#in unorganised pantheons and common folklore there is no such thing as canon

[asatroende]

I’ve not read Percy Jackson, I think I watched the first movie but that’s it

The reason I reblogged is because of this;

“When I ran out of the old stuff, I made up a new Greek hero: a kid named Percy”

I know that many in the asatro community comes into it with the thought that we want all myths to be real and thus unless something divine happens to us to scientifically document then writing new stories is off the table

But I can’t help but to think about antiquity:

An Ancient Greek father, illiterate but pious to his gods and pantheon, telling his child all the stories he knows until his child wants to hear a new story, and like humans tend to do; the parents to this child use the knowledge they have of the gods and they give birth to a new story that might by us now be considered part of the canon

Percy Jackson and the Olympians premieres Dec. 20 on Disney+