Why a lot of war deities were female?
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Why a lot of war deities were female?
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I don't know many pantheons but weren't the female war related gods always more about wisdom and tactics and shit?
thats very broad, more like, deity of the act of war was male, deity of the making of war, that is the circlejerking of planning and strategy, was female
Men will fight harder for a Goddess
Simps
This. Male population has always been >90% simps. Here's your "patriarchy", bro.
I can fix her
Because they inspire movement whereas masculine deities generally look like big rocks physically.
you have to blame someone for bad things
Men lust for war.
cuz there were simps
this is why the Romans had their native war God(s) as Men.
Besides Athena I can’t think of any super relevant examples. Most Indo European cultures had a couple deities for war but I think only in the case of the Greeks a female deity became the principal war deity. And that probably had more to do with the pre-eminence of Athens over anything else.
Bellona, Morrigan, Sekhmet.
Bellona and Sekhmet definitely do not count as principal deities of war. Mars and Montu were both way more important as war deities in Rome and Egypt. I think every polytheistic will have at least one goddess associated with war but that also applies to every other concept that could be worshipped as a god. My point was that really only in the case of the Greeks the most venerated war deity was a woman. I really can’t speak on the case of Morrigan as I really don’t know know much about Irish mythology but that could be a good counterpoint even though I still don’t think that two examples proves a rule.
You’re a moron
>a female deity became the principal war deity
Ares wasn't female Anon
Ares was a war god but more like a blood crazed berserker. Athena was more for structured tactical warfare
>Ares symbolizes the cruel and undignified in war like pain, suffering, cruelty
>Athena stands for the noble aspects like honor, tactics, courage, bravery
Because women were the cause of a lot of war
>if you fight good, this divine waifu will favour you
Maybe because women were what everyone was implicitly fighting the wars for
No the point of wars is stroking the egos of the elites who start them.
That's separate from what the motivation in the minds of the average troops was
It's probably to avoid glorifying or promoting war/aggression.
>war god is an alpha chad
>I wanna be like the alpha chad
>fight wars
>war god is a female
>don't wanna be like a female
>avoid wars
>war god is a female
>i wanna be like the female
>become troony
>get ACK'd by patriarchal conquerors
Athena was like one of the rare cases where it happened. Ares was the god of bloody war while Athena was the goddess of war of finesse.
Athena was such a becky. Real chads worship the stacy Aphrodite.
>chads
>worship
Chads want to live up to apotheosis
Because war and sex go hand in hand in many ancient religions/mythologies. A war goddess is seen as capable in both and is master of both life (giving birth) and death (killing people).
Because both kill a man. One kills a man spiritually (a woman) and the other kills a man physically (war).
we're born out of a woman, it only makes sense that a man should die in the arms of one.