#it is not teogony of hesiod

[lucyskywalker]

People asking if Epic has a book had me sobbing, ngl.

[druidicentropy]

*Pria

*Pria was a possible Proto-Indo-European goddess associated with beauty, love, sex, and possibly war; she played a role akin to that of Aphrodite, Venus, and Freyja.

*Pria's parents are unknown in the PIE cosmogony, but based on her descendants, Dyēus or Wérunos could be her father.

It is possible that *Pria would be a daughter of Dyđus since in Homer's Teogony, Aphrodite was born from the union of a god (Zeus) and a goddess (Dione).

However, according to the Hesiod cosmogony, Aphrodite was the daughter of Uranus's blood. Ahura Mazda, who the Greeks identified with Aphrodite. created the Zoroastrian goddess Anahita, an ahura. Interestingly, both Ahura Mazda and Uranus have their roots in the proto-Indo-European nigth god Wérunos. In this instance, a potential variant of the proto-Indo-European myth might also regard *Pria as Wérunos' daughter.

*Pria most likely had Martus, the Indo-European God of War, and Dyēus as consorts, using the Greek Aphrodite and the Roman Venus.

However, according to zoroastrianism, Anahita is Mithra's consort; therefore, it's possible that *Pria had a solar deity as her consort.

*Pria's Greek and Roman ancestry suggests that she might be the mother of an hypothetical, unreconstructible love god who predates both Eros and Cupid. Her masculine Norse ancestry further supports this theory. A potential ancestor of Fjolnir, a demigod, may have been mothered by Freyr *PriHyéh₂.

Aphrodite was depicted in Sparta with classical Spartan weapons, and Freyja, the Norse war goddess, is connected to *Pria as well as both Athena and Minerva. It's interesting that many of *Pria's descents were associated with semetic goddesses like Astarte and Ishtar, so it's possible that *Pria's figure originated from a proto-afroasiatic goddess of sex and war, or the Sumerian Inanna.

Both the English and its Spanish counterpart Viernes originate from *Pria. Friday is derived from Frigga's Day, which honors the Norse/Germanic goddess sometimes confused with Freyja,*Pria's female descendant, while Viernes is derived from dies Veneris, or Venus Day.

Similar to other proto-Indo-European gods she has also left some of her legacy within Christianity as well, where the Virgin Mary is depicted in art using traits from both Venus and Aphrodite.

Etymologically, the Slavic Saint Paraskeva Friday, who is revered in folk orthodoxy, originated from *Pria.

[ordulotusspa]

Sunshine, it's completely fine to have these type of insecurities and confusions when we're just beginning a new path. We've been there. What I notice is that you still have a kind of monotheistic comprehensive judgement but its okay. I'll share my thoughts with you and I hope they can help 💗

See, the myths were written by poets and back then poets had no religious labour, they were instead entertainers. Homer and Hesiod, which are poetic authorities, in some cases kind of differed from the norm and preceded very important philosophical ideas, like Hesiod's cosmogony and teogony and later philosopher's question for the origin of nature. Homer, in the other hand, according to scholars like E. R. Dodds, had an impact on common worship and beliefs (mostly superstitions) and his poems were written mainly with the objective of preserving a very very antique culture and political tradition. This is why Homer's Gods seem to have human emotions, bodies, and behave like us; Homer doesn't fulfill a religious purpose but a political one, the idea that kings are chosen by Gods, and that ancestral traditions hold a moral authority in the order of society, like the idea of service and following Achille's example of being a soldier. This is what Socrates and Plato criticize, but they don't deny the existence of the Gods; just the idea that Gods are like humans.

Gods do not feel emotions, rather They are emotions themselves. They inspire human sensation; they move things in Nature in order to keep the Universe alive. We can't say that Gods have a body that resembles ours, but we can say that our bodies are part of the Gods. Stating that Gods have emotions like humans would be illogical because Deity is previous to humanity; instead, we must think that it is humans who feel Deity through emotions.

Indeed, everything holds a Divine being; everything is Divine in substance. This is Aristotle. God has many parts that resemble her and make her many; many Gods that participate from her essence; many Spirits, material, that participate too from her Being; and that's where us, and our emotions, stand. For Empedocles the origin of everything is Aphrodite; and for Lucretius it is Venus who rules nature, who is the One. It is Love! Gods love you because you are a part of Them! Ain't this thought incredibly comforting? Your flaws have a purpose too, and they are also Divine and Good in essence because you can perfect them in order to become more happy and feel Love, and thus feel the Gods closer.

Remember that we should create ideas that help us understand Deity with goodness. The idea of Deity should inspire us to love, to commune with Nature, to accept. It shouldn't justify our flaws nor create discomfort against them.

ancient philosophers spent milenia trying to invalidate mythology and teach people about the real nature of the gods from a rational perspective, criticising antropomorphism, the political narrative of homer and hesiod and other poets, and calling out liars that taught the gods as having human flaws for u to skip all of that intellectual effort and history of ancient religion to say zeus is an asshole bc u read a myth, u know?