Whould you rather be a god a titian,hero,nymph and so on ,and which one whould you be?

Rebirth_Myth

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According to biblical myth, .
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.
 

Nadai

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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.
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.
 

Myrddin

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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.
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.

E. M.
 
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thundergoddess

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I would really enjoy being a goddess. I don't think that gods are THAT much forced to serve mortals. It's quite the opposite way. Gods play with mortals and keep them alive because they enjoy that. They enjoy the smell of the sacrifices of the killed animals, but that's not vitally important to them. So, like everything in life is a choice between making a favour for a mortal or resigning some sacrifices. There is freedom in all the other aspects. Besides, if you are a god you are pretty and popular by birth (well not if you are Hephasteus or Ares, but all rules have exceptions). I would really enjoy that freedom. There are many things which we, like humans can't do to another human being because there are laws and perhaps you can't protect yourself from pack from other angry humans. For example, you can't kill just because you are angry with your husband. You can't start a war because you wanted an apple which was labelled "For fairest of them all". So if you are a mortal you don't fully enjoy life. Gods know pain and sadness but it's something that goes away very fast for them, they are selfish and happy by nature - if you are selfish and happy and live with selfish and happy people what other things you could possibly need in life?
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.
Nymphs are fine, but perhaps a happy nymph is a fat and ugly one, so she can live in the forest or in the water undisturbed by gods, mortals, satyrs that are really caught by her beauty and that's why they've decided to rape her.
 

Myrddin

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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.
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.

E. M.
 

Kurvos

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I would have loved to be a demigod of sorts, actually. Maybe one with wings... like, Icarus', only not artificial ones.
 
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