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Hi @sparrowhawke !
Thank you very much! [Bows…dodges fruit…{there’s always one out there that resents my bows..😉}]
I have often wonder what fine grain of truth might have been so deeply buried in Greek and Roman mythology that later became obscured by a game of historical “telephone”. [remember that old game? One in the front of a line whispers a phrase to the second in line and so forth until the last person in line repeats aloud to the group what they think the original phrase was with laughable consequences?]
So, I took that chance and wrote the half-human hybrids into my WIP. [No they didn’t come about by weird relations…[yuck]…but they did commit an abominable act of insurrection that got them fused with the creatures they mocked God with, and cruelly thought to sacrifice to get “The Blood God” [their words] to lift Cain’s curse upon his family line, and they tried to enter God’s Throne and His mountain to do these detestable things. Not as an act of worship, but as a bribe to appease Him and placate Him, mocking the Holy reasons for God’s requirement to sacrifice a spotless lamb. For this they were fused with their captured “offerings” and forced to live as half-human half-beasts imprisoned in bodies that are constantly in conflict between their human and bestial natures. Essentially, these are nice woodland faerie creatures, nor the good beast-men of Narnia. These are denizens of darkness, with The Pan as their king. They represent pantheism, nature worship, and hedonism. Incidentally, in Greek mythology, “The Pan” was one of the oldest gods, and was more that a god of natures and the woodlands and fields. He was credited with creation. He is one of the only gods said to have died, and he had a formidable and terrible roar that seemed to shake the foundations of the natural world. Other world religions also seem to have a pagan ram/goat hybrid god in their lists of deities. Ancient Egypt had Khnum. Ancient China had P’An Ku or Pangu, whose fleas supposedly became the human race. Just to name few interesting side notes.