
Na mitologia grega, Hymen, Hymenaios ou Hymenaeus (Ὑμέναιος), é um deus das cerimônias de casamento que inspira festas e canções. Relacionado ao nome do deus, um hymenaios é um gênero de poesia lírica grega que era cantado durante a procissão da noiva até a casa do noivo no qual o deus é invocado, em contraste com o Epithalamium, que é cantado no limiar nupcial.
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“Thou grudgest thy maidenhead? What avails it? When thou goest to Hades thou shalt find none to love thee there. The joys of Love are in the land of the living, but in Acheron, dear virgin, we shall lie dust and ashes.”
“Why, unhappy daughter of Pandion, dost thou mourn all day long, uttering thy twittering note? Is it that regret is come upon thee for thy maidenhead, which Thracian Tereus took from thee by dreadful force?”
“I throw the apple at thee, and thou, if thou lovest me from thy heart, take it and give me of thy maidenhead; but if thy thoughts be what I pray they are not, take it still and reflect how short-lived is beauty.”
“And, God knows, I thought my Money was as safe as my Maidenhead.”
“: If a female plays a game of chess on this board and wins against a foe who broke her hymen, then her hymen will be restored and she will seem to be re-flowered.”
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