The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey

By Alfred De Grazia

Can a dance and poem be a piece of astronomical history, tightly, not vaguely, related? We discern behind a famous Homeric scenario about the misconduct of the gods the shadow of a second scenario of astronomical catastrophe. Many reasons are uncovered to suspect that the human drama is unconsciously imitating what the human eye witnessed as a prior catastrophe in the skies. Chant and catastrophe, dance and disaster seem to be historically linked. If they are, then an idea that many psychologists have considered: that humans have a tendency to suppress the memory of terrible events, but also are somehow compelled by unconscious psychic forces to re-enact them - this idea is supported by our theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603770984
• ISBN13: 9781603770989
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Metron Publications
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"