Plot Bunnies From Myth & Legend

[TheLobster]

The one about Set and Horus trying to assert dominance by cumming inside each other is the funniest one.

Fellas, is it gay to cum inside a guy if we’re both gods?

 

[StillStunned]

Then there’s the whole myth of Valkyries taking bravery men to paradise.

I can see how that would make for an erotic euphemism.

The horses that the Valkyries ride could easily justify making them trans women.

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

Fellas, is it gay to cum inside a guy if we’re both gods?

I know that in ancient Mediterranean (and some Middle Eastern) cultures, they didn't care about the "gayness" of it so much as they did about who was penetrating whom. It wasn't considered bad as long as you were the "man" and fucking the other man the way you would a woman. So I guess it got a pass in ancient Egypt.

 

[storyteller92]

Was there one about a god creating the world by masturbating and ejaculating into the void? I don't know nearly as much about Egyptian mythology as I do about Greco-Roman mythology, but I seem to remember an Egyptian creation myth along those lines.

There's Atum, son tellings of semen being used to create realms or god ala Aphrodite and Ymir in some tellings of Norse myth. I know Assyrian myths have stuff with a dragon but nothing unifying.

 

[CalBishForNow]

Bowdlerized versions of myths are popular, but the more explicit versions are still out there if you look. If I remember correctly, I read a version of the Greek myths when I was a preteen where Saturn killed Uranus (or maybe just imprisoned him in Tartarus; even more Bowdlerized). And then as a teen or in college I read a version with the added detail that Saturn cut off Uranus' balls with his own scythe first.

One comes to mind that I'm surprised people haven't already mentioned in this thread. Some people know that Odin rides a horse, named Sleipnir, with eight legs. (It appears in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene in the first Thor movie.) Some people may not know that in the myths, Sleipnir is the child of Loki, who enjoys shapeshifting and had sex with a horse on one occasion. Some people who know that may still not know that Loki shapeshifted into a female horse and is Sleipnir's mother.

Try putting that in a story here some day.

 

[StillStunned]

Some people may not know that in the myths, Sleipnir is the child of Loki, who enjoys shapeshifting and had sex with a horse on one occasion. Some people who know that may still not know that Loki shapeshifted into a female horse and is Sleipnir's mother.

Digging into my memory here: a dwarf promised to build the walls of Asgard, and if he completed the work within a year he'd get Freya's hand in marriage. The Aesir agreed, thinking he'd never finish the job in time - contractors being contractors even then - but the dwarf had an amazing horse that effortlessly pulled all the stones to build the wall.

With the wall nearly finished, they decide to distract the horse, and Loki agrees to be the bait. Not for fun, but out of necessity. (Sure....)

(I might have some of the details wrong. It's been a while since I read much Norse mythology.)

ETA: Dammit, I meant to add that this an excellent source of inspiration. And isn't Loki also the father of the Fenrir Wolf and the World Serpent Jormungander? And Hel?)

 

[Statius]

Digging into my memory here: a dwarf promised to build the walls of Asgard, and if he completed the work within a year he'd get Freya's hand in marriage. The Aesir agreed, thinking he'd never finish the job in time - contractors being contractors even then - but the dwarf had an amazing horse that effortlessly pulled all the stones to build the wall.

With the wall nearly finished, they decide to distract the horse, and Loki agrees to be the bait. Not for fun, but out of necessity. (Sure....)

(I might have some of the details wrong. It's been a while since I read much Norse mythology.)

ETA: Dammit, I meant to add that this an excellent source of inspiration. And isn't Loki also the father of the Fenrir Wolf and the World Serpent Jormungander? And Hel?)

Yep. He is.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

One might consider writing Priapus with PTSD.

 

[MelissaBaby]

There's Atum, son tellings of semen being used to create realms or god ala Aphrodite and Ymir in some tellings of Norse myth. I know Assyrian myths have stuff with a dragon but nothing unifying.

The titan Chronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his testicles into the sea. Uranus’ semen mixed with the sea water to create Aphrodite.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Digging into my memory here: a dwarf promised to build the walls of Asgard, and if he completed the work within a year he'd get Freya's hand in marriage. The Aesir agreed, thinking he'd never finish the job in time - contractors being contractors even then - but the dwarf had an amazing horse that effortlessly pulled all the stones to build the wall.

With the wall nearly finished, they decide to distract the horse, and Loki agrees to be the bait. Not for fun, but out of necessity. (Sure....)

(I might have some of the details wrong. It's been a while since I read much Norse mythology.)

ETA: Dammit, I meant to add that this an excellent source of inspiration. And isn't Loki also the father of the Fenrir Wolf and the World Serpent Jormungander? And Hel?)

I read that myth recently, the God of War games making me realize how little I actually knew about Norse myth.

That one kind of puts the complaints about Marvel 'making' their Loki bisexual into perspective, doesnt it?

 

[storyteller92]

The titan Chronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his testicles into the sea. Uranus’ semen mixed with the sea water to create Aphrodite.

Yes. This was what I was referring to with Kronos/Cronus. I even wrote that in Tales of Olympus. But I was saying sexuality and creation happened a lot in mythology, which I love.

 

[LegendInMyOwnMind]

I could see this make an interesting author challenge event. Either pick a certain mythological framework each year so everyone coexists or make it open to any set of myths.

And now I am wondering how much people would freak out if someone write Mary Magdalene/JC erotica for it.

I still consider myself a Christian (though quite unorthodox), and I'd been interested in reading it. The creeds do say "truly God and truly man."

 

[ADirtyPerv]

I still consider myself a Christian (though quite unorthodox), and I'd been interested in reading it. The creeds do say "truly God and truly man."

JC would be such a nervous virg though. One touch, and off he goes. Especially with Mary Magdalene's skills.

 

[anthrodisiac]

JC would be such a nervous virg though. One touch, and off he goes. Especially with Mary Magdalene's skills.

So, if he can turn water into wine...

 

[old_prof]

JC would be such a nervous virg though. One touch, and off he goes. Especially with Mary Magdalene's skills.

But he gets a second rising...

 

[anthrodisiac]

But he gets a second rising...

"And on the third day, he rose again."

Mary: "Jesus, we really need to work on your refractory period."

 

[Rob_Royale]

It's rather difficult to separate the Norse gods from what Marvel has done but I'd like to dive into that mythos a bit.

 

[Statius]

It's rather difficult to separate the Norse gods from what Marvel has done but I'd like to dive into that mythos a bit.

Do the opposite of Marvel, get the myths and genelogies right.

 

[spiralholly]

A while back I was delving into the Greek myths surrounding Persephone, and I started reimagining it as a moonshine-country x-rated soap opera about power, rape, and incest with a bit of magic thrown in.

I mean, the PG-version of Persephone's story is this:
Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, was abducted by Hades to be his bride and thus became Queen of the Underworld. Her mother was so distraught that the harvests went barren. The other gods complained (because their worshippers wouldn't shut up about the famine - possible early example of cancel culture); Zeus negotiated; Hades let his 'wife' leave the underworld for half the year, I guess because he was such an ugly bastard that he'd never get any other girl, and such a pussy that he was willing to accept a timeshare.

Greek legends always find a way to explain natural phenomena using rape. Because if it isn't about sex, it isn't worth noting.

No, really. Zeus was born of Cronos and Rhea, but he was so enamored of his mother that he captured her and raped her. She became Demeter thereafter. Demeter's child with Zeus was Persephone, who came out ugly and was thus never breastfed. [what Greek culture insinuation should be inferred here? Also, Demeter is identified as his sister but so is Hera]

Zeus saw Persephone's 'potential' and raped her. This was long before Zeus arranged to hand her over to his brother Hades. Due to this, Persephone gave birth to Dionysus. Since Dionysus is also said to be Zeus' son by Semele, daughter of some heroes, this may be just thematic association (because the wine god ought to be the son of the goddess of fertile ground).

Persephone 'blossomed' into a dutiful and beautiful daughter. When various suitors came knocking, Demeter was warned by an astrologer that her daughter was destined to fall into the hands of a serpent. Demeter hid Persephone in a cave, but Zeus found her and raped her in the form of a snake. Persephone birthed Zagreus from that. Who is Zagreus? Just some hunter associated with pitfalls.

Hades arranged with Zeus to actually marry Persephone, but due to pushback from others, Hades took her hostage while she was picking flowers in a field.

In the Underworld, Hades gave her all the power he could in order to keep her there. Still, Demeter went roving to find her lost daughter. Along the way Poseidon cornered and raped her, leading to the birth of Despoina (the Mistress) and the talking horse Arion.

Side note about Hecate: versions say Hecate took two torches into the underworld, found Persephone and returned her to Demeter. Hecate is descended from several of Kronos' 11 Titan siblings, so her sympathy for Demeter was purely personal; she doesn't have any Zeus DNA in her.

Persephone and Hades' children were the Erinyes [aka 3 Furies, Dirae] who take vengeance on oath-breakers. They have other origins, so this may be Demeter taking an aspect in order to scare Hades. If so, Hades never had children with Persephone at all.

Zeus appeared to Persephone looking like Hades, from which rape she birthed Melinoë, nymph of nightmares.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I'm doing a period story about an old opera house and the opera they are doing is about the love triangle between Persephone, Adonis and Aphrodite. The story sort of mirrors the legend.

 

[StillStunned]

I'm doing a period story

Bloody hell!

 

[Statius]

To the red tent with you!

I'm doing a period story about an old opera house and the opera they are doing is about the love triangle between Persephone, Adonis and Aphrodite. The story sort of mirrors the legend.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Maybe it's just me, but there seem to have been an awful lot of threads created about plot bunnies in the past few weeks, and it got me thinking about all the various myths and legends waiting to be adapted into erotic stories. The bible alone is full of sex stories (although you might disagree about whether biblical stories count as "mythology").

Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden is the most obvious example. Incest/Taboo lovers can turn to the story of Lot drunkenly impregnating his two daughters (whom the text doesn't even bother to name). And who can forget about King David and his tryst with Bathsheba, the loving wife of Uriah the Hittite?

Then there's the Epic of Gilgamesh in which the gods create a wild man called Enkidu who has such a strong connection to nature that he has more in common with a wild animal than a Human being, so the gods send a divine harlot (that's the translation) to teach him the ways of civilization. She gets Enkidu's attention by disrobing in front of him and spends the next seven days and seven nights "civilizing" him, and once he's been thoroughly civilized, he gains the arts of civilization but loses his connection to nature.

Finally, there's all the Greco-Roman myths about the gods (usually Zeus) imposing themselves on beautiful mortal women and fathering semi-divine heroes. The Iliad is all about rugged warrior men fighting over beautiful women and generally treating them as spoils of war (not fun for the ladies, obviously, but there's plenty of material out of which to spin an erotic tale). The Odyssey consists mostly of Odysseus tied up in the arms of semi-divine beings like Circe and Calypso before he finally gets home to Penelope, who unlike him actually stayed faithful for all those years.

My favorite legend has to be that of Cupid and Psyche. Psyche is the youngest daughter of the rulers of an unnamed city state who is so beautiful that the inhabitants start worshipping her as a living goddess and giving her offerings, thinking she's the incarnation of the goddess of love, Venus, or possibly even the product of an affair between Venus and a lucky mortal man. Venus is furious that people are neglecting her worship in favor of this mortal hussy, and she's even angrier about the rumors that Psyche is her daughter, so she sends her son Cupid (of uncertain paternity) to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest creature possible. Cupid, however, gets clumsy with his arrows and ends up pricking himself, causing him to fall in love with Psyche.

Meanwhile, an ill omen suggests that Psyche will bring calamity to the city if she stays, so she's arrayed in funeral attire and shoved off a cliff, but the west wind Zephyrus carries her away to a wonderful palace with beautiful gardens where she's treated like a queen. The best part is that, in complete darkness, a stranger visits her in her bed and makes love to her every night (we know it's Cupid, but she doesn't). She looks forward to his nightly visits, and eventually becomes pregnant.

All of that's just the first act of the legend, but this post is long enough already. So what do you guys think? Which of these legendary plot bunnies would you turn into a story if you could? Have any of you done so already? Are there any other sexy myths or legends I didn't mention that you think would make great erotica adaptations?

The "divine harlot" was more like a female priest. Sex was important to the Sumerians, and women served as practitioners at the temples. Men were required to visit the temple for a lesson in "the womanly arts" that "made a man like unto a god" at least once diuring their lifetimes. The priestess was sent to Enkidu to make him more like a god.

You might be interested in the Sumerian tale of "Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth," who stood beneath an apple tree one day and looked down at herself, exclaiming "what a wonderous vulva have I." She then headed off to see Enki, the god of knowledge and wisdom, where he told his servant to treat her like the god's equal. Beer was served, and she drank Enki under the table. In his stupor, he gave her the gift of knowledge and wisdom. If you want, I'll tell you about the annual ceremony in honor of Inanna and her Bull, Dumuzi, who "grew hard, like celery by the river," and I'll even tell you about the accompanying ritual atop the Ziggurat.

And yes, the Bible is myth and legend and tales and poetry, and precedents can be found for much of it it earlier Mideastern mythology.

We haven't even entered into the New World; are you familiar with Moche pottery?

(As a note, I did design and teach a course in the "Anthropology of Sex" for nearly twenty years).

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I haven't done anything like this so far, but the idea is definitely interesting.

I could picture myself writing a BDSM version of Prometheus's tale, for example. To punish him for stealing fire from the gods, Hera and Aphrodite chain Prometheus to a rock and torment him with whips and candles...

Well, I mentioned said heroic Titan in my A Model Garden - Prometheus, but it was merely a skeleton one which to fit my cast for a fivesome. Lots of real room left on the myth.