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Both Aristophanes, in the Symposium of Plato, and the Peruvian Native Americans have a myth that mankind originally started out as a unisex being with four arms, four legs, and two heads, in some ways like a conjoined set of twins except not identical.  The Peruvian Native Americans' myth goes that mankind sought out their creator, a great beetle to separate them.  In Aristophanes' fanciful tale, these primal conjoined twins challenged the gods and began to scale Mt. Olympus.  Zeus thought of destroying them all together, yet instead decided on a crueler punishment he divided the being in half.  Now mankind wanders around seeking to be whole, in constant search of our other halves.  While actually a comment on homosexuality, (Aristophanes' primal beings were man-man, woman-woman, and man-woman) I think Aristophanes and the early Peruvians hit on a point that not many other creation myths touch upon.  The origin of love as something other than propagation of the species.  Why is it that some people feel whole with another person?  How do they just know when that person walks into the room?  What makes them special that they know each others' tiny details?  Someday, I want to know this.  I am still a dreamer.  I dream of true love.  Every time I think it is gone or doesn't exist a happily married person will tell me something that makes me believe it is out there.  They all say one thing.  You just know.  End of story.  The most happily married couples always say that.  I think the Peruvians and a satirical Aristophanes may have hit the nail on the head.

~ The Dragon still dreams and has never stopped reaching for the stars.