{"id":50915,"date":"2015-05-11T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/men-are-from-mars-women-from-venus-symbols-from-greek.html"},"modified":"2015-05-13T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:02:08","slug":"men-are-from-mars-women-from-venus-symbols-from-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/men-are-from-mars-women-from-venus-symbols-from-greek.html","title":{"rendered":"Men are from Mars, Women from Venus, Symbols from Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;d always heard the explanation for the male and female symbols that is, here, rejected. Interesting.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Today I Found Out<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You may have heard that the female symbol represents Venus&#39; mirror and the male symbol represents Mars&#39; shield, but that&#39;s not actually true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/origin-male-female-symbols\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/981QBSPPwPeJ69sHG5NTpfmMZ81KRPSUVoj2HzYNb_9QaR3Oo60AqIhbIVdTlZUNcaskOnyidimPjB0MI-i7pNsTH7JYQS3NxuvrEw4VRvejgR4hhPuKPOZmgqs8pOsB=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/origin-male-female-symbols\/'>The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAshley W. asks: Where did the male and female symbols come from? Representing two planets, iron, copper and a couple of Olympian gods, the classical symbols for male and female pack a lot of meaning into a few squiggly lines. The symbols themselves are ancient, and the associations they make date back to the dawn of civilization. The ancients, after [&#8230;]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/U6dpBsHxTff'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;d always heard the explanation for the male and female symbols that is, here, rejected. Interesting. Originally shared by +Today I Found Out: You may have heard that the female symbol represents Venus&#39; mirror and the male symbol represents Mars&#39; shield, but that&#39;s not actually true. The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols Ashley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/men-are-from-mars-women-from-venus-symbols-from-greek.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Men are from Mars, Women from Venus, Symbols from Greek&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17424,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/coexist.html","url_meta":{"origin":50915,"position":0},"title":"COEXIST","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-May-10 4:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So about a year ago, Margie came home with this cool bumper sticker that says \"COEXIST\" on it -- with each of the letters representing a different belief \/ tradition. 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