>Bronze Age's Zeus, mainstream one, sexual degenerate>Plato's Zeus, Zen ("Father of Life"), the Good Demiurge, pious God and loyal husband>Pythagoras' / Stoic / Neo-Platonic Zeus, sexless virgin (Über-pious), has no couple, Uncreated / Fatherless Creator (fuck Cronos) >("Zeus = Christ", Neo-Platonic Christianity)Who was actually Zeus? Are there more than one?
>>18055444Borne of Cronos and Gaia. Ruler of the heavans. Leader of Olympion the most high. King of all Gods. Father of kings. Known to sleep around.
>>18055451You didn't answer any of both questions.
>>18055444>""""Roman"""" mosaic has absolutely no provenance other than it turned up for sale in Germany in three 1980sWhat makes you think Raphael is the one who copied the mosaic?
>>18055582Something about the way Zeus' foot is drawn in the mosaic seems inauthentic to me
>>18055588The faces don't really match Roman style either.
>>18055582>>18055588>>18055592What if... you answer the questions?
>>18055444Platonists basically took the skin of Greek myth and stretched it over their new religion like some kind of terrifying taxidermy.
>>18055444I've always found it wild that many of our origin myths about queer people come from PlatoLike >>18055585 and the story of Dionysus getting Hermes/Prometheus drunk and creating them while at the same time Plato also had hangups about homosexuals
I prefer the Zeus from Timaeus and Laws.
Zeus was not that important originally, all that PIE reconstruction stuff is just that , a huge leap of feath ignoring pre-indo european population belief systems and how different people made up stories constantly. Zeus was originally worshiped with his female counterpart called Dione and maybe that oracular diety at Dodona was the original one and the all kinds of stories were mixed together with the Cretan Zeus. The Cretan Zeus (Diktaios) was a bull god and was strongly associated with the Kouretes warrior deities, there is no connection of him with the weather or thunder, he was the possibly the husband of the chief Minoan earth goddess, but that's it, hence the myth of the abduction of europa . The Etruscans had two different thunder gods and then also Jupiter. The Lydians worshiped as their chief deity a moon god. Similarly the Phrygian Sabazios was also a lunar god and husband to the great goddess (Cybele). Zeus becomes important only after the Homer and Hesiod who took Phoenician mythology and formalized and made a divine hierarchy , similar to the Mesopotamians. In that that respect Enlil (Zeus) seperates the heavens which is Anu (Kronos) and thereby justifies how kingship is passed down.
