I mean…
Edit: Zeus tricked Persephone by disguising himself as Hades. She never consented to Zeus, she consented to Hades.
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There’s still europa, callisto, antiope, etc, etc I’m sure there are others I don’t remember now and some I don’t know about.
Myths have different versions. In some versions Medusa wasn’t raped by Poseidon.
This screenshot pretty much name any conquest of Zeus as rape, even Leda with the whole swan thing, despite most version of the myth pretty directly saying he seduced them, so it’s not really accurate
that whole trick thing is a deformation of the myth based on the misstranslation i talked about earlier, it kinda fused with the arthurian myth afterward, in which the whole ‘i make myself look like your husband’ did happen
though i think Zeus did pull the husband thing with a mortal, not with Persephone, the myth counted that as seducing but that’s not really how we would consider it today but it could just be one of the modernisation of the myth (it’s relative when i say ‘modernisation’, the change could have happen like 2000 years ago, Sumerian myth are even worst in that aspect), it’s kinda hard to tell them appart, except when they do stuff like name Hera as Zeus’s only wife
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Yeah I remember that the first version of the Medusa myth I read was that Poseidon was in love with her and said something like Medusa is more gorgeus than Athena and that piss her off so she cursed her so Poseidon would leave her and no one else would be able to look at her beauty without paying the price.
Then I readed the rape version and I was “wait wut? where is my wholesome romance with a tragic end?”
That’s not really a well spread version of the myth, that’s the problem with greek mythologie, lots of it was just spread by poete and noble family so it really depended on what got popular and what was advantagous for the nobles, that’s why Zeus got so many kids and conquest, so everyone could claim to descend from him
Yeah, translations can be tricky.
There is this one about the dragons where he put persephone to sleep and had his ways with her and Zagreus was born.
Aniway I feel like we are getting too off topic to the point even I realize it(when I usually need someone else to point it out for me to stop lol) we should end this zeus/Poseidon thing here.
And I’m sure we can all agree that most gods(specially greek ones) are little shits.
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Who in their right mind would want to be a descendant of Zeus?
Some people from tumblr interpreted the rape version as athena helping medusa.
Basically poseidon raped her, athena felt bad and turned her into a gorgon so that no man could hurt her ever again. Imo it doesnt make sense at all but there are a lot of creative minds…
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We are talking about the guy who reign even above the gods and can do pretty much anything he want and has the power to basicaly take whatever he want, in a world where your neighbor can just decide to genocide your people, it’s kinda important to ‘have’ that kind of backing
True. We shouldnt swarm this topic.
Let’s go back to what we talked about before
Lena
Does she shed skin like an actual snake? I mean… She has a 7 meter long snake tail.
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The medusa myth I read, medusa was a priestess of Athena, Poseidon raped her in the temple of the goddes and Athena became furious of the desecration of her temple, but unable to take revenge on Poseidon, she cursed medusa, then Poseidon continued to visit her and later Pegasus was born. Man, the gods are assholes.
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I mean she should be able, at least the parts covered with scales, and Felicia should molt her exoskeleton too otherwise, the answer is magic.
Silver lining: Now we have flying horses.
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Doesn’t shedding happen because the snake grows ? unless she is still getting bigger, she shouldn’t shed then
Oh my god.
Imagine being her roommate and the floor is covered with scales. Is it the same thing as having long hair? I mean… She has to wash it, keep it healthy and clean and moisturized… and it sheds. Yup, sounds like taking care of long hair.
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Im not a snake expert so im gonna take your word for it. At least now we know
As long as she doesn’t go all yandere on us and wants us to keep her shed skin everything should be alright, I would be willing to even help her with it.
They still need to do it even if they are fully grown already, just not as much as those that are still growing.
I checked and i can confirm, unless she is still growing or has parasyte on her scales, she shouldn’t shed, at least if Lamia tails work like actual snakes
though if they work like actual snakes, she should be constantly growing through her lifetime so shedding should happen
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