I meant that some scholars (or one, rather, with whom most disagree) seems to consider the myth's maiden goddess of war, who was supposed to represent death, sterilisation, violence and everything about pointless destruction (ironically one of the main heroes of the Gods), a fertile mother-goddess, for the simple reason that she's female; in which process he does not only turn a battle scene that has her described as "wading up to her knees in blood, and up to her hips in gore/guts" as an orgy, but also turns the whole revenge-driven plot into the typical death-and-ressurection plot fertility gods used to have. I can't really follow the Seth-thing, though. What cycle couldn't she complete? <- needs more coffee And for the Athena/Hephaestus thing, I think you need to update me, too. I can't think of what you mean right now. I'm more familiar with the Near East mythology.
True. Well. He does not talk? Ah, but there I fail. I can't drive.
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Date: 2007-04-04 04:40 pm (UTC)I can't really follow the Seth-thing, though. What cycle couldn't she complete? <- needs more coffee
And for the Athena/Hephaestus thing, I think you need to update me, too. I can't think of what you mean right now. I'm more familiar with the Near East mythology.
True. Well. He does not talk? Ah, but there I fail. I can't drive.