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Bellum - The Myths
IRA
Ira was the Roman equivalent of Lyssa, the goddess or personified spirit of furious rage, fury, and mad frenzy in Greek mythology. She was one of Eros's nurses and is the daughter of Nyx, who became pregnant from the drops of Uranus's blood when he was castrated. She represents a rather ruthless character full of nuances, above all cruelty which, although representing pure madness, is also marked by a part of reason, as befits all demons.
HECATONCHEIRES
The Hecatoncheires or Centimanes were figures from Greek mythology. They were the children of Uranus and Gaia. The Hecatoncheires were giants and there were three of them, named Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges. Each of them had one hundred arms and fifty heads that spewed fire. Their father, who feared their strength, threw them into Tartarus, the most remote and dark part of the underworld, together with the Cyclopes, their brothers. From there they were freed by Zeus to fight the rebellious Titans, other children of Uranus and Gaia. With their hundred hands each, they took a hundred stones and hurled them at the Titans. With this rain of stones from above and with the help of the Cyclopes, the Titans were defeated.
URANUS
Uranus joined with Gaia by throwing drops of rain on her and giving birth to monsters, the Hecatoncheires. After that, their children were also the Cyclopes. Uranus was terrified that his children might take power in his place, so he threw them, as they were born, into Tartarus, the deepest part of Hades.
MITHRA
In the Iranian world, Mithra is the protector of truth and enemy of error. In the Avesta, Mithra stands out among created beings, earning the title of "Judge of Souls." The Avesta ("The Fundamental" or "The Commandment" of Zarathustra) is the collective title of the sacred texts of ancient Iran, belonging to the Mazdean religion. The Avesta has a predominantly religious character, but also includes elements of cosmogony, astronomy, astrology, as well as traditions and family norms.
VAYU
Vayu is a Hindu deity, the personification of the wind. One day, enraged because Indra, king of the Devas, struck and wounded his son with a thunderbolt, Vayu went on strike and took the atmosphere with him. When all living beings were in danger of suffocating, Indra, to make peace with Vayu, annulled the effects of his thunderbolt.
ARPOCRATE
Harpocrates derives from the Greek Har-pe-chrod, that is, the Egyptian god Horus who was depicted as a child and in this way with a finger in his mouth. The Greeks mistook the gesture for a clear command to silence and, since they did not have such a god in their Olympus, they gladly accepted Harpocrates for this role.
CRONO
Cronos in Greek mythology was a famous titan, son of Gaia and Uranus. Shortly after his birth, his father Uranus decided to cast him and his brothers into the depths of the earth because he was obsessed with the idea that they might deprive him of the rule of the universe. At Gaia's instigation, Cronos confronted his father, castrated him with a sickle given to him by his mother, and took his place in ruling the universe.
IXTAB
Ixtab, literally "The Lady of the Rope," is the goddess of suicide and hanging in Mayan and Toltec mythology. She was generally associated with Hunakau, Ah Puch, and other deities of death. She gathered and guided the souls of sacrificial victims, the hanged, suicides, slain warriors, priests, and women who died in childbirth directly to paradise.
MNEMOSINE
Mnemosyne is a figure from Greek mythology, the personification of memory. Diodorus Siculus recounts that Mnemosyne had discovered the power of memory and that she had assigned names to many objects and abstract things that served to make oneself understood during conversation. Furthermore, this goddess was attributed with the power to make people remember, from which her name derives.
AHOEITU
The god Eitumatupua descended from the sky through a great tree to take as his wife Ilaheva, a worm that crawled along the trunk. Having returned to the sky, he left his wife and their child on earth. This child was called Ahoeitu and when he grew up he decided to go find his father in the sky. Ahoeitu climbed the tree and met his father, and their mutual joy was great. Unfortunately, the other sons of Eitumatupua, children in the sky, were jealous and set an ambush for Ahoeitu, killing him and tearing his body to pieces before eating him cooked. When the father discovered the murder, he ordered his sons to vomit all the pieces of Ahoeitu's flesh they had consumed and, with the help of magical herbs, reconstructed the boy's body, resurrected him, and sent him back to earth as the sovereign of Tonga. The sons who had committed the crime were instead punished to live forever not in the sky but on the great tree, although Eitumatupua, moved by compassion, freed them almost immediately.