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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"Whatever needs to be done. And for a smart guy, you're totally an idiot to think I wouldn't want to help." He paused. "I suppose I could make a cake..."

"You could definitely make the cake," Sam said. "Because that means I don't have to buy one, and homemade is better anyway. And I'm not an idiot. I just figured that since the party was my idea, it would be my responsibility."

"Next to Alec, Dawn's probably my best friend here that I'm not related to. Just because you're the one dating her doesn't mean you're the only one who wants to help make her birthday special," Dean said.

Sam grinned. "That's really good. I don't want to be the only one."

"Idiot," Dean said again, fondly.

"Jerk," Sam replied with a smirk.

"Be nice or I'll make you help me with the cake," Dean teased.

"What, you want it to taste like crap?" Sam asked.

Dean smirked. "There's plenty of things I can make you do to help that won't have any affect on the cake's outcome."

"Are you sure? I'm pretty sure I could damage the cake just by being in the same room as it before it's cooked."

"Only if your freaky brain has developed some new cake destroying powers you haven't told me about," Dean said.

"Not as far as I know of. I'll help if you really want me too," Sam offered.

"The question is do you want to?" Dean said. "And get to tell Dawn that you helped make her cake?"

"She'd probably like that a lot, wouldn't she?"

"As long as you let her know I made sure it's edible."

Sam laughed. "I'll have to, otherwise no one will eat it."

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

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