Themes
The threads that run through every pantheon: fate, love, hubris, sacrifice. Pick a theme to follow it across the myths.
Cosmogony, origin of the world, gods, and humankind.
73 postsMortality, the underworld, judgement of the dead, rebirth.
40 postsDestiny, prophecy, the inescapable, and whether gods are bound by it.
6 postsDeluge myths: divine destruction and renewal of humankind.
2 postsThe hero's pursuit of undying renown (Greek kleos), a name kept alive in song and weighed against mortality.
30 postsLoss, lament, and its consequences.
8 postsCuring sickness, madness or barrenness by drugs, purification or rite.
10 postsMortal (or divine) overreach and its punishment.
7 postsDeathlessness itself: the food or plant that confers it, and the mortal attempt to seize it.
25 postsRight order, judgement, and reckoning: divine and civic.
91 postsSovereignty among gods, succession, rule and its legitimacy.
22 postsEros, marriage, desire, devotion, and its costs.
36 postsTransformation of form: human, divine, animal, natural.
25 postsThe hero-vs-beast pattern; taming or slaying the monstrous.
6 postsThe guest-bond: hospitality, gift-exchange, and inherited obligation.
28 postsOffering, ritual death, giving up something for power or favour.
20 postsMyths explaining natural cycles, agriculture, the year.
27 postsCunning, deception, the trickster archetype.
60 postsDivine and heroic warfare, strife, vengeance.
32 postsForbidden knowledge, prophecy, craft, the price of insight.
Binding word: sworn vows, pledges, and the cost of breaking them.
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