Mr. Vonner

Season: 5, Episodes: 1, Faction: N/A

Overview

Mr. Vonner was a tenant at an apartment complex in Encino California, residing in apartment 4.

Sexuality

Fertility (Water)

Fertility (Vegetation)

5×13 – Some Like It Hoth

   

While Miles and his mother were looking to rent an apartment, a young Miles walked to the vending machine in the pool area of the complex and heard Mr. Vonner talking, although he was dead. Through his connection with the deceased Miles sensed the spare key located under a rabbit statue and was able to get into the apartment only to discover the man’s body.

   

According to Miles, Mr. Vonner was scared and all alone; he also kept calling out for his recently deceased wife, Kimberly Vonner. (“Some Like It Hoth”)

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Decoded Family Members

Kimberly Vonner (Wife)

Decoded Season 4 & 5 Characters

Miles Straume

Lara Chang

Trevor

Key Episode(s) to Decoding the Character

5x13 "Some Like It Hoth"









Wiki Info

In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos was the child of Aphrodite and Hermes. He was a minor deity of bisexuality and effeminacy. According to Ovid, born a remarkably handsome boy, he was transformed into an androgynous being by union with the water nymph Salmacis. His name is the basis for the word hermaphrodite.

Symbolism

Hermaphroditus, the two-sexed son of Aphrodite and Hermes (Venus and Mercury) had long been a symbol of bisexuality or effeminacy, and was portrayed in Greco-Roman art as a female figure with male genitals.

Theophrastus’s account also suggests a link between Hermaphroditus and the institution of marriage. The reference to the fourth day of the month is telling: this is the luckiest day to have a wedding. Hermaphroditus’s association with marriage seems to have been that, by embodying both masculine and feminine qualities, he symbolized the coming together of men and women in sacred union. Another factor linking Hermaphroditus to weddings was his parents’ role in protecting and blessing brides.

Hermaphroditus’s name is derived from those of his parents Hermes and Aphrodite. All three of these gods figure largely among erotic and fertility figures, and all possess distinctly sexual overtones. Sometimes, Hermaphroditus is referred to as Aphroditus. The phallic god Priapus was the son of Hermes in some accounts, and the youthful god of desire Eros of Hermes and Aphrodite.

Mythology

Ovid’s account relates that Hermaphroditus was nursed by naiads in the caves of Mount Ida, a sacred mountain in Phrygia (present day Turkey). At the age of fifteen, he grew bored with his surroundings and traveled to the cities of Lycia and Caria. It was in the woods of Caria, near Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) that he encountered the nymph, Salmacis, in her pool. She was overcome by lust for the boy, who was very handsome but still young, and tried to seduce him, but was rejected. When he thought her to be gone, Hermaphroditus undressed and entered the waters of the empty pool. Salmacis sprang out from behind a tree and jumped into the pool. She wrapped herself around the boy, forcibly kissing him and touching his breast. While he struggled, she called out to the gods that they should never part. Her wish was granted, and their bodies blended into one form, “a creature of both sexes”. Hermaphroditus prayed to Hermes and Aphrodite that anyone else who bathed in the pool would be similarly transformed, and his wish was granted. “In this form the story was certainly not ancient,” Karl Kerenyi noted. He compared the myth of the beautiful ephebe with Narcissus and Hyacinthus, who had an archaic hero-cult, and Hymenaios.

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Mythological Family Members & Associated Deities

HERMES (Father)

APHRODITE (Mother)

PRIAPUS (Brother)

EROS (Brother)

SALMACIS (Lover)