![]() ![]() Homer wanted a goddess of Beauty, not a goddess of beauty abused, fickleness, cuckoldry and petty spite. (Homer says differently but since the Greeks were so big on creepy birth stories that resulted in crazy children I'mma go with the original story. Aphrodite was born in the sea foam that resulted from the blood when his organ was thrown into the sea. The race of Giants came from Ouranos blood as well. The Greeks were big on beings springing from the blood of victims. They were not the children of the underworld, they were the servants of the underworld. Something we see in real children of this sort of parenting.Īlso: the Erinyes are the "children" of Ouranos castration blood not Haides. Melinoe is insane as a result of this cuckolding and the resulting anger and confusion of who her father is. Sort of a mixing of the DNA of Zeus blood and the spiritual DNA of Haides, but definitely not Haides child. As a result Melinoe has some features of Zeus the father and some features of Haides the angry cuckold. The hymn is describing how Zeus took the semblance of Haides and tricked Persephone into having sex. Melinoe is a little more complex than that. Zagreus' myth is not really part of the main narrative canon, which doesn't make it less relevant or authentic, but you won't see him mentioned too often in contexts that aren't a little esoteric. Orphism) had different canons and narratives for the shared gods. It's important to remember that different local cults (e.g. Luckily, Persephone found his still beating heart amongst the ashes and was able to transplant it into a mortal woman, Semele, who then gave birth to a child, who would become Dionysus. ![]() ![]() Zeus discovered this, but it was too late to save Zagreus, who was now less of a baby and more of a heap of ashes, which is great if you hate nappy changing, but kind of shit if you like continuing your family line. Being Hera, Hera got pissed off, and, being Hera, she decided to take out her rage on the child rather than her shitbag husband, and convinced the Titans to kill Zagreus. Zagreus - this one is super confusing, because it’s one of those myths that has dozens of regional and religious variations, but the most common version - again associated with Orphism, like all the groovy weird shit seems to be - Zeus took the form of a snake and did the do with Persephone, who conceived Zagreus. If we accept her role as a unique figure rather than an epithet of Hecate, Melinoe was a chthonic nymph, and in more modern depictions she’s often shown as being half black and half white, which means that if you’re a fan of ‘60s modernism, she’s the deity you want on your wall above your lava lamp. Somehow, Persephone still managed to give birth to Melinoe. When Hades finds out, he’s understandably slightly pissed off, and he ‘rends Persephone’s flesh’, which is a poetic way of saying that he very slightly tore her apart. Melinoe - according to an Orphic hymn, Zeus disguises himself as Hades in order to sleep with Persephone, because incest, and she then conceives a child. The author of this was probably Christian, and there’s no other mention of Macaria in any other extant sources that I know of. Macaria - a daughter of Hades (but not necessarily Persephone) listed in the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine lexicon. Children attributed to Persephone and / or Hades (taken from here because my computer is only on 4% battery!!): ![]()
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