Jiang argues that the moon, Venus, the sun, Jupiter, and Saturn in Paradise are not the physical planets but metaphors belonging to another universe.
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Jupiter
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Galileo's telescope showed moons revolving around Jupiter and Venus moving in ways that challenged the assumption that everything revolves around Earth.
The new religion replaces the Mother Goddess with the male Sky Father, associated with Zeus and Jupiter, because men now fight wars.
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"...to go visit the moon and Venus and the sun and Jupiter and Saturn. These are not our Jupiter or our Saturn, okay? Okay?..."
"And then what else he did that was revolutionary is that he discovered that there was a correlation between this orbit and the matter...."
"...did amazing things. First thing he did was he discovered that Jupiter had moons. And this was revolutionary because it was assumed that everything..."
"...call Zeus, the thunder god, okay? And who the Romans call Jupiter, also the thunder god. So the first god is called the Sky..."
"...greater radiance. And what its image then became was like what Jupiter's would be if Mars and he were birds. And had exchanged their..."
"...gone, to desert this land he loves, thunderstruck by the warnings Jupiter's commands. But what can he do? What can he dare say now..."
"...totally devastated, so destroyed. The queen stopped, but he, warned by Jupiter now, his gaze held steady, fought to master the torment in his..."
"...wants to stay with Dido and build up Carthage. And so Jupiter has to send a messenger, Mercury, to tell him, no, Aeneas, no...."
"...right? The king of lofty Olympus won't allow Zeus, okay, or Jupiter, demands this of us."
"If Jupiter demands us to sacrifice ourselves, then we must do so, okay? And so, this reverses the Odyssey, right? Where the gods willed..."
"...have Marduk. In Greece, they have Zeus. In Rome, they have Jupiter, right? And the sky god demands... struggle and toil to rape, exploit,..."
"...trump talks too much putin understands what are the in this jupiter game and what he needs to do in order to exercise maximum..."
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