Well that was a gaping hole in my classical education.
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I never realized that the name was a portmanteau of "Hermes" and "Aphrodite" and now all I can think is that maybe I was too harsh on Stephanie Meyer...
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Replying to @autogynamelia @Nymphomachy
They were the hottest youngest and sexiest of the Twelve Olympians when the myth was written (Dionysus would later be invented and get in on the action)
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Replying to @MaxieZeusGod @Nymphomachy
Ah, yes, apparently modern scholarship says he's not actually a foreign import like they thought but was a quite ancient Greek mystery cult figure who only later went aboveground Huh, who knew
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Replying to @MaxieZeusGod @Nymphomachy
And associated with the Orphic Mysteries, like he is Orpheus or he's Orpheus' divine guide and/or chtonic foil Huh, which makes it interesting that the aboveground tale of Orpheus and Euridyce for the normies has the Bacchantes kill him
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Kind of like the Gospels possibly turning Jesus and Barabbas into two people
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Replying to @MaxieZeusGod @Nymphomachy
He's the other guy who was gonna get crucified that day, Pontius Pilate tells the angry mob he's gonna pardon one of the criminals and they all vote for Barabbas
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It's supposed to be ironic and show that the crowd has Jesus' blood on their hands because Barabbas actually is a violent revolutionary and a murderer while Jesus is innocent
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But if in real life Jesus IS Barabbas (because "bar-Abbas" just means "Son of the Father" and Jesus used the word "Abba", Father, to mean God all the time) then splitting him up like this represents Christians cutting themselves off from their past as Jewish rebels
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