Godyssey Begins
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A fiery trickster and an unbeatable god, working together to retrieve the god’s hammer from cunning giants, who the trickster may or may not have sold the hammer to.
The empress of the heavens, so scandalized by her brothers' behavior, she took the sun from the sky and hid in a cave, sending the world into frozen eternal night.
A love so powerful, neither banishment nor terrible usurpers, not even death and mutilation could keep the divine lovers apart.
Divinity has a way of teaching us about our own humanity.
Humans are born storytellers. Storytelling is encoded deep into our DNA, giving our lives meaning and allowing each generation to venture out on the quest to find the truth anew.
Mythology allows us to imaginatively engage in answering the big questions that have haunted us since the savannah. Where did we come from? How did we get here? What keeps the world turning? Are we ruled by emotions or reason, or a mixture we find somewhere between? Each god is a story we tell about our world, and about ourselves. We are as much a part of their story as they are a part of ours. And in that way, no matter what you believe, they are real.
Godyssey is a quest to into our shared humanity, exploring the tales and deeds of gods from around the world. Each season deep-dives into the lives, relationships, triumphs, and tragedies of a different pantheon, framing these stories around the central ideas that encapsulate those gods.
Yet these gods are often contradictory: a hero can sometimes become a villain in a heartbeat, as if suddenly a completely different god. Why do such contradictions exist? What do they reveal about the gods and cultures involved? As such, Godyssey is an adaptation: navigating the original sources and scholarship surrounding them to better understand the god and the storytellers who interact with them.
