From pantheons to Sandman's Death: job applications for anthropomorphic personifications

[rainofthenight]

There’s shoe polish on my first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, white chocolate dissolves in muffin batter resulting in divinity on a whole new level the Norse pantheon would fight gargantuan battles about and Julia Kristeva, mistress of intertextuality, would have a word to say about this last caelestic figure of speech

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[niqkelodean]

i would totally hire death as well! in fact, i think i would work for her! it would be much fun travelling as her personal assistant across different realms! and business trips would take on a totally whole new meaning.

[rainofthenight]

I'd love to work for her, no doubt about that. Interdimensional trips and some good old time travelling here and there would make, I think, everyone's dream employer (pun not intended!) I bet being her personal assistent would inevitably also make you her wardrobe manager at times :-)

[enaranie]

I quite like that idea.

I suppose, all the ancient Muses had names that were related to their function, but not the function itself - Calliope, 'beautiful voice' for epic poetry for example. I'm glad, because I wouldn't know where to start translanting 'intertextuality' into Ancient Greek.

The first thing that popped into my head, though, was Cassndra - 'confuser of men' :P

[rainofthenight]

Indeed they have and here comes the problem: despite loving languages and old languages, I never had Ancient Greek. Latin, check, Old English, check, Gothic, check, but no Ancient Greek. I know, It's a big whole in one's cultural education... So I rely on you and others who do know the language somewhat!