• southsamurai
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    3 days ago

    I mean, they kinda are the same thing, just with different trappings.

    They all wear togas, they have a narcissistic chief god that loves raping humans, and they generally just sit around plotting and scheming.

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      3 days ago

      I’m tired, so this will be short.

      Romans wear togas. In fact, Romans regarded the toga as the garment which set them apart from other peoples.

      Jupiter’s characterization is much thinner, and Jupiter is much more strongly associated with being the literal sky. Jupiter, furthermore, is associated, in the Roman tradition, with law, justice, and procedure.

      In the Roman conception, the gods were very distant and generally disinterested in the affairs of mortals - or in backstabbing one another.

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        So, what you’re saying is that the Greek gods fucked and the Roman ones were lame? Lol, look at these nerds. They just stole our gods, spayed/neutered them all, and then renamed them after the planets /s

        (Yes, I know the naming was the other way round. Please don’t harm me, I’m hanging out with the Greek gods right now. Dionysus just tried to bench Aphrodite and he fucked it up due to being drunk. And now Hephaestus is heading over with death in his eyes)

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        I dunno man, seems like there’s a lot of toga-like activity going on up on Olympus. There’s balls swinging and vajayjays catching a breeze up under those things.