• @[email protected]
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      55 days ago

      It’s a metaphor for the intellect. A hundred competing thoughts, like writhing snakes. You are frozen by indecision.

      But that’s mythology for you. Literalised metaphors and vice versa.

      • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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        15 days ago

        Ooh. What other metaphors have I missed from Greek mythology. Is the minotaur a penis? Are sirens prostitutes? Is the cyclops a penis? Etc.

    • threelonmusketeers
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      55 days ago

      Voldemort seems to be doing exactly that in this comic, with no ill effects. I wonder if he has some sort of immunity due to being a parselmouth…

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        55 days ago

        Likely the horcruxes. Or, getting turned to stone is a euphemism and voldemort is impotent due to his experiments, which we do have some evidence for.