Editing Mythology (section)

==== The Greco-Roman Gods & Creation Myth ====
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There's a god for every aspect of ordinary life, like smithing, governing and war. This makes naming the entire pantheon quite lengthy (though we neckbeards might see it as a good challenge), so we won't bore you with the entire mess. The following is a list of important gods/goddess, especially ones pertinent to [[/tg/]] interests (such as [[D&D]]):
*'''Jupiter/Zeus''', the guy with the lightning bolts who is the king of the gods. 
*'''Juno/Hera''', wife of Zeus and goddess of marriage, childbirth, and women.
*'''Minerva/Athena''', goddess of wisdom and war born from Jupiter having a massive headache [[Sisters of Battle|fully grown up and armed]].
*'''Pluto/Hades''', Jupiter's eldest brother and the god of most of the Greco-Roman afterlife. 
*'''Neptune/Poseidon''', Jupiter's other brother and the god of the seas. 
*'''Apollo''', god of the sun, music, and archery.
*'''Diana/Artemis''', goddess of the moon and the hunt. 
*'''Ceres/Demeter''', goddess of the harvest. 
*'''Mercury/Hermes''', messenger of the gods. 
*'''Venus/Aphrodite''', goddess of sex and love. 
*'''Mars/Ares''', god of war. 
*'''Vulcan/Hephasteus''', god of the forge. 
*'''Vesta/Hestia''', goddess of the hearth. 
*'''Bacchus/Dionysus''', god of wine and drunken revelry.  

According to Greek myth, the first beings to come into existence were '''Gaia''' (the Earth) and '''Uranus''' (the sky). They had three sets of children: the Cyclopses, the Hecatonchires (giants with a hundred hands), and the Titans. Uranus imprisoned the first two in Tartarus, the deepest part of the underworld. This upset Gaia and she called upon the Titans to [[FATAL|castrate their father with a flint scythe she had made]]. '''Saturn/Kronos/Cronus''', the youngest of their number, agreed and duly carried it out, becoming the new king of the world. However, Uranus warned Cronus that he too would be overthrown by his children. 

Cronus sought to avoid this, so he [[Cannibalism|ate each one of them as a new one is born]] from his wife Rhea, but Rhea hid Zeus and fooled Cronus into eating a rock. Zeus then grows up and tricks his father into drinking wine mixed with mustard which makes him puke, saving all his brothers and sisters inside his father's belly (and who were somehow undigested), thus igniting a war that leads to the overthrow of the Titans. This event is known as '''The Titanomachy''' (Battle of the Titans). After all the Titans had been  imprisoned in Tartarus and the Cyclopses and Hecatonchires freed, Zeus formed a government with the rest of his gods while living a [[Slaanesh|comfy hedonist life where he raped many mortal girls and had many bastard sons for the lulz]].

Roman myth can't agree on anything, because, unlike Grecian legends, it isn't racist and isolationist as fuck and takes from all Indo-European religions it encountered. This also means that it deviates from the "twelve important gods" rule that the Greeks had, and every area and time period had its own important gods. Imagine it as something akin to ancient Hinduism, minus all the mysticism (at least until all the Egyptian-esque mystery cults started popping up at the dawn of the Empire) and with the occasional emperor being declared a god after his death.
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