*smishes* Sorry to be such a smarty-pants, actually. It's kind of annoying probably. *hands*
I'm thinking possibly father is simply "progenitor", ie, Christ calls God his "father", even though we're later glossed that God has no sex. OTOH, the mythology behind the mythology is that Yahweh was the tribal household god of a small group and was in fact gendered male. He was said to be a jealous god who gained power by the conquering of other peoples and destroying their idols of their gods. Two of his primary enemies were Ba'al, now often associated with Satan but at that time a powerful bull deity, and Astarte (or some other permutation of her name) the Queen of Heaven.
Um... I don't really know where I'm going with that, so I'll drop it and leave it there. Hee. Oh, I know. I've been pondering "Hell" in SPNverse and elsewise as rather more like Tartarus in the Greek mythology where the Olympian gods locked the Titans when they overthrew them. So that, the demons aren't necessarily *evil* but wilder and more chaotic, and having come before the "good gods" are now locked away and kind of want out to reform the world in their own image. Hm. Maybe I should write this as a big bang fic. *sighs*
♥ I emailed Kassie, so hopefully she'll catch you and add you right away!
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I'm thinking possibly father is simply "progenitor", ie, Christ calls God his "father", even though we're later glossed that God has no sex. OTOH, the mythology behind the mythology is that Yahweh was the tribal household god of a small group and was in fact gendered male. He was said to be a jealous god who gained power by the conquering of other peoples and destroying their idols of their gods. Two of his primary enemies were Ba'al, now often associated with Satan but at that time a powerful bull deity, and Astarte (or some other permutation of her name) the Queen of Heaven.
Um... I don't really know where I'm going with that, so I'll drop it and leave it there. Hee. Oh, I know. I've been pondering "Hell" in SPNverse and elsewise as rather more like Tartarus in the Greek mythology where the Olympian gods locked the Titans when they overthrew them. So that, the demons aren't necessarily *evil* but wilder and more chaotic, and having come before the "good gods" are now locked away and kind of want out to reform the world in their own image. Hm. Maybe I should write this as a big bang fic. *sighs*
♥ I emailed Kassie, so hopefully she'll catch you and add you right away!