O Rapto de Ganimedes

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The abduction of Ganymede: A young man when he was very beautiful aroused the passion and desire of mature men. Being kidnapped by older men was common in societies with Cretan, being authorized by law establishing a period of coexistence between the kidnapper and the kidnapped, which ceased with the return of the young man bringing gifts that the City law specified, like an ox for to be sacrificed to Zeus, at a party that the young man was giving publicly declaring whether or not he had agreed to the abduction and the relationship he had established with his lover. If, on being kidnapped, the young fiancé did not agree with the lover, he could at the moment of the sacrifice of the ox and the party demand a reparation and disconnect from the relationship. This fact hardly happened, since it was a disgrace for a handsome young man and a wealthy family not to have a lover as a result of his bad conduct for those who kidnap him. Those who were kidnapped became companions to their lovers, enjoying special privileges, such as wearing the best quality clothes, occupying the places of honor in races and dances indicating that they were special for their lovers. The legend of the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus the lord of Olympus legitimized the habit of abducting teenagers by giving the custom the necessary religious ritualization. Zeus, the absolute father of Gods and heroes, has his legends turned to the passionate love he always had and which led him to kidnap and love several women, with whom he always had children. So that his conquests would not be discovered by his angry and jealous wife Hera (Juno), Zeus used the most complex disguises to attract lovers: he metamorphosed from a bull to attract Europe or from a Swan to love the beautiful Leda. Fleeing the function of fleeting and procreative loves, the legend of Ganymede emerges, a Trojan prince who took the heart of the most powerful of the Olympian Gods, doing it for a moment, lover of love that sublimated the beautiful, forgetting the ancient function of procreation. Ganymede was a Trojan prince, who, when awakening the poor in body and soul, brought a rare beauty. His boyish features shone through the fields around the City of Troy, where he took care of his father's flocks. It was on a spring afternoon that Ganymede's malicious beauty caught Zeus's attention. The lord of Olympus, seeing such sublime beauty, was struck by the passion impossible to resist the boy's grace, his face still beardless, moving between youth and manhood. Maddened by desire and passion, Zeus transformed himself into an eagle, going to land next to the young man. Enchanted by the omnipotent beauty of the bird Ganímedes, approaching him, stroking its plumage. Zeus immediately envelops the boy, taking him by the claws, taking him with him to the heights. Blinded by passion, the lord of Olympus has the young man right there, in full flight. Ganymede after being playfully loved by Zeus was taken to Olympus. Unlike the lovers of Zeus who, after the Ilidio of love, were persecuted by the jealousy of Hera or by the wrath of their parents, suffering until the moment of the birth of the son of God, Ganímedes, despite Hera's fury, arrives at Olympus intact, where he is received with honors, assuming the privileged position of serving the nectar of immortality to the Gods, replacing Hebe in function after serving the Gods, Ganymede poured the remains on the earth, also serving men