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Favorite God/Goddess from antiquity

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by YankeeFan, Sep 2, 2014.

  1. bumpy mcgee

    bumpy mcgee Well-Known Member

    Phil Connors
     
  2. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Russell from Stillwater.

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  3. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Loki is too obvious.
     
  4. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Who doesn't love Uranus? Well maybe not Uranus, but Olivia Munn's or Kate Upton's
     
  5. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Rimshot.
     
  6. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    To keep things clear, Ganymede and Sisyphus were not gods.
    Sisyphus was a mortal king punished by the gods.
    Ganymede was a mortal of great beauty abducted by Zeus to serve as cupbearer.
     
  7. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    I thought Sisyphus was one of the Titans, like Atlas. Maybe I have my stories mixed up, though.
     
  8. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Namechecked by Homer, Plato, Shakespeare, countless artists and humanists.
    I refer to god in the literary- and figurative- sense.
     
  9. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Sisyphus and Ganymede are mythic figures, and their are multiple stories of varying details; however, I don't know of any that attribute divinity to either character.

    Sisyphus, in multiple incarnations, is sentenced to an eternity of futile effort because he is too enamored with with life and the world. He fails to comprehend the futility of being in love with things that cannot last.

    Ganymede is beautiful and Zeus lusts after him. Many people read the myth as a justification for homosexual love.
     
  10. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    As a parallel, Moses and Job are characters in the Bible, but Moses and Job are not divine.
     
  11. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Moses was a semi-divine mediator.
     
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