(Callisto illustration by Virgil Solis)
Deucalion and Pyrrha:
- Story has many parallels to the great flood in Christianity.
- Human race was re-created from the earth.
- A lot of analogies so many can understand the importance of the earth. Earth = Mother. It is easily understood because humans have something to compare it to.
- All religions have "creation" stories that have similar tropes in them.
- Jupiter/Zeus causes a lot of issues because of his lust.
- Gods have a lot of flaws that humans often struggle with. Jealousy, anger, lust, etc.
- Jupiter never gets punished even though he is often the source of the issue. Patriarchal themes.
- Jupiter is often the only one who can convince Juno to stop her vengeance.
- These unfaithful interactions explain how things happen. I.e. the star constellations.
- I wonder if these were also explanations for a type of "immaculate conception" involving the children of Zeus and his lovers.
- Phaethon is trying to look for his father, whom he assumes is in the heavens.
- His father is the sun god.
- He asks to drive the sun chariot, but many try to convince him not to do it.
- He eventually does and this leads to his death. Because of his death, his father refuses to continue his job for a while.
- Assuming this is an explanation for weather related issues that Greeks/Romans had no understand of.
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