/lit/ - Literature

Raskolnikov

Zarathustra

>>16358463
>diety
deity* fuck

Fantômas

Kali

>>16358482
The Erinyes, the Maenads, Aphrodite... they're all hot as fuck

>>16358548
quoted by mistake

Molly Rankin

Tithonus. Not exactly my favourite but I think about his fate a lot. Its pretty grim if you've never read the mythology

>>16358463
Tyr

>>16358463
The one and only.

>>16358463
I don’t think they count as deities, but I’ve always loved fairies.

Asclepius

>>16358463
Narcissus and Adonis

>>16359339
Pretty based

>>16358463
not a deity but I really enjoyed the myth of Orpheus until I realized that he became the first pederast

The real one.

>>16358469
Myself

I like trickster gods like Anansi or Owsla or Bugs Bunny.

>>16359339
based and beautypilled

Nemesis is the most badass and underused goddess of greek Mythology. She's so metal she's the Daughter of Nix and Erebus, the night and the silence that exists between Life and Death, she's even older than Chronos, older than FUCKIN time itself. Her name literally means the one who enactsretributionagainst those who succumb tohubris. And the only shit she does in the fuckin greek cannon is to make Narcissus look into a stupid pond.

Hercules. Apparently he threatened to shoot the sun once with his arrows because it was burning too hot. I like to think that it worked.

>>16359298
based and deception, water and incantationpilled

>>16358463
Hades and Humbaba.

>>16358463
Artemis/Diana. Nothing sexier than a capricious, temperamental, 17 year-old girl with the power to kill you at a whim.
> tfw you'll never be Actaeon
feels bad /lit/bros

Hephaestus

>>16358464
baller alert

>>16360563
This desu. Artemis is best girl

>>16360570
>not lame

>>16358463
For me, it's Athena. The best Greek goddess.

>>16359668
You're demonspawn

>>16360841
stop giving the trannie (you)s, thats all he aspires for

>>16358464
based

>>16360570
>the ugly cuck is your favorite
Shocking

>>16360797
>For me, it's Athena. The best Greek goddess.

>>16358463
The demiurge

>>16358463
That river nymph that got raped. Oh wait, that's all of them.

>>16360891
fuck you and fuck your asshole snake cat

>not being a Zeus fan
>not going straight for the cream of the crop, the chad of chads
>inb4 some minor tale of him getting bested
He may have been beaten once or twice but that's a much better track record than literally every other greek deity.

>>16360903
:(

>>16360115

>>16360797
Too much of a goody two-shoes for my taste. Also she can be a real bitch like Hera when she's angry.

I like Bacchus in Caravaggio's paintings, enticing and welcoming to his drunken revelry or maybe its the boys he uses as models for him but I find him cruel in Euripides.

>>16360932
NO! That guy is a complete dick, he is literally the reason everything sucks.

>>16360957
Hera > Athena

>>16360963
nah nigga Pentheus had it coming

>>16360923
>let's just straight up ignore that Zeus is fated to be overthrown as he overthrew Chronos and Chronos overthrew Ouranous before him
Your time is coming to an end old man

>>16360983
Wasn't the point of overthrowing Typhon that he transcended that fate?

>>16360997
Try, try again, dear anon. You don't *actually* think Zeus is the eternal peak, do you ?

>>16360983
>DURRR YOU CAN'T LIKE WINNING CUZ YOU MIGHT LOSE!!!
Don't be such a bitch

>>16361034
Lmao, what a brainlet take
>CAN'T LIKE WINNING
didn't say that, retard
>MIGHT LOSE
*will lose, retard
>can't like winning because you might lose
Peak mongoloid. Try again

>>16361067
>Zeus hater is a pedant
Imagine my shock!

Helios (Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus).

>>16361083
>deliberately misunderstanding is based
>clearing up misunderstanding is pedantic
Good goy

>>16361083
>if you don't suck his dick you hate him
>because his dick is the tastiest most scintillating of all penises

>>16361100
>still ass mad about being a defeatist called out for his pessimistic schlock
>brings up jews for some reason
He mad

hephaestus

>>16361153
Cuck

>>16361146
>literally doesn't understand cycles or propaganda and the faustian theme of wrestling with destiny
Lmao

>>16361106
exactly

>>16361163
>chooses to live in the moment instead of dreading the inevitable
Wew lad u got me
>faustian theme
Lolwut? A greek myth has themes from a german story told centuries after it?

Thetis
>Don't worry baby, mommy will get your fucktoy back :)

"Hear me, all you gods and all goddesses too,
as I proclaim what the heart inside me urges.
Let no lovely goddess—and no god either—
try to fight against my strict decree.
All submit to it now, so all the more quickly
I can bring this violent business to an end.
And any god I catch, breaking ranks with us,
eager to go and help the Trojans or Achaeans—
back he comes to Olympus, whipped by the lightning,
eternally disgraced. Or I will snatch and hurl him
down to the murk of Tartarus half the world away,
the deepest gulf that yawns beneath the ground,
there where the iron gates and brazen threshold loom,
as far below the House of Death as the sky rides over earth—
then he will know how far my power tops all other gods'
Come, try me, immortals, so all of you can learn.
Hang a great golden cable down from the heavens,
lay hold of it, all you gods, all goddesses too:
you can never drag me down from sky to earth,
not Zeus, the highest, mightiest king of kings,
not even if you worked yourselves to death.
But whenever I'd set my mind to drag you up,
in deadly earnest, I'd hoist you all with ease,
you and the earth, you and the sea, all together,
then loop that golden cable round a horn of Olympus,
bind it fast and leave the whole world dangling in mid-air—
that is how far I tower over the gods, I tower over men."

>>16361175
>dreading
Who spoke about dread?
>greek myth has themes from a german story told centuries after it
>doesn't understand cycles or intertextuality
>never heard of timespace-nonlocality
Some mytho-poet you are

36 raw eggs a day and GOMAD

>>16360797
I've seen that statue irl and its fantastic

Kopala

لا اله الا الله

>>16360890
This, Athena is the most reddit deity. Why did Homer have such an obsession with her

>>16360983
If Zeus is overthrown, everyone else goes straight to Tartarus or is raped

>>16360982
true

>>16360997
He's supposed to be overthrown by a son; what does Typhon have to do with it?

>>16361096
What does Helios have to do with these?

>>16362351
Lmao no. Where'd you get that from?

>>16362395
From having a non-delusional brain you dumb cuck faggot. What's your favorite Greek deity?

>>16362411
>non-delusional
How is 'everything goes to shit because big daddy stormgod isn't around anymore' non-delusional you absolute slave of a human?
>favourite deity
>>16360115

>>16359668
Shut the fuck up you stupid bitch.

>>16362443
Stop samefagging replying to yourself retard

>>16362441
Zeus is the only one who protects every other 2nd generation God, if it wasn't for Zeus they wouldn't be alive to begin with or they'd have gotten rekt by Typhon. They only exist in freedom because Zeus allows them to

>>16362515
He’s not me. He’s the first guy calling me “demon spawn”

>>16362531
You mean the olympians and their offspring? Didn't Chronos do the exact same for his titan siblings? Also what about Sarpedon? Is he irrelevant?

>>16362534
Cringe
>>16360891
Evil
>>16360797
Cringe
>>16360570
Meh
>>16360087
Based
>>16359668
Cringe
>>16359339
Based
>>16359298
BASED
>>16358467
Based and underrated

>>16362637
Kringé the Unbearable. Gtfo

>>16362576
And where are most of the first generation gods now? And what about Sarpedon? Zeus has a sense of justice and doesn't want to create chaos for nothing. Also it's not "Chronos" faggot

>>16360087
>She's so metal she's the Daughter of Nix and Erebus
They had like a million children lol. And it's not "Chronos" you fucking retard jesus you're dumb

>>16358463
loki

>>16362663
Typical dyke. Cannot accept criticism or different opinions. Truly a sign of narcissism.

>>16362665
>most of the first generation gods
Overthrown by Zeus, your point being ?
>not Chronos
Muh muhhs

Horus

Ukko

>>16361016
So God of War is a continuation of the mythological themes.

>>16362735
Retard

>>16362441
Heracles becomes a god after he dies as a mortal

>>16362770
The game? Sure, I guess.

>>16362773
Keep sucking Chad Thundercock's dick

>>16362784
Are you saying he's still out there roaming the lands of the earth for beasts to kill?

>>16362394
First, then, of his powers is that through which he reveals the whole intellectual substance throughout as one, since he brings together its extremes. For even as in the world of sense-perception we can clearly discern air and water set between fire and earth,[66] as the link that binds together the extremes, would one not reasonably suppose that, in the case of the cause which is separate from elements and prior to them — and though it is the principle of generation, is not itself generation — it is so ordered that, in that world also, the extreme causes which are wholly separate from elements are bound together into one through certain modes of mediation, by King Helios, and are united about him as their centre? And the creative power of Zeus also coincides with him, by reason of which in Cyprus, as I said earlier, shrines are founded and assigned to them in common. [144] And Apollo himself also we called to witness to our statements, since it is certainly likely that he knows better than we about his own nature. For he too abides with Helios and is his colleague by reason of the singleness of his thoughts and the stability of his substance and the consistency of his activity.[67]

But Apollo too in no case appears to separate the dividing creative function of Dionysus[68] from Helios. And since he always subordinates it to Helios and so indicates that Dionysus[69] is his partner on the throne, Apollo is the interpreter for us of the fairest purposes that are to be found with our god. Further Helios, since he comprehends in himself all the principles of the fairest intellectual synthesis, is himself Apollo the leader of the Muses. And since he fills the whole of our life with fair order, he begat Asclepios[70] in the world, though even before the beginning of the world he had him by his side.

But though one should survey many other powers that belong to this god, never could one investigate them all. It is enough to have observed the following: That there is an equal and identical dominion of 1 Helios and Zeus over the separate creation which is prior to substances, in the region, that is to say, of the absolute causes which, separated from visible creation, existed prior to it; secondly we observed the singleness of his thoughts which is bound up with the imperishableness and abiding sameness that he shares with Apollo; thirdly, the dividing part of his creative function which he shares with Dionysus who controls divided substance; fourthly; we have observed the power of the leader ot the Muses, revealed in fairest symmetry and blending of the intellectual; finally we comprehended that Helios, with Asclepios, fulfils the fair order of the whole of life.

>>16358463
Hercules
Despite his madness killing his family, I personally found it funny when one of his 12 quests, the lion that cannot be killed by any weapon no matter how strong it is, so he decided to fuck it and choke the lion to death

I can't stop laughing that day.

Me.

>>16362333
>Why did Homer have such an obsession with her

He was Ionian, probably.

Not a single Hermes fan? Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor. Literally me

>>16362333
She's one of the most important deity throughout the entire Hellenic world though.

>>16360983
Nah Zeus managed to dodge that when he married Thetis to Peleus.

>>16358548
>the erinyes
Read the Oresteia and promptly change your mind. The Erinyes are disgusting and being attracted to them is a worse than furry-tier fantasy.
They're based goddeses though.

>>16358463
Night, one of the most primordial and multifaceted of all. Even Zeus is afraid of her.
Also her youngest and most terrible child, Horkos (the Oath). Even the Olympians won't take oaths in vain. Pretty baller.
Can't deny Apollo, Artemis and Dionysos are based though.

>>16360087
She also got banged by Zeus once according to some, which would have given borth to Helen of Trojan fame (in a golden egg, no less).

>>16358463
I'm partial to Tezcatlipoca.

He represents a mix of attributesthat you rarely see in European mythologies (night, wealth, magic, war, royalty, time, hunt...I guess Odin would be the closest Western equivalent but he doesn't really cut it).

He also has badass spooky names like the Smoking mirror or the Jaguar God, he's a creator god and in some versions of the Aztec mythos cosmological eras are named after version of him, so that every ruling deity at any time is just a form of Tezcatlipoca.

>>16359662
huh, that's funny. I really disliked the myth of Orpheus until I realized that he became the first pederast

For me (a man of culture), it's Hecate.

>>16366666
Based pelasgian traditionalist.

>>16366666
>that get
oh shit, I guess I'm a black wizard now

>>16363983
tl;dr?

>>16365585
So? He wasn't athenian

>>16366046
You're making Hermes sound cringe faggot

>>16366073
Are there lots of myths of Nyx? Primordial gods barely show up anywhere

>>16358463
Baal

Where do you learn about Greek gods?

>>16366984
The cult of Athena is very ancient and Ionian are particularly attached to it. Some even suspect Athena was originally an Anatolian deity that spreads to the Mediterranean starting with Asia minor, a region that had many Ionian colonies.

>>16367140

>>16366993
Nyx is more often invoked or mentioned than featured, she's closer to a primordial force than a goddess, much like the Mother-Earth Gaia which is sometimes fused with Nyx.

However she features proeminently in Hesiod's Theogony (and most other classical theogonies, including the Orphic theogonies) as well as in the Oresteia, through her children (especially in the last part, the Eumenides). She's briefly mentioned in the Iliad when Sleep flees from Zeus' anger into the skirt of his mother Night, which stops the Olympian King as even he won't dare touch her.

In a sense she is almost a theme more than a character. So anytime the infernal or chtonian gods are involved (including infernal versions of the Olympian like Hermes Chtonian), including Tartaros, Hades, Erebos, Hecate, the Parques, Thanatos, Hypnos, the Erinyes, etc. she is looming on the background.
She is also often associated with gods of ecstasy, love and terror, especially female divinities, so that includes Dionysos, Artemis, Aphrodite, the Muses...

Dormitions (divinations by dreams) are in her precinct, for instance when Prometheus in Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound lists every major form of divination in order of age, starting with divination by dreams, that is a subtle reference to the ancient status of Night in the oracular line.

In some versions of the mythology of the Delphes oracle, Appolo steals the oracular seat from Themis, granddaughter of Night/Earth, to which Night responds by sending prophetic vision to all mortals in their dreams (essentially flooding the market with oracles and rendering Appolo's magisterium irrelevant). Zeus then abolishes oracles by dreams in order to keep creation at peace and to free the mortals from the terrible burden of constant nightly visions.

It's a very nice myth, unfortunately the (modern) scholar I'm reading doesn't give the ancien source for it. At any rate there seem to be a lot of them. You can contrast it with Aeschylus' take on Delphes at the beginning of the Eumenides, where the Pythie names, in order, the successive oracle-givers: Earth, Themis, Phoibe, Appolo, each having gotten the magisterium peacefully.

Robert Graves in his monumental The Greek Myths writes a lot about the many aspects of Triple Goddess, of which Night is the prototype in a sense. His retelling of the myths his mostly solid, however his commentary should be take with a truckload of salt. He's still worth a read imo (plus nowhere else are there as many myths crammed in a single book).

>>16367209
Forgot to say (although it's implied in the post), aspects of the Earth Goddess, so Gaia, Demeter, Persephone, are often closely tied with Nyx.

>>16367209
Very based anon

the stoic god

>>16367166
Pretty nice chart, needs some Pausanias though.

>>16367228
Heck I should just tell you the books I've been reading:
>Illiad
>Odyssey
>Robert Graves' The Greek Myths
>Aeschylus' tragedies
>Night and the Children of Night, Clémence Ramnoux (only available in French unfortunately)
>Heraclitus' Fragments
>Total War: Troy

Jk but seriously I'm impressed at the quality of the research behind the game. Usually video games just wing it, but this one really helped me get a better sense of Ancient Greek geography while I was ransacking its cities.

>>16367291
What game?

>>16367382
>>Total War: Troy

Krishna
>have 16000+ wives
>make 16000+ clones to bang them all every night

>>16366666
holy checked

>>16366666
Based af

Hail Eris

>>16358463
Zeus, Ares, Eris, and Dionysus

>>16361577
Based fellow Georgiabro

>>16358463
Hekate

>>16360984
what was his tragic flaw except that he didn't believe that some rando was a god?

>>16358463
Bacchus of course.

>>16366666
But Hecate is an excellent pick. Me and my wife Medea are going to go sacrifice a dog right now.

>>16358469
Ok fatass

>>16366975
that is the tldr

>>16358463
Huitzilopochtli, the Sothern Hummingbird:^)

>>16366990
It's a meme ya dip

>>16360923
DYEL

>>16360983
>>16361034
>>16362351
>>16366061
Zeus abdicated in favor of Apollo. Apollo has been in disguise as Jesus all these years.
This house will fall soon. The Titans of the Golden Age will rise again

>>16370253
Finally.
Dionysus conquered India well before the Greeks even had a solid idea of what India was. Alexander compared himself with Dionysus as a metric for his own accomplishments.

>>16371475
You are a most loathsome gremlin. The sun rejects shining upon you for fear of illuminating your physical and mental abomination

>>16371625
Helios? We’re directly related through Selene
I do keep rather pale, but that’s none of your business

based hermes or thoth

>>16360983
why would he be overthrown by his co-ruling beloved dual-natured thrice-born son, who is both Man and highest God, Sixth and First?
SON OF ZEUS WHO FIRST IS AION, THE SIGN OF HYPERION IN THE NIGHT, FIRST LIGHT, THE LOTUS. BACCHUS, THE INFINITELY NAMED, ZAGREUS, PROTOGONOS, SABAZIOS, LIBER, ADONIS, OSIRIS, SERAPIS, IACCHUS, BRISEUS, ERIKEPAIOS, METIS.
REVELING DIONYSOS,
PRIMEVAL, TWO-NATURED,
THRICE-BORN BACCHIC LORD,
SAVAGE, INEFFABLE, SECRETIVE,
TWO-HORNED AND TWO-SHAPED,
IVY-COVERED, BULL-FACED,
WARLIKE, HOWLING, PURE.

The lord of wild beasts

>>16367121
Based

>>16358463
Prometheus

Durga is pretty badass. Plus she's got dem titties.

>>16358463
Are there any myth charts? I mean, aside from the general "start with the Greeks".

Femto

>>16359668
Fuck off tranny

>>16358463
Dionysus.

>>16359668
Could you give a theoretically based account of that statement of identifying as a mythological deity?