throughout the years i've often spoke on religion with some of you, whether it be through threads about morality, faith or making fun the dresden codak guy. often times, and especially in the days of the SE++ facebook group having functioning group chat, i got a lot of questions about the afterlife.
which we could go on about for years. whats always interested me in both faith and mythology is the similarities in structure/parallels and complementary gods and myths that often times seem like sides of the same coin.
that said, an old favorite of mine that we see in literature, film and classic art is good ol'e greek mythology. id welcome discussion on any of the gods, be they nordic, whatever the fuck alan moore believes in, and any abrhamics you might bring to the table. here is my interpretation of the greek stuff
GAEA: gaea fucked herself and made her son, URANUS. gaea is the earth goddess. after fucking her son, she birthed the titans. this earth mother was pretty popular until hellenistic culture/civilization replaced her
URANUS: this guy fucked his mother a whole lot and she birthed so many, so god damn many titans. he was the creator of patriarchy, in that he was first High Male. he rode this wave for a while until his son ripped his balls off. presumed dead or missing
CRONUS: cronus was a fucking nutcase. aside from being convinced to rip off his dad's balls to ascend to his place of power, he had a wife rhea who he fucked a whole lot. he didnt like his seat of power and quite possibly the future harm to his balls to happen at the hands of their numerous children so he just started eating them. those that survived were olympians, and rhea choked him out with a rock, ensuring their survival
ZEUS: was a man after his father's heart. i dont know if he ripped off cronus' balls, as is the way of things? the olympian brothers he shared (poseidon/hades right now) all took straws and zeus got sky lord. didn't cheat into that at all, nope.
husband of hera. in a very loose sense of the word. as all deity/incest/rape scenarios seem to end in tears. after appearing to her as a bird, he raped her and they married so she could retain honor. zeus was an asshole like that, and he was really fond of turning into animals and fucking people for whatever goddamn reason
OCEANUS: oceanus was a lot of water. he created nymphs and raised hera alongside wife Tethys
HERA: wife of zeus and sister of zeus because of whatever weird fucking "free love" bullshit happening in the skies above greece was happening in the sixties. anyway, hera is most noted for having both the shittiest husband, and for being hung by gold chains after understandably trying to drug and kill her asshole husband. a great deal of the time, she fucked with his plans after vowing to never rebel. she also did fucked up shit to anybody zeus fucked as barnyard and sky creatures
ATHENA: god of smart people, athena was born by way of the proto-fan fiction that literally sprang from zeus' skull. motherless, and born wearing a suit of armor, she predates adventure time's fiona in terms of scope and implication. she was the goddess of cities, progress and invention, and would defend her cities/states in combat. zeus, for being a weird piece of shit, was kindest to her. he let her use his weaponry, and duel wield his lightning bolts. she has never fucked anybody, and is the namesake for athens.
which we could go on about for years. whats always interested me in both faith and mythology is the similarities in structure/parallels and complementary gods and myths that often times seem like sides of the same coin.
that said, an old favorite of mine that we see in literature, film and classic art is good ol'e greek mythology. id welcome discussion on any of the gods, be they nordic, whatever the fuck alan moore believes in, and any abrhamics you might bring to the table. here is my interpretation of the greek stuff
GAEA: gaea fucked herself and made her son, URANUS. gaea is the earth goddess. after fucking her son, she birthed the titans. this earth mother was pretty popular until hellenistic culture/civilization replaced her
URANUS: this guy fucked his mother a whole lot and she birthed so many, so god damn many titans. he was the creator of patriarchy, in that he was first High Male. he rode this wave for a while until his son ripped his balls off. presumed dead or missing
CRONUS: cronus was a fucking nutcase. aside from being convinced to rip off his dad's balls to ascend to his place of power, he had a wife rhea who he fucked a whole lot. he didnt like his seat of power and quite possibly the future harm to his balls to happen at the hands of their numerous children so he just started eating them. those that survived were olympians, and rhea choked him out with a rock, ensuring their survival
ZEUS: was a man after his father's heart. i dont know if he ripped off cronus' balls, as is the way of things? the olympian brothers he shared (poseidon/hades right now) all took straws and zeus got sky lord. didn't cheat into that at all, nope.
husband of hera. in a very loose sense of the word. as all deity/incest/rape scenarios seem to end in tears. after appearing to her as a bird, he raped her and they married so she could retain honor. zeus was an asshole like that, and he was really fond of turning into animals and fucking people for whatever goddamn reason
OCEANUS: oceanus was a lot of water. he created nymphs and raised hera alongside wife Tethys
HERA: wife of zeus and sister of zeus because of whatever weird fucking "free love" bullshit happening in the skies above greece was happening in the sixties. anyway, hera is most noted for having both the shittiest husband, and for being hung by gold chains after understandably trying to drug and kill her asshole husband. a great deal of the time, she fucked with his plans after vowing to never rebel. she also did fucked up shit to anybody zeus fucked as barnyard and sky creatures
ATHENA: god of smart people, athena was born by way of the proto-fan fiction that literally sprang from zeus' skull. motherless, and born wearing a suit of armor, she predates adventure time's fiona in terms of scope and implication. she was the goddess of cities, progress and invention, and would defend her cities/states in combat. zeus, for being a weird piece of shit, was kindest to her. he let her use his weaponry, and duel wield his lightning bolts. she has never fucked anybody, and is the namesake for athens.