THE ODYSSEY

As the title suggests, what is your guy's favorite myth and which ones do you think is a must read? Thanks!

I keep coming back to how similar these two are.

In the Rigveda, Rudra carries a bow and swift arrows, and the hymns to him are nervous. RV 7.46 asks him to let his weapon pass the worshippers by and spare their children and cattle. But the same tradition praises him as a healer. RV 2.33 calls him "the most healing of healers" and asks for his soothing medicines. You pray to him so that he leaves you alone, and also so that he cures you.

Apollo fits the same pattern. He is the "far-shooter" with a silver bow. In the opening of the Iliad he is angry about the dishonoured priest Chryses, so he shoots arrows into the Greek camp for nine days, and it is plague that kills the mules, the dogs and then the men. But Apollo is also invoked as Paean, the healer, and he is the father of Asclepius, the god of medicine.

Some scholars suggest this goes back to a shared Indo-European figure: a dangerous archer god who causes illness and can therefore take it away. That is a theory, not settled fact. Others think the pattern arises independently, because a god who controls a disease is the obvious one to ask for a cure.

Why do you think so many cultures put the power to send sickness and the power to heal in the same god? Are there other examples outside India and Greece?

Seem to be so many songs inspired by the Icarus story!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1q4wmrPnK53XqaWy9vLU1V?si=NOsxHxnMSHK9ngQuhAEnKQ&utm_source=copy-link&pi=7nbo3wI1RZuHc

After a similar, but inaccurate, post was deleted, I wanted to make my own

Part of a greater project to recreate 1 scene from each book of the Iliad. Took lots of creative liberties here, hope yall like it :)

One of my original work using oil on canvas panel

18"x14"

Iris love his Job, Ganymede more

Hello! I’d like to surprise my boyfriend, who is really into mythology. We’re planning a trip for about 10 days. Could you tell me which cities would be the most interesting to visit from a mythology standpoint?

As some of you may know, my interpretation of Helios has some rooster traits. Which, as you can imagine, aren't always ideal for his job, Hehe.

Anyway, this was just a silly little idea inspired by some comments I got on Tumblr a few comics ago. I thought you guys might appreciate some humor for once! I feel like I've only been posting angst here... (also, sorry for the watermarks I keep them on for safety)

Kronos devoured his children to prevent them from overthrowing him, which gave Rhea every reason to hide Zeus. I keep wondering how much of his downfall was inevitable and how much he helped bring about himself. How do you read it?

Hello!! I’m working on a card game that has a greek mythology theme! I need a LOT more cards for the game, and I want each card to feature a unique god, monster, mortal, object, location, creature etc.

There’s an endless amount of myths out there that I could look through myself, but I want to see what other people would like to see in this :))

For context: I have a fairly rudimentary understanding of Greek culture.

I read Ovid’s metaphoses and for the past couple of years the story in book 4 about Hermaphroditus & Salmicis has haunted me.

Do you guys have any thoughts on Hermaphroditus and how this deity was worshipped?

I’ve seen that some scholars believe Ovid made up the myth or changed the myth.

It just makes me a little upset that the Romans and Greeks were so obsessed with masculinity. And in doing so included a transphobic story

Bonjour à tous !

Méduse est un personnage assez fascinant de la mythologie grecque qui, comme beaucoup, me passionne. Je suis prof et chercheuse à l'université et je l'étudie avec mes étudiants de prépa. Je suis fascinée par l'évolution du mythe de l'Antiquité à nos jours...et tout particulièrement par sa grande représentation dans les tatouages aujourd'hui.

Je suis à la recherche de personnes qui ont un tatouage de Méduse pour échanger avec eux (1h grand max) avec garantie d'anonymat, sans jugement ni évaluation : je suis intéressée pour vous écouter me parler de ce que signifie Méduse à vos yeux, à vous yeux qui l'avez encré dans votre peau.

N'hésitez pas à me contacter ! Je me présenterai également plus précisément en mp.

J'ai hâte de vous écouter. Merci encore !

Evening everyone. I am a game dev looking into making a game based around Greek Mythology, similar to the God of War series. Through research I have found some conflicting information so figured I'd ask directly some people who would know a lotttt more than me.

Firstly, Who was it who made Sisyphus roll the boulder? Sources online say it was Zeus himself but a few others (any wikipedia) say it was Hades. Some clarification on this would be greatly appreciated!

Also have a question about materials/weapons used in this mythology. More specifically, I'm trying to create some kind of gimmick boss in the same way Yhorm, Rykard and Storm King are fought. For those who are not familiar, the 3 bosses above can be beaten using a weapon specifically made to take them down instead of the typical player weapon. So my question is: Is there some kind of Weapon or Material which was used against a SPECIFIC God to defeat or even just simply weaken them?

Thanks a lot!

So in one of the first few books of the Iliad when Helen is telling Priam who all the greeks are she thinks Castor and Pollux hated her and didn't come to save her. But Helen's brothers died before she left Sparta because the whole marriage issue started after she was the only heir of Sparta.

To us it's a mythology, but to them it was a religion just as real as Islam is to Muslims or Hinduism to Hindus. I've seen on an old thread from AskHistorians that we don't know what they called it but I'm hoping that the folks here might have an answer.

it's where all of creation sprouted (came from),

but what exactly is it?

Like an Abyss/Chasm, or something like an empty void? Or in a way can be similarly seen like the big bang where creation was a lump of mess that took time to form itself?

Does it have any ties with the sea (for the early people who created the myth)? (like Egyptian and Sumerian myth where things all began from the sea)