Antaeus was a giant, or rather a semi-giant of sorts, the literal son
\nof Mother Earth, Gaea, and Poseidon, the god of the sea. He had a
\nstrange occupation, which consisted of forcing passersby in his
\ncountry, (Greek) Libya, to wrestle; his thing was to pin his victims
\nto the ground and crush them. This macabre hobby was apparently
\nthe expression of filial devotion; Antaeus aimed at building a
\ntemple to his father, Poseidon, using for raw material the skulls of
\nhis victims.
\nAntaeus was deemed to be invincible, but there was a trick. He
\nderived his strength from contact with his mother, Earth.
\nPhysically separated from contact with Earth, he lost all his
\npowers. Hercules, as part of his twelve labors (in one variation of
\nthe tale), had for homework to whack Antaeus. He managed to lift
\nhim off the ground and terminated him by crushing him as his feet
\nremained out of contact with his mamma.<\/p>\n
We retain from this vignette that, just like Antaeus, you
\ncannot separate anything from contact with the
\nground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the
\ngame\u2014having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price
\nfor its consequences, good or bad. The abrasions of your skin
\nguide your learning and discovery, a mechanism of organic
\nsignaling, what the Greeks called pathemata mathemata (\u201cguide
\nyour learning through pain,\u201d something mothers of young children
\nknow rather well).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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