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I need a really good Sleep Token writing to write a story based on 'Blood Sport'. I need heavy angst, shit that's going to make me wanna sob.
Reminder that the Greek pantheon and mythology is 100% affirming of LGBTQ+ people.
Apollo gets drunk and creates trans people...no really, that’s canon.
Dionysus is pansexual and gender nonconforming...also canon.
The blind prophet-hero Tiresias was invoked in a dispute between Zeus and Hera because he had lived life as both a man and a woman, and was also sought out by the hero Odysseus in the Underworld for his wisdom on the advise of the witch Circe.
At the Ploutonium in modern day Turkey, the priesthood of Demeter, Hades, and Persephone were trans women who castrated themselves in the service of the Great Mother and lived their lives as women. These priestesses gave public sacrifice to Hades via the “Breath of Cerberus”, a subterranean cave system that actually still, to this day, exudes deadly amounts of CO2 gas...that the priestesses did not die while the sacrifices did was seen as evidence of the protection granted to them by the Chthonic gods (we now know why they didn’t die, but still...also this one is Greco-Roman).
Zeus had an affair with Ganymede, a male lover, who is his cupbearer on Olympus.
Apollo also had a male lover whose name I cannot remember right now lol.
Caeneus is another Greek hero who was born a woman, but was transformed into a man (his myth is very sad and fucked up tho)...he died a warrior in battle, and his progeny would go on to join the Argonauts.
Hermaphroditus was the intersex offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite, and is the deity that rules over intersex/genderfluid people.
All I’m saying is that if the religion of your birth is not life affirming for you, it’s ok to seek out and find gods who will accept and love you as you are. ❤
