Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him:
'Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar.
To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos.
Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles.
…
And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, since
you are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you.
But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinous
long since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.'
Ares, the God of War. Overwhelming. Insatiable. Destructive. Man-Slaughtering. War
if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means “spotted”
that’s right
hades, lord of the dead, literally fucking named his pet dog spot
“He needed a name and I gave him one. It’s not funny.”
—— ”I am standing in the exact same fashion you are.”
"I am standing this way so that I can explain to you why not to. If you are hit with a blow from the left all of your body weight is going to move to your right heel, pushing you back and setting you on your ass with a blade in your gut.“