Greek heritage,(Soulmate).

Greek heritage.

The list of the countless expressions from Greek culture.

Falling into the arms of Morpheus contracting a venereal disease, rise

from the ashes like the phoenix or suffering Oedipus complex locutions are born from ancient
mythology. Even the gods and their legends have attained to love and romance on many occasions.
Expression Soulmate That refers to that ideal and perfect person who has been created to share life
with someone who is,turn, the second half of the orange.

Well, as romantic expression it comes from a myth narrated by the Greek poet Aristophanes in one of
his poems. The beginning of time, had the author, men were almost perfect creatures, fully spherical
(like oranges) housed with two faces on one head, four arms and four legs.

Each of these beings could be composed of two men, two women or a man and a woman.
Their superiority made them believe that could considered as the gods and face them.

What happened was that, Zeus became angry at such outrage and imposed these are the most
severe of punishments, from all the half with his thunderbolt. Since that time, sad men go around
the world trying find her other half- never been seen and faces while we're together because each
was located in opposite directions. And that punishment remains force to this day, which are
doomed to seek among our fellowmen to the other half to complete us a unique being sentenced
to seek and do not know if we find our soulmate.