Current wisdom suggests that the first complex organism evolved many moons ago (600 million years or so, give or take) by two single cells bumping heads, and joining together. Imagine that; over two billion years of single cells – gizillions of them - going about their daily business, and then, for no apparent reason, two of them get stuck together. It must have sent shockwaves through the cell community. Never before – anywhere in the universe as far as we know – had such an event occurred. What a brazen leap! And then the damned thing had the cheek to started reproducing. Suddenly we have plants, and then fish, amphibians, mammals, lizards and birds. A short six million years ago our first human ancestor appears. And the rest, as they say, is history. Sounds pretty fanciful, doesn’t it? Evolution. If it weren’t supported by years of research and study, you wouldn’t believe it. But there it is, the details may be tweaked and clarified, but we can be fairly certain that t
Zeus and Hera: the Ross and Rachel of the Pantheon. From the moment she emerged out of their father’s stomach, covered in blood and slime, Zeus had lusted after his older sister. But Hera wasn’t an easy catch; she had morals (of a fashion), and so Zeus had been ‘forced’ to consider other, easier, options. Time and time again Zeus pursued his sister. Time and time again, she refused him. But he wasn’t to be deterred. By hook or by crook, he would have his way. After testing the whole marriage thing out with a few others (check out 'We need to talk about Zeus' Parts 1 and 2), Zeus decided that he was ready. He was a man. A powerful man with powerful friends. A man who knew how to take care of business. A man who could destroy worlds as easily as he could create them. A man who had the world at his feet - literally. A man who was going places. What woman in her right mind could deny such a man? With the same blindness that afflicts a lot of powerful men, Zeus th