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Greek myth - Adonis
Aug. 14th, 2020 08:19 pmGot to thinking about Adonis, and how weird his childhood really is. You have this perfectly normal (well, almost) human baby boy, growing into a child and then a teenager/young adult, in the Underworld. He’s alive, he shouldn’t even be there! But that’s what he’d consider his normal, that’s what he’d consider home, and the king and queen of the Underworld his foster/adoptive parents!
(Does this perfectly normal human baby get to ride on Cerberus? Piggy-backs by Hades when he’s older? Getting his hands and face licked by Hades’ cattle? Persephone making sure he eats and sings him to sleep, Adonis climbing the larger pomegranate shrubs in the orchard, being told to avoid the rivers... Gets his hands on Hades' helmet once and Hades and Persephone spend a very anxiety-filled afternoon trying to find their invisible son - he's found by giggling, in the end.)
Aphrodite had wanted to hide him until he was old enoughto bang, so does he stay in the Underworld until 15-20, or does he get to go to Eleusis with Persephone every summer, or at least a summer every now and then? If so, that would be the only chances he’d have of meeting regular human beings, what should be his kin and yet... If he doesn’t actually leave the Underworld at all until Aphrodite comes calling, that means Hades is a single parent for six months of the year. Little Adonis sleeping in the crook of his elbow while Hades goes through judgements! Minos, Rhadamanthys and Aeacus being forced to baby-sit! Teach him law, too, probably...
Like, this is just so ridiculous. A regular, alive human being, living in the Underworld! It’s basically the antithesis of what that place is, and there you have the cutest little boy running around Hades’ palace as if it is his home, because it is his home.
(And then of course, after he dies, he belongs there even more. He would of course not be left to the Asphodel Meadows, or Elysium; he gets the same thing as the three judges, so he continues to live with his adoptive parents, aside from (if you keep that) when he goes up to Aphrodite.)
(Does this perfectly normal human baby get to ride on Cerberus? Piggy-backs by Hades when he’s older? Getting his hands and face licked by Hades’ cattle? Persephone making sure he eats and sings him to sleep, Adonis climbing the larger pomegranate shrubs in the orchard, being told to avoid the rivers... Gets his hands on Hades' helmet once and Hades and Persephone spend a very anxiety-filled afternoon trying to find their invisible son - he's found by giggling, in the end.)
Aphrodite had wanted to hide him until he was old enough
Like, this is just so ridiculous. A regular, alive human being, living in the Underworld! It’s basically the antithesis of what that place is, and there you have the cutest little boy running around Hades’ palace as if it is his home, because it is his home.
(And then of course, after he dies, he belongs there even more. He would of course not be left to the Asphodel Meadows, or Elysium; he gets the same thing as the three judges, so he continues to live with his adoptive parents, aside from (if you keep that) when he goes up to Aphrodite.)
