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Mars and Venus Statue
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Ares and Aphrodite
Masculine and feminine aspects evolve together in the enlightened warrior
God and the emotionally mature Venus Goddess of Love in this beautifully
detailed, large and lovely figurine.
15 inches tall.
Cold cast ivory colored marble finish resin statue.
$47.00
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#PT-7115
Cold cast bronze statue.
$75.00
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#TL-1667
MARS AND VENUS STORY
"In Venus
and Her Lover, Mars is no longer leading others onto the
battlefield but now allows his warrior nature to fight the greatest battle of
all: the struggle for the triumph of the true self. He willingly faces his ego
and re-integrates his masculine and feminine aspects through determination and
unconditional love.
Venus is no longer so self-absorbed that her jealousy, anger, cruelty,
and vanity dictate her actions. Her mastery of sensual love now broadens into
spiritual love.
It is beyond the distinction drawn by Renaissance artists of the two kinds of
love: amore vulgare, Earthly love experienced by the senses that tempts
one into debauchery; and amore celeste, the noble, spiritual love that
leads one to Heaven. Michelangelo portrayed the former as Cupid and the latter
as Venus in the painting "Venus and Cupid".
He and other Renaissance painters and poets molded ancient mythological themes
according to Church dogma, which further divorced the sublime experience of love
from the body. The new Venus reintegrates them. She is sensual. She has
no need to demurely cover her nakedness, as in the universally-recognized
"Birth of Venus" by Botticelli.
Her love of beauty pervades her dealings with Mars and all others.
Naturally, Mars and Venus now meet in tantric relationship. Their love is
honest, evolutionary, and at once physically pleasurable and spiritually
transcendental."
*Excerpted from
The Pillow Book of Venus and Her Lover - Reinventing the Myth
by Becca Tzigany and James Bertrand
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