top 5 myths (from any mythology)
Anything involving Achilles (because he’s my main man), but I particularly love the part in the Iliad when… he does anything ever. I honestly can’t pick a favourite moment. How about the time he sang songs about how much Agamemnon sucked. Or when he went on for pages about how Aeneas was a big butt-face who sucked a bunch and Aeneas was like “Please Achilles, I’m not that man.”
The Hymn to Hermes. Mostly because in the Hymn they begin with Hermes’ birth and then go into this wild tale about how he steals Apollo’s cattle by walks backwards and all these ridiculous things, but the myth never states when all of this shit takes place. So it plays out as if Hermes, a newborn baby, is generally fucking shit up for Apollo and slaughtering cows and building instruments. A baby.
Horus and Set’s battles over dominance that ended with Set eating lettuce that had Horus’ semen all over it.
That time Zeus shagged a girl and Hera was coming to find out what was going on and Zeus panicked and turned poor Io into a cow, and Hera was like “Zeus what have you been up to?” and Zeus was like ‘IDK WAT UR TALKING ABOUT ALL I SEE IS THIS COW… THIS COMPLETELY INNOCENT COW.’
The story of Prometheus. It’s a classic and it’s pretty telling of how the Greeks saw the gods and themselves in relation to the gods. The gods punished Prometheus for giving humans a means in which to fend for themselves.