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Very confusing to put the same generation on different heights… Family trees should not be made into vertical smartphone-format…
Too generous of your to call this a family “tree”
Egyptian monarchs also enjoy a nice family tumbleweed
There is vertical format for family trees, but only following one line with no additional branches
“Sea foam”
The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea.
Strange way to say “Enki and Tiamat”
So godly semegma it is. Or maybe devine cock-blood?
‘burst fully armed from forehead’ whoever came up with this was definitely tripping
“Holy shit I have such a bad hangover. I feel like my head is giving birth.” “…huh. Lemme write that down.”
That’s how the Elder Scrolls lore was created, too.
Maia Hee
maia who?
Maia haha
Did Semele just… Show up one day?
Semele was just a priestess who got diddled by Zeus, as you do, and got pregnant with Dionysus.
However, after shenanigans by Hera, she got tricked into asking Zeus to show himself to her in his full godly might, and because he was oathbound due to earlier power-of-boner stuff, he had to unwillingly comply.
He tried his best to show the tiniest sliver of his true being that would count, but she was still mortal, and got burned in godly flame for just witnessing him.
Zeus, saved the foetal Dionysus by strapping him to his thigh until the thigh-pregnancy was complete, and later, Dionysus found his mom in the underworld, and made her into the God of Drunk Frenzy.
Following all that, Semele appears to be uppity about her incredible husband to her sister, because Semeles husband carried their fetus to term after Semele died, while her sister’s husband was a mere wife-and-son-murder-attempter.
I love out of context ancient greek mythology. Btw, all that, makes Dionysus the only god in this graph, apart from Gaia herself, to not be the product of direct incest. (Is brain-parthenogenesis incest? Who knows)
Fucking thigh pregnacies am I right…
I once came across an explanation that the thigh is a metaphor for the balls (I probably heard that on the Overly Sarcastic Productions channel). I can only find this with a quick search :
Enorches (“with balls”), with reference to his fertility, or “in the testicles” in reference to Zeus’ sewing the baby Dionysus “into his thigh”, understood to mean his testicles).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus under epithets
Baby Dionysus also known as “With Balls” ಥ‿ಥ
Well, he sure as fuck has balls.
Literally, metaphorically, as well as probably 3 times a day
Dionysus is stored in the balls
Man, ouzo is wild.
Is this whole thing just an attempt to change the spelling of Uranus to something less funny?
That’s not Uranus, that’s Ouranus
Hey, that’s myanus
That’s my Bush!
We are all your bush on this blessed day!
Ouranos is the Greek spelling. As far as the Greek god is concerned, that is the better name.
Uranus is the Latin spelling. Just like the other planets planets are named Mercury not Hermes, Mars not Ares, Jupiter not Zeus, astronomers looked to Latin not Greek for naming.
However the person that named Uranus fucked up because while Uranus is the Latin spelling of Ouranos, the Romans called the God Caelus. Rather than use the Roman name (again, like Neptune instead of Poseidon), the person who named it just used the transliteration not the actual nomenclature.
Caelus, now the word celeste (“from the sky” or “heavenly” in some languages) makes more sense
Yes of the pre-Olympian deities, a lot of them are quite literal and almost animist, in the sense that it is clear that the god is simultaneously a being but also a physical reality of the world. The sky, the earth, the ocean, night, day, darkness, light. And their children are concepts associated with their parents - to early civilised humans, the night creates strife, doom, death.
Only in later “generations” does a truly distinct personhood emerge - eg Zeus is not lightning himself, but he can control it. It’s hard not to wonder if the generations of gods seen differently represent actual waves of religious reform or absorption where family trees were made to fit the story rather than vice versa.
Ouranos seems to be closer to the Ancient Greek spelling from what I can tell
Lord Uncle Zeus getting it on with ALL his niecesNo wait, I miscalculated, those are cousins
Edit: except Maia, that’s a niece… I think. This layout is confusing
Zeus had sex with someone then eats them while they’re pregnant. He has a headache and they hit him with a hammer. Out pops Athena. I don’t know about y’all but I wouldn’t call that mysterious.
Remember how Dionysus was born.
Persephone erasure
How many of these were killed by Kratos?
In the novel “Claudius The God” Caligula says that Claudius is his grand uncle, which is the same relationship that the dog Cerberus had to the god Apollo.
squints
Kind of cool. But hard to tell the legend apart
Wow I did not know it was this incestuous
So all celestial beings came from our an*s
Sex with Pleione
