fandomhigh | Comparative Religions, Monday, Period 3, Class #3--Hellenic Polytheism

"Welcome to another fun-filled class," Vala grinned at her students once they were seated, hopefully with some popcorn and sodas from a table to the side of the room, "today we'll be learning about ancient Hellenic polytheism, which is the boring and textbook term for the religion of the Ancient Greeks. Like with the Egyptians, it was understood that there was a group of gods--twelve, in this case--who lived on Mount Olympus and generally spent their time either having sex, getting revenge on each other, or interfering in the lives of both observant and unobservant mortals. This will also be important later, since the Romans pretty much stole the pantheon and renamed them, using their belief in many gods as a basis for persecuting the early Christians."

"But I'm jumping ahead, and that will just make things more confusing."

"Luckily for us, we have some excellent resources here at the school--you might want to have a chat with Ares or Vice Principal Hades sometime, just to satisfy your curiosity, and I also found a movie that seems to depict the pettiness of the gods fairly accurately, so we'll be watching that. Later, if you're still awake, I'd like to know whether you would sleep with a guy who disguised himself as either a swan or a shower of gold, and if you would, what you expect your child to look like. Or, if you're more of a god frame of mind--why wouldn't you just pretend to be human?"

She slipped the DVD into the player and sat back with some popcorn to watch the movie.

[ooc: Up! ~~in a second!~~ A clip is here, but it's NWS due to nudity.]

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Seriously, WTF Zeus, WTF?

"I definitely would not have relations with a swan," Z said firmly. "And a shower of gold is just gross, ew."

"I have to go with Z," Lana said. "Not with a swan definitely. And with a shower of gold... that just... doesn't seem possible even."

"..."

"..."

"...huh?"

"Try not to think about it too hard," Z advised her roommate.

"Good," Luke said. "Because my brain just shut off."

"That was...not right." It was about all he could manage.

Adah didn't intend to participate in the discussion; she would hope that, given her circumstances, she wasn't exactly expected to discuss anything. She was, however, paying rapt attention to her fellow classmates and making notes on their all-too-amusing reactions. But really? How was any of this any more absurd than Christianity?

"Why wouldn't you just pretend to be human?"

Seriously? A swan? What the Hell? Might as well pretend to be a snake or something equally ludicrous, instead. Sure, if it served the purpose, what did it really matter? But a swan?

Pretending to be human was good enough for Blackheart.

"I suppose nobody ever expects the... uh. Swan." ... "But how does that even work?"

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Vala shrugged. "I have no idea. There were no logistics given in anything I read."

Blackheart raised an eyebrow at that. "You weren't actually looking for the logistics, I hope."

"Why not? I was curious."

"Fair enough."

And now Blackheart was trying not to think of the logistics, himself. But there were words like "sexy" and "clocoa" going through his head, and it was entirely possible that he looked more than just a little disturbed.

"Definitely a no on the relations with a swan. And a no on the shower of gold. I have relations with anything, it damn well better look human." Mentally, she added that hell, even full-blood demons had the sense to go and look normal when prowling for women to knock up.

Also? This was such an interesting question to answer when your boyfriend was in the class.

"... I don' even wanna think about how that's possible."

Adam had no words. "Yeah, um, wow."

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