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If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick? (lemmy.world)

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Ngl Athena is based.

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[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago

Hermes married Aphrodite after stealing cattle the day he was born. God of thieves and general mischief maker. A lot like Loki, but without all the Daddy issues.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago

Considering Zeus's children are destined to overthrow him, I think daddy issues are baked in.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

There's a good chance I'm misremembering, or mixed two things together, but weren't Zeus and his bros the children that overthrew Kronos and the Titans?

[-] Hillock@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Yes, Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hades, and Hestia are the children of Kronos and are the ones that killed him .

[-] teft@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Also Demeter. 3 sons and 3 daughters.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I never studied the myths but I've always liked to think that the worship of Zeus et al was as messy as the worship of Jesus. The same way we have huge religious wars between Protestants and Catholics, there would have been people dying over whether Zeus was the God of Thunder or the God of Lightning.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, it's kind of a cyclical thing. Kronos was destined to be overthrown by his son so he ate him. Zeus is also destined to be overthrown by one of his sons and is a tyrant because of it. He can't help but screwing everything he sees though, so his character flaw will eventually end him.

I think it's a commentary about sex being power and power seeking being the eventual downfall of the powerful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metis_(mythology)

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Cool. That's great info! Thank you!

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