Bottom Left: Medieval Mummers (bands of people who dressed in fantastic clothes and costumes and serenaded people outside their houses)
Bottom Right: A scene from Commedia dell'Arte with their multifaceted ability to act, sing and dance.
What is the difference between inspire and illusion? Breath is the power to keep going. Spirare is the Latin for breath. Love can be an illusion. Belief in it, can be a disillusion also. The feeling you can make anything work is what love delivers. As sustaining the perception is tumultuous, it may also cause feelings of remorse, depression and anxiety.
Drama and comedy come from the Greeks. But, the Egyptians performed religious dramas and Abydos was their initial stage production of the play of Osiris and his brother Seth. Isis collected all but his manhood—probably an attempt at humor.
There is a certain grisly humor when Aeneas, Venus’ son and founder of Rome, conquers his lover Dido, through her passion for him. There is always a kind of crime of passion involved with desire.
Hephaestus, the husband of Venus was often in despair over her lover Ares. His fiery talent for creating great works of art in metal, was admired. His lameness caused by his Mother Hera was curse but also gift. To be incapacitated, one is also more focused, as awareness often comes from what is lacking.
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