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#not really lol cause lore Olympus isn’t mythology
waywardangel-wilds · 2 months
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Okay so I know no one cares but:
Wouldn’t it be cool if instead of everyone writing the same old Hades + Persephone story someone finally wrote the only one that matters: the one that actually happened in real life. What do I mean? I mean how Goddess Persephone is the (possibly) oldest underworld diety, she predates Ancient Greek society. When Hades was invented by the ancient Greeks they needed to establish a different relationship between them that would represent Greek society at the time - which was patriarchal - and therefore, they created the rapt of Persephone, or the better known, rape of Persephone.l to establish a new power dynamic. Man on top. By the way, Demeter also predates Ancient Greece.
So what I want to see is a story where instead of the regular story of the seasons we get with Hades taking Persephone we get what really happened. The marriage of two cultures. The Mycenae (I’m not exactly sure if this is the correct spelling) who had their “darker” religious practices that focused much more on death and mystery, and their powerful goddesses. And the Ancient Greeks which we all know and love. This is really an arranged marriage, if you think about it. It’s the joining of two kingdoms.
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