• hihi24522@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    For fun I’m going to try listing as many Greek deities as I can from memory, this will pale in comparison to the real total but it will be fun nonetheless (I’ve probably made many spelling mistakes)

    1. Zeus, king of pantheon of the gods who rules the sky and weather etc.
    2. Hera, wife of Zeus… one of the goddesses of fertility? And peacocks?
    3. Poseidon, god of water and horses and earthquakes
    4. Hades, god of the underworld who has a helm of invisibility
    5. Persephone, daughter of Demeter and wife of Hades goddess of spring
    6. Demeter, goddess of agriculture
    7. Hermes, god of messengers and thieves, has winged shoes
    8. Dionysus, god of wine and festivities
    9. Aphrodite, goddess of beauty (born of the corpse of the father of the titans… Ourous?)
    10. Artemis, goddess of strategy …and the moon?(multiple weird birth stories but all from Zeus’s body if I recall)
    11. Apollo, god of the sun, son of Zeus
    12. Ares, god of war
    13. Phobos, demigod or lesser god of fear, related to Ares
    14. Demos, same as above but for “terror”
    15. Hephaestus, god of machines and husband of Aphrodite
    16. Hestia, goddess of the hearth
    17. Lethe, river in Hades and god of sleep
    18. Eris, goddess of chaos
    19. Prometheus, titan who defied Zeus to give humanity fire and got his liver ripped out by eagles indefinitely
    20. Helios, titan of the sun (having multiple deities for the same thing happens a lot)
    21. Kronos, titan of time
    22. Gaia, Mother Earth and mother of titans
    23. Nyx, goddess of poison? Treachery?
    24. Charon, ferryman/guide of the dead (id call him a deity since people give him “offerings”)
    25. Hercules, half human, became a god via golden apples after completing tests intended to kill him
    26. Europa, titan, i don’t remember, exploration? She’s the namesake of Europe though, also I think she’s the one who fucked Zeus when he was a cow or something.
    27. Vulcan, titan of fire? Volcanos?

    I don’t remember if Orion the hunter is just a hero/demigod or if he is a god. Same for Perseus.

    Damn. That’s less than I thought. Can I name all nine muses still?

    1. Calliope (voice)
    2. Erato (you know)
    3. Uterpe (joy? Also I feel like there’s another name but I only remember this one because it’s weird)
    4. Thalia (song? )
    5. Urania (poets?)
    6. Clio (history?)
    7. Polyhymna (geometry?)
    8. Melpomene (tragedy)
    9. … I want to say turpentine which is definitely wrong, but I think it does begin with turp- and she’s the muse of dance?

    Idk like half the muses are muses of song and there’s significant overlap in all of them if I recall correctly.

    Anyway it’s late so I’m going to bed, I’ll see how wrong I was when I woke up lol

    Oh also I have never played the game you mentioned but I have siblings who were very into the Percy Jackson books lol

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      10 days ago

      Excellent work, but I would be remiss if I didn’t point out the glaring lack of the great war strategy goddess Athena, borne from Zeus’ head fully clad in armor she made for herself, giving Zeus a terrible migraine (and with Hephaestus as a midwife).

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        9 days ago

        Damnit I think I combined her with Artemis because that’s one of the weird birth stories I was talking about. Also yeah I really can’t believe I missed one of the main gods.

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      10 days ago

      Pretty great effort here. Not surprising that you weren’t sure about Hera’s dominion, in pretty much every story she’s basically the god of “my wife is such a bitch lol”