I told my gf that the Pietà
did not depict Mary & Jesus
as the image of the pieta is nowhere
in the Bible; instead Michelangelo
derived the image from the Grieving
Venus holding the body of the youth
Adonis who had been gored
[in the side] by the enchanted
wild boar sent by her jealous
husband Apollo; Michelangelo,
genius & scholar, seeing the obvious
parallels to the story of the Father
giving his only begotten son;
in ancient times Adonis was the titular
spirit of Lebanon, smallest country
on the Asian mainland. The earliest
evidence of civilization in Lebanon
dates back more than seven thousand
years, predating recorded history.