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The Sun and Moon were mortal lovers whose pure love made the goddess Aphrodite jealous. She tried to seduce the Sun away from the Moon, but he remained faithful to his beloved. Enraged, Aphrodite separated them, decreeing that the Sun would rise by day and the Moon at night. Though they could not meet, their love never ended. Zeus allowed them to see each other during solar eclipses, and every few years they were able to reunite in an act of love we now call an eclipse.
Intermediate i profe dani
- 1. The Legend of the Sun and the Moon The Sun and the Moon were mortal lovers, their love was pure and benign. How did this happen? The legend says, that they met when they were children, and when they were teens they fell in love. It is said that the Wind took messages between them and this was very important in their relationship. One day Aphrodite (goddess of the beauty and love) observed those mortals and felt jealous of their love. She wondered “how can they have such a great love?” So, she decided to show them that their love was not so great. She went down at the Olympus (the place where the gods live) and she appeared in presence of the sun with all her beauty and seduction’s power, like no other woman can handle like her.
- 2. But to Aphrodite’s surprise, the sun said “you are the most beautiful woman” and added “But my heart belongs to the Moon, my ladylove woman, because she is for me as desired as the gold and as sweet as the honey”. Outraged Aphrodite because she couldn’t tempt sun, she knew that the love between them was stronger that the Gods. So, she ordered to separate them forever. She decided that the Sun would go only by day and the Moon by night. In this way, they won’t find themselves and the love between them will end. But their love never finished. Zeus tried to help the lovers to see each other again, but he couldn’t break Aphrodite’s order. The only thing Zeus could do for them was to make the moon appear in the sky when the sun’s brightness was the strongest, and therefore, the lovers could see each other again.
- 3. The lovers overcame all the barriers, and once every many years, they joined. This act of love, today we call it “Eclipse” THE END Diego Gutierrez Intermediate I