The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIX

[Cutlass]

Well, Zeus was the the king of the gods. And there could only be one king. Hera was the queen of the gods. But Zeus was the leader, such as he was. And Athena was pretty potent as well. So there were powerful goddesses, but they were all subordinate to Zeus.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Well, Zeus was the the king of the gods. And there could only be one king. Hera was the queen of the gods. But Zeus was the leader, such as he was. And Athena was pretty potent as well. So there were powerful goddesses, but they were all subordinate to Zeus.

Ok. What about in other mythologies? Any goddesses that might be considered the same way in those?

 

[Cutlass]

Not that I am aware of. The Norse are even more male centered. And the Egyptian-Mideastern mythologies that I've heard something of also have primarily male gods, even when they also have some major females. There may well be a mythology somewhere that has a lead female god, but not any that I've heard of.

 

[Arakhor]

Gaia, wife of Ouranos and grandmother of Zeus, was pretty powerful. As the incarnation of the earth itself, she was pretty unstoppable when angered. She used to spawn new and terrible monsters each time she got into an argument with her Olympian grandchildren.

 

[madviking]

Hawaiian myth has a lot of females.

 

[Dachs]

Gaia, wife of Ouranos and grandmother of Zeus, was pretty powerful. As the incarnation of the earth itself, she was pretty unstoppable when angered. She used to spawn new and terrible monsters each time she got into an argument with her Olympian grandchildren.

Gaia was more elemental than anything else. I don't know that you'd call a force of nature with no personality a "goddess".

 

[cardgame]

Didn't the Celtic/Gaelic cultures have some powerful female deities?

 

[Cutlass]

Sure. But not a queen who was dominant over the males the way Zeus was over the females.

 

[_random_]

I got a letter inviting me to the National Society of High School Scholars. Can anybody here confirm or deny if membership is worth 60 dollars?

 

[Ajidica]

Never heard of it, and I was friends with plenty of smart people in my HS.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

What is the word that describes pure, unbridled rage where I just want to blow up like Tsar Bomba?

 

[Ajidica]

What is the word that describes pure, unbridled rage where I just want to blow up like Tsar Bomba?

The Wrath of Khan?

Link to video.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I got a letter inviting me to the National Society of High School Scholars. Can anybody here confirm or deny if membership is worth 60 dollars?

I heard if you have to pay for it, it's not worth it.

Probably a scam or something.

 

[cardgame]

The National Honor Society is what it sounds like, which is legit but also bogus because membership dues.

 

[GinandTonic]

Didn't the Celtic/Gaelic cultures have some powerful female deities?

Sure. But not a queen who was dominant over the males the way Zeus was over the females.

The celtic triple aspect maiden/ mother/ crone goddess and the three furies of greek tradition are not subordinate to the male pantheon but rather the embodiment of something primal, the old wild that such order as the patriarchal pantheon tries to control. Athena (iirc) burying the furies under the hill of Athens can be read as the symbolic moment of inception of the civilised patriarchal society.

 

[Arakhor]

There was the Morrigan of Irish myth, a triple goddess of tremendous power and an antagonistic role in the pantheon. You then have the Norse Norns (Urd, Verdandi & Skuld), the Greek Fates (Clotho, Atropos and Lachesis) and Furies (Alecto, Tisiphone & Megaera) and so on, groups of female entities who perform specific roles in the divine society independent of the other deities.

 

[Borachio]

The most important must be Sophia.

I have been reading a book where Sophia is placed on equal terms with the Abrahamic God. And why not?

 

[Flying Pig]

The National Honor Society is what it sounds like, which is legit but also bogus because membership dues.

Bottom of the pile are those by which you pay for post-nominal letters (especially so if you don't have to do anything else to get them) - although maybe I'm just being real-post-nominals snobbish.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Is that Jason from Foxtrot in the last panel?

 

[Arakhor]

You know, it could be. I doubt we'll ever know for sure.