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Let's Suppose For A Minute That Zeus Actually Existed...

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Canary42 | 19:22 Fri 27th Feb 2015 | Religion & Spirituality
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...and he appeared in today's world, what would he make of today's Greeks, their big debts and deficits, the Troika and all their wealth etc...

I would imagine he would probably issue a few thunderbolts.

( with apologies to Ratter )
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He'd not bother a jot, be too busy appearing to various attractive women in the guise of a bull. He'd probably feel sniffy at the absence of sacrifices made for him of late but he had plenty in his heyday, happen he's still using the leftovers for sandwiches.
19:28 Fri 27th Feb 2015
He'd not bother a jot, be too busy appearing to various attractive women in the guise of a bull. He'd probably feel sniffy at the absence of sacrifices made for him of late but he had plenty in his heyday, happen he's still using the leftovers for sandwiches.
Zeus wasn't in charge of thunderbolt!

///Zeus, God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, justice///

Oops, missed off this line,

///His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak///

Oh, and this one

///As a token of their appreciation, the Cyclopes gave him thunder and the thunderbolt, or lightning, which had previously been hidden by Gaia///
Didn't someone name a canal after him?

Quite some time after him I believe!
If you knew Zeusie like I know Zeusie.......
He'd wonder how they lost their marbles.

We didn't nick 'em, we've got a receipt!
Would he able to understand them though? And where did he go in the intervening years? Does that mean Pandora was the first woman, not Eve? Could be trouble here.
Undoubtedly the Abrahamic confection called 'Eve' appears at a very late point in the party. The earliest goddess-like personifications of idealised women appear around 35,000 years ago. The organised worship of idealised women goddesses like Ishtar and Isis date to around 2000 BC. Diana-worship is at least as old as the Abrahamic version of events. And I mean the gore-covered, testicle-necklace-wearing Diana, not the gadabout princess of same name.
Pandora was framed.
Does this mean that Zeus didn't really exist? The Mythologies seem to make more sense to me than the supposedly accepted religions.
They can all exist, if you want them to.
A very sane portrayal in Terry Pratchett's 'Small Gods'
Well there is a Pantheon in Rome dedicated to all forgetten Gods, so it's not original to Pratchett.
You need to read 'small gods' Marshie. No claims made of originality, but many sane perspectives on how beliefs come and go.
I have read Small Gods but the Pantheon still used to worship all Gods!

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