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CHAPTER 26Harmonia

Rendering the Invisible

Featuring work by Hannah Mainhart

THE MORNING STAR is of course no star but the second-closest orbiting planet to the sun, Venus, the closest planet to our own home, Earth. Venus is associated with femininity, just as our other neighboring planet, Mars, is associated with masculinity.

Both planets have their own place in Greco-Roman mythology, much of the foundation for our contemporary civilization. The forbidden love affair between the god (of war) Mars/Ares ...

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