Monemvasiá a hidden "Minnoan" playground of Zeus for courtly love
The god Zeus - in point of fact 3000 years B.C. the founder of the first
European advanced civilization on the island where he was brought up - of course knew about the location of the
secluded place already, where Monemvasiárete
would become a powerful naval base of Minoan culture.
More than ever, when one morning he fell in love at first sight with the daughter of the Phoenician king of Tyre, Agenor, the princess Europa, gathering flowers with her playmates on the seashore.
The task of abduction, enticing the princes to mount his back - when he appeared in front of her, assuming the disguise of a beautiful white-chestnut-coloured bull - proves the god Zeus as the founder of early modern hypnotic interventions as well.
By making use of confusion technique and seeding technique as well as of positive imagery, enticing the princess' fantasies; matching and simultaneously meeting his offers and own goals; as he did in identical style with Leda, the wife of Tyndareus, a king of Sparta, approaching her masquerading as a beautiful Nordic swan.
A genuine source of hypnotic induction technique, executed by the god Zeus himself, far beyond previous time past; i.e., beyond the techniques of about 5000 B.C. exorcist-hypnotic methods by Assyro-Babylonian physician priests to destroy the demons responsible for illness.1
As well as beyond almost simultaneously by Egyptian soothsayers and priests used similar techniques to placate the wrath of the gods responsible for healing.2
Although already there imagery oriented around 'visions' of improvement was employed to cope with the invisible 'wounds' of the supplicant.3
Creating enticing hypnotic imagery to its heights already 3000 B.C. - i.e., in fact beguiling the by no doubt outstanding creativity of a female exclusively -, the god Zeus undeniably has to be regarded as the founder of the Ericksonian idea, when in fact he spiritually fathers the beginning of modern scientific hypnosis.
Moreover, as a matter of fact, there never is any escape from making use of hypnotic procedures, with the intention to entice, activate the inspiration and fantasy of a female, exceeding, surpassing every male's creativity, whenever a man wants to generate a kind of social gathering; from starting a single family to an advanced civilization.
These intentions of the god Zeus taken for granted, his ardour and enthusiasm became inflamed with passion: healing his invisible 'wounds' of lovesickness and to lure the beautiful princess away from just gathering flowers, hypnotizing her 'to see open fields in the distant future - in Charles Darwin's4 words - for far more important endeavours' and to mount the colossal beautiful animal, standing in front of her, enticing her in its magnitude.
As an anachronism, i.e., in Ericksonian language: "I wonder, how would you feel - gathering flowers - when you realize that you already transformed - on your own seashore - into the queen of
Crete?"
Because, no matter what, I sincerely doubt that the god of hypnosis of our modern times, Milton Erickson, would ever have succeeded without enticing the fantasies of the females - inducing auto-hypnosis actually -, making one of the girls of his youth to climb the back of the bull of his father's farm; i.e., without the activated creative inspiration of making them the queens of an island of their own.
When the god Zeus succeeded with his hypnotic fascination of princess Europa - though, as I already made clear, it is always the outstanding fantasy of a female exclusively, to make it climb on the colossal animal, standing in front of her, as a woman -, he proved his status of divinity, for once, at least as an outstanding lover of his own competence; convincingly demonstrated by his 23 official mistresses.
Because, albeit no authentic historic source makes a lot of fuss about the fact, the god Zeus, without any doubt made a detour to this hidden place at the penultimate eastside finger of the Peloponnesian peninsula. Located beneath a precipitous rock, well surrounded by a shell of mountains and woods, accessible by the surge of waves of the swelling full ocean exclusively. Where in addition, of course, the god Zeus knew all about its celebrated vocation.
From this decisive point of view, god Zeus teaches us modern males, that it always proves as the most positive course of action - the colossal animal wide awake - to make the long way round to the most hidden place first, for some minnesongs and passionately playing around for a while.
The detour to make the princess feel a kind of initiating climaxing wave of the ocean surging up in a tender loving approach repeatedly.
When affectionately and amorously leading princess Europa several times up and down to the height of the precipitous rock to arrive at the pinnacle time after time; now crowned with the ancient church and castle.
Before ultimately speeding away and inescapably driving directly downwards the princess, across the surging ocean, to the bull's final destination and ultimate goal
... Crete.
With regard to the number of teeming females, frequenting my consulting room from sexual dysfunctions,
one can tell that almost no male of modern Homo sapiens follows the spoor of god Zeus; i.e., visited
Monemvasiá ever.
At least almost all female patients of sexual therapy find themselves more or less exclusively driven directly downwards to 'Crete', regrettably, without any detour of courtly love, the minne of the god.
Regardless of the verified fact that the longer the detour the more your own princess will bequest you with her flying to outer galactic spheres repeatedly; probably to be meeting a god in disguise out there.
1 Gordon, B.L.: Medicine Throughout Antiquity. Philadelphia. F.A. Davis, 1949; Bettman, C.L.: Pictorial History of Medicine. Springfield, III., Charles C. Thomas, 1956.
2 Sigerist, H.E.: A History of Medicine. Vol. 1. New York, Oxford University Press, 1951.
3 Kroger, William S., William D. Fezler: Hypnosis and Behavior Modification; Imagery Conditioning. J.B. Lippincott Company, 1976.
4 Darwin, Charles: The Origin of Species. John Murray, London, 1859; Penguin Classics, 1985.
5 Flying Bull: Of Breyer's Cattle Collection.
