{"id":74009,"date":"2021-02-12T19:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teka.com\/en-bh\/?p=74009"},"modified":"2021-02-12T19:14:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:14:56","slug":"what-is-the-origin-of-the-spanish-expression-to-find-your-half-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teka.com\/en-bh\/cooking-lovers\/cooking-tips\/what-is-the-origin-of-the-spanish-expression-to-find-your-half-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the origin of the Spanish expression \u201cto find your half orange\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">We all have dreamed about finding our soul mate. But maybe you don\u2019t know the sentence in Spanish for finding your soulmate is \u201c<em>encontrar tu media naranja<\/em>\u201d (to find your half orange). Let\u2019s find out where this culinary love expression come from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">As you can guess, this is nothing to do with your crush love about citrus (<em>crush<\/em>, that modern word to describe aspirants to become your half\u2026 orange). This expression is also known as \u201cplatonic love\u201d, both in English and Spanish, and the origin is quite old, actually.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">What is its origin?<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The origin is greek<\/strong>, like most things in our culture, and it can be found in Plato\u2019s The banquet. Aristophanes, comedy poet, told how humans were so perfect that we have sferic shape, like oranges. We also were supposed to have two faces on opposite sides of the head (this is important), four legs and four arms, so we moved from one place to another by rolling. Aristophanes was not too much into the wheel invention, he had his own theories.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-74010 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teka.com\/en-bh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2021\/02\/Half_orange_origin-1.jpg\" alt=\"Half orange idiom Spanish soul mate\" width=\"700\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teka.com\/en-bh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2021\/02\/Half_orange_origin-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.teka.com\/en-bh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2021\/02\/Half_orange_origin-1-480x299.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This round perfection so close to divinity <strong>didn\u2019t seem quite well to Zeus<\/strong>, that found this comparison pretty arrogant. So he just released one of his famous lightning bolts to split this orange-humans in two. As a punishment (other), this half bodies will spend their mortal lives looking for the other part of themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Zeus realised he had <strong>overreacted<\/strong> a bit and he finally decided to redeem his action. He asked Hermes (yes, this young man with wings on his shoes), to turn the faces of every half to look where their genitals were and, in this way, it could be easier to find their other half. And you can get your conclusions about this.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Romantic moral<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-74011 size-full\" style=\"color: #666666;font-size: 14px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teka.com\/en-bh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2021\/02\/Half_orange_origin-2.jpg\" alt=\"Half orange idiom Spanish soul mate\" width=\"700\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teka.com\/en-bh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2021\/02\/Half_orange_origin-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.teka.com\/en-bh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2021\/02\/Half_orange_origin-2-480x299.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Zeus\u2019 punishment was a condemnation to desperately <strong>looking for our <em>half-orange<\/em><\/strong> and became whole human beings when we found it. A moral that can be at the centre of many discussions nowadays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But read the small print of this punishment: his lightning bolts are always watching, ready to leave us without a leg or an arm if we become arrogant again because there isnt&#8217; a place for arrogance in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have dreamed about finding our soul mate. But maybe you don\u2019t know the sentence in Spanish for finding your soulmate is \u201cencontrar tu media naranja\u201d (to find your half orange). Let\u2019s find out where this culinary love expression come from. As you can guess, this is nothing to do with your crush love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":74013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4788],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cooking-tips"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is the origin of the Spanish expression \u201cto find your half orange\u201d? | Teka Bahrein-EN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teka.com\/en-bh\/cooking-lovers\/cooking-tips\/what-is-the-origin-of-the-spanish-expression-to-find-your-half-orange\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is the origin of the Spanish expression \u201cto find your half orange\u201d? | Teka Bahrein-EN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We all have dreamed about finding our soul mate. 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