The Myth of the Missing the Missing Half
Overview
the myth of the missing half in ancient greek
The Myth of the Missing Half
It is believed that when humans were initially created at the beginning of time, they had a different form than they have today. They were both male and female, with four arms, four legs, and a single head composed of two faces.
Plato had Aristophanes, a great Greek theater and comedy writer, narrate the story of the Soulmates in "The Symposium."
Plato describes it like way:
“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
Let us first define their origin before learning what the Gods feared in them. In nature, there were three genders: Man, Woman, and the "Androgynous," which means "man-woman" in Greek. There were two sets of genitalia for each gender, with the Androgynous possessing both male and female sex. The gender of humans was determined by their origin; Men were Sun children, while Women were Earth child. Androgynous, on the other hand, were Moonchild, born when the Sun and the Earth combined.
And there was a time when humans were bold and powerful beings who dared to threaten the Gods. They threatened to destroy them and reign in their place, therefore establishing themselves as the new Gods. So the Gods had to respond, and they pondered how to deal with the threat posed by humanity, as well as what needed to be done to restore harmony and balance.
They considered fully wrecking humanity, fighting them in a battle and killing them with lightning, as they had done with the Titans. However, if humans were no longer there, there would be no more human sacrifices to Gods, an idea that the Gods hated.
As a result, Zeus created a new plan. They'd divide the humans in half and punish them for their selfishness and vanity. Apart from the suffering they would experience, they would also double the human population, resulting in a doubling of the sacrifices that humans would have to pay to them. As a result, humans all across the world were divided in half.
These new creatures were completely miserable, immersed in their anguish. They were so depressed that they wouldn't eat or drink for days, unaware of the fact that they would die.
Apollo, the God of music, truth and prophecy, healing, and light, couldn't take seeing them like this, so he patched them up, reconstructed their physical shapes, and only left the navel as a memory of their former selves. As a result, humans evolved from double-faced, double-sex creatures with aspects of humanity to single-faced, single-sex creatures with two arms and legs. And they yearned for their soul and bodily counterparts for the rest of their lives.
Their body natures would yearn to be complete with the physical natures of the other sex, and their souls would ache for the other half of their soul, their soulmate, to be whole. And, according to myth, when these two parts find each other, they will have a wordless comprehension of one another, will feel connected and exist in sync with one another, and will experience no greater pleasure.
We may never know if the Soulmate myth is actually a myth or has some reality. Those who have discovered their soulmate, or twin-flame, companion in life, however, consistently describe the experience in the same way: "He was the stranger I recognized. She suddenly felt like home to me. We seemed to have known each other for years. It seemed as though we were meant to be together." So, may we all bravely go on this journey to find the One for us, the One who is us.
And may we never give up our Tue Love pursuit. And the Journey will be tough, with love that is not purely presenting itself as True Love, with us losing trust and possibly settling for anything less as we persuade ourselves that True Love is a myth. May our hearts be strong and we will keep faith in a world full of noise and confusion. Because if we don't, we'll be the ones who pay the price: a life not enjoyed, pleasure not discovered, and home never felt. Because home is not a place. It's a feeling.