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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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Venus
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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.
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Aeneas' rage at Helen and desire to die with Troy are interrupted by divine and familial signs that redirect him to duty: leave Helen, return to family, and preserve the son who will found a great empire.
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"...space, okay? So, they're going to go visit the moon and Venus and the sun and Jupiter and Saturn. These are not our Jupiter..."
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"And then what else he did that was revolutionary is that he discovered that there was a correlation between this orbit and the matter...."
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"...He also recognized that from the Earth, you're able to see Venus spin around us. And that also was revolutionary because it was assumed..."
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"...he is about to kill her. Then suddenly, a goddess named Venus. Okay? Also, so the Romans call her Venus. The Greeks call her..."
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"I'm going to fight until my dying breath to save my city. And the wife and the father are begging him to not go..."
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"...opposing that which cloaks the great dry lands and underneath whose venus died the man whose birth and life were sinless in this world...."
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"...Aeneas wants to die trying to save Troy. But his mother, Venus, appears before him and says, no, Aeneas, you have a higher mission...."
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"...to like just kill her. And then what happens? His mother Venus intervenes and says, no, Aeneas, you must stop. There's a mission for..."
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"...destruction of Troy. But then what happens is that Aeneas' mother, Venus, okay? So Venus is his mother, steps in, appears before him and..."
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"...not I, daughter of Dardanus that I am, the wife of Venus' son. The great mother of gods detains me on these shores, and..."
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