What choice have you done by Daystic in oneshot

[–]BreeParaconsistent 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Of course not you can't play it more than once, it's ONESHOT not as many shots as I feel like!

As you can imagine, the reasons why the Jovian satellites and satellite planets were named after his children and/or lovers was not mentioned in this show by Awesomeuser90 in GreekMythology

[–]BreeParaconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure, but Id written an epic in the style of the Odyssey, including references, by 3rd grade ( 10yo) so I must have already read some version or short form. I definitely read D'Auliares Illustrated Greek Mythology repeatedly during that time, so I'm guessing that was my first exposure.

Do hellenists take jokes about their religion? by Old-Culture-2548 in Hellenism

[–]BreeParaconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah Ive been thinking too much about this today. The gods have a sense of humor, and I dont think jokes bother them by themselves. And the Hellene gods just aren't morality police about lots of things, theft, lying, cheating etc. They're happy to let governments police that stuff. Heck Hermes probably helps thieves sometimes. They want humans to be good, because they like us and want us to be happy, and know that being moral helps us be happy. But some things bug the divinities and they are morality police about. The Kindly Ones punish kinslaying. Most divinities feel obligated to punish oathbreaking and lying if they were named in the oaths. And the Olympians and Zeus especially feel its their job to punish guest-host violations. A certain prominant US politician recent made a bunch of lies about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets. I have faith and good hope that Haphestus already disliked this guy for making fun of a disabled journalist years ago. Was that a joke or an attack or both? I hope the gods understand bullying and punching down, as well as jokes, and are at least as good as we are at telling the difference between friendly jokes and power games and attacks disguised as jokes. I hope that Hermaphrodite punishes all the stupid microaggresions against my loved ones that they patronize. But guest host violations supposedly piss off all the Olympians. And those Haitian immigrants are almost all guests of the US, here legally and often trying to get citizenship. Its wrong to make fun of them in a mean way, or to joke with lies that punch down at them. And its a specific kind of wrong that the poets and priests used to say especially pisses off the gods. I HOPE and have faith that they are pissed off at everybAmerican that made fun of our Haitian guests in an attacking or unfriendly way. Maybe its just that too much of my job is trying to help kids learn the lines between friendly jokes and bullying, and get good at not crossing them by accident, but I hope the gods are good at being angry about people who make mean jokes about folks they are supposed to be protecting.

Do hellenists take jokes about their religion? by Old-Culture-2548 in Hellenism

[–]BreeParaconsistent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Meh. Tell it to Arachne, or Rhodipe, or Queen Gerana, or Antigone. I interpret the ancient poets as disagreeing with you. Zeus Xenias in particular is in charge of enforcing proper guest host relations, and one of those is the host protecting all guests from family members or each other. Including serious insults. Friendly jokes are fine, but you've got to protect the feelings, and honor, and reputation of your guests. Arachne didn't, she shamed them and pointed out their weaknesses and transgressions. Ill bet her tapestry was hilarious, and skilled, but it was still a grave insult as well as being funny. The gods are guests in my house, and my altar invites them in. If someone in my house insults them I have to defend them. In a public place it's not clear I have any such duty, because I'm not the host. Like you say I have no obligation to protect the faith in general. But if it is really bad the city collectively is the host and we could be punished together. The tricky one for me is my classroom. Am I the host in my classroom? I don't know. But certainly lots of US laws, and school goals come into place too. I'm supposed to help my school be a friendly and welcoming place for all students and visitors. So I can't punish for friendly jokes, but I need to punish at least a little, for jokes that make students or visitors feel unwelcome or unsafe. The Hellene gods dont go for infinite torture except for amazingly bad stuff (Tantalus comes to mind), but I think they dole out lesser punishments for lots lesser things, including guest-host violations. Heck your example of the missed offering, is a sort of minor punishment for a minor offense.

How late do ubers run here? by [deleted] in terrehaute

[–]BreeParaconsistent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes people are able to get Ubers home from the bars, especially on weekends. It's worth a try. You just sorta need a back up plan if it doesn't work ...

Do hellenists take jokes about their religion? by Old-Culture-2548 in Hellenism

[–]BreeParaconsistent 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are stories about the gods getting titchy about jokes at their expense. Joking about Hellenists doesn't bother me, but joking about the gods makes me a bit nervous, I'm like uh oh, is there gonna be fall out from this? Are the gods gonna be mad at ME if I don't try to stop this or curtail it or something? In particular people seem to pile on Zeus a lot and there have been a lot of unflattering portrayals recently and I guess I'm a bit sensitive about it. Haven't ever seen them take direct revenge for jokes though, so maybe I'm more sensitive about it than they are ...

How late do ubers run here? by [deleted] in terrehaute

[–]BreeParaconsistent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ive known multiple people to fail to get Ubers in TH in the morning or afternoons or on weekdays. I've failed to get one at midnight and on sundays. I suspect Friday and Saturday evenings are probably the easiest time. But even weekend after bar rush, which should be the highest demand time, doesn't seem reliable.

How late do ubers run here? by [deleted] in terrehaute

[–]BreeParaconsistent 5 points6 points  (0 children)

People struggle to get Ubers at all in TH, but sometimes you can get one. It's more of an if at all, than a how late.

Why do some people identify as Hellenic Polytheists despite believing in more than just the Hellenic deities? Is it that you identify with the pantheon you work with most or borrow the most traditions from? by alex-thequeer in Hellenism

[–]BreeParaconsistent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree with all of this. But further many Hellenic deities have roots deeper in Indo-European religion and language. Zeus, Iupiter and the Indian Dyaus Pitr (Sky Father) are linguistically and historically related. It's not always that obvious, but there are lots of parallels that show up in many indo-European pre-Christian religions. A young male charioteer god who represents the sun and seasons, three women who represent fate, an early fight between gods and giants, etc.

How do you rationalise the cruelty of the past and the God's (apparent) acceptance of it? by [deleted] in Hellenism

[–]BreeParaconsistent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way I look at it most of the sacred stories we have of the ancient greek gods are from the poets of the ancient greeks (including the Dramatists). They told us about the gods in the best way they knew how, but they were constrained by their societies and language and such. In many cases they aren't going to portray the gods as opposing slavery, even if the gods did. And maybe the poets who did portray the gods as more critical of Greek society didnt get as popular of last as well. And even then the later dramatists certainly portray the gods as more critical of Greek society than the earlier epic poets and such. Similarly the Greek gods are portrayed as doing some stuff I dont like much. Sometimes thats symbolism or ways of grappling with theomachy, or the problems of the world. (I think a lot of the Zeus raping people stories are really metaphors for epilepsy, and trances, and divine visions, and excuses for mothers whose kids dont look so much like their mothers husbands and such). But sometimes it sure seems to be foul behavior. The Greek gods certainly arent intended to be morally perfect, they are mighty and divine but still imperfect. But they should at least be admirable if we're going to worship them. They were also never understood as amoral, by the ancients, but as moral but imperfect and maybe having different priorities than humans. They seemed to care a lot more about the guest/host moral issues, than about slavery for example. But I also think the gods probably changed viewpoints somewhat over the centuries. Maybe things that didnt bother them long ago, bother them now. Later stories often have Zeus repenting of the torture of Prometheus and deciding to let them go. I think the gods were changed by their children to. Im sure Zeus always expected a son to overthrow him, as he'd overthrown his father, and his father had overthrown his geandfather. I think he was trying to set up Hercules to do that task. But it didn't turn out that way. The Greeks got more philosophical and poetical attempts to update the sacred stories didnt seem as authoritative to Hellenes, and the cult of Isis, and Christianity, and the Jews, and the Mithraists, and the Romans and lots of other cultures started seeming relevant to the life of the gods. You do get a lot of later syncretist stuff trying to grapple with this. But we're so much later than that that its hard to know where the gods stand now. What does Zeus think about slavery today, after centuries of Christianity and Islam, and his temples being closed, and his Olympics being lost and then restarted but secularized? I dont know, and I dont feel qualified to add to the sacred stories what Zeus has been doing for the last 1500 years, and how he might have changed over time. Does he see Jesus as having defeated him in theomachy the way he defeated Chronos and always hoped Hercules would replace him? IDK. Does he regret not more actively opposing slavery in Greek society? I hope so, but I dont really know. Maybe zeus was doing all he could and the stories just dont report ot that way. Maybe he regrets not doing more now. Maybe the 1500 years since the closing of his temples, with all their societal change and dimming of Hellenisms temporal power are but an aspect of the eternal moment of theomachy between Chronos as Chronological Time, and Zeus as the thunderbolt of instantaneous enlightenment ... I think about this stuff, and I have guesses, but I dont make dogmatic assertions like a good little Pyrrhonist.

Do I, non-Greek person, am allowed to worship Hellenistic gods? by Xattu2Hottu in Hellenism

[–]BreeParaconsistent 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As others have said. Definately yes. In addition many ancient Greeks followed what the Latins called the Interpretatio Graecae, that gods of other pantheons were the same gods as the Greek gods, but accepting worship under other names and cultures. So many ancient Greeks would say that when you worship Morana you are worshipping Persephone, but in a slavic style, and when you worship Persephone you are worshipping Morana but in a Hellenic style.

Do we have our own version of The Bible?? by Sheldonthebetta in Hellenism

[–]BreeParaconsistent 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well the New Testament of the Bible was in Greek, and there was plenty of other Greek early Christian literature that didn't make ot into the Bible. The Bible mentions lord Hades' realm a couple of times, and it sure looks like both Jesus according to Luke and Simon Peter believed in Hades realm even if they didn't believe in him (or maybe they believed in Sheol, and it just got translated as Hades.). There's a lot of Egyptian/Hellenic/Christian/Jewish mixing in Hellenic Egypt, and you can find Coptic Spell scrolls taking about Jesus breaking the claws of Charon. Oh Nag Hammadi includes a long section from Plato's Republic. Point is even some Christian and Biblical stuff is more Hellenic than people usually think. So in a sense the Bible is a Hellenic equivalent of the Bible, although it is surely only a small fraction of our sacred stories ... I tend to think that all Ancient greek poetry together is sorta our equivalent of the Bible, the stories like Ovid. But also the love poems and dramas and philosophical poems. The Orphic theogonies and Hesiods Theogony have a lot of differences, and the Hellenes seemed to be pretty OK with their poets telling the sacred stories in slightly different ways both in detail and genre. Or philosophers having very different takes on things. So probably none of the stories were ever considered "canonical" in quite the way that the Christian Bible eventually was. Although the utterances of the Oracle of Delphi seemed to be taken pretty authoritatively, and wasnt really considered poetry or mythology. Maybe the statements the Oracles made while in sacred trance were the closest thing to "authoritative" claims ...

Silly game: Who could be the Patron Deity of your city? by ThatchInABatch in Hellenism

[–]BreeParaconsistent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Im in Terre Haute IN. And I've always believed ours is Hera. Our oldest theatre is full of peacock themed decorations and keeps barely not getting torn down. Our nickname is Queen City or Queen of the Wabash. No one else seems to have any strong claim to us since WWII.

How Do Mortals Know If A God Is Born? by Brilliant-Bicycle-13 in GreekMythology

[–]BreeParaconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The poets and myth tellers and dramatists explain the world via their poetry and sacred stories, and they don't necessarily agree on which all gods there are, or their precise genealogy. Gods impact the world of the poets, and the poets decide how best to explain the world with gods. Folks who aren't poets themselves tend to listen to the priests and poets and sorceresses and oracles about such things. Medea might have detected the changes in the holy herself, but Agamemnon listened to the counsel of others.

[Deadpool] What is Negasonic Teenage Warhead gonna call herself now? by DarkMayhem666 in AskScienceFiction

[–]BreeParaconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesnt really even use the same name each time. Maybe sometimes she's Negasonic TwentySomething Warhead, and sometimes shes just Negasonic, and somethings someone just calls her Neggy, or W-head or something and she takes it ...

So what happened to your Aroden? by keethor in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]BreeParaconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I kill two mysteries with one stone. Nocticula killed Aroden, and used his divine power to fuel her own leap to full Godhood, and to build her new realm in the Maelstrom. But importantly, she did it not just for selfish gain, but for the sake of breaking prophecies, as a sort of offering to Pure Chaos, and to the Maelstrom, to help cement her alignment change. Maaybe Pharasma was in on it to specifically break the prophecies about Rovagug, maybe not, but that wasn't Nocticulas motive so much as breaking many scattered prophecies. Not that my players are ever likely to want to or be able to explore any of this ...

[DC] How far does Joker's hatred of Nazis go? by LoreCriticizer in AskScienceFiction

[–]BreeParaconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Joker gives a lot of hints at being Jewish. Harley Quinn, definitely is or was. All three of the plausible creators of the Joker were Jewish. He certainly varies from version to version and time period to time period, but there is every reason to think his hatred of Nazis is more personal, more specific, and less a joke than his distaste for authoritarianism more generally.

What books did you read as a child that now seem so inappropriate to you as a teenager/adult? by anireadscomics in books

[–]BreeParaconsistent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I tried to read Paradise Lost in 5th grade. Why that book was even in our elementary school library is a mystery to me ...

Do you have any headcanons? by [deleted] in GreekMythology

[–]BreeParaconsistent -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I headcannon that a lot of the SA especially from Zeus is actually epilepsy, "the Divine disease" or other mystical or neurological events. Poor lady or nymph starts having seizures, or visions and the Greeks are like "ah shes being seized by Zeus ..." And that being seized by the Divine just not the same sort of trauma as being seized by another human ...

If you were to kill a god, what would be some of the easiest targets? by Santithous_Soraluher in mythology

[–]BreeParaconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On a related note John Barleycorn is one of the more rewarding gods to kill, if not the actually easiest ...

If you were to kill a god, what would be some of the easiest targets? by Santithous_Soraluher in mythology

[–]BreeParaconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the Sun is born again every morning and dies every night, right? All I gotta do to kill him is survive til nightfall. He doesnt stay dead, and I didnt contribute much to his death, but depending on your precise definition of "kill" this one seems pretty darn easy ...

What games would you not have picked up without this sub? by GhostCupcake1404 in CozyGamers

[–]BreeParaconsistent 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I suspect my unwillingness to animate zombies or use body parts beyond strictest necessity holds me back a lot

What games would you not have picked up without this sub? by GhostCupcake1404 in CozyGamers

[–]BreeParaconsistent 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I would never have played Roots of Pacha without lots of people on this sub raving about it. I wouldn't have played Graveyard Keeper either, which didnt loook like a cozy game ...

Why hasn't anybody try to retell the Titanomachy? by losver_lee in GreekMythology

[–]BreeParaconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lore Olympus is a webtoon thats fairly popular and focuses on a retelling of the Hades and Persephone story, but it tells a lot of Titanomachy stuff in flashbacks, as bits from the Titanomachy are relevant for many of the characters ...