In “Against Celsus”, Origen analyzes a a mural from Samos in which Hera is showing fellating Zeus by explaining it thus: “…he is misinterpreting the painting of the unspeakable act. It is symbolic. Here is receiving the words of the God Zeus, his seed of wizdom, and keeping these words within her in order to adorn the Universe with them.”
Yeah right.
(A more detailed scientific inquiry into the Stoics and this matter can be found in this paper.)
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