irreversibly: (FF1 The Beginning)
JGwinters ([personal profile] irreversibly) wrote in [personal profile] haptalaon 2023-03-12 09:37 am (UTC)

I've briefly wondered about the same subject sometimes. There's so many mythologies where a division into two (or more) groups exist that it must have been a thing for a really long time. Not just Norse and Irish and Greek, but also the deva/asura distinction (and yaksha/rakshasa in spirits) of Hindu myth, or even the division of gods into original anunnaki and the later igigi in Mesopotamia - much like the later Greek division if you only consider Olympians and then non-Titan 'other' gods.
There's definitely distinct groups of gods, but what those groups are equivalent to in human societies...well. *shrug*

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