You Know How Everyone Has Heard A Slightly Different Version Of The Same Greek Myth? Like Theres A Version

You know how everyone has heard a slightly different version of the same Greek myth? Like there’s a version we’re Icarus falls in love with Apollo and there’s a version were he knows the wings aren’t gonna hold but keeps flying anyway and a version were he doesn’t hear his fathers warning. In one version of the story, Athena is punishing Medusa, in another she’s giving her a gift. There’s a story where Hades kidnaps Persephone and one where he helps her escape from her mother. All the same myths but told in different ways depending on who tells them and to whom. Slightly different morals to gain from them but always the same basic concept.

And I just think it’s so fitting that the same is happening with the pjo show. Details change! In this version, Annabeth’s dad loves her from the beginning. In this version, they enter Medusa’s house knowing who she is. And this changes the meaning to reflect the time in which the story is told, and the people who tell it. Myths are meant to be retold again and again, thats the beauty of them. It doesn’t mean that one version is better than the other. And I love that Rick Riordan said I’ve told this story before, but what do I want to say this time? And he squeezes so much meaning into it!

snoopy of the day

Boys when their gf leaves them (the universe) to persue her dreams (being burdened with glorious purpose)

The Raven and the Red Death [cmmission]

i'm in your walls david jenkins

LOKI SPOILERS - YGGDRASIL!!! THE NORNS!!!

THIS SCENE TOOK MY BREATH AWAY LITERALLY IAHHGHHHFGHERFUHEFHEIRWUFNEWOFNEIWOJFNEOKFEW MY BRAIN ONLY STORES MYTHOLOGY RAAAAAAAAA

It's Yggdrasil. The world tree from Norse Mythology. The centre of the nine realms, with Midguard (Earth/human realm) at its centre. Loki and the TVA have effectively become the Norns.

Like the Fates of Greek Mythology, three female deities who look after it, sprinkling it with holy water from Urdarbrunn, constantly healing it over and over as it suffers from the constant attacks by the creatures living within the tree. They're Urd (past), Verdandi (present) and Skuld (future).

I'M CRYING SHE'S THERE FOREVER KEEPING THE BALANCE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE

Info from in The Mythology Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained