21. Edmund Leach equates Parvati in her relationship with Shiva, with that of Greek goddess Aphrodite-a symbol of sexual love . 22. Another possible interpretation is a sexual one, where the poem represents the joy that can be found through innocent sexual love . 23. Precht's main thesis is that sexual love doesn't come from sexuality but from the parent-child relationship. 24. Accused of never addressing the question of sexual love , he has given us a young boy who speaks like a lewd adult. 25. In ancient Greece, shells, along with pearls, are mentioned as denoting sexual love and marriage, and also mother goddesses. 26. In the Mesopotamian " Epic of Gilgamesh ", one of the Sumerian goddess of sexual love , fertility, and warfare. 27. The canto closes with a number of instances of sexual love between gods and humans set in a paradisiacal vision of the natural world. 28. On the other hand, scholars such as Mosch?Lazar claim it was adulterous sexual love with physical possession of the lady the desired end. 29. According to Rosand : " in both cases it is surely the traditional association of that pattern with sexual love that is being evoked ." 30. During this period he began creating a set of 100 sonnets on the theme of sexual love , his first attempt at grouping his creative output.
