I feel like the one I would choose Xolotl. I am someone with has made few friends but who stands up for them all and who has been durable in doing so, and to this end have found myself opposing newly appointed leadership almost to the death.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    16·
    5 days ago

    Sisyphus. I’ve spent my life pushing this huge boulder up the hill but never quite achieving anything. It’s getting really old. Next time it rolls to the bottom I’m tempted to leave it there

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    5 days ago

    Sisyphus is the only Greek figure I can think of that’s not cringe to ascribe to yourself. And that’s only because nobody remembers the shit he did to get punished. The other tragic ones are either a humblebrag or concerning. Romulus and Remus are concerning. Enkidu is both, Gilgamesh is a straight up brag, as are the non-tragic Greek figures. All biblical prophets are (humble)brags. Norse gods are all brags, and saga heroes are mostly too obscure for me to know in detail.

    I guess you could say Zacchaeus if you’re short, or Goliath if you’re really big. Oh wait, I guess going with physical things you could self-own with any monster.

    • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 days ago

      Cassandra might be kinda pitiful to ascribe to ones self, but I feel parts of her story are relatedable regardless of gender. Many people have been in a situation where they are not being believed. At work, with family, whatever it is.

      I think it’s hard because the characters are designed to represent an attribute, or symbolize a specific problem. They aren’t really good for representing a person’s whole existence.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        2 days ago

        Honestly it was my first thought. If you’re on Lemmy in a world of Facebooks, pay-to-use seat heaters and dopamine-dispensing tracking devices, you’re probably in the same boat, at least to some degree.

        It’s ascribing to yourself the ability to predict the future far (or similar) better than everyone else, though, which is cringe. Besides making people feel personally attacked, “iamverysmart” is just a thought pattern dangerous to your own objectivity.

        Edit: I guess I just said “weareverysmart”, and frankly, I’ll stand by that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        The people I meet IRL don’t seem like they’re really tracking the big picture much at all. More because they don’t feel like it than they can’t.

    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
      3·
      5 days ago

      Sisyphus

      Not sure what I did, but man it is getting tiring pushing this boulder up this hill.

      Note: Holy damn, never much for myth etc, all I ever knew of Sisyphus was the endlessly pushing a rock up hill. Now, after reading a very concise sentence, he DID deserve what he got. TIL

      • stringere@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 days ago

        I read someone’s further analysis in which they describe how his punishment fits his crime. Because he outwitted death he has such supreme self confidence that THIS time he will get the boulder to the top. The only thing he has to do to break his curse is to stop.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          5 days ago

          Although the whole random guest murdering thing is worse IMO. Tricking the manifestation of death into restraining himself probably counts as self defence, in my books.

          The story where he seduces his niece in order to father children that were destined to kill his brother (her father) also isn’t great.

          • stringere@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            4 days ago

            Oh, he’s definitely a class A scumbag. It’s unfortunate that most people just know the boulder part when there’s so much more of a lesson in morality to be gleaned from the full story.

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 days ago

    Dude,

    Xolotl was the dog teotl (god) who was associated with Nanahuat(zin) and the nahualli of Ehecatl Quetzalcoatl. He was renowned for retrieving maize from The Mountain of Sustance. Nanahuatzin threw himself into a sacred pyre and became Tonatiuh (the sun). Xolotl was sacrificed last by Quetzalcoatl because he fled and turned himself into his nahualli the axolotl. Dogs and axolotls were considered a source of food so he represents the sacrifice necessary to eat, also the planet/star Venus in the evening.

    I don’t know what aspect of Mixtec Pueblo mythology you’re referring to.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    3·
    5 days ago

    Peregrin Tûk. I’m an idiot that does stupid shit that accidentally fucks shit up and only ever manage to go forward in anything thanks to people that know what they’re doing and have to carry me.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    Cassandra from Greek mythology. Successful/artistic but also regrettably stigmatized/unlucky supposedly due to my past and the people I’m exposed to every day.