My favorite song of all time comes from the movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch. This song, one of many many amazing songs from the same movie, tells the mythical story of the origin of love as described by the main character Hedwig.
According to this song The Origin of Love before the gods of heaven broke us apart every human was actually the combination of two separate personalities. At the time there were three sexes of these people, comprised of four arms, four legs, one body and one head from which two faces peered. There were the Sun's children: who appeared like two men, the Earth's children: who appeared like two women and the Moon's children: who appeared like a man and a women together.
As they were human they were intelligent and strong. The god's feared this and so decided that the duos should be torn apart. Zeus, the mythical king of the Greek gods threw lightening bolts and cut the people apart into separate females and males. A Hindu god sealed them and Osiris and the other Egyptian gods summoned a hurricane to scatter the humans across the globe and away from those that they once shared a body and a life with.
According to this myth every person has a soul mate who, if they'd never been separate from, would be physically attached. In those times humans suffered only from hunger and thirst. Now, we are on an eternal search to find our other half and we have no way of knowing what they look like or how they act until we meet them. In the time before the god's wrath love never existed because love is the struggle that one goes through to find the one they were meant to be with. Love is the yearning for one's other half and the pain that we go through because we cannot truly be whole again. Yet, we do what we can and this is why relationships exist, why love exists.
Rufus Wainwright Lyrics
The Origin Of Love Lyrics
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