You can see that ancient Greeks believed in the fate: a fatality which parents passed down to sons as genetic heredity.
Zeus also had to face the prophecy… and he swallowed his first wife, Metis (swallowing is the only solution for gods). But she was already pregnant and his daughter Athena was born anyway: she came out of his head, adult and armed.
She didn’t dethrone her father.
Besides, another interesting character is Prometheus. Some sources say that he comes from the figure of Loki: god of fire (like Prometheus or Lucifer –the light bearer–) of the Norse mythology, son of giants and a bundle of contradictions: he is pretty much know as the god of mischief, deceit and lies… but he often helps the others and he has a special ability for awake affection.
Maybe humanity of these worldly gods (the bad ones) frightened us: that explains the virulence of Christianity.
What do you think about?
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