Hello everyone, I am trying to find a painting that was created in the past 500 years that illustrate a theme or a message from Classic or Norse Mythology. Please give me any examples.
It is once again pride month, and to all of my LGBT+ siblings I say I'm thankful for your existence. Our community ingraines itself in the mind of others as normal human beings more and more each time we celebrate being who we are.
To those who are not LGBT+, besides being human, we also share a love of Smite and mythology. To go along with that I've decided to make this post to outline some LGBT+ themes in the cultures and mythologies that Smite currently has. Despite not having a name to them, these themes have persisted for all of human history and are a part of us, they are not some magical new trend that appeared a few years ago. Gender and sexuality are an important part of the human experience, and as such, play a large part in mythology.
It is very hard to state for a fact that some gods were x y or z, because depiction, interpretation, and culture change over time. In general deities and other mythological figures did not tend to have distinct or stated sexualities, in most cultures sexuality was fluid or undefined, they just kinda fucked. Many cultures also change their outlook on LGBT+ people over time, either accepting or denying them as regular members of society, and as such not all gods are created in positive light. Anyway below are some tales and examples going down some of the sexualities and gender expressions of LGBT+ people:
- Homosexuality and Lesbianism: Being gay/lesbian was not the most common, because as I said deities often just loved whoever (or whatever) they wanted. Many cultures do in fact have gods OF homosexuality however, such as Tu'er Shen (Chinese) who was represented as a rabbit (a homosexual slur) and Chin (Maya). Gods also regularly participated in homosexual activity, such as Horus and Set, Sylvanus and Cyparissus, and Amaterasu and Ame-no-Uzume. It is also worth noting that many stories are interpreted as being 'coded' as homosexual, that is they were intended to be homosexual in nature but written poetically or to disguise the fact; these would include Achilles and Patroclus (Greek), Gilgamesh and Enkidu (Babylonian), and David and Jonathan (Judaism). There are also actions that can be or were considered 'impure' in their nature due to same-sex interactions, such as the story of the god Kartikeya (Hindu) in which some interpretations tell of Agni swallowing Shiva's semen which leads to his birth. Female homosexual stories are much harder to find in comparison to male homosexual stories but they did exist. The LG
##LGBT themes in Hindu mythology
LGBT themes in Hindu mythology involve Hindu deities or heroes whose attributes or behavior can be interpreted as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), or as having elements of gender variance and non-heterosexual sexuality. Traditional Hindu literary sources do not speak of homosexuality directly, but changes of sex, homoerotic encounters, and intersex or third gender characters are often found both in traditional religious narratives such as the Vedas, Mahabharata, Ramayana and Puranas as well as in regional folklore.
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The Giants(In Arabic "Ammalik=Giants") are called the (Kan'anian Tribes = Some people call them the Ammurian Tribes) (They were not original Arabs they call them in Arabic (Al'Arab Al-Mos'Tariba = Literally it means the Arabs who become Arabs lol))were said to be from 300-400cm in height. They are the decedents of Sam(One of the sons of Noah) to be specific (Decedents of Amlik son of Loath son of Ar'm son of Sam son of Noah ) The Jews in Mosis era feared them and refused god's order to fight them (According to the book) So god punished them for 40 years (By getting lost in the desert and not entering the holy land) After the death of Mosis. Their leader and god's prophet was Yosha son of Afrim son of Yousuf (Josef ) Son of Yacob (Jacob). by god's order Talot become the king of the Jews in that time the Jews faced the Giants and Dawwod (David) Killed Jaloot (Goliath) Talot made David a king beside him.
It is a very interesting story.
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Particularly noticed this theme in Coma Black, and In The Shadow Of The Valley or Death but I picked it up in others lines as well.
From Comw Black:
"This was never my world
You took the angel away
I'd kill myself to make everybody pay."
And yeah basically the entire song, In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death.
There's some random theme heard in the background that plays for like 5 seconds
Any story involving some sort of pig-man from anywhere in the ancient world or anything like that?
Thanks.
Hello everyone, I am trying to find a painting that was created in the past 500 years that illustrate a theme or a message from Classic or Norse Mythology. Please give me any examples.
LGBT themes in Hindu mythology
LGBT themes in Hindu mythology involve Hindu deities or heroes whose attributes or behavior can be interpreted as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), or as having elements of gender variance and non-heterosexual sexuality. Traditional Hindu literary sources do not speak of homosexuality directly, but changes of sex, homoerotic encounters, and intersex or third gender characters are often found both in traditional religious narratives such as the Vedas, Mahabharata, Ramayana and Puranas as well as in regional folklore. Hindu mythology has many examples of deities changing gender, manifesting as different genders at different times, or combining to form androgynous or hermaphroditic beings. Gods change sex or manifest as an Avatar of the opposite sex in order to facilitate sexual congress. Hindu mythology contains numerous incidents where sexual interactions serve a non-sexual, sacred purpose; in some cases, these are same-sex interactions. Sometimes the gods condemn these interactions but at other times they occur with their blessing.
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