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1. The Myth of Iapetos (God of Endurance) by Laayiv

   Fandoms: Original Work, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Ancient Roman Religion & Lore, Ancient Persian Religion & Lore  

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   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply
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   • Complete Work

   08 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Iapetus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
   • Pan (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
   • Abraxas (Gnostic Religion & Lore)
   • Yaldabaoth (Gnostic Religion & Lore)
   • Ahriman
   • Arimanius (Mithraic Religion & Lore)
   • Original Mythology
   • But mostly made out of pieces borrowed from real mythology
   • Hellenistic Mystery Cults & Gnosticism
   • Mithraism
   • Gnosticism
   • Syncretism
   • Skeletons
   • The Lion-headed Mithraic statue depicts Arimanius
   • Mithraic Arimanius is the same as Zoroastrian Ahriman
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Inspired by Prometheus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
   • Iconography taken literally
   • character design
   • Alternate Mythology
   • The Great God Pan is Dead
   • Inspiration also drawn from Islamic folk beliefs and old D&D books
   • but those are more slight
   • legend
   • Mythopoeia

   Summary

   Iapetos is the god of endurance, mortality and matyrdom, and creator and protector of humanity and the living skeletons.

   A myth I wrote a while ago to be told in my fantasy (and possibly, in a different form, my alternate history) world(s) about the major god Iapetos, patron deity of endurance (Derived from the Titan of Mortality and father of Prometheus). I was interested in how blurry the boundaries were between Hellenism and Gnosticism were in the Roman orient, and so I have indiscriminately combined figures who were certainly entirely Pagan with those predominately Abrahamic or Zoroastrian and everything in between, to construct a vaguely fuctioning cosmography.

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