The morning light of the sun
emerged, shining over the horizon with bright rays that
seemed to glow like spreading golden fingers. Aurora,
seated on her couch on the Oceanus River, arose from
the water to announce the rising of the day. She regularly
fell in love. Amongst the many young lovers to whom
she gave immortality but not eternal youth, was Tithonus
who, as he grew older, was transformed into a grasshopper.
Aurora symbolizes not only the coming of a fresh new
day with all its richness and beauty, but also the slow
but inexorable end of it.
Days come and go like love and friendship that lose
their strength and fall into forgetfulness, but never
disappear. The morning breeze which always preceded
her, added to the feeling of change and movement: the
constant movement that symbolizes life.
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