Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. The celebrated love affair between Venus and Mars is a central theme of Ev Cochrane’s new book, “The Case of the Turquoise Sun”, an extended monologue on ancient Creation myths.
This third episode of the Turquoise Sun series elucidates on the appeal of this millennia-old story—and what it says about the state of modern science. What’s more trustworthy to reconstruct the history of the solar system—a computer simulation or eyewitness accounts and memories of our ancestors?
Mesopotamian skywatchers saw Venus as the Queen of Heaven with Mars as her masculine lover, Sumerian texts describe their relationship as a Hieros Gamos (sacred marriage), Homer sang of their illicit sexual liaison, and “Venus and Adonis” was Shakespeare’s first major work.
Properly understood, much of the planetary history encoded in the myths of Mars and Venus revolutionizes our understanding of the solar system—and the origins of civilized architecture, dance, drama, music, religion, and even sports.
A respected comparative mythologist, veteran Thunderbolts contributor Ev Cochrane is the author of Martian Metamorphoses (1997), The Many Faces of Venus (2001), Starf*cker (2006), On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds (2010), and Phaethon (2017).
