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Conversations: It’s Better Down Where It’s Wetter, Deities of The Sea w/ Dr. Ryan Denson

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Origins of Luca Othea in the Odyssey

Triton is really fascinating because he's like the son of Poseidon and Patreidi who are also anthropomorphic. And then we just get Triton as their child being like half fish and he's also like really violent and weird but there's like minimal sourcing on details yeah. Luca Othea thing it's very interesting that she falls into the sea and she's transformed into a sea goddess but that transformation doesn't really you know necessitating physical transformation is fully human when I mean at least from our very modern perspective you would think it makes more sense to give her a fishtail or something as a physical sign of that transformation. We do have references that the Greeks and

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