Double Standard Rape (Divine on Mortal): Difference between revisions

 

== Type I. ==

 

* [[Older Than Dirt]]: As king, [[The Epic of Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] (who was 'two thirds' a god) made it a rule that all women who were about to get married had to have sex with him first. This pissed off his subjects, and the gods sent Enkidu to wrestle Gilgamesh and give him an outlet for his pent up energy (and yes, we do realize that [[Ho Yay|can be taken more ways than one]], which was in the original myth too).

 

== Type II. ==

* A very indirect example: when King Minos of Crete refused to sacrifice a white bull for Poseidon, Poseidon punishes him by making Minos' wife Pasiphae fall in love with the bull. She had a wooden cow made and climbed inside so [[But You Screw One Goat!|the bull would have sex with her]]. She then later gave birth to a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half human/half bull creature]] that became the Minotaur.

* [[Celtic Mythology|Cuchulain]] was conceived this way allegedly. His mother Deichtine assisted Lugh's wife in labor. For her reward, Lugh impregnated ''her''.

* The best-known Aztec account of Huitzilopochtli's birth says his mother Coatlicue was impregnated with him when a ball of feathers fell into her lap.

* The story of Jesus' birth in ''[[The Bible]]'' is sometimes accused of being this. In the Book of Matthew (note that the books of the New Testament were originally separate texts, only later compiled into the whole we have today), we are told nothing whatsoever about how Mary felt about divine impregnation. The Book of Luke is better about this: we get a scene where an angel tells Mary she is going to conceive and bear a son, and Mary is happy about this. However, the angel doesn't actually ask what she wants; it just tells her what's going to happen.

 

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