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Gods as literature out of context

Hades

Zeus

Poseidon

Apollo

Dionysus

Athena

Ares

Thanatos

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Average Poseidon- Zeus - Poseidon conversation

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Gods as various images in my phone

Dionysus

Hestia

Hermes

Apollo and Artemis

Hypnos

Hera

Moros

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Ares: i don’t think we can mansplain, manipulate or malewife our way out of it this time

Ares: *cracking his knuckles*

Ares: manslaughter it is

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Me @ Thanatos

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Never gonna get over ppl thinking Nyx is white. And uh before yall say ''they call her black because the sky's dark at night'' take a look at this.

''Men charred black''. They called black ppl black back then. Nyx is black. Therefore her children are as well. Stop whitewashing Thanatos, stop whitewashing Nyx. Stop whitewashing Eris ffs. I've literally never seen a drawing of Eris where she's black. And i don't wanna hear ''well she's zeus and hera's daughter too!'' Very fucking rarely. She's much more commonly Nyx's daughter.

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hii! I was wondering if maybe you remember any myths about Asclepius? Totally fine if you don't btw :)))

So i knew a tad but not like a lot? So I went and did some more research and tbh what I found was kind of surprising?

So from what I saw most people never actually considered him a be a god. He was just a human.

But let's get into it. Keep this point in mind while I tell the story. I also mostly study more ancient aspects? Like hellenic era Greece is cool and all but I like Mycenean Greece and around there.

So starting with Asclepius' parents.

His mom was dating Apollo, cheated on him with some human and either Apollo or Artemis killed her for it. She was pregnant tho. Apollo cut Asclepius out of Coronis (his mom). Then he got dropped off at Chiron's either by Hermes or Apollo and the gods call it a day. This is abt the last of divine intervention for a hot sec.

Asclepius is taught the art of medicine by Chiron and became so good at it that everyone was like oooo ahhhh lookit him. speshul wittle boi <333 and they built temples for him cuz he could fix anything and was all that jazz

Few years later he's locked in with this dude. His name's like Glaucus or smth. This guy is either dead or basically fucking dead. He's no necromancer. Little buddy doesnt know wtf to do. Then he kills a snake and his snake buddy brings him back to life with a leaf for Asclepius uses leaf attack on Glaucus' big smelly ass rotty corpse with pulse.

Then Hades complains abt him sTeAliNg dead ppl (stfu u rich white man you have enough souls), or Zeus sees that and being the god of justice needs to make sure the rules of life and death are kept. He worries that other human might avoid death completely. Either way, Asclepius is struck down with lightning.

Apollo begs his father to return him to life because he truly loves his son and his medical abilities are so cool *crowd cheers*

Sometimes he's just slapped into the stars and Zeus yells lunch

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@asssneksual asked for stuff about Atlas.

Alright, admittedly, i love the Titans. Chthonic things and Titans. I dunno what it is but a deity, a being THAT old? So interesting. Atlas is a Titan i regrettably DON'T know a lot about.

Now onto Atlas. So. He's this big strong dude right? Yeah! Kronos likes him and all is well with the Golden Age of Tyranny!!

Atlas was the leader of Kronos' army. He was known for being strong, good at fighting and bestie. This man could fight forever. Bestie's the Titan of endurance. That's like. Doing stuff for a while and not being tired

Due to supporting Kronos, Atlas was punished once the gods had won the Titanomachy. Unlike the other Titans, most of whom were cast down into Tartarus, he had a different punishment.

Atlas holds the sky, not the earth. This is a common mistake and I'd like to explain why!! In 'ancient' art Atlas appears to be holding a globe. This is a lie as most of the Ancient Greeks did not believe the world was spherical, MUCH less in Homer and Hesiod's time. Most of Ancient Greece viewed Gaia as a plate.

After Ouranos was disposed of, the sky could no longer hold itself away from Gaia and proceeded to try and fall closer to her. Thus, Kronos set Hyperion, Iapetus, Koios and Krios to the east, west, north and south respectively. They are the Pillars. Their existence made sure the sky stayed away from Gaia. Now jump forward to the aftermath of Titanomachy. The pillars are in Tartarus. There is absolutely *zilch* stopping the sky from crashing down to earth and destroying everything.

Fast forward, Zeus and co using their brains and looking at who's the strongest. Their best bet is *probably* Kratos, the god of strength, but he's Styx' son so out of the question, so the next best guy is Atlas. Atlas is chained under the sky on Othrys whilst he holds it up.

Now that we've gotten that part out of the way let's get into fun things.

Atlas is *also* attributed to teaching man how to map the stars, thus be able to sail, and just general astronomy or astrology or whatever the damn thing is called. Probably both tbh. (Imagine Atlas being like "mmmm of course you're a male scorpio")

This comes into play when you look deeper into his myths. Atlas was not always a Titan. Sometimes he was just some dude. Just some basic ass dude talking about stars and walking everywhere. I dunno much further into that but if y'all want me to research it i will.

Atlas also helped our good pal Heracles! What a fucking bummer! i hate that guy! Heracles got him out from under the sky, held it up, had Atlas get the apples because his punk ass was too short, then tricked Atlas into taking back the sky.

So... I hoped that answered your question? If not feel free to lemme know *in an ask* what u and ur mom were fighting about over Atlas and I can directly answer!!