fibi ducks
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Do gods have anything to do with ordinary humans? Or do they just deal with royals and such like?
By the way, about a year and a half ago I had a dream that i was on top of mount Olympus. it was clear and very calm with a blue sky. And not warm. There was no sign of life up there at all. Only a ruin of a vast hearth that I could see must once have been the chimney in one of the houses of the gods. Zeus' house. By ancient reasoning, would this be a reason to think that they are not there? I think so.
Hesiod and Ovid both give us a pietistic reason for this. In his Works & Days, bitterly lamenting that he belongs to the last, most wretched race of men that have lived on the Earth, Hesiod calls ours the Age of Iron, which Ovid confirms in his Metamorphoses, prophesying that one day Astraea, supposedly the same as Dike (Justice), would be the last of the immortals to leave the Earth (Aratus agrees and Hesiod gives us a similar scenario). Ovid's picture has all the gods, great and small, literally fleeing from the Earth at the sight of the atrocious corruption of humankind. I guess that image is somewhat amusing today but back then the idea was that the world would be just about as ghastly a place to live as some sections of the Underworld. And maybe, at least in some places in the world today, he wasn't too far off[?]...but but but WHY did they decide to have nothing more to do with us? Didn't they enjoy the war? I thought they had fun with things like that.
then the gods weren't able to keep us humans in order. they had a good scene going on here. i think if they had been able to get us humans to play along they'd have stayed. How do you feel about that?Hesiod and Ovid both give us a pietistic reason for this. In his Works & Days, bitterly lamenting that he belongs to the last, most wretched race of men that have lived on the Earth, Hesiod calls ours the Age of Iron, which Ovid confirms in his Metamorphoses, prophesying that one day Astraea, supposedly the same as Dike (Justice), would be the last of the immortals to leave the Earth (Aratus agrees and Hesiod gives us a similar scenario). Ovid's picture has all the gods, great and small, literally fleeing from the Earth at the sight of the atrocious corruption of humankind. I guess that image is somewhat amusing today but back then the idea was that the world would be just about as ghastly a place to live as some sections of the Underworld. And maybe, at least in some places in the world today, he wasn't too far off[?]...
*it's party-time*then the gods weren't able to keep us humans in order. they had a good scene going on here. i think if they had been able to get us humans to play along they'd have stayed. How do you feel about that?
For me - its good. like the parents decided to leave us alone on the house.
then the gods weren't able to keep us humans in order. they had a good scene going on here. i think if they had been able to get us humans to play along they'd have stayed. How do you feel about that? For me - its good. like the parents decided to leave us alone on the house.
I am afraid that this was the excuse given by the representatives of the gods (angels/priests) and that the truth is that the men revolted against the gods and had them expelled from the land (not the earth).Ovid's picture has all the gods, great and small, literally fleeing from the Earth at the sight of the atrocious corruption of humankind.
You could have a perfect much if instead of the way the world works today you were comparing the world in the stories of the ancients with the European continent during Nazi occupation.Personally I don't see the big moral difference between the way the world worked in the stories told by Hesiod and Ovid and the way the world works today,…