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Sunday, 19 September 2010 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eighthphaseGreek mythology, why so interesting D:
I'm doing way more research for arc 5 than I would have liked, particularly since I'm still only about halfway through arc 4. I think I finally found something I like that works with the story of it, though. Mao can't be Nyx, because there's just no correlations between the two; she can't be Hemera for the same reason. I was thinking about Aether, because "the upper sky, the universe, and heaven" goes quite nicely with travelling to other worlds, but I wanted a goddess, not a god. Most of the rest of Nyx's children don't work, either, but I think I can spin it if she's mistaken for one of the Hesperides. Nymphs are rather care-free creatures, which meshes with Mao's eventual personality, and one of them is named Lipara, meaning perseverance, which certainly describes Mao as she is at that point in the story.
Or I could go the easy route and have her mistaken for Ladon, but that would kill the Nyx link I want to keep.
I'm doing way more research for arc 5 than I would have liked, particularly since I'm still only about halfway through arc 4. I think I finally found something I like that works with the story of it, though. Mao can't be Nyx, because there's just no correlations between the two; she can't be Hemera for the same reason. I was thinking about Aether, because "the upper sky, the universe, and heaven" goes quite nicely with travelling to other worlds, but I wanted a goddess, not a god. Most of the rest of Nyx's children don't work, either, but I think I can spin it if she's mistaken for one of the Hesperides. Nymphs are rather care-free creatures, which meshes with Mao's eventual personality, and one of them is named Lipara, meaning perseverance, which certainly describes Mao as she is at that point in the story.
Or I could go the easy route and have her mistaken for Ladon, but that would kill the Nyx link I want to keep.
