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Zeus, Posiden, Ares all dead now what? How does the world function now?


OK obviously I was taught the gods were immortal but whatever just pretend they eventually do die in a battle or something or just died after living 100 billions years or something along those lines.

So who takes over anything? Since Zeus, Poseidon, Ares are dead and Hades is useless now he has no powers.

Is this the point where humans start making pagan like idols like the gods and then slowly move into Christianity or what?

YEAH THIS IS A MOVIE AND SCREWED UP GREEK MYTHOLOGY SO BADLY BUT OBVIOUSLY THERE MAKING A 3RD ONE WHERE THE HECK CAN YOU GO NOW?


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The world probably functions a hell of a lot better without those clowns screwing stuff up. Seriously have you ever read any of the Greek mythology stories? It almost always starts off with one of the gods doing something completely asinine and the human hero has to come along and fix things.



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immortal does not mean eternal.
immortal means you do not age and you heal from any wounds
it doesnt mean you cant get killed by any means

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actually, by Greek mythology, immortality means never dying of any means. Chiron the Centaur is immortal, being a son of Cronus, so when he is struck with hydra blood poisoned arrow of Hercules, he can not heal and can not die so he has to suffer the pain until he trades his immortality to Prometheus. Brothers and sisters of Zeus were swallowed by Cronus but they did not die. Hephaestus was thrown down from the top of Mt. Olympus when he was an infant, he merely broke his leg (which never heals)

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Mortal means one dies. Immortal means one does not die. Simple. Only in dumbass movies like Twilight do they get this effed up.

It is obvious that this trilogy is trying to bridge the gap from the mythological gods to the Dark Ages.

A common belief is that the old gods disappeared because everyone stopped praying to them. So, the movie is just following that part of the myth.

I think it is a poor interpretation to assert the gods die because no one is praying. No. The gods are gods on this plane because people pray. Once people stop praying, the gods would no longer have power on this plane, but on their own, on Olympus, they would remain immortal.

I also find it curious what the final movie will be since many of the gods are dead by the end of this one.

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So in the third film which according to Wraths wiki, "Return of the Gods" , if it does follow that and the Greek gods continue to disappear then Perseus is going to kick Jesus's arse?

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So who takes over anything? Since Zeus, Poseidon, Ares are dead and Hades is useless now he has no powers.

Is this the point where humans start making pagan like idols
They already had Pagan gods... you listed four of them.


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Does that mean that only christ was the God and all rest pegans! No offense to anyone, but i am trying to understand better.

even i thought so "Is this the point where humans start making pagan like idols like the gods and then slowly move into Christianity or what? "

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people didn't stop praying to the greek gods. even today, there are still people who worship the greek, norse and egyptian gods. worshippers went underground for centuries. only now in modern times can they resurface without fear. and there are new converts too. look up neo paganism. it comes in many flavors, including the greek variety and worship of the olympians.

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lol not even close

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That's exactly what it means. Pagan gods are just that; they are not the one true God. They're part of a past age when humankind prayed to things like the sun, the moon, and the stars, not a central creator. To quote Wikipedia: "The term pagan was historically used as one of several pejorative Christian counterparts to "gentile" (גוי / נכרי) as used in the Hebrew Bible—comparable to "infidel" or "heretic". Modern ethnologists often avoid this broad usage in favour of more specific and less potentially offensive terms such as polytheism, shamanism, pantheism, or animism when referring to traditional or historical faiths." And there you have it.

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Well, in the game series God of War, the death of Poseidon caused the oceans to go haywire. They all flooded and went crazy, making most of the world unlivable. Helios dying made the world turn to darkness. Ares dying.... didnt do much. You would think that without a god of war the war might stop. Not sure how that is supposed to work. And Hades dying made all of the souls in the underworld go haywire, having nowhere to go, but also not being able to return to their bodies.

But in these movies? No idea.

I still want to know what happened to the other gods. Someone said they all "disappeared", whatever the hell that means. I would like to have seen more from the other gods, but oh well.

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Yeah, I was wondering what happened to the other gods as well.

As for the poster who states that the gods were not immortal in this movie, there are different degrees of immortality. What is commonly thought of as immortality is actually the highest degree and is termed "absolute immortality", which means that the immortal can't die by any means. The Olympians, Hades, the Titans, the Protogenoi, and many minor gods (like Morpheus) actually displayed this kind of immortality in the Greek Myths, so I'd give that poster where credit is due.

However, the immortality that is portrayed by the gods and Kronos in this movie (and various other "Greek Myth" adaptations such as Marvel, DC, God of War, Percy Jackson, Star Trek, Xena & Hercules, Supernatural, and Immortals), is that the characters never age, thus they're immortal from dying of natural causes, but are still capable of dying via other means (in Percy Jackson's case, the gods are nigh-absolute immortal, but they're still capable of dying via people not having enough belief in them. It's called "fading" rather than dying though). Not only that, other species of "immortals" have displayed this kind off immortality since ancient times (i.e. vampires, immortals from highlander, Norse gods, Egyptian gods, demons, angels, werewolves and hybrids from the Underworld series, elves, liches, dragons, yokai, etc.). The funny thing is that despite all of these being capable of dying, they are still immortal. It's just they lack the highest, "absolute" degree of it.

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i had a thought a while back in the percy jackson series. the gods can fade from non belief. but clearly the children of these gods can't fade. with that being said. wouldn't that mean that the children themselves would have an advantage over there parents? they are half human half god so there human side could act as a means of eternal belief. ie there god side would never fade because they believe in themselves. meaning that people who are capable of fighting the gods such as percy would be able to outlive there parents because he would never forget or not believe in his own power

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I'd simply call it the "Ragnarok" effect! ;) It seems that the story-board guys were AOM (Microsoft's venerable RTS) junkies in their youth. Someone familiar with Norse mythology and legends knows that the Norse Gods were/are not immortal and destined to end in that fateful ultimate battle! I believe the guys took the idea from there and shove it into Greek pantheon where Gods are truly immortal. A feat that even the mighty Titans couldn't achieve but Hollywood did it in style, lol! God is dead, long live the...etc, etc :)

On to the philosophical side of thing, man has always moved from old god to new according to its own knowledge, state and need and this process will continue as long as we need a god. Anyway, mythologies are great places to learn about mankind's spiritual struggle and the subsequent revelation. Also, you get to see great CGI and effects!

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