Mythology Thread

A lot of it has to do with Zeus, but she still did some horrible things to people who didn't deserve it

>>1903445

Because Athenians wrote most of what we have from that period, and Hera was primarily worshipped by the enemies of Athens such as Sparta and Argos.

>>1903445
Because Zeus was a dick, really.

Because she wants her brother/husband to have sex with her.

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I wanna fuck Apollo.

>>1903445

Zeus was a cunt tbqph.

Actually most of the Greek gods were.

Except Dionysus. He was cool.

>>1903445
She's the immortalized form of bitchiness in women.

All of the gods in Greek mythology are immortalized forms of human nature.

>>1903445
Same reason Hillary Clinton is a bitch.

>>1904668
No only Hestia was the good one.

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>>1905293
Hestia bestia.

>>1904668
Dionysus was a massive cunt with a seriously bad temper.

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>>1905305
and his followers were LITERALLY hysterical female cannibals

What the fuck was the pagan god's problems?

No wonder Christianity won so easily.

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>>1904605
Are you a pretty young boy?

I've found that in general, the older the mythology, the more assholish the gods. I suspect this is due to the increasingly tenuous nature of civilization the farther back you go.

For instance in Sumer, where the Gods were right cunts that created humans as a slave race you have a society that's only very recently been civilized, that's regularly subject to drought, famine, and pandemic, while being dependent on a couple of unpredictable rivers known for flooding violently for agriculture. The gods here are ways to make sense of the capricious natural forces they're subject to.

Further along as societies advance, the gods tend to soften and taken on more philosophical, abstract roles and become less overtly dickish.

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>>1905469

>yfw you're having another Æutistic fit

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>>1905526

Yes, he understands

All the Greek gods were as a rule.

>>1905526
Could you give some examples of non-ancient mythology to illustrate what you mean? I know of Islam and Scientology, but I don't think they illustrate your point.

>>1905558
Christianity. The transition from the God of early Judaism to the modern Catholic or Orthodox conception of God illustrates my point well. God goes from being something of a psychotic, genocidal dickhead who can be bargained with or tricked, to being an omnipresent, all knowing, distant God of extremely abstract nature.

>>1905572
>who can be bargained with or tricked
When did these happen?

>>1905574
Adam hides from God in the Garden of Eden. Abraham talks God down when dealing with Sodom and Gomorrah.

>>1905572
The only substantiation of your theory is one religion?

Also, the theology of God as being all-knowing and omnipresent is stated in several places in the OT.

>>1905579
Adam didn't really "hide" from God anymore than Cain hid his murder from God. God interrogated them rhetorically.

Abraham interceded for Sodom and Gomorrah, that's what we ask saints to do to this day, intercede. Holy men do that in the old testament (1 Kings 13:6).

>>1905580
>The only substantiation of your theory is one religion?

It's an example, and it's not a theory (theories have a large body of supporting academic evidence), you bloody autist. At best it's an aphoristic musing.

>Also, the theology of God as being all-knowing and omnipresent is stated in several places in the OT.

Nope. Not getting into this debate with you. You're a fanatic that refuses to discuss in an academic fashion the influence history has had on Judaism's evolution from semitic polytheism to Christianity.

>>1905591
>if you view early writings through the lens of later developments instead of reading them within their own context, you can make the early writings seem to fit those same later developments
Thanks for the heads up.

>>1905594
>At best it's an aphoristic musing.
Those should be based on wisdom.

>>1905612
Is Cain killing Abel really that much of a "later development"? Cain is questioned by God, tries to hide about it, but God already knows.

autism

>>1905638
God doesn't allreAdy know. The blood of Abel cries out to God as he questions Cain.

I wish I could marry my sister.

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>>1903445
Take that back you fucker.
Name one thing she did wrong.

>>1907300
Ruined Hercules' life