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Happy birthday to our boy🥳🎉✨

nolan's the odyssey has such a fundamentally culturally christian understanding of religion and divinity that it is genuinely jarring to see characters in a supposedly ancient greek historical context describe divinity and its expression in those terms. characters wonder aloud why gods hide themselves (they didn't), question the existence of what nolan interprets the supernatural to be (they wouldn't) and talk of zeus's law (not real, and still somehow bastardized) in the same way we would talk about the ten commandments. it's so out of place. and it taps into that "defy the gods" thing.

like. we can defy the christian god, in a way, because we can choose to not do what he says we ought to. sure. but we cannot defy greek gods in the same way, because the god is not just an entity that commands you but the very thing you are doing. apollo does not just send plagues, he is plague. you know apollo is real because there is plague. plague is not apollo acting in the world, it is an instance of apollo, in the same way that insight is athena, love is aphrodite, harvest is demeter, storms are zeus. gods are not commanding nature and sending signs and acting upon the world, because signs and nature and human nature are themselves the gods. the gods cannot be absent, because we still get ideas, and harvest, and go to war, and feel desire, and hunt. the gods cannot be defied because you cannot defy "getting ideas" or "harvesting" or "having sex" or "dying." to attempt to is entirely futile. like you cannot defy poseidon because you cannot defy the sea. you cannot defy aphrodite because you cannot defy love and reproduction. nature and human nature are unbeatable, and so the gods are unbeatable, because they are nature and human nature.

and it's such a beautiful way of looking at the world, and he just doesn't get that.

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INCREIDIBLE HES REAL WOW

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OBSESSED WITH HIM

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His claws shouldve been Hot Pink Talons if they werent COWARDS

xamaxenta

Grimmjows estigma should burn pink when hes reached critical mass

chauceryfairytales

I need to inhale a whole nonfiction book

chauceryfairytales

I must know Everything about Mesopotamia

chickizeestudios

Odysseus and His Patron Goddess

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chickenmim

Dude... allow me to add to your trove.

I have a folder of these on my phone... I'm not sure what that says about me!

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vulpes-aestatis

Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell

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tippenfunkaport

Was watching gymnastics and became overcome with the urge to draw Bow in a sparkly leotard... except that doesn't make sense because, of course, he'd be an archer.

But then... inspiration struck.