What does Sup Forums think of the Ancient Greek religion?

What does Sup Forums think of the Ancient Greek religion?

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Based. Interesting plot, interesting characters. Christianity is a very boring religion.

>Christianity is a very boring religion
You don't know shit about christianity of you think that.
Christianity has the best lore of all religions. Prove me wrong.

Romans made it cooler

Fascinating: fuck yes
True: let's hope (and reasonably assume) not
Useful: not particularly

Pretty cool and interesting.

So cool that the Romans had to steal it all because they couldn't come up with a nearly as cool religion. But the Romans did have some interesting customs, to say the least.

It's mostly because many people hear about it all throughout their childhood, so they don't really get that "woah" factor. To really appreciate it you gotta examine it and most people won't.

Coolest mythology and my favorite Pagan gods.

Orphic Hymns are super interesting. The Orphic mysteries blend pseudo-Buddhism with western concepts and the Greek pantheon. It's also a Gnostic's wet dream.

Standard Greek mythos is decent. Very folky. I got to agree the Romans made it cooler though.

I'm still convinced that Jupiters alternate ego, not Zeus, or Zas, but Jove(which is attested in the Orphic Hymns going back to 6BC) is connected to the Christian god but the only "proof" I have right now is that Jehovah is originally spelled YHWH, but it's an abjad language so no vowels. On the other hand, you got Jove, pronounced Yoh-weh when Latinized.Too crazy? Probably. No Christian, Jew, or Greek mythos expert would want to agree with that and there's no real evidence to the contrary, aside from YHWH biblically being a sky god and resting on a mountain top, like Jove.

t. Someone who has not read the bible

Daily reminder that the Romans / Greeks contracted out Nordic architects to built their temples / buildings

>leaf

I am not even surprised.

I think everyone on Sup Forums has prayed to Aphrodite in desperation at some point :^)

Still better than kike believes

Romans were Greek fanfiction

Monomyth. All religions are pretty much the same with surface/ritual differences due to culture. The most interesting subject to study imo.

Not really

Greek mythology is great, gods and humans were in a ethernal battle

Christianity is like, believe In me or you burn forever. Love everyone or burn forever. No fighting or burn forever

"Jove" is just the ablative of Jupiter in Latin...

Patrician, but is best for stories of motivation and aesthetics, but doesn't really give much in the way of self fulfillment. Unless someone can point me to a story that isn't just some plebeian pissing a god of, or a god just doing shit for the fuck of it, or just a god deciding to plow some wench, then it isn't a really great religion to follow. good, entertaining shit though

>Ancient Greek religion
shitty rip off of Zoroastrian and other shit

So wait, it's gay to eat pussy but not to fuck dudes/traps/etc.

Maybe romans didn't have a word for gay because everyone was just faggots.

Polytheism is cool.

Greek and Nordic gods have badass and relatable characters and personalities.

Christian and other monotheistic gods are boring and have no personality, boring and inhumane as fuck.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language

And the fact that Norse, Celtic, and other Germanic gods can be traced back to other gods further east using language reconstruction gives me hope not everyone get's hung up on cases

Daphnis and Chloe.

It's Romeo and Juliet, except a lot better.

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No, you're misinterpreting it.

Women were seen lower than men, so willingly pleasuring a women made you "gayer" (less manly) than a man who's taking a dick, because then at least you're trying to pleasure a man, and not a woman.

Why was Zeus such a horney fuck.

>Greek and Nordic gods have badass and relatable characters and personalities.
All Indo-European folk religions are similar.

>Dreamtime

Abos have such a cool ass name for their shit, too bad they are retarded.

Also Christians don't have any stories of God coming down and getting his freak on while disguised as a swan. That is kind of a deal breaker

thanks for the unreadably small image

if I get ants in my house, I'll ask them to read it for me

they used to fuck little boys

The Romans liked the nordic's architecture so they stole their marble buildings and brought them to rome. That's why only wooden temples and straw huts are left.

I think I'm interpreting it right. Since everyone in rome was a poof they only made distinction based on how much of a fairy you were.

so did the romans, and yet north americans worships them both

They still do, but they used to too.

And that's a bad thing how?

The Japanese did it too.

>world was made in six days
>God kicks Humanity out of paradise for the deception of one whore
>everyone is the incestous child of Adam and Eve
>bunch of jews mutilte their dicks
>something something devil will steal your soul
>more jewish desert adventures

No thanks, ill take European paganism.

>Used to fuck little boys

Like pizzagate hasn't happened and we won't be remembered for letting it slip through our degenerate enabling fingers

You gotta remember most of the mythology was written by poets.

It's boring af. I've been told the stories all throughout my childhood and read the bible through as a young teen, and not once did I actually enjoy it.

I love it. Roman and Greek. I find it to be fascinating, as well as the culture of Ancient Rome and Greece.

Good, interesting characters that seem to idealize various aspects of thought.

>Prometheus = forethought or foresight
>Epimetheus = afterthought or hindsight

>Epimetheus creates a human with 4 arms, 4 legs, 4 eyes, etc.
>Zeus and the Olympians get nervous because it seems too strong
>Prometheus cuts it in half
>"Have no fear, it'll spend most of its life looking for its other half"

Platonism is the best religion of all time.

>Orphic Hymns are super interesting. The Orphic mysteries blend pseudo-Buddhism with western concepts and the Greek pantheon. It's also a Gnostic's wet dream.
But that's not Greek. That's Thracian.

>God is alleged to be all-powerful
>Still takes him a week to create the world
>Still needs a whole day off just to "rest"
Your god is a pussy. Kek is superior. Shadilay.

yeah I did too and I loved it so ur probly just a fucked up edgelord or something

Their "fag" was basically our "cuck" then

digits confirm

No, you retarded spaghetti nigger.

A fucking toad

By that reckoning, both faiths are ultimately Sumerian in origin

Venus is Aphrodite
Aphrodite is Astarte
Astarte is Isis
Isis is Ishtar
Ishtar is Inanna

Athena is best Goddess.

Prove me wrong.

>Athena is best Goddess.

We'll see what the Iliad says about that.
>kicks Ares ass
We'll see what the Odyssey says about that!
>Covers Odysseus' ass the whole way through

I was gonna try then I realized these things and figured it'd play out like this

It is the religious equivalent of TMZ, to the point that there was an entire chapter in The Republic about how they would have to retcon their entire religion if they were to build a better society because so much of it was just rape jokes and torture porn.

There is nothing admirable or respectable in the Greek conception of divinity. It was sick to the core because they were sick to the core.

I have never understood Ares in the mythology.

Why would the greeks hate their own war god? The only people who worshipped him where Spartans and even that was only so he would leave tham alone.

Mars makes so much more sense in a religious context.

Ares represents the horror of war senpai, hence his spawn: Fear and Terror.

very classy, excellent psychological insights, and very nature aware. pagan gods rule ok.

>Based. Interesting plot, interesting characters.
this.

Only paganism that makes sense in my eyes is the Greco-Roman one
Because it brings scientifical and psychological development and prosperity due to the stoicism

I believe it was a local interpretation and adaption of an older religion. Just like what the Indians, Chinese and meso-americans had.

Fuck that, I love eating pussy. My wife melts when I do it. She has an exhibition fetish and loves it when I stealthily eat her pussy in public. One time I bent her over the balcony and ate her out while she was talking to the neighbors.

Mars had a better backstory in the Archaic (old non-Greek) Roman pantheon. He was originally an agricultural deity. Over time he adopted the role of war god, likely in response to the wars with Etruria and the incursions of semi-nomadic Gauls and Samnites. The Roman view on war was that it builds the state/society and that arms keep the peace.

The Greek view of war was influenced primarily by sporadic conflicts every year between fellow Greek city states. So lots of settled land would be destroyed over pride and vanity between civilized people of the same culture.

The sons Romulus and Remus are supposed to be descended from Mars.

In terms of the horrors of war, the Romans had the Sabine goddesses Nerio and Bellona. Their Greek equivalent was Enyo.

>Her priests were known as Bellonarii and used to wound their own arms or legs as a blood sacrifice to her.[2] These rites took place on the 24 March, called the day of blood (dies sanguinis) after the ceremony.

>Hurr durr we should worship the "king of the jews" instead

fucking cucks.

Nigga you don't pitch goddesses against each other. If the Trojan war should have learnt you one thing...

Carbon copy of babylonian/egyptian

YHWH is monotheistic though, he more like the Aten than zeus

I don't feel drawn to Ancient Greek religion myself, but the more people at least showing interest in and respect for the ancient ethnic European religions, the better.

youtube.com/watch?v=LtUQlLUUkl8

What if all the philosophies and religions of ancient Europe merged into a sort of western Hinduism?

> Love everyone or burn forever. No fighting or burn forever
Confirmed for not knowing shit

HOL UP
*yoddles*
SO YOU BE SAYIN
*rapes village women*
HOL UP
*sunburns*
THAT WE
*sacks Rome*
WE WUZ
*discovers new world*
WE WUZ ROMANS N SHIEET

Weak footgame

Fuck this guy gets around doesn't he

Thanks Inquisitioner for your opinion.
May I inquire as to why you're sitting in the chair in that particular position?

Ares is shit, Diomedes is best boy

bullshit. While they weren't seen as total faggots as long as you were not being penetrated, pederastry was seen as a vice. Also, look up Stoicism. Greeks and Roman stoics invented the concept of "sex in the missionary position for the purposes of procreation only."

ultimately inferior to christianity, which is why rome became subverted by jews and the empire spent 300 years assassinating each other and dying of illness. A religion that produces tyrants.

Really cool, though. And their philosophy led to the Christian zeitgeist anyway

i get very horny when i think of the greeks/romans because i know that i would have been taking manly gladiator dick all day every day

y dos this giv me the big pp

12 Gods? Never really noticed, anything related to 12 months, 12 zodiac signs, 12 constellations, or 12 disciples?

Rome was largely subverted after the leadership became non-Italian. They had been bringing in all sorts of cults from Asia Minor, like the Great Mother, but these were limited in scope.

It was Septimus Severus who brought in the Syrian cult that the faggot emperor Egabalus promoted.

Then they kept going east and bringing in more mystery religions like Mithras. By the end the empire was a weird mix of Christianity, Neoplatonic paganism and other eastern mystery religions like Mithras and Sol Invictus.

The months are Roman, they correspond to either deities, historical personages or numbers

11 January - Janus, god of doors, doorway to the new year
12 February ?
1 March - Mars, spring, beginning of the war and planting season
2 April ?
3 May ?
4 June - Juno?
5 July - Julius Caesar
6 August - Augustus Caesar
7 September - Sept means seven
8 October - Oct means eight
9 November - Nov means nine
10 December - Deci means ten

Christianity birthed an incredible amount of tyrants.

Gnosticism?