Angelstryker

somewhere in the vacinity of 1754 licks

Yeah i counted. I was bored. Sue me

You don't realize that by answering a vague question correctly you get more exp than a sidequest right?

Judism was the first religion of the three. Islam split off from Judism when Abraham was alive. Abraham, thinking that his wife sarah was too old to bear children, he married his slave Hagar.

She then had a boy named Ishmael.

But later on Sarah bore a son named Isaac.

When this happened Abraham then cast Hagar and Ishmael out. They wandered through the Arabian desert until they reached Makkah (or Mecca)

Many years later Ishmael's decendent was Muhammad, who became the Prophet of Islam.

Isaac then went on to be one of the fathers of Judism.

So as you can see these religions are literily brothers.

It wasnt until many centuries later that Christianity split off from Judism.

As you can see both these religions trace they're roots through Judism, each worshipping the same god (not quiet sure if Allah is the same as the Judeo-Christian god)

And it is written in the bible that Jesus is the son of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.


The only difference between these religions is the worship of Jesus as the messiah.

When I think of the grim reaper in mythology i think of Hermes.

Not only was he the messenger of the gods, he also led the spirits who had died to the underworld.

The image of the grim reaper could represent Charon, but thats who I made him to be

Oh and by the way, when people read mythology they come up with their own views about the stories. Everybody sees the story a little differently (like the bible) and thats why i considered some gods to be "evil." Not kill babies evil, just kinda greedy and mean and bloodthirsty.

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Basically its about a guy that was so good at the art of healing that he could bring people back from the dead.

Hades was pissed at this cause his subjects were being stolen so he complained to Zeus and Zeus killed Asclepius with a thunderbolt.

So yes the only thing Hades cared about was his own souls/subjects and basically he kept to himself always.

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Actually, it wasn't that he was a great healer. It was because Athena told him the secrets of the Gorgons, that the blood of the snakes from the right side of their head had the power to bring the dead to life while those on the left were instantly deadly poison.

Zeus made the decision himself to kill Asclepius and then honored him by placing him in the heavens as the thirteenth sign of the zodiac, Ophiuchus- the Serpernt Bearer.

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that wasnt necessarily the point. The point was about Hades and his souls.

If we start getting into technicalities we'll be here all night.

The only relics Zeus ever had was his thundeerbolts and his Aegis shield.

The thunderbolts were a big help against the titans but the aegis he got after the war.

how he got it still confuses me

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Yeah, Kronos/Saturn. Zeus was kinda annoyed his Dad ate him and his brothers/sisters when he was born (or something like that) so after beating the heck out of him, he chained him up somewhere to suffer forever.

It's where he's chained up I can't remember.

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Typically it was uranus that swallowed his sons, because it was prophisized that his son would overthrow him. One of his sons was powerful enough to crawl out from his belly and slay him. This son was Chronos. (in other stories he was just a son who castrated his father and destroyed him.. no swallowing involved) He was also prophisized to have his son slay him, and he thought it was still a good idea to eat his kids. however, Zeus' mom (various names depending on who is telling the story) wanted Zeus to live (I was just way too cool to die) so she wrapped a stone in a baby blanket and fed that to her husband. Zeus was then raised by goats.. or fae, depending on the version. As a teenager he slew his father Chronos, and upon slicing open his father's stomach his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, came out.

It's odd... the more you look at various sources, the more varied stores you find. There seems to be no one right or wrong greek mythology - there are numerous stories, many of which contradict each other. So if you're SURE that the mythology went one particular way... You just only heard one version of the story. Other versions are usually just as correct, it's mythology after all.

Oh, and the god who made the lightining bolts was Hephaestus. God of smiths and metalworking.

Zeus - god of right and wrong

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Hephastus did not craft the lightning bolts.

The cyclopses did.

They are cousins of Cronus iirc.

They also made posidens trident and i think hades magic helmet that turned him invisible.

Oh yeah, and the reason i compared Hades to Hell is to kind of make the people who dont know greek mythology less confused.

And I for one consider Hades a little evil because he didn't care about anyone but himself and getting more souls for Hades.

And maybe Persephone.

And alos they're evil gods. Ares was always considered evil and bloodthirsty (but also a big [censored]) and have you ever heard of Discord? She was mad cause none of the gods liked her so she basically was the cause of the Trojan War.

I like this thread. I never get to have a discussion with people about mythology.

I finally get to show of my knowledge!

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Actually, there again you are confusing the Christian Satan with Hades. The underworld of the Greeks were where all mortals went after death, not just evil ones. Hades tricked Persephone out of loneliness for another non-dead person to be with and from infatuation. Otherwise, Hades had no need/reason to care about 'what' souls were coming into the underworld. They all did eventually, barring the immortals. I imagine it WOULD get pretty boring just talking to dead people, though.

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Ever hear the story of Asclepius?

Basically its about a guy that was so good at the art of healing that he could bring people back from the dead.

Hades was pissed at this cause his subjects were being stolen so he complained to Zeus and Zeus killed Asclepius with a thunderbolt.

So yes the only thing Hades cared about was his own souls/subjects and basically he kept to himself always.

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Yeah, Kronos/Saturn. Zeus was kinda annoyed his Dad ate him and his brothers/sisters when he was born (or something like that) so after beating the heck out of him, he chained him up somewhere to suffer forever.

It's where he's chained up I can't remember.

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Typically it was uranus that swallowed his sons, because it was prophisized that his son would overthrow him. One of his sons was powerful enough to crawl out from his belly and slay him. This son was Chronos. (in other stories he was just a son who castrated his father and destroyed him.. no swallowing involved) He was also prophisized to have his son slay him, and he thought it was still a good idea to eat his kids. however, Zeus' mom (various names depending on who is telling the story) wanted Zeus to live (I was just way too cool to die) so she wrapped a stone in a baby blanket and fed that to her husband. Zeus was then raised by goats.. or fae, depending on the version. As a teenager he slew his father Chronos, and upon slicing open his father's stomach his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, came out.

It's odd... the more you look at various sources, the more varied stores you find. There seems to be no one right or wrong greek mythology - there are numerous stories, many of which contradict each other. So if you're SURE that the mythology went one particular way... You just only heard one version of the story. Other versions are usually just as correct, it's mythology after all.

Oh, and the god who made the lightining bolts was Hephaestus. God of smiths and metalworking.

Zeus - god of right and wrong

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Hephastus did not craft the lightning bolts.

The cyclopses did.

They are cousins of Cronus iirc.

They also made posidens trident and i think hades magic helmet that turned him invisible.

Oh yeah, and the reason i compared Hades to Hell is to kind of make the people who dont know greek mythology less confused.

And I for one consider Hades a little evil because he didn't care about anyone but himself and getting more souls for Hades.

And maybe Persephone.

And alos they're evil gods. Ares was always considered evil and bloodthirsty (but also a big [censored]) and have you ever heard of Discord? She was mad cause none of the gods liked her so she basically was the cause of the Trojan War.

I like this thread. I never get to have a discussion with people about mythology.

I finally get to show of my knowledge!

this makes alot of sense.

I have my own little theory on this and recluse that i came up of from me reading your theory.

What if statesmen and lord recluse are brothers?

States could be Zues incarnated and recluse could be Hades (Zues brother thats basically the ruler of hell) incarnated.

They would be fighting each other alot cause Zues and Hades never were on good terms with each other and Hades was kinda evil.

The cursed line would make alot of sense kinda cause in mythology Zues Hades and Posiden (the thrid brother of Zues)
drew lots on who would gain control of what part of the world basically. Zues won first so he got the heavens and sky, Posiden got second so he got the seas, and Hades got the bum luck so hes stuck with the underworld.

or the cursed line could just mean that being immortal is a curse unto itself cause as an immortal you will always out live everyone you know and love.

Great article Gilgamesh

Your inovative ability to write and your open love of either Final Fantasy or old sumerian tales intrigue me

but thats another story

im curois cause I heard this somewhere but are you looking for CoH subscribers that would want to write their own articles for the times and i dont mean the one at the end of the comics


im not sure where i heard this but i wanna wirte my own stuff and thought it would be a pretty cool contest


Edit: oh just saw the thread about the paper but does that paper mean the little three page thing in the comic or more along the lines of an actual paper

or maybe colorlax means stretch power i.e plastic man casue the definitions means not tense and relaxe

from what i read from that paper thing on city of villians that corolax sounds like a spider thing.

But what do i know?