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    Zeus pretending to be an injured swan in order to rape a lady is some of the wildest shit I’ve ever read.

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      Didn’t Perseidon also have sex with Medusa (maybe consensual, maybe not) in Athena’s temple and Athena turned her into a gorgon?

      Daedalus build a fake cow, so Pasiphaë (daughter of the god Helios) could position herself inside, in order to trick the Cretan Bull into mating with her. She later gave birth to Asterion, also called the Minotaur.

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        Didn’t Perseidon also have sex with Medusa (maybe consensual, maybe not) in Athena’s temple and Athena turned her into a gorgon?

        In Ovid’s version yes. It wasn’t consensual either.

        Daedalus build a fake cow, so Pasiphaë (daughter of the god Helios) could position herself inside, in order to trick the Cretan Bull into mating with her. She later gave birth to Asterion, also called the Minotaur.

        This is another case of Poseidon strikes again.

        Poseidon gave the bull as a gift to Minos the king of Crete, expecting him to sacrifice it. Minos instead likes the bull a lot and decides he wants to keep it, so he sacrifices another one. Poseidon in his anger causes his wife Pasiphaë who is indeed the daughter of Helios (or Sol) to fall in love with the bull. She willingly recruits Daedalus to build the fake cow for her so she could trick the bull into mating with her.

        Poseidon is just as bad as Zeus. He chases Demeter who attempts to avoid him by transforming into a mare. Instead he turns into a stallion and rapes her.

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      I got bored and installed a bunch of shelves in my garage. It seems to have been a pretty good decision.

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      Stupid decisions lead to fear. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

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      So does being a billionaire. Jk Rowling would have been happier in ancient Greek times, she could have fed her obsession with other people’s private parts by contributing fics to the olympian lore instead of whatever the hell unhinged raging she’s doing now.

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    OK, lets not pretend that the “goddesses” weren’t little deviant degenerates themselves.

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    I think it just comes down to ancient greeks were subconsciously kinky as fuck when they “Divined” these stories into existence