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[–] DragonTypeWyvern 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah and Christians always put him and Hades in the evil corner when they're writing stories based on myths. Even Anubis gets the villain treatment by people who really can't be trusted with other cultural mythos.

It really makes me wonder if the Germanic/Norse Hel was actually villainous, given how spotty our actual knowledge of their myth cycle was. It's certainly a convenient name for her to have, but it's also more than possible "Hell" came before "Hel" entirely organically instead of being evidence of Christian revisionism.