greek mythology

[Arkontheroof]

Medea and Circe are obvious candidates for powerful women with erotic potential....

More interestingly, maybe something with Orpheus (his voice as an aphrodisiac, but as he has no body he can't use this for his own benefit...?)

 

[BlackNudeMan]

How about Pandora? The world's evils were released from her box, but something may have stayed. There could be some creature that feeds of the lust it creates in humans. Neither she nor most of the gods knew about it, but now it's escaped and she has to figure out what to do, especially as she's the first woman it's attached itself to, and sexually, she's getting more and more curious......

 

[Svenskaflicka]

How about Pandora? The world's evils were released from her box, but something may have stayed. There could be some creature that feeds of the lust it creates in humans. Neither she nor most of the gods knew about it, but now it's escaped and she has to figure out what to do, especially as she's the first woman it's attached itself to, and sexually, she's getting more and more curious......

According to the legend, the only thing that DIDN'T escape from Pandora's box was Hope.

Figures...

 

[lustforlife74]

Maenads and Dionysus…the Bacchanalia

Maenads the female followers of Dionysus…

Modern take on Pygmalion a man falls in love with an image he creates on TV

Or take something from Aristophanes comedies…One of his plays the woman of Athens hold back sex until the war is over.

Cattulus Roman Poet

 

[Sabledrake]

The way I always heard it, the thing trapped in Pandora's box wasn't 'hope' per se, but 'foreknowledge.' If that one had escaped, then humans would have known in advance about all the rotten things that were going to happen to them, thereby making hope impossible. Which makes a little more sense -- why would something good, like hope, have been locked up with all the ills and evils to plague mankind?

Maenads would be fun, though possibly a bit intense, as they had the habit of tearing their male victims apart with their bare hands.

Sabledrake

 

[lustforlife74]

The way I always heard it, the thing trapped in Pandora's box wasn't 'hope' per se, but 'foreknowledge.' If that one had escaped, then humans would have known in advance about all the rotten things that were going to happen to them, thereby making hope impossible. Which makes a little more sense -- why would something good, like hope, have been locked up with all the ills and evils to plague mankind?

Maenads would be fun, though possibly a bit intense, as they had the habit of tearing their male victims apart with their bare hands.

Sabledrake

I guess you could turn the Maenad story into a reverse drunken gangbang thing. Anyway it would be intense either way. Maybe the Dionysus character being a rock star and the Maenads being groupies.

 

[sweetnpetite]

How about Pandora? The world's evils were released from her box, but something may have stayed. There could be some creature that feeds of the lust it creates in humans. Neither she nor most of the gods knew about it, but now it's escaped and she has to figure out what to do, especially as she's the first woman it's attached itself to, and sexually, she's getting more and more curious......

Instead of sticking strictly to the legend have something like "Pandora's Perversions" where a curios virgin is warned about opening this thick book of sexual acts (a magical Kama Sutra), but she does so anyway, loosinging every sexual "sin" on herself and the world.

 

[lustforlife74]

Instead of sticking strictly to the legend have something like "Pandora's Perversions" where a curios virgin is warned about opening this thick book of sexual acts (a magical Kama Sutra), but she does so anyway, loosinging every sexual "sin" on herself and the world.

The potential for this is excellent…Each Position in the Kama Sutra can be a chapter.

 

[sweetnpetite]

The potential for this is excellent…Each Position in the Kama Sutra can be a chapter.

this would make an excellent premis for someone wanting to write a continuous story that encompases each lit category

 

[SlickTony]

One of his plays the woman of Athens hold back sex until the war is over.

I hear tell something like this is happening in real life in Iraq, of all places...men have been returning looted stuff to police stations and military checkpoints, because of a rumor going around that a Muslim cleric has said that Iraqi wives should refuse sex to husbands who loot. Interesting if true.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

The way I always heard it, the thing trapped in Pandora's box wasn't 'hope' per se, but 'foreknowledge.' If that one had escaped, then humans would have known in advance about all the rotten things that were going to happen to them, thereby making hope impossible. Which makes a little more sense -- why would something good, like hope, have been locked up with all the ills and evils to plague mankind?

I've always heard the legend meantioning hope. Foreknowledge, I've never heard of..?

But Hope is double-sided. Hope isn't always good. Hope can sometimes be deceiving, making us cling to something it would be best for us to let go of. But I think it was pretty ironic that Hope was trapped in the box, so that mankind would really have to suffer through all kinds of misery without anything to look forward to.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Hey, for an incest story, there's always the possible couplings of Afrodite/Eros, Hera/Hefaistos, Zeus/Everyone Else...

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

Someone should start a thread and/or write an erotic story about the Aesir. I especially wouldn't mind reading an interracial story about Sif or Freya ... or Brunhilda for that matter.

 

[lustforlife74]

Hey, for an incest story, there's always the possible couplings of Afrodite/Eros, Hera/Hefaistos, Zeus/Everyone Else...

The root of all incest stories, Oedipus.

 

[Un-registered]

The root of all incest stories, Oedipus.

I apologise in advance, but I can't resist it:

Oedipus Schmoedipus, what does it matter as long as he loves his old mother?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Someone should start a thread and/or write an erotic story about the Aesir. I especially wouldn't mind reading an interracial story about Sif or Freya ... or Brunhilda for that matter.

OK, one more time:

Siv, Freja, Frigg, Oden, Tor, Balder, Frej, Njord, Brage, Idun, Höder, Loke... Scandinavian Aesir/Vane gods.

Brynhilde, Wotan, etc... German gods.

Germany is NOT a part of Scandinavia.

And since most of northern Europe were of one race, it would be difficult to write an interracial story with these characters.

The closest I can offer is a story of vikings who steal women from Turkish villages...

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

OK, one more time:

Siv, Freja, Frigg, Oden, Tor, Balder, Frej, Njord, Brage, Idun, Höder, Loke... Scandinavian Aesir/Vane gods.

Brynhilde, Wotan, etc... German gods.

Germany is NOT a part of Scandinavia.

And since most of northern Europe were of one race, it would be difficult to write an interracial story with these characters.

The closest I can offer is a story of vikings who steal women from Turkish villages...

So what is the name of the head Valkyrie??? All this time I've been misled that it was Brunhilda and/or Brynhildr, and that the Tuetonic Siggurd and Wotan are just derivations from the Norse pantheon of deities ... much as with Greek Zeus and Roman Jupiter. Then again my primary exposure to the Aesir is via the marvel comic book "The Mighty Thor."


2 entries found for Brunhild.
Brun·hild ( P ) Pronunciation Key (brnhlt)
n.

Brunhild ...

n : (Norse mythology) a Valkyrie who loved the hero Siegfried; when he deceived her she had him killed and then committed suicide [syn: Brunnhilde, Brynhild, Brunhild]


See! It's the dictionary's fault.

The Viking story is a good idea. I'd read stories like that before, and Turkish women are IMO way hot. However what I'm really after is a story about a 6' tall Asgardian chick with a steel bustier and a spear falling in love with a big-dicked, wise-cracking, Viking Sized Black dude ... with unusually large feet.

 

[AgentAika]

OK, one more time:

Siv, Freja, Frigg, Oden, Tor, Balder, Frej, Njord, Brage, Idun, Höder, Loke... Scandinavian Aesir/Vane gods.

Brynhilde, Wotan, etc... German gods.

Germany is NOT a part of Scandinavia.

And since most of northern Europe were of one race, it would be difficult to write an interracial story with these characters.

The closest I can offer is a story of vikings who steal women from Turkish villages...

But Brynhilde is actually a Valkyrie, is she not? Therefore not a god (aesir/Vanir) as such?
And Wotan is surely the Germanic form of Odin?

I don't believe the interracial thing would work anyway since it has all been done before! The Aesir were certainly not above having their way with other races - look at Loki/Angrboda.....and what resulted from their union!

The Norse didn't have the monopoly on this idea either....the Greeks were at it long before Siggi Snurlasonn wrote the Edda!
Although I am not sure that Zeus becoming a shower of gold constitutes an interracial relationship.....it actually shounds rather pervy to me! Golden Shower??? Ewwwwwww!

 

[Criswell]

You probably know the myth about how one time a hunter was in the woods, and saw Diana bathing. He stayed to look, she caught him, turned him into a stag who was then killed by his fellow hunters.

At least that's the official version. Maybe she made that up to keep her "Virgin Goddess" rep. intact.

And then there's the question of why Aphrodite had no trouble marrying Hephasteus. Maybe she saw... something in him that she could live with. (This could even move into the "Romance" category- though she cheats on him countlessly times, as is her nature, there may be some deeper affection that keeps her with him.)

 

[obedientpet]

Either that, or he's hung. lol

 

[Svenskaflicka]

So what is the name of the head Valkyrie??? All this time I've been misled that it was Brunhilda and/or Brynhildr, and that the Tuetonic Siggurd and Wotan are just derivations from the Norse pantheon of deities ... much as with Greek Zeus and Roman Jupiter. Then again my primary exposure to the Aesir is via the marvel comic book "The Mighty Thor."


2 entries found for Brunhild.
Brun·hild ( P ) Pronunciation Key (brnhlt)
n.

Brunhild ...

n : (Norse mythology) a Valkyrie who loved the hero Siegfried; when he deceived her she had him killed and then committed suicide [syn: Brunnhilde, Brynhild, Brunhild]


See! It's the dictionary's fault.

The Viking story is a good idea. I'd read stories like that before, and Turkish women are IMO way hot. However what I'm really after is a story about a 6' tall Asgardian chick with a steel bustier and a spear falling in love with a big-dicked, wise-cracking, Viking Sized Black dude ... with unusually large feet.

As far as I've heard, Brynhilde was not only in love with Siegfried, she was actually his twin sister. They were both children of a god, but had been separated as newlyborns. I have never heard that she was a valkyrie, but then again, I don't know EVERYTHING, strange as it sounds...

I've never heard that the valkyries had a leader. They were just wild women who worked for the gods, and collected the souls of the dead warriors after battle, and took them to Valhall. Little less is known about them, actually.

"The Mighty Thor"... *shivers in agony*
Don't tell me that you would actually read ANYTHING about the Aesir/Vanir cult, that hasn't been written by a Scandinavian?

 

[AgentAika]

The Mighty Thor!

As far as I've heard, Brynhilde was not only in love with Siegfried, she was actually his twin sister. They were both children of a god, but had been separated as newlyborns. I have never heard that she was a valkyrie, but then again, I don't know EVERYTHING, strange as it sounds...

I've never heard that the valkyries had a leader. They were just wild women who worked for the gods, and collected the souls of the dead warriors after battle, and took them to Valhall. Little less is known about them, actually.

"The Mighty Thor"... *shivers in agony*
Don't tell me that you would actually read ANYTHING about the Aesir/Vanir cult, that hasn't been written by a Scandinavian?

And what pray, is wrong with Marvel comics??!!!

Hehehe!

I'll have you know he was gorgeous....in a cartoon kind of way....
uhhh, maybe I ought to just slink away now.....forget I said that ok!
LMAO!

 

[AgentAika]

I have never heard that she was a valkyrie, but then again, I don't know EVERYTHING, strange as it sounds...
I've never heard that the valkyries had a leader. They were just wild women who worked for the gods, and collected the souls of the dead warriors after battle, and took them to Valhall. Little less is known about them, actually.

Svenska - I am so surprised that you never heard of Brynhilde being a Valkyrie....ever since I was a small child, I have 'known' that!

The Valkyrie is, in the oldest strata of belief, a corpse goddess, represented by the carrion-eating raven. The name in Old Norse, Valkyrja, means literally, "chooser of the slain."
The Valkyrie is related to the Celtic warrior-goddess, the Morrigan, who likewise may assume the form of the raven.

Midway between the third and eleventh centuries, the Valkyries begin assuming a more benign aspect. Small amulets and pictures on memorial stones begin to depict the figure of the beautiful woman welcoming the deceased hero with a horn of mead to the afterlife. Valkyries are usually represented as blonde, blue eyed and fair skinned. They wear scarlet corslets and carry shields and spears.

By this later time, the Valkyries, as demigoddesses of death, had their legend conflated with the folklore motif of the swan maiden (young girls who are able to take on the form of a swan, sometimes as the result of a curse). If one could capture and hold a swan maiden, or her feathered cloak, one could extract a wish from her. This is why valkyries were sometimes known as swan maidens or wish maidens.

Although the sources consulted are not clear on this, the chief of the Valkyries seems to have been the goddess Freyja. She is the Norse goddess of love, fertility, and beauty, sometimes identified as the goddess of battle and death. Blond, blue-eyed, and beautiful, Freyja travels on a golden-bristled boar or in a chariot drawn by cats. She resides in the celestial realm of Folkvang. Like Odinn, she received half of those slain in battle, but since ladies go first she was allowed first choice! Freyja possessed a magical cloak of falcon feathers that allowed her to take the shape of a falcon if she wished, making the swan maidens similar to the goddess by having "feather coats" or cloaks that enable their shape-shifting abilities and the power of flight.

The Valkyries carry out the will of Odinn in determining the victors of the battle, and the course of the war. Their primary duty is to choose the bravest of those who have been slain, gathering the souls of dying heros or warriors found deserving of afterlife in Valhalla. They scout the battle ground in search of mortals worthy of the grand hall. If you are deemed by the Valkyries as un-worthy of the hall of Valhalla you will be received after death by the goddess Hel in the cheerless underground worlds of Nifflheim, Muspell, Helheim etc. (Nine underground worlds in all)

The descriptions of Odinn's hall describe the Valkyries as foster-daughters, just as the Einherjar (the chosen warriors of Odinn) are foster sons Freyja is said to be the first of the Valkyries, called Valfreyja, "Mistress of the Slain," she pours ale at the feasts of the Aesir . The Valkyries also have duties in the great hall. There, having exchanged their armor for pure white robes, they will serve the warriors they have chosen.

There are several traditional names for Valkyries mentioned in the sagas and the Eddas:

Brynhildr ("Byrnie of Battle" or "Mail-coat of Battle")

Sigrdrifa ("Victory Blizzard")

Sigrún ("Victory Rune") Sváva

Kára Hrist ("The Shaker")

Mist ("The Mist" or "The Fog")

Skeggjöld ("Wearing a War Axe")

Skögul ("Battle" or "Rager")

Hildr ("Battle")

Þrúðr ("Power")

Hlökk ("Noise", "Din of Battle")

Herfjötur ("War-Fetter")

Göll ("Loud Cry", "Battle Cry")

Geirahöd ("Spear of Battle")

Randgríðr ("Shield of Peace")

Ráðgri'ðr ("Counsel of Peace" or "Gods' Peace")

Reginleif ("Heritage of the Gods")

Gunnr ("Battle")

Róta ("She Who Causes Turmoil")

Skuld ("She Who Is Becoming")

Göndul ("Magic Wand" or "Enchanted Stave" or perhaps, "She-Were-Wolf")

Friagabi ("Giver of Freedom")


Depending on who you talk to, the number of Valkyries varies from three to sixteen.

The Valkyries are connected with the legend of the Raven Banner. This banner was woven of the cleanest and whitest silk and no picture of any figure was found upon it except in the case of war, at which time a raven always appeared upon it, as if woven into it.
If the Danes were going to win the upcoming battle, the raven appeared with his beak wide open, flapping its wings and restless on its feet.
If they were going to be defeated, the raven did not stir at all, and its limbs hung motionless.
Sometimes the blood-covered Valkyrie-prophetesses are seen themselves as weavers, to prophesy the outcome of the next day's battle.

The Valkyries are also Odinn's messengers and when they ride forth on their errands, their armor causes the strange flickering light that is called the "Aurora Borealis" (Northern Lights).

Any maiden who becomes a valkyrie will remain immortal and invulnerable as long as they obey the gods and remain virginal.

It is often said that if you see a Valkyrie before a battle, you will die in that battle.

The Valkyries appeared riding in a troop, often of nine war-like women.

Anything else anyone wants to know??!!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

There seem to be a lot of confusion in the history books regarding the Valkyries, the Dises, and the Norns.

Apparently, the ancient Vanir godesses of love and fertility, the Dises, the 3 godesses of Fate, the Norns, and the female warriors, "the Shield Maidens" at one time in history merged into the Valkyries. No wonder everything's so screwed up!

The Norns were indeed weavers. They wove the thread of Fate for every man and woman. Skuld is supposed to have been both a Norn and a Valkyrie. (Either the woman was very busy, or there were two Skuld's, who got mixed into one. )

The Shield Maidens were the female warriors that existed in Scandinavia, kind of like the amazons. It is believed that this is where the Valkyries got the image of being riding, helmet-wearing, speer-and-shield-carrying warrior women. The Valkyries were in charge of selecting the souls of the bravest warriors that had died in battle, but it was the gatekeeper Syn who decided if they were worthy or not to enter Valhall.

The Dises (dis is pronounced dees) were Vanir godesses of fertility and love. The Vanes had a matriarchic society, and it was only the women who dealed with politics and sejd-magic, a sort of trance like the sort the Sibirian schamans use. It's believed that they were able to change shape - preferrebly into birds.
Marriage between siblings, like Frej and Freja, was common, although it seems that these "marriages" were more a form of living and sleeping together until you found a "real" mate.
The Dises were in charge of everything that had to do with love and fertility. Among other things, they helped women at childbirth.
The most famous Dis was Freja. She had one brother, Frej, and 8 sisters, and she delegated her job as godess of love and ferility with her brother and her sisters. Frej was mostly in charge of fertility. Lofn made sure that young lovers got each other in spite of other people's objections. Var was responsible for making people honour their vowes, and was called upon at weddings. Eir was a healer. Gefjon protected the virgins and took care of the souls of women who had died unwed...

All the facts and myths about these three groups have merged into the Valkyries.

 

[obedientpet]

Wasn't this a thread about Greek mythology anyway?