I’m just fascinated with how the gods are all by themselves sides of the same coin. Apollo is medicine and plague. Demeter is harvest and famine. Athena is the order of the polis and the uncertainty of war. Dionysus creates chaos only to reinforce order once the party is over. Poseidon is the untameable sea and the liberty that seafaring permits. Artemis is a goddess of the wild yet helps young girls transition into their settled life as adult women.
#this is why gods and monsters are cousins #both straddle an impossible boundary that would tear any mortal being apart #for the monster that existence is agony #but a god can encompass impossible dualities harmoniously (@aethersea)