Ancient Greece has always fascinated me. Their cultural achievements are the offspring of a more ruthless era when the virtues of masculinity—rationality, competitiveness, boldness—determined life and death. We don’t live in physically brutal times, but with the constant assault on manhood perpetuated by feminized elites, we’ve got our own problems to deal with. I’ve found that one of the best guards against this is consulting ancient thought. Their myths—particularly one about Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus—are guidelines for men and allegories for red pill concepts such as Alpha Fux Beta Bux.
A Little Mythology Lesson
According to mythology, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, had two notable paramours: Ares, the god of war, and Hephaestus, the god of smithing. She was beautiful beyond compare, and Hephaestus struck gold when he negotiated her hand with Zeus. He built her a spectacular wedding house, and did his best to keep her interested.
Aphrodite’s affection, however, couldn’t be negotiated. She slept with Ares while married to Hephaestus, even bearing multiple children with him. When Hephaestus discovered the infidelity, he trapped both of them in a net while they were sleeping together and paraded them to the Olympians who shamed the two lovers.
Aphrodite’s regret is palpable.
You would think this should convince Aphrodite to quit her ways, but indifferent to Hephaestus’s scheme, she kept seeing Ares. Hephaestus, for his part, remained married to Aphrodite. He never fathered any children with her.
Greece From A Modern Perspective
I traveled to Greece last year, and some of that magic of older times peaked through murky wine glasses or the bangs of a pretty drinking partner who happened to be a local. The place had its ugly sides with disastrous European Union policies, odious Antifa and globalist activism, and migrant crisis, but people there took it with stride, and women were friendly, feminine, and fun.
Some guy friends accompanied me during my trip, and they also fancied the women. Two, however, stood out for their vastly different foreign dating outcomes.
I jokingly referred to one as the sink of the group. He drank like a motherfucker, and his experimentation with drugs bordered on rehab levels. He enjoyed acting like an asshole at times, but hanging out with him always amounted to a good time. That guy, not surprisingly, acquired a harem. He led one girl on, fucked another, and had the other girl literally show him texts the first girl had sent to her about wanting to fuck him, all the while his girlfriend waited patiently back in the states.
My other friend wasn’t so lucky. The nice and faithful Christian man that he was, he fell hard for one girl. She was a seven at best, but he did everything for her, hoping to one day marry her and have a family. I recall him excusing himself from a week-long drive around Greece that we had planned out because of “stomach flu” when in fact he used the week to hang out with her.
She enjoyed dating other guys on the side while always appreciating him as a “great friend.” By the time we left, my friend could spill only bitter words on how he was so done with her and the other women who turned him down (there were a lot). He never did shut up about them, though.
Compare And Contrast
The story of Ares and Hephaestus resonates in my mind while I reflect on my two friends. One poor chap, through fault of his clumsy come-ons and insecurities, earned open contempt from his Aphrodite. Meanwhile, women flocked for another guy who, in spite of his reckless hedonism and obvious promiscuity, impressed with a devil-may-care attitude and dominant personality.
The Aphrodites? All of them acknowledged Ares wasn’t exactly the best choice for a long-term partner, but they would never humor Hephaestus as anything more than a friend. From an objective point of view, both guys wanted the same thing: getting laid. Yet it was their methods that separated desirous intrigue for one and condescending amusement for the other.
It went something like this for Hephaestus.
Closing
Does this parallel runs deeper? Did the Greeks understand sex dynamics and weave narratives to preserve this knowledge? Or was it just a coincidence?
Regardless of intent, the myth did a great job of reinforcing Alpha Fux Beta Bux for me. Whether intentional or not, allegories have staying power in the mind, and are second only to experience in teaching valuable truths. Had Hephaestus known more about Ancient Greece and bothered to read mythology, he might have avoided his blunders and bedded his Aphrodite.
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The biggest parallel is modern day male thirst and the ancient worship of goddesses like Aphrodite or Astarte.
Women have been elevated so much that any space or community that welcomes them starts an inquisition against the men who dare commit the heresies of disagreeing with a woman or sleeping with her(i.e ruining her “pure” image for the other men). Even the pagans in the 14/88’er crowd get angry when you try to enlighten them on why worshiping the “womb” and Valkyries(white women) is beta and self destructive.
Male thirst and Goddess worship is one of the best lies told by the devil. Its one of the strongest driving forces behind destroying mankind, but what makes it so alluring is how easily it can control men.
LOL i’m still suspicious of Weev and Anglin due to their optics, but they are 100% spot on when it comes to tradthots.
Like you don’t trust them (controlled opposition), or you think they’re too extreme?
I don’t really agree with Anglin’s ideas but hes a genius in terms of his prose and is genuinely hilarious. He runs the right really. They are nothing without him, and thus for them he must be stopped by any means possible. For his enemies that is the question of the now.
Somebody in Anglins Movement needs to write like a quran or something as they have no real identity thus far. Somebody very smart. They have nothing deep to offer but a basic aesthetic of whiteness.
Maybe Anglin himself should do it. Maybe God has called Andrew to that position. Whites have never had a religion and now are being sexually genocided and brutally humiliated and destroyed.
without a religious element a movement is but an aesthetic
Controlled opposition when they’ve done and said stuff harmful to the movement like putting up swastika posters on a college campus or making death threats on Gab.
“and that’s what I think about it…
…now give me your shekels instead of Lauren Southern goddamnit.”
i think any other group of women would have tried to take over but white men were just too weak to stop it! A crisis of masculinity lead to this point.
Notice how in the decade after the 2nd world war, many jew¡sh women went foghat mad stirring up a new and obscene precipice of feminism never before seen in hishory. It’s like there were no jew¡sh men controlling them domestically anymore.
Hahahaha stormfront aspies are some of the biggest cucks. They would probably let a Nordic woman peg them.
But it is in their genetics. The Vikings themselves were simps. Nerdics being cucked isn’t a new phenomenon by any means.
This is why Anglos and Spaniards colonized and Scandos did not unless you count New Sweden but who even remembers what that is nor cares?
The official language of New Sweden is English by the way.
I’ve had Sweden pagan types call me beta for supporting Christian patriarchy, while they say its “alpha” to grant women equal rights and treat them as goddesses.
They wonder why nordic countries are turning into the third world…
Nordics have to have the most cucked culture out of all Europe. I don’t think they ever knew what a patriarchy was. Just talk to Nordic men and see how they worship females and talk to Nordic women and see how they just eat it up and provide a reward of sleeping with Abdul as a thank you.
Nordic men are like Asians in that they act like betas, but at least Asian men have systems in place to keep people in line (honor/shame societies). What do Nordics have? An inflated sense of self importance due to elf and warlock stories (basically Nordics invented reclusive D&D culture of perpetual singlehood) and a constant bragging of how they have the hottest chicks to where the endless kowtowing made their women’s pussies drier than the desert Abdul came from.
Nordic men are the type to pimp their women’s genetics and simultaneously be angry when non-White sleep with them. They essentially are masters at cucking themselves. The larping and steampunk virginal hobbies don’t help their cause either.
I have Germanic descent myself but not Scandinavian. Let’s be honest though Northern Europeans for all their achievements are horrible at keeping women in line. Probably the worst out of the entire world. There is a price to be paid for being high IQ at a certain point.
I’ve got no problem with Nordic mythology myself, I love the Viking Sagas and Wagner’s music, but its ultimately junk for morals, and this is the weak spot of Nordics.
Nordic pagans fundamentally believe man and woman are equal, and they think race alone without moral guidance is enough to sustain a culture. They don’t even really believe their D&D bosses, which is why their moral compass(lack of) tolerates degeneracy like human sacrifice, homosexuality, and pussy worship.
Take your average cucked white guy today, and now imagine he fancies himself as some Viking badass warrior because of his cucked values, this is how you get simps like Varg Vikerness who literally tells men to larp as fairy tail heroes to attract women.
I’m proud to be a Slav all the way, Hitler may have called us inferior, but we’re the ones with closed borders in the end.
If White racialists influenced the (((media))), White women wouldn’t be as shitty.
Word !
This is a popular fallacy that even feminist believe. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Goddess_movement#Female_gods_don.27t_mean_high_status_for_actual_women
Worshiping female gods DOES NOT lead to putting actual women on a pedestal. Most cultures throughout human history prayed to both male and female gods yet they were far more red-pilled than the modern west. In contrast, both chivalry and feminism are creations of the (Post) Christian West. Christianity, a religion that worships a conventionally male (but essential non-gendered/aseuxal according to traditional Abrahamic theology) God, is easily the most beta of all the 8 major religions on Earth today when it comes to women. You ever wondered why feminism is most successful in historically christian countries?
Man must work work out and have confidence and belief of abundance of woman and money. That way u won’t sell your self cheap.
I can’t blame Hephaestus for getting cucked inasmuch as for serving such a pathetic punishment. As if parading around the God of War with the hottest known woman in the universe was going to make them look bad.
He should have either left her to be a single mom, or he could have dared to kill Ares’ bastard children and lock Aphrodite up in a sex dungeon.
Greek myth truly is as raw as it is spectacular. I need to properly study those ancient stories sometime.
You should. This is just the tip of the iceberg with Greek Mythology.
You know what happened to Penelope’s maids in ‘The Odyssey’ for sleeping with her suitors in Odysseus’ absence , don’t you ? Their punishment was :
Though Telemachus’ instructions were clearly to kill them with their swords, he must believe he can do better, because after cleaning the mess from the battle, the women are lined up and hanged one by one –
Then, as doves or thrushes beating their wings
against some snare rigged up in thickets–flying in
for a cozy nest but a grisly bed receivs them–
so the women’s heads were trapped in a line,
nooses yanking their necks up, one by one
so all might die a pitiful, ghastly death…
they kicked up heels for a little–not for long (491-500)
The inception of Homosexuality began in Greece too. Knuckle draggers
one of the consequences of democracy and too much time on their hands
its interesting that the men were initiating the degeneracy, they could do whatever they wanted, but women were expected to be virgins until marriage
they gamed themselves into paedophilia….
This is actually some crucial insight into a subject that I’ve been wondering about lately: we hear a lot about the sexual perversions and insanity during Greek and Roman times, but seldom do we see a chronological analysis of WHEN these behaviors appeared. Were these behaviors ALWAYS a part of Greek and Roman society, or did they only appear later on as these societies degenerated into oblivion?
this was present in ancient greece even in their early and ‘golden’ age
they were free to explore both mind and body, so they ‘invented’
philosophy and pederasty at the same time
Heartily recommend the book “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization.”
Certain parts of Greece. From my knowledge, the Spartans didn’t practice homosexuality or pederasty.
oh they did
its been said
Fucking sluts
Excellent article. Really nice that you are have the mythological description as a backdrop and links it to your own experiences, that even have taken place in Greece.
Thanks. I learned as much as I enjoyed myself in Greece.
Whereas the first men were nomads who lived close to nature, with agriculture came the stockpiling of wealth (cities) and the need to defend the fertile bottomlands (organized warfare) and the rulers who would administer the accumulated wealth of the Earth Mother Kings. Yes, kings. Kings are men who wear dresses, a type of garment which is certainly not suited for tracking lions or chasing deer. Kings are men
who enjoy sedentary lives amassing jewels and shiny minerals in the manner of women. Kings tax farmers for their supposed protection, bicker over territory, and raise armies of boys who fight for glory as the king and his women watch from a hillside.
Kings were the first manginas.
Kings institutionalized female values.
This article does nothing but worship R-selected trashy behavior from both males and females.
R-selected people should be genocided out of existence to save western civilization, not put a pedestal.
I have a little different take on this “alpha fux / beta bux” paradigm.
As long as the “beta” (or Gamma, or Omega, Epilson whatever) doesn’t get married, and trains himself not to care about the girl, then isn’t is possible that Mr. Beta is cucking the “alpha”? Think of it this way. Some muscleheaded “bad boy” with a pretty face and 100 IQ can’t make enough money to support a 9 or 10, so she has to find a client(s) to support her. And maybe this type of girl is so desperate for cash she’ll do just about anything for a big tip from Mr. Beta Moneybags. And if moneybags gets her drunk enough, she might just do things with him that she wouldn’t even let musclehead do.
As long as beta/omega doesn’t lose his head and start caring about the girl, he’s cucking the alpha. He’s got to have cash though. Without that, none of this is possible.
Actually no. The alpha is not married to the girl and would just ditch her. He couldn’t care less and just get another girl to bed. The beta in your scenario has to pay for sex with the 9 while the alpha has the 9 throw herself at him.
@ J. Hue
Never said anything about being married.
I said girlfriend.
What kind of a man is a lazy, low IQ loser that can’t support a female? The answer is not a man at all. Muscles, tattoos and a motorcycle may look real cool, but they don’t pay the bills.
In case you didn’t get my innuendo, I was speaking about myself in the above post. I can’t even count how many times I have ragged on an escort’s “boyfriend”. Trashed his “masculinity” for being a lazy, good for nothing lump of shit that can’t support her. Have even brought girls to tears doing this (when I no longer wanted to see them, of course). And these girls treat me like a king in bed. The more $$$ I throw at them, the more they do for me. I don’t want to get into details here, but some of this stuff is way over the top. They may “throw themselves” at an alpha, but what does that really mean? She gives him a BJ and they ‘F’ a few times and maybe he spanks and chokes her, but that’s after she comes home from doing all that + a whole lot more with me.
BTW I am no beta. I am an outlier. Omega perhaps? I have used that term for many years, but have been told that may not be an apt description for myself.
My point is this: there is hope for even the lowliest, skinniest Omega. Put down the video games, turn off the internet porn and use your high IQ to get a STEM degree and a high paying job. Then use that money to bang as many hot young girls as you can. Is it as “cool” as having girls throw themselves at you? No, it is not. But its still pretty damn good, and it beats the shit out of the alternative. And like I stated above, you can still get your pound of flesh when the situation arises.
Penelope’s maid’s punishment for sleeping with Odysseus’ wife’s suitors – far harsher than what Hephaestus doled out :
They were all hanged on a single rope –
“Then, as doves or thrushes beating their wings
against some snare…
…so the women’s heads were trapped in a line,
nooses yanking their necks up, one by one
so all might die a pitiful, ghastly death…
they kicked up heels for a little–not for long” (491-500)
Grisly, but to be expected. The Greeks were not forgiving or mortal infidelity.
Check out the story of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and their son Orestes. Also enlightening.