Christian’s have often blamed Eve for the woes of the world. The ancient Greeks also liked to blame their women.

The Patriachal world of Zeus’s Olympus reveals a lot about the Grecian ideal women – a cultural milieu that has influenced the modern world.

Olympus had six chief goddesses Athena (Roman Minerva) Artemis, Hestia, Aphrodite, Hera and Demeter.

Three are virgins – is this because ancient Greek men feared full blooded female sexuality?

We feel the intensity. We know the instinct attention that those three letters grab and sadly forget that after the initial hormonal rush we are seeking far more and yearning greater horizons.

Growth comes from bridging ever expanding circles, said Emerson in Essays of Circles. In love, like creativity, takes us across concentric circles in two directions simultaneously.

Go, take the hot stone, and heat it near her clitoris:
For the severed part is a sacred djuda ranggI. Covering up the clitoris within the mat, wherein the mat, wherin its transverse fibre, wherin its mouth, its inner peak …

Go, put out the rangga, making it big: open your legs, for you look nice!
Yes, Miralaidj, my sister. Yes, the mouths of the mat is closed.
Yes, go, rest there quietly, for the vagina is sacred, and the rangga are hidden there, like younger siblings, covered up so no one may see.