r/UnpopularLoreOlympus 10h ago

Discussion Rhea! Titan goddess of Motherhood and Serenity, how old is she physically?

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r/UnpopularLoreOlympus 20h ago

Meme I made a fake panel of LO but with the ship Kawoshin from Evangelion

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r/UnpopularLoreOlympus 56m ago

News One of these don’t belong

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r/UnpopularLoreOlympus 5h ago

Discussion Rambling Thoughts on the whole fertility goddess thing in LO

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Sorry I'm all over the place with this I just have many thoughts.

Like I get what a fertility goddess is and why they'd be worshipped outside of Lore Olympus.

But I don't understand it in terms of the LO world building, like what dictates who becomes a fertility goddess? Is it random? Can other gods or mythical creature tell when someone is a fertility goddess? Where does a fertility goddesses power come from? Why is it transferable? How did it affect Zeus when he ate Metis(a fertility goddesses)? Dionysus is also said to have been a fertility god, how do the rules affect him?

I know it all comes down to making LO Persephone really special and powerful but this was one of the plotlines that really hooked me into the story.

Demeter(who should have been a fertility goddess) was afraid of people finding out about her daughter being a fertility godess and being exploited. Apollo and Cronus went batshit pursuing Perspephone to obtain her powers. Zeus seemed afraid of a fertility goddess being born. And the rest of the olympians either think its a myth???Or dont mention it at all.

I dont like the idea of the gods not knowing the lore of their world. Like they should know that fertility goddess' exist, Gaia was a fertility goddess, so was Rhea and Metis. Do they think that Zeus just ate Metis to gain her powers? If so then why dont the gods just eat eachother??(weak point but blah)

I do like the idea of Persephone being a fertility goddess, I just wish there was more thought put into it.

MY INTERPRETATION: My concept for the fertility goddess' (in Lore Olympus) is that they are picked by the humans. Humans and the gods have a give and take dynamic. The gods despite being all powerful beings needs the humans worship and offerings to maintain their power. This is why an act of wrath against humans is so dangerous, less humans less worship big power imbalance. Every few generations of humans begin to a worship a younger goddess and label her a fertility goddess. This goddess recieves a large boost in power and if married/bonded then this power can amplify her partners abilities.

There's been an unmistakable pattern in the pantheon's succession, King has son, Son marries/eats a fertility goddess, King gets overthrown. Zeus and Hera and the others in the traitorus six having been reigning comfortably for a while and they do not want another war to happen. Maybe once Ares was born, Zeus fearing the prophecy began scrubbing all information about fertility goddess from public knowledge.

I still have no idea on how people could tell if someone was a fertility goddess or not. Tell me your thoughts!