back in the day, marrying or having kids with their siblings or other family members is normal!
here is a better definition :
The same reason Old Testament figures in the Bible had to have married siblings. With a limited number of beings available in the various creation stories, and frequently the second generation of created things emerging from a single pair of parents, where else are they going to find a mate?
Mind you, that’s not absolute. In many cases, creatures in Greco-Roman mythology emerge out of chaos. For instance, in Hesiod’s Theogony, we have from Chasm/Chaos figures like Gaia, Erebos, Nyx, and Eros spontaneously forming. They have nobody else to mate with, though they are arguably siblings that emerge from androgynous Chaos.
Nyx and Erebus mate so that Nyx can give birth to Air and Day, but if Air and Day were to have kids, their only choices for mates would be each other or one of their aunts/uncles. Limited mythological population logically necessitates incest.
Then you have Earth/Gaia give birth to Uranus, the sky. The parentage is unclear—the fertilization might be parthenogenetic, but if she did mate to produce him, it would have to have been with Chaos, her father, or one of her siblings, or one of her nieces/nephews. No other options are available to her.
After producing Uranus, she takes her son as a lover. (Why not? Every other option would also be incestuous), and Earth and Sky then go nuts with a population explosion to produce Titans, Cyclopes, monsters like the Hecatonchoires. By the time the Titan Cronos is devouring his kids, and Zeus rebels and frees his siblings from Cronos’ stomach, Zeus again has an incest problem. He can mate with various unappealing monsters (but many of them are of the wrong gender). Many of the Titans have been locked away in Tartarus. He could (and does not) mate with his mom Rhea, he could (and does) mate with a few female Titans who are his aunts (such as Metis and Dione), and he could (and does) mate with nymphs and naiads (who are also his aunts or his nieces/nephews/cousins), or he could mate with his sister.
There is literally nobody in existence for the gods to mate with except relatives. So, sibling-mating makes a nice symmetry, especially since there were six female Titans and six male Titans who were couples in the older generation, and now there are six Olympian gods and six Olympian goddesses who are taking over their older domains of earth, sea, and sky.
hope this helps!! ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I also want to talk about the couple sex chapters, those are not cannon, which means it didn't happen!! If you look at the extra chapters at the end of season one, those were "fanservice" so they were like an alternate version that didn't happen. But if you talking about the time around chapter thirty-something, that was Sekhmet controlling Horus because of the mirror. So Horus hasn't actually raped Seth. I hope this clears everything up (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
back in the day, marrying or having kids with their siblings or other family members is normal!
here is a better definition :
The same reason Old Testament figures in the Bible had to have married siblings. With a limited number of beings available in the various creation stories, and frequently the second generation of created things emerging from a single pair of parents, where else are they going to find a mate?
Mind you, that’s not absolute. In many cases, creatures in Greco-Roman mythology emerge out of chaos. For instance, in Hesiod’s Theogony, we have from Chasm/Chaos figures like Gaia, Erebos, Nyx, and Eros spontaneously forming. They have nobody else to mate with, though they are arguably siblings that emerge from androgynous Chaos.
Nyx and Erebus mate so that Nyx can give birth to Air and Day, but if Air and Day were to have kids, their only choices for mates would be each other or one of their aunts/uncles. Limited mythological population logically necessitates incest.
Then you have Earth/Gaia give birth to Uranus, the sky. The parentage is unclear—the fertilization might be parthenogenetic, but if she did mate to produce him, it would have to have been with Chaos, her father, or one of her siblings, or one of her nieces/nephews. No other options are available to her.
After producing Uranus, she takes her son as a lover. (Why not? Every other option would also be incestuous), and Earth and Sky then go nuts with a population explosion to produce Titans, Cyclopes, monsters like the Hecatonchoires. By the time the Titan Cronos is devouring his kids, and Zeus rebels and frees his siblings from Cronos’ stomach, Zeus again has an incest problem. He can mate with various unappealing monsters (but many of them are of the wrong gender). Many of the Titans have been locked away in Tartarus. He could (and does not) mate with his mom Rhea, he could (and does) mate with a few female Titans who are his aunts (such as Metis and Dione), and he could (and does) mate with nymphs and naiads (who are also his aunts or his nieces/nephews/cousins), or he could mate with his sister.
There is literally nobody in existence for the gods to mate with except relatives. So, sibling-mating makes a nice symmetry, especially since there were six female Titans and six male Titans who were couples in the older generation, and now there are six Olympian gods and six Olympian goddesses who are taking over their older domains of earth, sea, and sky.
hope this helps!! ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I also want to talk about the couple sex chapters, those are not cannon, which means it didn't happen!! If you look at the extra chapters at the end of season one, those were "fanservice" so they were like an alternate version that didn't happen. But if you talking about the time around chapter thirty-something, that was Sekhmet controlling Horus because of the mirror. So Horus hasn't actually raped Seth. I hope this clears everything up (๑•ㅂ•)و✧