#mythology webtoon

[secondlina]

MIRROR, MIRROR PART 2 - The Daddening Continues.

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[arraunean]

PART 1 . I really love how dramatic Odysseus and Poseidon's encounter is in Epic 🌊

I wanted to see how a musical would look adapted into a comic...So part 2 will come out very soon 👀

[kailysander]

Lucifer & Eden

[sigeel]

intro to the punderworld volume 2. Compared how the 1st book started with Hades narrating , we now get a bit of a perspective from Persephone's point of view. I am very excited for this book to be out in September!

[ephemeral-roses]

Desire For Peace Webcomic

The good critters of Instagram gave me a bunch of drawing prompts for Ares and Aphrodite. So here is Aphrodite with baby Eros trying to put on a helmet based on a statue of them.

[sugardells]

THE PROPHET | sugardells epicverse

Follow me for more <3 art by sugardells

[amphitriteswife]

💐Persephone in different universes💐

Tag list: @miss-seanymph-pani @tinyy-tea-cup @viostar2095 @nicasdreamer @vilereign @monstertreden @snowmantita @bimmismalice

[nyxenthusiast]

Nyx in different media!!

Hades game

Gods School

Percy Jackson

Lore Olympus

Punderworld

Marvel

Smite

God of War

Hooked on Chtonics

[sarafangirlart]

I think I found the worst Greek myth retelling comic. "Athena complex" on webtoon

It can’t be that bad oh-

[fandomcentralsstuff]

I love their love 😩😩😩😩

[kailysander]

Cephalophore

[sigeel]

this panel murdered me but I'm starting to like how it's turning out^^

[ephemeral-roses]

Desire For Peace Webcomic

Hermes was very much a baby who knew what he wanted. And what he wanted was things he shouldn't have. And yes, the drawings on the wall were drawn by baby Hermes. I like the one with him and Maia the most.

Now that I am showing you guys baby Hermes, I need to say something. I need people to understand that Hermes was the god equivalent of a child genius. He stole a bunch of cattle, hid them, and invented a musical instrument by using the shell of a tortoise he murdered. He would literally be one of those kids who goes to college at the age of 10 and tell his much older classmates to ask him any questions if they are stuck on something.

I feel like if DFP Hermes was a modern young mortal man, he would be going to a very nice and old college that is very hard to get into, he'd major in either something relating to astronomy, languages, or writing, and be the best on his sports team on the side. Imagine that all with a dark academia aesthetic, please.

[fabuloustrash05]

I don’t know if this is a hot take or not, but I dislike it when in modern Greek myth retellings nowadays there’s a side plot of Hera having an affair with one of Zeus’ brothers, Hades or Poseidon.

Webtoon’s Lore Olympus and Netflix’s series Kaos have both done this and I’m already tired of it.

[genericpuff]

I wonder why christian misrepresentation are rarely talked about if compared to other religion misrepresentation. Like, I've seen people really vocal about Greek myths misrepresentation in LO and such (and it's valid because it's a culture and religion) but I rarely saw the same thing with christian even though there are many media who use christian religion innacurately, to the point where it comes off as using it as an aesthetic and not a proper religion.

Is it because of rampant religious trauma especially in western world? No ulterior motives on this question. I'm not a christian and yet I'm curious about this. I apologize if this sounds harsh.

I obviously don't have The Answer(tm) to this but personally speaking (and I'm about to get VERY personal here so take this with MOUNTAINS OF SALT), I think it's just the obvious - Christian mythology is one of the most well-documented and strongly protected out of virtually any other religion on the planet. Especially here in the West, it's commonplace for kids to go to Sunday school, for couples to have Christian weddings even if they're not practising Christians themselves, even the American anthem references the Christian God. It's simply not as easy to 'misrepresent' it because the representation is written into our very fabric of society. Even Greece itself is primarily made up of Orthodox Christians.

So anyone that does 'misrepresent' it are either completely mislead hardcore Christians, or people who are doing it intentionally, such as with the intent to make a parody of it or to deconstruct it through a different context or whatever have you. And of course, people will still get mad at those things, if you're implying that people aren't vocal about Christian misrepresentation then frankly IDK what to tell you there LOL If you want a contextual example in the realm of webtoons, Religiously Gay was dragged to hell and back during its launch for having a very crude and insulting depiction of St. Michael, and frankly, yeah I don't disagree because what the fuck is this-

(like at best it's just terrible character design lmao that said, there's also plenty else to criticize Religiously Gay for, including its fetishy representation of gay relationships and the fact that it's still just the "naive person who looks and acts like a child hooks up with mean person in a position of power" trope, blech, but the character design is definitely the first thing you notice)

There are even plenty of hardcore Christians who will deadass claim "misrepresentation" over things that ARE factually correct but they just haven't read the actual Bible and simply cherry pick what works for their own agenda. And of course those people are routinely called out by people like myself who know for a fact that Jesus wouldn't have promoted the war crimes that many modern day Christians are committing and justifying today. So it really depends on the definition of "misrepresentation" here.

The issue specifically with LO and Rachel that I personally call her out for (and many others) is that she's called herself a "folklorist" and claimed she's so much more knowledgeable on Greek myth than anyone else, while making a complete mockery of the original mythologies while not being honest about her intent as to whether LO is actually supposed to be a legitimate retelling OR a parody (because it sure acts like the latter more than the former, but she still seems to expect us to take it seriously and consider her knowledge of Greek myth superior?) Which leads to a lot of her teenage audience claiming shit like "Persephone went down to the underworld willingly" and "Apollo did assault Persephone in the original myths actually" and the classic "why would Lore Olympus lie or make up fake myths?"

You just can't pull off this extent of erasure with Christian mythology because we have a whole ass book of it that's been preserved, sold on shelves, and systematically integrated into society for thousands of years. Of course, there are people who will still try their damned best to twist the Bible to match their own bigotry with the whole "Jesus hates gays" bullshit (he would never), but it's met with equal amounts of 'misrepresentation' that are actually fully well-read and are intentionally subverting and changing things to either critique, parody, or restore the original intent of a lot of stories in the Bible without all the manufactured right-wing crap.

Greek myth, on the other hand, has some stories that are well preserved, and others, not so much. And in the modern day outside of the poems and hymns, you'll also rarely, if ever, see anyone use stories from Greek myth to ostracize, torture, and murder other people. "Misrepresenting Christianity" is more often done by actual Christians who are using the Bible to commit hate crimes than the people who have actually read the Bible and are just taking creative liberties with it for the sake of deconstructing / parodying / analyzing / subverting it. Veggie Tales "misrepresents" Christian stories because obviously Moses wasn't a fucking cucumber lmao but it still accomplishes its goal by retelling Christian stories in a way that's fun and educational for children.

By comparison (on the whole, I'm not comparing LO to Veggie Tales LMAO) LO just isn't clear in its intentions beyond Rachel's initial statements that she was trying to "deconstruct" the myths, while labelling herself as a folklorist. Therefore, I'm going to criticize how she does it because the way she's done it up until now has been very mishandled and has resulted in a lot of misinterpretations of the myths simply for the sake of fandom. And yes, these people exist in Christian media as well - they're called TV evangelists.

And that's my (very heavy) two cents.

[luchia-a]

Eris,

Goddess of Discord

Mother of Harpies