The power to be a demigod of ultimate power. Variation of Transcendent Hybrid Physiology. Ultimate form of Demigod Physiology. The user either is or can transform into a Demigod of transcended levels. Demigods are normally of lesser beings compared to actual Deities being way above them, which is a common archetype in all Half-Gods. However, Transcendent Demigods are the direct opposite of. The term 'demigod' (or 'demi-god'), meaning 'half-god', is commonly used to describe mythological figures whose one parent was a god and whose other parent was human; as such, demigods are human-god hybrids.In some mythologies it also describes humans who became gods, or simply extremely powerful figures whose powers approach those of the gods even though they are not gods themselves.
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dem·i·god
(dĕm′ē-gŏd′)n.1. Mythologya. A being, often the offspring of a god and a mortal, who has some but not all of the powers of a god.
c. A deified man.
demigod
(ˈdɛmɪˌɡɒd) n1. (Classical Myth & Legend)a. a mythological being who is part mortal, part god
2. a person with outstanding or godlike attributes
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dem•i•god
(ˈdɛm iˌgɒd)n.
1. a mythological being who is partly divine and partly human.
[1520–30; translation of Latin sēmideus]
Noun | 1. | demigod - a person with great powers and abilities superman, Ubermensch leader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others |
2. | demigod - a person who is part mortal and part god deity, divinity, god, immortal - any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force Adonis - (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone; 'when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite' |
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[ˈdemɪgɒd]N → semidiósmdemigod
[ˈdɛmigɒd]n (= hero) → demi-dieum
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The story of Perseus is adventurous, as indeed befits a demigod. His grandfather was the king of Argos, who with his wife, Eurydice, had a daughter. But Acrisius wanted a son.
He went to the Oracle of who told him that, not only would he have another child, but that child would be killed by the hand of a child born to his daughter. To prevent this, he built an underground chamber and covered the walls with steel plates, closing Danae in with her maid and surrounding them with guards so Danae could not have contact with any man. Their only access to the outside world was through an overhead window.We should note here that in the Agora of Argos existed an underground chamber in which it was said the steel room of Danae had been built that, according to (150 AD), was destroyed by the Argos tyrant Perilaus.Zeus, however, visited Danae in the form of golden rain and joined with her. This was a common practice for Jupiter—changing forms so that he could copulate with female humans—and is a strange phenomenon found in many ancient mythologies and religions. Interesting enough, a recently discovered appears to suggest that Jesus also had the ability to shape shift. (Even if we accept that Jupiter, as a god, had the ability to transform, we have to ask ourselves what made him wish to acquire offspring with humans?).
The fruit of the union between Zeus and Danae was a son named Perseus who Danae managed to hide from her father for some time. When Acrisius did find out about the birth of this child, he ordered the maid to be killed and had Danae and Perseus enclosed in a shrine and thrown into the sea. Waves led the shrine to the coast of Serifos, which is where Perseus grew and become a strong man. The shrine was found, or angled,.
(It is worth noting the similarity to who, according to the Bible, was left in the Nile inside a box of papyrus.). Dictys probably lived in the famous 'Cave of the,' as the shrine could have washed up on the beach at the front of the cave.Dictys was a fisherman and the brother of the king of the island, or Pollux. Dictys hosted the two cumbersome people in his home, and they became members of his family; but his brother, King Pollux, wished Danae to be his wife and denied Dictys this union with her.
Another obstacle to the king was Danae’s son, Perseus. Pollux proclaimed his marriage with and asked that each inhabitant of the island provide the wedding gift of a horse. Perseus, being a fisherman, had no horses but pledged to bring the king the head of Medusa, the Gorgon, instead.
Pollux readily accepted this commitment, as no man had ever returned alive from an encounter with a Gorgon. Pollux decided to keep Danae in the palace until Perseus returned with Medusa’s head. Medusa was one of the three which, according to Hesiod, lived across the ocean at the edge of the earth near the Night. Unlike her sisters who were immortal, was mortal. According to one version of the myth, she was thought to be beautiful and was raped. An angry Athena then cursed her and turned her into a terrible monster, though early versions of the myth claimed she was already a scaly monster with snakes entwined in her copper locks, pig tusks, large mouths, and large eyes that shot lightning. All who met her terrible gaze were said to be turned to stone.Perseus left Serifos on a ship in search of Medusa.
On the way he met Athena and Hermes, who told him how to kill the Medusa and, along with the nymphs, gave him the following weapons:. The helmet of Hades to make him invisible as he approached his target. A magic bag in which to put the terrible head.
Winged sandals to fly him to the rock in the middle of the sea where Medusa resided. The glittering shield to look upon Medusa. A sharp sword or scythe, which would cut through the hard neck of Medusa.It was who gave him the glittering shield and Hermes his winged sandals, though according to another source the helmet Kinos, or Hades, the winged sandals and the magic bag were given to him by the nymphs, and he received the sharp sword and the when Athena led him to the land of the (testimony derived from ) where he offered a sacrifice.Now Perseus needed to find where Medusa resided. Athena led him to the sisters, who were relatives of the Gorgons and the only ones who knew where they resided. The Graiae were three foul-faced crones that had one tragicomic point: an eye (and a tooth) which they exchanged between them. Perseus approached them unseen and, taking advantage of the time of the exchange, grabbed the eye. Under the threat of losing it, the Graiae revealed the abode of Medusa to the hero.Perseus kills MedusaWhen the hero approached Medusa he was invisible.
Looking at her through the reflection from the shield, he cut off her head and put it in his bag. From her neck sprang the giant armed with a gold sword, and from the blood that fell in the ocean sprang Pegasus, the winged horse. (These two are said to have resulted from her mating with Poseidon. Why would Poseidon want to be united with such a monster, if not to create these two?) To escape the persecution of Medusa's sisters, Perseus flew away using the winged sandals, or according to other sources rode away on Pegasus.On the way back to Serifos Perseus passed Ethiopia where he unexpectedly witnessed a strange spectacle. On a rock on the beach was chained a very beautiful woman, and around her stood a large, dumbfounded crowd, as well as a man and a woman dressed in mourning clothes.
Everyone was waiting for something. The chained woman seemed exhausted from crying and did not budge. Perseus, who flew into the air with his winged sandals, suddenly saw a big swirl of waves from which emerged a large sea monster. When the beast saw the young woman, it started to swim towards her.
Perseus took from his sack the head of Medusa and, like a predator bird, swooped down upon the monster. The beast stopped, slowly numbed, and turned into a rock that would not devour anyone else. The rescued woman was none other than, daughter of Cepheus, king of the drone, and of Cassiopis, or, granddaughter of Aeolus from Iopi. According to the myth, Andromeda had provoked the wrath of Poseidon because she boasted that she was more beautiful than the Nereids.
The sea dragon had been sent by Poseidon as punishment.Someone here would expect Poseidon to be angry with Perseus and want to avenge him. He did not, perhaps because Perseus brought to the light his children, Chrysaor and Pegasus?Perseus fell in love with Andromeda, though she was already engaged to her uncle —who had not brought any objection when his compatriots tied Andromeda to the rock as a sacrifice to the sea dragon.
After her rescue, Andromeda agreed to marry Perseus. Only at the wedding Phineas and his supporters quarrelled with and chased Perseus and Andromeda. The hero escaped by pulling Medusa's head from his bag and pointing it toward his pursuers, turning Phineus to petrified stone.The eldest son of Perseus and Andromeda, who was born in Ethiopia and was named Persian, stayed there and became the ancestor of the people who are known as Persians. Does this mean that the Persians came from the mixing of Ethiopians and Greeks?Caravaggio's MedusaWhile Perseus was away, Pollux tried to take Danae—by force—to be his wife, but she resisted. As a result, when Perseus returned to Serifos he found his mother and Dictys bound by Pollux for sacrifice in the temple of Athena.
Pollux refused to accept the accomplishment of the feat, provoking the hero to show him Medusa’s head. The hero warned his own people not to look, and pulled out the head of Medusa. Those who looked at it, including Pollux, were petrified at once, and so Serifos came to be full of stones that looked like humans.Perseus then devoted Medusa’s head to Athena, who picked it up and pinned it to the front of her shield, then handed it over to Hermes. Perseus also offered them the helmet of Hades, the kynin, the winged sandals, and the bag.Dictys assumed leadership of the island and Perseus prepared to return to Argos with his mother and wife. Perseus wanted to reconcile with his grandfather Acrisius, who although feeling proud of his grandson, wanted to avoid the meeting and therefore resorted to Larissa in Thessaly, which was built next to the Peneus river.But 'what is written is written'. Going to Argos to meet his grandfather, Perseus learned of the games held in Larissa. He sent his mother on to Argos, near his grandmother Eurydice, while he went to take part in the games.
It was there, while participating in discus (pentathlon), Perseus threw the disk with great power and killed a spectator—who was none other than his grandfather, Acrisius. In the end, the prophecy of the Oracle at Delphi came true.Perseus heartily felt sorry for the unintentional death of his grandfather and refused to take the throne, instead agreeing with his cousin, son of Proetus, to give him the throne of Argos in return for the throne of Tirynth and Mycenae. Perseus then became king of Tirynth and founded the city of, naming it after the end of the sheath of his sword, myces. He turned to the Cyclops to help building the city, which became famous for the 'Cyclopean Walls' that are visible even today.Perseus and Andromeda had six children: Alcaeus, Heleus, Sthenelus, Elios, Gorgophonis and Electryon.Alcaeus was the father of Amfitryon, whose wife, Alcmene, would later bring Hercules into the world. Thus by Perseus, son of Zeus, starts the famous generation of Hercules, also a son of Zeus.When Perseus died, the gods did not send him to Hades but, together with Andromeda and her parents Cepheus and Cassiopeia, was sent to the stars. Hence, the constellations of Perseus, Andromeda (consisting of 86 stars), and Cassiopeia and Cepheus were created in the northern hemisphere toward the polar star, capturing their stories on the celestial dome.
Over the constellation of Andromeda is the Andromeda nebula, which looks like a bright cloud during the star-filled moonless nights.Another tradition relates Perseus and Dionysus to a relationship similar to the rivalry of in Boeotia. Dionysus had gone to Argolis, defying the sovereignty of the local hero.
The battle between them was fierce. On one side were Dionysus, his wife Ariadne and the Maenads, and on the other side was Perseus, who with the support of Hera killed a Maenad and petrified Ariadne by showing her the head of Medusa.
The intervention of Hera inspired the two men to make peace, and a joint celebration with dances was setup in their honour. (According to another tradition, Perseus killed Dionysus and dropped his dead body in the waters of Lerna.)The story of Perseus is one of the most incredible and detailed Greek myths, full of incredible, powerful creatures, unimaginable weapons (that we couldn’t build even today), the interference of gods, and the accomplishment of magnificent deeds.ByRelated LinksRelated Books. At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings.