Actually, on the topic of the last post, I was listening to something about Aradia, who was being described as Diana’s daughter with Lucifer, and I’m just like, “Wait, what???” until I remembered it came from Leland’s Aradia (1899), and is Wiccan folklore (maybe Italian???), because, like, from a Roman mythology/religion lens how the fuck does that make sense?
It’s the revisionism that irks me, I think. Like (full disclosure, I take a hard polytheist view of gods), the Romans who worshiped Diana wouldn’t have been saying that Diana slept with Lucifer, would they? So we have people these days saying, like, “Oh Diana slept with Lucifer and had a kid named Aradia.” When did that happen? When Leland said it did?
I’m actually curious, so I’m gonna do some reading and get a better understanding.
ETA: Raven Grimassi suggests a comparison of Aradia to Robin Hood, which actually frames it a lot better for me. Folk heroes rather than Actual Gods.