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5 hours ago, tkdguy said:

 

Despite abducting her, Hades actually stayed faithful to his wife, unlike his brothers.

 

Yeah,  and really kidnapping his niece (ewww) to be his wife is pretty much the only really bad thing he seemed to have done.  (course, he laid the hammer down on some like Sisyphus, but they were ***holes who had it coming.)

 

Whereas his brothers were not only players, they didn't seem to worry about yes vs no thing.  (see Poseidon and Medusa)

 

 

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4 hours ago, tkdguy said:

Yup, and Zeus married his sister as well. Then again, incest ran high among the Olympians and the Titans.

 

And who did the children of Adam and Eve marry?

 

Incest is inevitable in mythology. When you're talking about some of the earliest Beings to exist, they have no one but one another.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

None of that applies to palindromedaries

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On 9/10/2018 at 4:05 PM, Duke Bushido said:

Throwing an occasional virgin into a volcano actually _does_ prevent the earth from opening up from here to the horizon and swallowing everything.

Perhaps there is a dimensional portal in the mouth of the volcano, and the virgins end up in a different world as opposed to meeting a horrible lava-filled demise. Since they never come back, nobody is the wiser. But imagine what would happen if one of the virgins (who may or may not still qualify for the title) does in fact make their way home.

 

As far as the nature of the other dimension, anything goes when it comes to its nature and what life is like there -- or what the sacrificed virgins do upon their arrival.

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Back in my Exalted days, I jotted notes for a society that centered on a volcano goddess who demanded a periodic sacrifice of a male virgin to keep her happy. When the lava fountains rose above the lip of the crater, sending drifts of fertilizing ash over the fields, people knew their offering made her very happy indeed. Sometimes the sacrificial men even came back... carrying a baby. Those infants were raised as the priests of their mother.

 

Dean Shomshak

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I've always preferred death gods to be very service-oriented.  Their concern is that the soul reach where it's supposed to go...not in harvesting them.  Everyone dies;  there's no need to rush.  

 

That said, these guys are dedicated to eradicating those who violate this process...vampires, liches (which is a voluntary process), necromancers dealing in creating higher-level undead, magic that traps souls, that sort of thing.

 

A pretty rich take on this...Drew Hayes' Forging Hephaestus.  The Heroes have become addicted to their own fame, and corrupted by the money being Heroes produces.  The villains are actually better organized, and have the stronger code of ethics.  It's a villain's code, but it is a code.  

 

 

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