It goes
without saying, but Zeus has slept around many, many, many, many times. I’m sure many a psychologist
has thought about replacing the term hypersexual with just a picture of Zeus.
He is responsible for siring anywhere between 1/4 to 1/3 of the Greek gods.
It’s just insane how many times he has slept with goddesses other than his
wife.
But why? Is
this just his nature? Well, we know from reading the myth of Hercules that he
can, in fact, stop. He did so, cold turkey, and didn’t have a problem because
he accomplished his goal with Hercules.
So we know
that Zeus has an objective when it comes to sleeping with mortals. Does he
likewise have one when it comes to the goddesses?
I think so.
The myths don’t come right out and
tell us, but they almost never do (which is one of the reasons I like them
better than fairy tales). Whenever Zeus sleeps with a goddess, she gets
pregnant and bears children. This is not just Zeus keeping score and claiming
bragging rights on how fertile he is. To understand, we have to look back at
the Greek creation with Uranus and Gaea.
The Greek creation, unlike any
other creation, is a sexual creation. The Greeks were very literal when it came
to making the gods and goddesses, they could only come from parents who sired
them. This makes a large degree of logical and natural sense. Humans and
animals all procreate, so why not the gods, too? How else would gods procreate?
The fact is that imagining another form of creation is simply needless work.
Using the word such as the Hebrew God did is just weird to Greek culture. Using
light and darkness or random thoughts or having the gods trapped in ice are all
bizarre and unnatural concepts. They take imagination, yes, but that’s a lot of
needless work and doesn’t accurately reflect the world around them. The Greeks
opted for the most straightforward explanation by seeing sex as the creative
process.
Whenever Zeus is schtupping a
goddess and having a child, he is furthering the creative process. In fact,
since the new child will assume power over some natural phenomenon, he is
bringing forth more order to creation. Each child of Zeus brings more order and
reduces the chaos in the universe. And, like he was with Hercules, when he’s satisfied
with the result, he doesn’t have sex with any more of the goddesses.