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Schwarz feels that this painting, a wedding present from the artist to his sister, represents brother-sister incest as a means of 'resolving the contradictions of the male-female principle in the hermaphroditic, primordial entity which is endowed with eternal youth and immortality'. Numerous references to mythology are cited in support of the author's interpretation of the symbolic elements in the canvas.