#koalemos

[allmythologies]

greek mythology: koalemos

koalemos is the personified spirit of stupidity and foolishness. his name was derived from the words koeô and êleos meaning "to hear foolishness."

[aliciavance4228]

Yes, there's an actual God of Stupidity. Yes, I had to make this dialogue between him and Athena:

Koalemos: I'm stupid.

Athena: I know that.

Koalemos, trying to sound deep: All I know is that every being from this world -from gods to mortals to animals- are all stupid. I'm stupid. You are stupid. Everyone is stupid. We are all of a rare stupidity.

Athena: But if everyone is so stupid as you just claimed then stupidity isn't so rare at all.

Koalemos: ...

Koalemos: As a proof, I'm so stupid that I never even think of that before.

[alinacapellabooks]

Snippet Sunday! Today it’s Night Of The Justified Deaths lol

I was fucking around with some funny dialogue for Night Of The Justified Deaths, so that’s what I’m sharing this week lol:

“How many gods are there? Is there a god for everything?”

“There’s a god in charge of everything in this universe.”

“Is there a god of stupidity?”

“Koalemos.”

“How about a god of old age?”

“Geras.”

“What happened to the god of Greece’s economy?”

“We don’t have a god of Greece’s economy. A shame, because we need one.”

“Hades, you’re the god of riches, why don’t you fix Greece’s economy?”

“Because I’m not responsible for anything that you humans do in the living world. The Underworld is my domain, and the economy down here is great, thank you.”

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[thewingedgoat]

Illustration for In spite of Zeus a passion project game with @skykiuwu and @emgamezsupreme

Close-ups under cut

Hermes

Koalemos

Apollo (design: @skykiuwu)

Charon

Odysseus (design: @skykiuwu)

Achilles

Alcippe

Aphrodite (design: @skykiuwu)

Ares (design: @skykiuwu)

Hestia (design: @skykiuwu)

Demeter (design: @skykiuwu)

Poseidon

Asterius/The Minotaur

Pyrrhus/Neoptolemos

[greekbros]

Hot take:

(there are no truly evil Greek gods, there's poorly made decisions, intentions gone wrong and morally grey actions with plenty of room for hues. However, I can say that there are genuinely 'malicious' gods/figures that the field of folklore and mythology enthusiasts and specialists more often than not over look.)

(here's my list)

-Typhon (literal Greek mythology equivalent of Satan)

-Koalemos (god of stupidity)

-Kakia (goddess of malice and all sorts of nastiness apparently)

-and this one bean farmer from Thebes. (We do not ask of his crimes... only that they were many and cruel)

[0lympian-c0uncil]

Koalemos for the bingo

lil dumb dumb guy

[respawningjupiter]

Koalemos

In Greek mythology, Koalemos is the god of stupidity, mentioned once by Aristophanes, and being found also in Lives by Plutarch. Coalemus is the Latin spelling of the name.

This is my religion. Stupidity is my religion

[atgranger]

Years ago I've seen a post about koalemos, the greek god of stupidity. And over the years I've grown somewhat fond of the concept.

Today I stumbled upon a deity I already knew about: dionysus. He is the god of wine, grapes, fertility, madness and party. I knew about him and the maenads, 'mad women' following him around. He never seemed interesting to me.

Then tiktok came around and I stumbled across this bit of lyrics

Let's get mischievous, And polyamorous. Wine and women and wonderful vices. Welcome to the cult of Dionysus.

And since I am poly, I like wine and I like women, he grew on me a little bit.

Then today happened and on my dash is a note of how dionysus is also the god of anyone who felt confused about their gender. And damn that hit home. This dude is offering me wine, women and party while also offering guidance on the topics madness, fertility/reproductive health AND gender confusion? That's 6 check signs on my list of things I need.

TLDR: dionysus is the patron god of Enby and trans identities