twogranniesandanaxe:Eris (in latin “Discordia”) is the greek goddess of discord, strife,
twogranniesandanaxe:Eris (in latin “Discordia”) is the greek goddess of discord, strife, the seed of every war.Definitely one of my favourites because she makes things happen and, in fact, is not evil at all (in my opinion). There are two Eris, in fact. One that gives birth to cruel, violent, unrational wars, and then there is the “good one”, that teaches us things through conflicts. I love this concept. Eris happens in a few stories, but all of them interesting… She was hipotetically the one that started the whole Trojan War! When she wasn’t invited to Thetis and Peleus’ wedding (Achilles’ future parents) because she always messed things up, she actually really messed things up by throwing a golden apple in front of the three main powerful goddesses: Hera, Aphrodite and Athena. The apple inscribed: “to the fairest one”… Then they started arguing and… so on. We have to thank Eris for this great story! So people died in the end and there was great suffering and… Troy was distroyed… yeah… But I like Eris anyways! :P -- source link
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