![]() ![]() Together with an unexpected corporeal figura, an old identity remains. These are hybrids: not quite the same as they were before, but not completely different either. They can never stop reshaping women and men into other animals, plants, stars, or springs. Their truly favourite occupation, however, is the transformation of human beings into non-human, or, at least non-anthropomorphic creatures. ![]() Bending people’s will, directing their agency and manufacturing events are, for them, an incessant activity. They love, suffer, get angry, and take revenge. They are over-occupied and worried for all human affairs: they help, advise, punish, and reward. The gods live in a beautiful town, a celestial Rome. Finally, Phaeton, the unwary child of another god, the Sun, almost reduced the universe to ashes. Later, a divine collective decision brought it back into being. The world emerged from a rough, undifferentiated mass, thanks to a god and a “better nature.” Jupiter destroyed it, in anger. Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a story of new bodies. ![]()
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