King of the Gods

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The idea that Zeus should represent Bitcoin seemed fairly obvious to me. This was the jumping off point for the whole series. Zeus was the King of the Gods and led the Gods in their overtaking of the Titans. He is the most well, known of the Olympian Gods.

Bitcoin has been the leader of the crypto-space since the beginning. When Bitcoin goes up, the whole market goes up. When it falls, the whole market feels it. When they implemented the lightning network, the whole Zeus parallel solidified for me.

 

God of the Vine

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I chose to represent Ethereum with the Greek God Dionysus. Some of the main characteristics that stood out to me from the Ethereum project were that there was one main “Vine” or blockchain in which all the other tokens branched off from. Dionysus is associated with the vine, grape harvest, and wine-making. The creation of smart contracts running on the blockchain adds a beautiful alchemy to Ethereum. I like the metaphor of the grape being the tokens created on the network and the wine being the smart contracts that use them. There is an art to the alchemy and one wrong move can lead the whole thing to being spoiled.

There are also some interesting parallels that make the Dionysus/Ethereum pairing work. Does anyone remember the ICO fervor from 2017? Where people bought into ICOs like drunken fools? There is also the interesting birth story of Dionysus being twice born, and interesting parallel to the blockchain rollback that occurred very early in Ethereum’s infancy as a result of the DAO hack that occured.

The Goddess

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In Greek Mythology, Athena was born from her father Zeus’ head. Athena was the God of Warfare, Wisdom, and handicraft. Athena was known as Atrytone (Άτρυτώνη “the Unwearying”), Parthenos (Παρθένος “Virgin”), and Promachos (Πρόμαχος “she who fights in front”).

Litecoin started as a clone of Bitcoin. Seeing as it was a lighter, smaller coin, it served as the testing ground for new ideas and technology that the Bitcoin ecosystem was too large to try out. It was the coin that was on the front lines of experimentation and tackling new problems head-on. The warrior goddess that led soldiers into battle seemed like the perfect fit.

The Unseen One

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Hades seemed like the obvious choice for Monero. What started as the fungible crypto choice of the underworld has evolved into an incredible technological achievement in it’s own right. It holds dominion over privacy-centric cryptos.

A fierce protector of the souls in his realm, he strictly forbade anyone leaving his domain. Much like how Monero’s main goal is to ensure the anonymity of it’s transaction history. As stated in the Hades Wiki, “He was also referred to as Zeus katachthonios (Ζεὺς καταχθόνιος),[21] meaning “the Zeus of the Underworld”, by those avoiding his actual name, as he had complete control over the Underworld.[22]” Seeing as Monero isn’t just another Bitcoin clone, it needed to be represented by a Greek God that wasn’t beholden to another God. So I chose Hades, brother of Zeus.