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Divine Incest
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Within most of the world's mythologies, incest is near-ubiquitous. Is there a God Couple? More likely than not they're brother and sister. Different explanations have been suggested. Within a Creation Myth context, there's simply no one else who exists yet to get with, and so it may be a simple matter of math. Alternatively, mythology is virtually always an Oral Tradition if you go far enough back, with various different versions getting written down over time. Oral Tradition is known for its inconsistency and Multiple-Choice Past. Family trees often differ between different versions, which is another avenue for this trope to creep in. Another explanation is that as the primordial taboo, incest is also the primordial story. Things that are taboo and forbidden have a lot of cultural and social weight. Regardless of the reason, the prevalence of incest in mythology creates an odd juxtaposition: So much of the world has incestuous gods, yet most of the world also has incest taboos for humans. This is less of a problem than you might think. The idea that gods are supposed to be moral (rather than just powerful) and that they should be bound to human morality specifically, is not universal. In Greek mythology, for example, a stark difference can be seen between the treatment of divine incest (like Cronus and Rhea, or Zeus and Hera) and mortal incest (like Byblis and Caunus, or Oedipus and Jocasta). If human morality is said to be in accordance with the gods' rules, then it's Screw the Rules, I Make Them! Commonly invoked as justification for Royal Inbreeding: Since incest is associated with the gods, doing it as humans is to take on the trappings of the gods. Gods are above the rules, and so too are royals. Or maybe the royals are outright God Emperors. More often that not, the gods in question have corresponding or complimentary domains, such as Solar and Lunar duos. More commonly Brother–Sister Incest, although Parental Incest is not uncommon either. This is not any incest in mythology, it has to be among the supernatural. That said, deity can be a loose category, what with Semi-Divine, Deity of Human Origin, and God-Emperor, so use your judgement. A polytheism-only trope, as it requires at least two gods to exist. Found in Egyptian and Mesopotamian Mythology, making it Older Than Dirt. |
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Dragon Age: Implied within the elven pantheon. Elven myth disagrees on whether Sylaise the Hearthkeeper and June the Craftsman are brother and sister or husband and wife. While the obvious third option is never brought up in-universe, it is assumed that players familiar with this trope in real-world mythology will pick up on it. | |
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COLINA: Legacy: Several notes make references to a heptad of cosmic entities, among which a trio involved in divine incest: The Lady of the Golden Womb gives birth to the Son of the Moon, who rapes his mother and sires another deity named the Moonchild. Despite the Lovecraftian elements of the game, the mythopoeic narrative seems to be a foil to the protagonist Alex's journey to remember his mother's sexual abuse of him. | |
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Njörðr was married to his unnamed sister and they were the parents of Freyr and Freyja. In the Ynglinga saga (found in Heimskringla), it says this was allowed under Vanir laws but forbidden under Aesir law. | |
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In the poem Lokasenna (found in Poetic Edda), Loki accuses Freyja and Freyr of having sex. It's unclear whether or not this is Malicious Slander. Either way, it's clearly riffing off this trope — Freyja and Freyr are a corresponding pair of sibling gods, and so them being a couple would be very much in keeping with the general patterns of mythology. Their Couple Theme Naming even harkens to other examples of the trope, like Izanami and Izanagi or Lahamu and Lahmu. | |
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Riordanverse is all based on mythology, making this an Enforced Trope. The Camp Half-Blood Series is based on Greco-Roman mythology. Almost all of the main characters are demigod children of the Olympians, so they're all related after some fashion. They do date each other. In The Last Olympian, it's handwaved with the following: The Kane Chronicles is based on Egyptian mythology. The books handwaves the incest by saying that the gods' relationships are based on the relationships of the humans hosting them at the time rather than being something innate to the gods themselves. Isis in particular has gone from Osiris' sister to his wife to his daughter, based on the relationship her host has with his. |
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Final Fantasy XIV: The Eorzean Creation Myth says that the first two members of the Twelve were Althyk the Keeper and Nymeia the Spinner, who were both born at seperate times from the Primordial Whorl, technically making them brother and sister. Althyk taught and cared for Nymeia after she came to be, and over time the two fell in love and coupled, giving birth to Azeyma the Warden and Menphina the Lover. | |
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Inheritance Trilogy: The three creator gods Itempas, Enefa and Nahadoth are siblings and also in a polyamorous relationship. Their various children also have sexual relationships with each other as well as with their parents. Human societies shown in the novels have an incest taboo but concede that it doesn't apply to the gods who walk among them. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In the Suel pantheon, Wee Jas and her brother Norebo have been lovers for a thousand years, despite their contrasting philosophies — she's the goddess of law, he's the god of rogues and gambling. Since they're related through an old progenitor god, they might have a looser concept of family than most. | |
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The Kane Chronicles is based on Egyptian mythology. The books handwaves the incest by saying that the gods' relationships are based on the relationships of the humans hosting them at the time rather than being something innate to the gods themselves. Isis in particular has gone from Osiris' sister to his wife to his daughter, based on the relationship her host has with his. | |
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Elden Ring: The demigod Mohg, Lord of Blood, is the son of Godfrey and Queen Marika, the latter of whom is a full goddess. Mohg developed an intense love for his half-brother, Miquella, who is the son of Queen Marika and Radagon, her second husband. Mohg kidnapped the unconscious Miquella from deep within the divine Haligtree and brought the unresponsive demigod to his home deep underground in the Mohgwyn Palace and attempted to start a new dynasty where Miquella would be raised to full godhood with Mohg as his consort. Miquella has proven completely unresponsive to Mohg's advances, and in fact seems to be entirely comatose, though this does nothing to stop Mohg from "sharing his bedchamber." Speaking of Miquella, he and and his twin sister Malenia are both the product of this, because Marika and Radagon are the same person. Can't get more incestuous than that. The twins even received some divine birth defects as a result of said incest. Miquella was permanently stuck in a child's body (although either he or Mohg seem to have found a cure for that, as his comatose body in Mohgwyn Palace is clearly an adult's), while Malenia was chosen as the vessel of the God of Rot (and no, this did not come with the Required Secondary Power of being immune to its effects). |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: The Multiplicity, the Fantasy Pantheon of the universe, consists of 777,777 gods who were all the offspring of the primordial gods YIS and UN, who themselves were created through an act of 'holy division' by The Maker YISUN. Several of them are implied to have married each other, though on the other hand they are not implied to have viewed each other as family in a traditional sense anyway. Confusing the matter even further is how almost all legends of The Multiplicity shows YISUN interacting directly with several of them (including taking several of them as lovers), despite being their origin, and also long dead by the time The Multiplicity came into being. | |
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Since Krapopolis depicts a dysfunctional family in Ancient Greece, this topic comes up quite a lot. Specific examples include Hephaestus being married to Aphrodite; and then when the family is reading the story of Oedipus as a news article, Deliria says it is hardly noteworthy because the idea of Incest and murder is described by her as most of her family tree. | |
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Unsounded: The four creator gods are imagined as siblings; two of them are married, and one version of the Creation Myth takes a decidedly physical interpretation of their activities. Being very much not Physical Gods, the incest element isn't seen as applicable. | |
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Sirena: Gods and dumb animals are free to engage in incest, but humans are not. When the mermaids — the product of an Interspecies Romance between Eros and a parrotfish — were hatched, Eros's lover Rhodope put a curse on them forcing them to live according to the human incest taboo. If a mermaid wants a lover, her only options are human men. Unfortunately, the mermaids' attempts at seduction often end with the man drowning. | |
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Tigana: In the Peninsula of the Palm, a three-god pantheon is worshipped: Adaon ("of the Waves") and Eanna ("of the Names" and "of the Lights") are consorts and brother and sister. They have a daughter, Morian ("of Portals"), who is Adaon's second bride as well. | |
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Star Wars Legends series New Jedi Order: The Yuuzhan Vong sect of the Undying Flame worships Yun-Q'aah and Yun-Txiin, deities whose domain includes "love and hate and all things opposite". Their usual titles are either "The Twins" or "The Lovers". | |
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The Camp Half-Blood Series is based on Greco-Roman mythology. Almost all of the main characters are demigod children of the Olympians, so they're all related after some fashion. They do date each other. In The Last Olympian, it's handwaved with the following: | |
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Transformers: In the "Aligned" continuity (made up of Transformers: War for Cybertron, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Transformers: Prime and Transformers: Rescue Bots), the backstory includes the story of the Thirteen Primes, powerful demigods created by the Transformer creator-god Primus to battle his opposite Unicron. Because of this shared origin, the Thirteen viewed each other as "brothers and siblings." note In-universe narrator Alpha Trion admits that this was the closest term he could come up with for a human audience, and himself is unsure whether or not divine origins really made them related. Solus Prime (the first female Transformer and the blacksmith of the Thirteen) and Megatronus (warrior of darkness) eventually fell in love with each other. Downplayed Trope in that the sibling relationship isn't brought up once Unicron is defeated and their romantic relationship begins to bloom. It's mentioned that Prima, the first Prime and the one closest to their creator Primus in terms of personality, was confused by the idea they could fall in love, but recognised it made them both happy and so let it be. | |
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