This is an amazing response written by mommasunshines to a writing prompt about finding out your mother is Hestia, the virgin goddess of the hearth and the home. Here is the full prompt: “When you learned your mother was a goddess, things finally seemed to fall into place. The other demigods laughed at you, the only child born to the goddess of the hearth, Hestia. But your power was so much more than they could dream of.”
Source: mommasunshines
First off, this is amazing.
Second off, the demigods only tease because they don’t know better. From everything I’ve read, Hestia is the mom-friend, or I guess mom-sibling, of the Greek pantheon, and you do NOT tick off the mom-friend if you value your life or the lives of those around you. I guarantee you that if Zeus the thrower of lightning, Poseidon the maker of earthquakes, and Hades the lord of the dead got into an argument over who was strongest, and said argument got too noisy, Hestia would walk in and give them the Stare and their throats would dry up.
And third — a truly all-powerful God does not concern themselves with power. The amount they have is sufficient, and that is all that must be said, ergo, mic drop.
Hades wouldn’t choose to get into that argument. He’s got too much work to do to waste it bragging.
He would have been dragged into it by of of the other two, and be spending his time trying to do what Hestia achieves with a glance….
😳 I LOVE THIS!
In militarized societies they often undermine the role of the family and home, because happy people who can put their feet up by the fire are harder to convince to go out and kill and die. In industrialized societies they do the same thing, to keep people working harder to live independently. They do the same in capitalistic societies where they want individuals to be dependent on the system to provide them with goods, rather than taking part in the process themselves. But all of these systems do that and seek to disempower the home and comfort and fellowship because they are in fact so incredibly powerful. Not just in a “stop wars” kind of way but in a “wars don’t get started when people are able to sit down and break bread and everyone is warm and cozy in their homes” kind of way.