Talk:Magika No Kenshi To Shoukan Maou:Volume 7 Chapter 5

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Zeus was known to sleep around with any female. The player God might be a better term than raping God

The kanji used in the raw literally means rape or sexual assault, there is really no room for misunderstanding there.


Greek anon here. Concerning notes 2 & 3. For note 2 its melachrinos (μελαχρινός in Greek chars) and literally means black haired person (which by the way is a common hair color in Greeks). Should have been melachrini actually, as metamorphosis is a female noun in Greek.

Note 3 is kidemonikos (or kithemonikos -th as in these-, that is closer to the Greek pronuniation, Greek κηδεμονικός). Literally means something belonging to a guardian (Κηδεμονας means legal guardian of an underage, or otherwise unable of self-reliance, person). Just like note 2, as Aegis is also a female noun, it should be kidemoniki. (Adjectives in Greek take the gender of the noun they apply to)

Could it be that it's related to this? "Mela-", as a preffix, means "black", which could be a reference to black-figure pottery, and "Phrynos" was a painter of those; it's common for that pottery to be decorated with mythological, battle or sport scenes, which makes sense in this context. What doesn't make sense is that the only black bulls I find in Greek mythology are Apis (taken from Egypt) and the Ophiotauros (snake-bull). This is weird, since Zeus, the only time he's known to have become a bull (the rape of Europa), turned into a white one... Just check this.--Kemm (talk)

Pansexual doesn't actually come from Pan, but from Greek πᾶν meaning "all". Check out the English words "Panamerican" and "pantheism", for example (see Wiktionary). --179.218.17.160 00:29, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

I was under the impression that the word πᾶν ("everything, all") and the god were one and the same, the same way "Earth" and primal god Gea, "sky" and and primal (not really but almost) god Uranus or "time" and Titan Cronus (I leave aside "sea", since Greeks had a lot of words for it, one of which was Titan Oceanus's name). Even if the current writing makes a distintion with the accent (Πάν vs. πᾶν), graphic accents, afaik, are just a way to mark stress in minuscule writing (which was used only by fads, the same way they did with writing direction, sometimes left-to-right, sometimes right-to-left and sometimes bustrofedon), since in majuscule writing they don't exist, and I'm told there was not really a difference in pronunciation between differently marked words.--Kemm (talk)