金星 3

Venus was the most beautiful baby born, but she was cursed in two ways: First, no one knew who her father was, her mother deftly convincing the village that the father was Zeus. The second curse was that she was indeed beautiful. She drew looks of appraisal and sometimes envy from everyone she passed. But she felt tremendous shame because she thought they were staring at her because of her illegitimacy.

When she reached puberty the type of attention from most men and some women changed, uncomfortably so. Now the looks had something of an erotic hunger. One hot August afternoon, when everyone was taking their naps, she snuck out to bathe by the cool stream. From his bedroom window a young farmer neighbor saw her heading towards the stream and stealthily followed her. After watching her bathe naked, the farmer felt compelled to approach her and forced her to make love with him. The signs of violation were unmistakable to her mother, so the next day she took the unwilling Venus to be a servant in their island’s temple.

The priestess protected and mentored Venus teaching her music, dance, reading, writing, aesthetics, political discourse, and philosophy. More importantly, her mentor treated Venus with respect and taught her how to honor the goddess within. It was difficult to cast aside her shame but over time Venus grew in empathy for herself and for humanity.

In her authenticity, she inspired women to embrace their sensual power and inner beauty, and to stand naked and proud. In another way, Venus inspired men to rise up and become better men. Venus and her followers, men and women alike, brought great gifts to humanity: self-awareness, the spark of creation, sensuality, evolutionary knowledge, art, and love.

Venus discovered a strange irony: to be free one needs to master every element of being human, which, indeed becomes divine.

作者簡介：

邁克爾·紐伯里

邁克爾·紐伯里，生於 1956 年，是美國新浪漫主義畫家，居住在加利福尼亞州田園詩。他融合了各種影響，特別是倫勃朗和法國印象派。他的主要作品通常是真人大小的畫布。他曾在紐約、洛杉磯、聖莫尼卡、羅馬、雅典和布魯塞爾展出。他的作品被設計師Chan Luu和哲學家Stephen Hicks等國際知名人士收藏。完整的簡歷和簡歷，包括重要藝術品、文章和演示文稿的連結。https://newberryarchive.wordpress.com/bio/

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