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Amors conversion.

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AuteurBucher, Marcel
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In our gloomy times when millions of unemployed badly need money, their sole consolation might be the famous Beatles song: "All you need is love."

The words love and Liebe (German) are derived from old Germanic words with the same meaning, such ms tuba (Old High German) By contrast the word for love has a divine origin in all languages derived from Latin since amor, amore and amour invariably originate from the Roman god Amor, also known as Cupid in English (Latin: Cupido)

Amor (Eros in Greek) the son of Mercury and Venus, is usually represented as a lovely naked infant boy with wings garlanded by roses and equipped with quiver, bow and arrows. But in very ancient times, the Greeks feared this god as an evil winged Spite, similar to a plague, since uncontrolled sexual passion could harm an ordered society. Anyhow, the victims of Amor's barbed arrows used to be struck by instant blind passion or infatuation accompanied by jealousy, pangs of love. unfaithfulness, incest, murder and other woes.

In psychological terms, the Ancients were quite right to picture their Cod of sexual love as a mischievous troublemaker, ranking low in the divine Pantheon. For the Romans. Amor gradually assumed also the meaning...

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