Priapus is best god, aside from Mercury.
He was a god of fertility and live stock, and is always shown as having an erect penis.
The medical term "priapism", which involves having an erection that refuses to subside is derived from, and can be traced back to him. His following was cultish and small, often revered by farmers. Most of his fame came from the mocking and obscene "Priapeia" which tells of his exploits and erotic adventures.
Thoughts?
Threadly reminder that the Roman Pantheon and Religion was a distinct evolution of Indo-European Pantheon that existed before Hellenic Influence, and not simply Greek Mythology with different names.
Thank you.
>>321048
I wish fertility gods existed today.
Their patrons saints and nuns would be slutty as fuck.
Ancient Romans followed Etruscan practices called "disciplina etrusca" this involved the inspection of internal organs of sacrificial animals, or the flight patterns of birds, was therefore an expression of the divine will, and contained a message which could be interpreted by trained priests called "Augurs"
It may have been the fact that Etruscan religious beliefs and practices were so deep-rooted among the Romans that led to the complete destruction of all Etruscan literature as a result of the advent of Christianity. Arnobius, one of the first Christian apologists, living around 300CE, wrote ,"Etruria is the originator and mother of all superstition"
>>321253
Even before Christianity, the Romans considered the Etruscans to be zealots who thought all natural phenomena were caused directly by the Gods.
Also, Interest in Etruscan Culture waned long before Christianity came to dominate Rome. It was barely considered by the time Claudius compiled his Etruscan dictionary.
>>321083
Where are the two distinctly different?
>>321505
Around the time the Italic branch split off of what would become the Greek branch.
Roman Paganism also has influence from the non-Indo-European Etruscans, so there's that. Saturn, for example, was a totally distinct figure with no relation to Chronus.
Heathen! Do you prefer to live a life of chaos created by a perfect God or a secure life created by an imperfect man?
>>321532
All of the above
>>321505
Well, the obvious ones are the gods which don't exist in the Greek Pantheon, like Janus, but if you look at the Religions as a whole, you see that the Roman Gods are actually much more immaterial than the Greek ones.
Jupiter isn't just a guy who sits on a mountain, he's much more supernatural and has to be summoned to the Earthly real as opposed to Dios who just kind of roams around the World fucking bitches.
Also, some genealogies are different, as Jupiter and Juno are actually twins and not really the children of Saturn.
Saturn is another example of a difference, as he isn't simply Kronos: Saturn doesn't fear being usurped, nor did he violently usurp Caelus.
There is no Titanomachy in the Roman myth either.
As time grew on, the Romans became increasingly Hellenized and Roman Religion and myth started to intentionally mold itself onto the Greek ones, and Ovid simply took stories of the Greek gods and changed their names to the Roman ones.
The Romans basically destroyed their own culture to copy another's.
People like Cato the Elder spoke out against Greek influence, but he more or less fell upon deaf ears in that regard.
>>321543
atta boy!
>>321543
now don't let that imperfect man paint a picture for you within the confines of the frame he set it upon.
>>321564
cock envy?
>>321297
>Claudius compiled his Etruscan dictionary.
good old uncle Claudius, patron emperor of /his/
>>321580
dude why you checking my porn?
>>321048
Question:
Were people's dicks weirdly shaped back then? I know they were smaller. But all the drawings of erect dicks look so weird.
>>321532
Do you prefer the God that killed man? Or became man to die for their own creation?
>>321101
temple brothels too senpai
>>321604
Since large dicks were seen as comical back then, it wouldn't be unlikely that Priapus, a comical figure, would also be depicted with some kind of deformity, like phimosis.
This is greek, obviously, but you can see it's depicted more realistically here.
>>321545
What literature is out there detailing the Greek and Roman pantheons separately?
>>321678
I wish I knew, bruh.
It all gets banded under "Classical" mythology. I guess you'd need to be a classics major to get into the major differences.
>>321646
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>>321694
It's really a shame how history depicts them as being one and the same. The few works I've read on the subject were just the Greek myths with parenthesized Roman names
>>321785
Since the Roman Gods were less like humans than the Greek ones were, there aren't as many catchy Myths associated with them like Hercules Zeus' many romps with mortal women, but there are some myths.
One of the best known are the Myth of the Roman rites where the Second King of Rome summoned Jupiter and bargained for what is and what isn't to be sacrificed to the Gods and managed to get Human sacrifice off the table.
Then, the polemic Third King of Rome tried to demonstrate Pompilian piety, but fucked up the summoning ritual and was smitten for his transgression.
That shows the nature of Jupiter to the Early Romans. He was more of a transcendent deity as opposed to the very anthropomorphic Zeus.
Many Roman Deities characterize more abstract concepts like that. Take Janus who represents the impetus for transition.
>>321824
Historically, there's no better way of getting a person killed than by telling a greek someone is a demi-god.
>>321844
they went to alexander and said, alexander, there's a living demi god in india with many faces and avitars. he/she never dies...the greeks invaded but couldn't follow through...some even stayed. Apparently the hindu God kept making more avatars of itself, over and over again.
>>321048
That penis is too big to even breed
>>321737
.. this was a terrible joke.
>>323741
yeah i asked myself if she may be a asian sex trafficking victim...and it became the most terrible awkward feeling.
>>321083
Good job on those sources, anon-dono
>>321083
Horse twins
Dis Pater
I like the cult of saturn in north africa, and how it influenced roman catholicism
>>321048
Why was Priapus such a dick towards Encolpius?
>>324699
You mean with the impotence? I'm not too familiar with the Satyricon
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>priapus
>>325043
>3 not 2
>>325214
3 has a NSFW cover
