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Sazerac has the hang of it - er, p'raps 'hang' is not the best term in this context..? Pre TV as it was, they did the best they could and painted murals of their gods' antics all over their walls - keeping the most salacious for the brothels/pubs/etc - Equatorial relions, that is. Northerners were more restrained with their depictions of Odin and Thor etc - though the stories are pretty good! ------------------ |
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And then there was Testecles, but they sat he was ...nuts...
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that is also one thing... the gods have too much trouble and hassle to be gods... Homer must be one psycho maniac!
sure, sure the stories were great, the typical soap operas of today or something... but what really bugs me is why someone would write about someone having a son, then making her her husband, and they have a son, and son cuts out poppa's or brothers balls out... wow... Homer is really good! ------------------ Yukishiro Tomoe |
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The old religions before Christianity and Muslim all treated sex as somethig more than just the physical act. It was powerful magic. Sex between gods could reanimate a God who had been killed - the frantic sexual activity of spring bringing to life the land and the sun after the death of winter. The strength of a gods libido or sex drive reflected their power.
Sex between sibling gods was the most powerful of all. The Egyptians beleive creation was formed from the semen of such an act (sorry I cant remember the names of those involved). Sex with worshippers bound them more tightly to the gods, and it also enhanced the power of the gods. It could give them a chance to have more influence in the world of men through their offspring. The old cultures had a different attitude to sex - it could be a holy rite as well as an act of desire or love. Sexuality was not something private and secretive - the Romans had mosaics and murals in thier house showing the sex act in public rooms. It took the christians to make sex something shameful, and unholy. ------------------ There is only one kiwidoc, accept no substitutes STANDARD OPERATING PROCEEDURE www.judyhope.co.uk |
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I don't know what your source of information is, but I know of no myths in which he mates Aphrodite or Artemis (Diana is the ROMAN goddess) either... the latter was the goddess of chastity and therefore didn't have any man at all (unless you identify her with Selene or Phoebe, and apply the story of Endymion to her, but that was a tale of platonic, non-physical love more than anything else). To call all this twisted shows you may need to read the myths again and think about it a little more. I read a great volume of the Greek myths and sagas(a scholarly version, ie not a children's book) when I was 10 and I never once thought something was wrong or perverted in them. If you read the bible, you'd know that after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's daughters made their father drunk and slept with him to continue the bloodline. Is that twisted? It would be now, but you should read the books in their proper context. Also Moridin, I think that both Gaia and Ouranos sprang forth from Chaos, making them the first gods. They begot many children and giant races, including Titans, Kronos and Rhea were both their children, i.e. Kronos, like his son, married his own sister. Quote:
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maybe so... i think this modern world is taking its toll... now, point is, it is a show of power... and that before, they saw sex as a thing that normal people have a hard time doing, and for the gods it was nothing but fun, and it showed that they had enormus strength. in respect for the gods, homer made it like this thus showing their true power... hmm.. this is really interesting!
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melusine, with Hera, she was the one of the main causes on why the trojan war didnt cease and took its deadly toll... and since you said sex is a show of power earlier, it can also be said that changing sides that easily and swiftly another show of power? unlike humans, they cannot just switch get it? but for the gods, if i dont like you, you die...
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For instance: Virgil = Vergillius, Ovid = Ovidius etc. Our pronunciation is also much closer to the Greek. BTW "they saw sex as a thing that normal people have a hard time doing" ????? Unless you're punning I have no idea what you're talking about... ------------------ Melusine, High Queen of Fluffies, Archbabe of the OHF, the LH, the HADB and the SPAE(Society for the Prevention of Acronym Extinction) & Official Entertainer Elf of the BG2 Bar Your voice is ambrosia Amy Brown Fantasy Art |
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