Content for a course in Myth & Folklore taught at the University of Oklahoma.
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The Myth of the Missing Half
Here is an animation of a creation myth told by Aristophanes, the Greek comic playwright, inside the philosophical dialogue by Plato known as The Symposium: The Myth of the Missing Half. This myth is also the subject of a beautiful song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. You can read more about the Platonic dialogue at Wikipedia.