Talk:Broteas

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I WOULD LIKE THE RECORD TO SHOW that the line of Tantalus was cursed by the death of children in suspiciously human sacraficic settings...

1) Son Broteus (cf. Brutus of Troy) was sacraficed by fire, with a "mythic rationalle" cover story (see main article)

2) Son Pelops was not only sacraficed, but carved up into a stew

3) Daughter Niobe had 14 children, Tantalus' grandchildren, all of whom were killed... could it be that they too were sacraficed (and possibly canabaalized?) and that her "hubris" against the Gods was merely another Broteus-style "mythic rationalle"?

All of Tantalus' children and grandchildren died in suspiciously human sacraficic ways. Daughter Niob e married Amphion of THEBES... which shortly thereafter became the focus of massive Greek hatred that boiled over in the "Seven Against Thebes" — note the Godly Divine 7 — and the "War of the Epigonoi" that resulted in Thebes being raized and sown with salt, as the Romans would do to the human sacraficic Carthaginians later.

Perhaps now you can empathize with just what was pissing off the Greeks. The Wars against Thebes were at the same time as the Trojan War and the fights of Theseus, Perseus and Heracles against human sacraficic "Sea Monsters" and Minotaurs, possibly a mythic element for dominating foreign powers that exacted human tribute from the Greeks.

Hu-rah to the Greeks, even though nobody today remembers what they did. It would seriously suck to, mythologically and metaphorically speaking, have Tantalus for a father.