[Jerusalem] Temple Spring and Autumn

Salome, Salome ———————————— In 1841, the poet Heinrich Heine met three goddesses who were riding and hunting on the road on the midsummer night of St. John's Day. ——The Roman moon goddess Diana, Avalon's fertility goddess Harbandia, and the beautiful and cold Jewish queen Herodias. ———————————— Herodias kissed St. John's head and, with innocence and cruelty, played with it like a ball. Then, she nodded lightly to Heine and smiled in the morning mist. ———————————— The poet fell in love with Herodias. With all the fanaticism and all the reason. He swore to give up his life, to ride with her through every ghost-haunted midnight, and to wander from the old Jerusalem every misty morning. ———————————— In 1841, the poet Heine had not yet met his lover's rebellious daughter. The Hebrew princess who left her name in the Bible and ran away from her homeland. —————————— Nor did he know that he would have an admirer who would love him as much as he loved Herodias. Princess Sissi of Habsburg, Queen Elisabeth of Austria. The most noble woman in the world will yearn for his ghost all her life.