The rationalist cannot understand beauty because it is not reducible to reason. The ancient gods are archetypes, poetic representations of patterns inherent to the human condition. The Girl from Boyer Ahmadi reminds me of how I liberated myself from the shackles of rationalism, to admit to the multifacetedness of my actuality, to experience aesthetics aesthetically, and to be at peace with the fact that I will never have a definition for that which I can nevertheless spot without mistake.