That Seal Was Real

Greek

At first, there was only the formless, swirling mists of Chaos. From Chaos the first Primordial deities emerged, Tartarus, Gaia, Eros, Erebus, and Nyx. They gave birth to the rest of the Primordial deities. Gaia, the Earth, and Ouranos, the sky, gave birth to the Titans. Cronos, the leader of the Titans, by his sister and wife Rhea gave birth to the Olympian gods. A lot of other stuff happened, but that’s beyond the scope of the Creation myth.

Egyptian

Before the world came to be, there was Nu, an infinite, lifeless see of chaos. Within Nu were the Ogdoad, four gods and four goddesses representing its different aspects. When they converged, the upheaval caused a pyramidal mound to emerge from the sea. Somehow, a lotus flower grew out of the mound and when the flower opened, Ra emerged from it as Khepri, the golden scarab, his aspect as the rising sun. With the first sun rise, the world came to be. Ptah appeared apparently out of nowhere and developed the ideas of everything in the world. He gave them forms when he spoke their names.

Hebrew

Yahweh and maybe a lady or two were lying around when Yahweh got bored and decided to make everything. Everything was underwater for some reason. Yahweh makes everything, apparently fucks up somehow and has to do it all again. This time it seems to stick. Yahweh proves to be a really shitty parent.

Norse

Initially there was Muspell, the realm of light and heat, Ginnungagap, the yawning void, and Niflheim, the realm of darkness and cold. When the heat and cold met in Ginnungagap they formed thawing drops that mixed with primordial venom and formed the giant frost ogre Ymir. The thawing drops also formed Audhumla, a giant cow. Audhumla fed Ymir with her milk. The gods Odin, Vili, and Ve killed Ymir and formed the Earth from his body and the seas from his blood. Thus Ginnungagap became Midgard, the land of men.

Roman (The Founding of Rome)

The twins Remus and Romulus were the heirs to the throne of Alba Longa. When they were born, their uncle Amulius had them thrown in the Tiber to die. Through a serious of highly unlikely events, the river carried them to safety. They were then found by a she-wolf sometimes called Lupa. The magic goddess wolf suckled them until they were found by a shepard and his wife. They raised the twins until in true Greco-Roman fashion they killed their uncle and restored their father to the throne. They each wanted to found their new city on a different hill, so the logical solution was to fight to the death and Remus was killed. Romulus founded the city and named it Rome after himself.

eastafrodite:

The thing about MRA’s though is that they could actually be fighting for men’s rights and livliehoods that are challenged by patriarchy.

• They could help men of color who are hypermasculized while simultaneously being denied bodily autonomy through white supremacist heteropatriarchy, which inevitably leads to violence, poverty and exaggerated incarceration rates.
• They could help queer men by providing them with safe spaces nand campaigning against the societal violence (ie. disproportionate homelessness, harassment, assault, denial of housing, state rights as couples, etc.) they experience.
• They could stand in solidarity with the trans* men that are having their reproductive rights stripped because mainstream patriarchal cissexism doesn’t recognize ovaries as not being indicative of one’s gender identity.
• They could faciliate outreach programs to men who are sexually and physically abused, because again, the notion that men are strong, resilient and unable to be harmed is rooted in patriarchy.

There are a whole host of things MRA’s could be and aren’t doing, because of course these people don’t actually care about anyone or anything but themselves and stroking their inflated egos. That’s why MRA’s are a joke.

Be prepared for the mythology posts I scheduled to post today while I’m on my way to the beach. The first is a compilation of abbreviated creation myths. The second is the unabridged Hebrew creation myth. Enjoy those.

joegressivism:

Tragedies like today only reaffirm that belief. There’s no way to know what someone, even someone with a pristine record, might do with the handheld power to kill someone.

I really, really hate guns. I think a large part of it is that I don’t believe there is anyone who has the capacity to truly understand the magnitude of what could happen if their finger slips or they lose their temper. After all, guns are designed for only one purpose, and that’s to kill.

They have a dining room that is really only used when a large amount of the family is here, otherwise it basically functions as an ad-hoc storage space for things they haven’t decided what to do with yet. There is a mid- to late-nineties era boombox in there that is always set to some talk radio program. Most of the time that I hear it and it’s not babbling on about sports, I have a strong urge to yell at the thing because the man speaking is spouting blatant falsehoods and misconceptions. I honestly assume that because my grandmother’s hearing is not what it used to be and she doesn’t generally wear her hearing aides around the house, she just can’t hear it most of the time, otherwise I feel like she would switch it to something else. He was talking about the shootings at the Dark Knight Rises premier in Colorado a few minutes ago and I was genuinely surprised when he started in about how there are always a lot of murders of black people that go largely unreported by local or national media. That quickly turned to me being very angry at him when he went into his racist explanation that unlike the Batman victims, most if not all of these black people are gang members or drug dealers. This is why I hate talk radio, all I ever hear are the foul, bigoted conservatives polluting the airwaves.