oreithyia); (cp. Baubon, Herod. 6.18 ff.).

Animals: Stallions and camels are reluctant to commit incest and mares to unite hypogamously with jackasses. Mares are aroused by music (Plu. 138B, 704F) and by hippomanes. Bulls must be deceived into mating with women (Pasiphae). Lions mate only with leopards. Stallions mount a mare’s statue (Paus. 5.27.2). In the Troad, Krete, and Lusitania, mares mate with the wind. So do hens in Greece and female vultures in Egypt; male vultures do not exist. Though real animals sometimes practice homosexuality, mythical ones do not.

Plants. Paus. 7.17.11; Arnob. adv. nat. 5,5.

Inanimate Objects and Forces: see above.

Spectres, Phantasms, Dreams, Eidola: Many examples.

It appears that the Greeks sexualized all tangible and imaginary constituents of the Universe, which may, perhaps, have contributed to the ‘orphic’ concept of a primordial Eros. These data, taken in conjunction with the cases of ‘sliding’ discussed above (1), indicate that Greek fantasy was adolescent in its lack of sexual discrimination and differentiation. This made it possible for Greek culture to encourage successfully an abnormal behavioral segment of this broad sexual spectrum.
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[George Devereux, Greek Pseudo-Homosexuality and the ‘Greek Miracle’; in: Symbolae Osloenses 42 (1968), S. 69-92; Nachdruck: Sexualität und Erotik in der Antike. Hrsg. v. Andreas Karsten Siems. Darmstadt 1988, S. 206-231; hier: S. 228 f.]

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Re: No other mythology seems to mention so many perversions

Γραικύλος schrieb am 21.10.2021 um 15:32 Uhr (Zitieren)

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Re: No other mythology seems to mention so many perversions

Γραικύλος schrieb am 24.10.2021 um 16:44 Uhr (Zitieren)

Warum ist das so ist, ist ja ein Rätsel. Die Erklärung des Psychoanalytikers Devereux, die griechische Sexualität sei eine in der ("polymorph perversen") Adoleszenz steckengebliebene, verschiebt m.E. nur die Frage.

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