• Freeman@lemmings.worldEnglish
    963·
    2 months ago

    Very confusing to put the same generation on different heights… Family trees should not be made into vertical smartphone-format…

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    “Sea foam”

    The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea.

    • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      33·
      2 months ago

      Semele was just a priestess who got diddled by Zeus, as you do, and got pregnant with Dionysus.

      However, after shenanigans by Hera, she got tricked into asking Zeus to show himself to her in his full godly might, and because he was oathbound due to earlier power-of-boner stuff, he had to unwillingly comply.

      He tried his best to show the tiniest sliver of his true being that would count, but she was still mortal, and got burned in godly flame for just witnessing him.

      Zeus, saved the foetal Dionysus by strapping him to his thigh until the thigh-pregnancy was complete, and later, Dionysus found his mom in the underworld, and made her into the God of Drunk Frenzy.

      Following all that, Semele appears to be uppity about her incredible husband to her sister, because Semeles husband carried their fetus to term after Semele died, while her sister’s husband was a mere wife-and-son-murder-attempter.

      I love out of context ancient greek mythology. Btw, all that, makes Dionysus the only god in this graph, apart from Gaia herself, to not be the product of direct incest. (Is brain-parthenogenesis incest? Who knows)

    • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      Ouranos is the Greek spelling. As far as the Greek god is concerned, that is the better name.

      Uranus is the Latin spelling. Just like the other planets planets are named Mercury not Hermes, Mars not Ares, Jupiter not Zeus, astronomers looked to Latin not Greek for naming.

      However the person that named Uranus fucked up because while Uranus is the Latin spelling of Ouranos, the Romans called the God Caelus. Rather than use the Roman name (again, like Neptune instead of Poseidon), the person who named it just used the transliteration not the actual nomenclature.

        • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          Yes of the pre-Olympian deities, a lot of them are quite literal and almost animist, in the sense that it is clear that the god is simultaneously a being but also a physical reality of the world. The sky, the earth, the ocean, night, day, darkness, light. And their children are concepts associated with their parents - to early civilised humans, the night creates strife, doom, death.

          Only in later “generations” does a truly distinct personhood emerge - eg Zeus is not lightning himself, but he can control it. It’s hard not to wonder if the generations of gods seen differently represent actual waves of religious reform or absorption where family trees were made to fit the story rather than vice versa.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Ouranos seems to be closer to the Ancient Greek spelling from what I can tell

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Zeus had sex with someone then eats them while they’re pregnant. He has a headache and they hit him with a hammer. Out pops Athena. I don’t know about y’all but I wouldn’t call that mysterious.

  • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Lord Uncle Zeus getting it on with ALL his nieces

    No wait, I miscalculated, those are cousins

    Edit: except Maia, that’s a niece… I think. This layout is confusing

  • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    In the novel “Claudius The God” Caligula says that Claudius is his grand uncle, which is the same relationship that the dog Cerberus had to the god Apollo.