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[–] Embargo@lemmy.zip 31 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Zeus pretending to be an injured swan in order to rape a lady is some of the wildest shit I've ever read.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't Perseidon also have sex with Medusa (maybe consensual, maybe not) in Athena's temple and Athena turned her into a gorgon?

Daedalus build a fake cow, so Pasiphaë (daughter of the god Helios) could position herself inside, in order to trick the Cretan Bull into mating with her. She later gave birth to Asterion, also called the Minotaur.

[–] Stolas@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

Didn’t Perseidon also have sex with Medusa (maybe consensual, maybe not) in Athena’s temple and Athena turned her into a gorgon?

In Ovid's version yes. It wasn't consensual either.

Daedalus build a fake cow, so Pasiphaë (daughter of the god Helios) could position herself inside, in order to trick the Cretan Bull into mating with her. She later gave birth to Asterion, also called the Minotaur.

This is another case of Poseidon strikes again.

Poseidon gave the bull as a gift to Minos the king of Crete, expecting him to sacrifice it. Minos instead likes the bull a lot and decides he wants to keep it, so he sacrifices another one. Poseidon in his anger causes his wife Pasiphaë who is indeed the daughter of Helios (or Sol) to fall in love with the bull. She willingly recruits Daedalus to build the fake cow for her so she could trick the bull into mating with her.

Poseidon is just as bad as Zeus. He chases Demeter who attempts to avoid him by transforming into a mare. Instead he turns into a stallion and rapes her.