PoseidonFTW
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I would want to be the son of Poseidon.
The one-eyed varietyI would want to be the son of Poseidon.
I'd like to make known it is biblical legend meaning it isn't true. The ancients would have a conniption fit over the difference between myth and legend. Saga is a different story, but I would be a hero for Olympia and respect the gods, it is what man is designed for from the hand of Zeus nonetheless.According to biblical myth, .
Legend: a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.I'd like to make known it is biblical legend meaning it isn't true. The ancients would have a conniption fit over the difference between myth and legend. Saga is a different story, but I would be a hero for Olympia and respect the gods, it is what man is designed for from the hand of Zeus nonetheless.
I know that popularly myth and legend are considered synonyms, but they really, really are not. You already said it Nadai - a myth is a traditional story, explaining early history and natural phenomenon that the people of earlier times couldn't rationally explain. Legend is a story that started around some nugget of truth, but has been expanded with many fictional retellings that the truth has become lost, not unlike a needle in a haystack. It is true that some legends are regarded as unauthenticated history, but you left out that key piece. Think of Arthurian legend or American legend (i.e. the winning of the west). Somewhere in there is a point of fact, very unlike mythology.Legend: a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.
Myth: a traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
I think it'd be acceptable to use either word, especially considering that myth is a synonym for legend. There are supernatural phenomenon that occur in the Bible that could make it considered to be myth just like in Greek mythology. In the same sense, though, Greek myth was once accepted as a real religion or way of life. People really believed that there were multiple gods and whatnot so it was popularly regarded as fact that, because it was supernatural, couldn't be authenticated with science.
Like Hercules {or Herakles}. I'd hate to be him. Twelve labours to get through, and a lot of the tasks would hurt like hell! Also, it seems that a lot of the time, to be a hero, you have to be a douche. i.e. Theseus abandoning Ariadne on an island to fend for herself; Jason has too many bad traits to even name them all! What a pill that one is.Being a hero is the worst scenario for me. I mean you are born like some kind of freak - your mom or your dad are always missing and you don't know them, you don't know what type of person they are (except the selfish and happy part), because they are gods, you have heard only myths about them. And the other thing - you are supposed to do some tasks which in most of the cases you don't want to do, it's very restricting.