Reading up on Carmanor (Karmanor) idk my brain will auto write whichever sticks, and I’m thinking of Iasion’s reincarnation again. I know the versions he lives a long time and Demeter gets concerned with his old age, so he dies anyway, but with him being elevated to godhood (as a deified mortal) makes it a lil confusing to me? Maybe I just don’t fully understand it lol. Anyway, the way mortals get deified varies. With Iasion, his mother is Elektra (Elektra and Zeus if you go with that parentage) yet he’s one of the cases of being a mortal demi-god basically. As I’m reading Karmanor, I gained a thought:
since Iasion (Karmanor) is the wife (consort) of Demeter, and mortals can become Gods by proxy of marriage, that’d be the easiest way to make him a God. However, since Iasion always dies (electrocution or age) but Karmanor’s death isn’t stated to happen, I’m going to make the assumption that Karmanor isn’t a demi-god mortal like Iasion (I think that’s safe to conclude—) and is just a full demi-god with immortality. So this is where my brain makes the disconnect of the two of em
So in my interpretation, I made it like this: Iasion, instead of being married to Demeter, is her consort up until he dies (regardless of which version I use). Upon his revival as a gift from Persephone to her mother, the two get married, and Iasion is lifted up to Godhood; therefore, all the children Karmanor has with Demeter are born from Iasion and Demeter upon his revival
Oh and maybe Iasion changes his name/gets Karmanor as a title or something idk (i don’t want to say epithets because i know it’ll be wrong to use it like that, maybe?? I think?? I mean Pallas Athena— I’m just not gonna chance it right now lol)
