tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post8769485886228277430..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: Aphrodite and Ares - Love and WarAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-11965896395806574622014-07-15T15:11:58.320-04:002014-07-15T15:11:58.320-04:00That got me to thinking. There are maps of the Gre...That got me to thinking. There are maps of the Greek gods on the internet, far better than I can do. So I'll post one of those. I did mine years ago, before the internet.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-33993269377649144482014-07-15T11:04:09.208-04:002014-07-15T11:04:09.208-04:00Great. You should post it up on your blog when yo...Great. You should post it up on your blog when you've finished it. There are plenty of snazzy looking Norse geneological trees on the net, but none of them are any where near complete. They're missing shed loads of dwarves, giants, elves and gods. It'd be good to see a thorough one for a change.AABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046686945000483196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-11960286306239297022014-07-14T11:36:14.674-04:002014-07-14T11:36:14.674-04:00I've done that myself. I made a chart once of ...I've done that myself. I made a chart once of the Greek gods and their attributes and just by looking at it you got the whole thing all at all. I plan on doing it for the Norse gods sometimes.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-81627503557490515632014-07-14T10:40:18.712-04:002014-07-14T10:40:18.712-04:00"Now that all of this has been brought to you..."Now that all of this has been brought to your attention, you know why they are all related."<br /><br />The geneological tree of the gods is a good way to help people understand the world better.<br /><br />It would help the whole world out if philosophers, geneticists, psychologists and numerous other disciplines got together and drew up an up-to-date onotological tree. Ancient pagan people did it (i.e. the genealogical trees of the Gods) and it almost certainly helped them to understand the world (because, as you said, different gods are related to one another in an existential sense, you can't have one without the other), so why don't modern day priests do the same thing? It would help people to understand how the different parts/gods/ideas of the cosmos relate to one another, and how some are thoroughly intertwined.<br /><br />Gods can either:<br />- branch off like a distributary and split/evolve into two, or more, different gods.<br />- combine/copulate with another like a tributary god to create a new offspring which shares attributes of it's parents.<br /><br />It's based on a simple diagram: a 'Y' shape that changes depending on which way the flow is going, either up or down.AABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046686945000483196noreply@blogger.com