Zeus

dark ones or light ones and they're yeah so I mean like we were dealing with some really crazy entities here because I mean even when Og is about to get killed by Moses he like he insults him by like being like oh you and your insect sized gods you know

yeah which that's exactly it's very much like in the Odyssey when they come across this what they call the Cyclops which is a giant And in one part of the conversation, the protagonist is sort of appealing to Zeus.

And the giant says, what use have I for your stupid little God? My God, Poseidon, is much bigger and much more powerful than your stupid little God.

Very similar kind of conversation.

If you haven't listened to it yet, I did 15 minutes of Greek mythology to help you fall asleep, which was very different from our normal Tales of Olympus episodes.

Usually, I'm over here going, and then Zeus threw a thunderbolt! And last week, I was basically like, the moonlight drifted across the Aegean Sea? Who am I? But honestly, recording that episode was so relaxing, like suspiciously relaxing.

I was trying to help you guys fall asleep because someone told me that my voice was soothing.

And meanwhile, I was sitting there recording and I almost fell asleep myself.

They are led by Zoe Nightshade.

And soon we meet the goddess they serve, Artemis.

And if you didn't know, Artemis is one of the 12 Olympians, daughter of Zeus and Leto, and twin sister of Apollo.

She's associated with the hunt, wilderness, wild animals, young people, and childbirth.

No.

Any idea? Well, it was the name of a Greek nymph, and according to Greek mythology, Hera came down from Olympus looking for her husband, Zeus, who was flirting with a nymph.

No, to allow Zeus to slip away undetected, Echo, one of the nymphs, detained Hera with idle chatter, and Hera punished her by taking away her ability to form her own words.

So the Echo was the only way that she could You know, make a point.

Aislada entre colinas suaves y fértiles llanuras, Olimpia fue el gran corazón espiritual y atlético del mundo griego.

Aquí nacieron los juegos celebrados cada cuatro años como homenaje a Zeus.

Durante siglos, atletas y peregrinos llegaron desde todo el Mediterráneo a Olimpia para participar en una celebración que trascendía el deporte.

Aquel ideal de paz aún resuena hoy en la ceremonia contemporánea del encendido de la llama olímpica, celebrada en Olimpia desde finales del siglo XIX.

So this play in Prometheus Bound, we find that it is a very pro, it really explores a pro-Promethean position.

And so speculatively, it seems that Prometheus Unbound would have been the pro-Zeus position, but we simply don't have that for the great god himself to speak on his behalf.

So that's really speculative.

No, we simply can't know.

In a way we are profoundly in the dark.

And I don't know what to make of it because you could say that towards the end there is a sort of synthesis where both sides get to have a say and they form a sort of agreement, they come to an agreement.

Zeus said, hey, Prometheus, you had something going on for humanity.

And Prometheus said, well, Zeus, you did have a point.

Now the story of Hecale and her receiving and entertaining Theseus on this expedition seems not to be devoid of all truth.

For the people of the townships round about used to assemble and sacrifice the Hecalesia to Zeus Hecalus, and they paid honours to Hecale, calling her by the diminutive name of Hecaline, because she too, when entertaining Theseus, in spite of the fact that he was quite a youth, caressed him as elderly people do, and called him affectionately by such diminutive names.

And since she vowed, when the hero was going to his battle with the bull, that she would sacrifice to Zeus if he came back safe, but died before his return, she obtained the above-mentioned honours as a return for her hospitality at the command of Theseus, as Philochorus has written.

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And he says that the Cretans once, in fulfillment of an ancient vow, sent an offering of their firstborn to Delphi, and that some descendants of those Athenians were among the victims, and went forth with them, and that when they were unable to support themselves there, they first crossed over into Italy, and dwelt in that country round about Iapigia, and from there journeyed again into Thrace, and were called Botians, and that this was the reason why the maidens of Botia, in performing a certain sacrifice, sing as an accompaniment, To Athens let us go.

And verily it seems to be a grievous thing for a man to be at enmity with a city which has a language and a literature.

For Minos was always abused and reviled in the Attic theatres, and it did not avail him either that Hesiod called him, quote, most royal, unquote, or that Homer styled him, quote, a confidant of Zeus, unquote, but the tragic poets prevailed, and from platform and stage showered obloquy down upon him, as a man of cruelty and violence.

So why does the soul carry a debt in the first place? The myth behind the tablets explains it.

Zeus had a son named Dionysus, born to his own daughter, Persephone.

And jealous gods called the Titans tore the young god apart and ate him.

The goddess Athena managed to rescue his heart.

And that's the only reason Dionysus could be born again later, this time from a mortal woman named Semele.

Zeus struck the Titans with lightning and burned them to ash, and humanity grew out of that ash.

So every person is made mostly of Titan material, the murderers, with a trace of the eaten god mixed in.

That's why the soul owes something to Persephone, the grieving mother.

is, yeah,

deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind, child of Zeus who twists slurs.

I beg you, do not break with hard pains.

Oh lady, my heart, but come here if ever before.