Per Hesiod: when Heaven (virile masculine moved by Eros) accosts Earth (infinite feminine), the Earth brings forth monsters.
Heracles' sexuality and his battle against the polymorphous or flowing elements of nature (using a river, many-headed hydra or many birds) prove this theory: his is a conquest of the masculine paranoia over the feminine schizophrenia.
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These Gegenic monsters neuter the masculine and set it within its bounds until the next generation asserts its primacy (again, urged by Eros) over new Gegenic monsters.
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One could very well read the Peloponnesian war on this level: Autochthonus, sea-controlling, schizophrenic Athenians, whose monstrous tentacles wrap across the Aegean vs hyper-masculine, Heraclean, paranoid Spartans. In the end, Sparta wears the conquered Athenian pelt.
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