Aqua-Eros… More Tentacled Dogon, Fish Humanoid Connections

What are these tentacle looking things these dieties from the Roman/Greek pantheon are sitting on? Cephalopod appendages were what immediately came to mind. Why are there so many depictions of these types of extremities beneath the ruling class from so many different time periods.

I’m at a loss to try to explain these elephantine looking snouts depicted on the below Maya codex illustration.

We can find additional depictions of apparently once living breathing elephants in Copan, Honduras. (SEE: ELEPHANTS OF COPAN)

The wavy clothing-like appendages remind me of the flowing dresses worn by Royalty 👑 that may have been used to hide tentacles.

Eros is associated with many interesting pieces of iconography. We see him in aquatic motifs where he’s depicted riding a Porpoise or dolphin of sorts. We see him on a backdrop of many other aquatic creatures, seemingly inhabiting an aquatic domain of sorts. We also see him sporting Poseidon’s trident with Cupid fluttering around above him.

VERY interesting to see more aquatic connections. The Cephalopod bloods. The Babylonian Dogon and Siren entities which were responsible for creating mankind and giving us knowledge and civilization.

Source: https://unrollnow.com/status/1894201623586771157

Eros, the god of love, is a great torturer of the human soul and at the same time its great purifier. Love with its passion and pain becomes the urge toward individuation, which is why there is no real process of individuation without the experience of love, for love tortures and purifies the soul.

Expressed differently, Eros presses the butterfly painfully against his chest, representing the soul being developed and tortured by the love god. On one beautiful gem the goddess Psyche, with her hands behind her back, is being tied by the god to a column which ends in a sphere. One could say that this image expresses in a beautiful way the process of individuation. Eros tying Psyche to the column surmounted by a sphere, the symbol of totality which is realized by suffering.

Sometimes one would like to run away from the person to whom one is tied, in order to run away from the dependence, but Eros forces us to become conscious through this tie.

Love makes us dare everything and leads us thus to ourselves. Therefore one of Eros’s main epithets, which he had in antiquity, was “purifier of the soul.” One of the most beautiful prayers which I know is addressed to this great god. It has been preserved in a magic text:

“I call to thee, Origin of all Becoming, that spread your wings over the entire world, you the unapproachable, the infinite, that inspires the living thoughts of every soul, who has joined all things by your power. First-born creature of the universe, of the golden wings, dark being, you who veil reasonable thoughts and inspire with dark passion, you who live secretly in every soul, you create the invisible fire, touching every living being, the untiring torment of sorrowful pleasures and delights, since the universe has existed. You bring suffering in your presence, you who are sometimes reasonable and sometimes insane, you for whom men violate their duties with bold endeavors and that they call to help them, you the dark. You the last-born, the lawless, the merciless, the inexorable, the invisible generator without body of passions, archer, carrier of the torch, lord of all spiritual perception and of all things hidden, lord of the forgetting and father of silence, by whom shines all light, young child when you are born in the heart, old man when you are consummated.”

Eros is very close to the alchemical Mercurius, who also has the arrow of passion and the torch, representing the torturing and painful aspect of love. At the entrance of the Aesculapian temple in Epidaurus, where the sick came to be healed of psychological or physical diseases, were the pictures of the two healing principles of Eros and Methē (drunkenness).

Love and drunkenness are the great healing forces for soul and body. The drunkenness referred to here is not that obtained through alcohol, though this vulgar aspect is in it, for in drunkenness you are out of your narrow ego confines and are lifted ecstatically to another world beyond the worries of everyday life. This experience of elevation and of eternity links us again with the archetypal basis of the psyche and has a healing and transforming effect.

~Marie-Luise von Franz,
Amor and Psyche I:
Introduction to the Tale.
‘The Golden Ass of Apuleius:
The Liberation of the Feminine in Man’,
pp. 82-84