Dante Lot (unseen_miami) wrote in olympian_rewind, @ 2010-05-01 01:21:00 |
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Who: Hades, More....
What: The Memorial Of Zeus
Where: Everglades National Park
When: May 1, 2010. 9:23 PM
Warnings: Extreme amount of handwaving in the beginning. I don't know what a god funeral ritual would be like but he does, so deal with it. Besides, no one could really respond during it even if I did know enough to write it out. Just assume it was creepy and dramatic. Also, scene in process.
The decision of whether or not he would actually have to do the rituals was made for Hades as he had reached the grand tent structure he had had set up for the event in the relative seclude of the national park. One of the family had been there before even he and the body had gotten there. Polyhymnia had been there first, knelt down and waiting.
That was fine. Hades had forgotten his bag of chips in his truck anyway, knowing that at least one person would show up for the first part.
All who came were in for a show they would not forget. It was easy to forget in the modern day that Hades was The Necromantic lord of their Pantheon when he spent his time playing the Wii and chatting on his iPhone, but for the ninety minutes the rituals took place, all of that was far from him. As far as the east was from the west.
The cypress casket had been placed on the pyre. Part of him was glad that Polyhymnia was there early and easily identifiable. It was a Greek ritual after all and he began it with an offering to her and then turned his back to the assembly to begin the unsettling and dramatic ninety minutes at the exact moment of sunset with complete precision of word and act.
It was fitting end for a god king but that wasn't the body that had been washed, wrapped in ceremonial linen and placed inside the casket. Not that it would matter. The body had been wrapped and it wasn't an open casket affair. At 9:22 PM, it truly didn't matter because the pyre was lit and it went up in a vicious blaze.
If there had not been incense and perfumes involved, it would have smelled horrible as the flames began to consume both wood and flesh but as it stood, it was bearable and the breeze that managed to blow through the tent eased it further still.
"[Zeus is gone from us,]" Hades finally declared and turned back to the assembly. "[The dead have had their time, now it is the time for the living and to remember life.]" He pulled off the robe had had worn and folded it over his arm as he straightened his much more causal clothing. In the transition, he reverted to English to further demonstrate the shift in formalities, "This is a memorial. If any one has anything to say or remember about him, now is the time."
Summary: It is the Memorial of Zeus. When an event begins with a dead body, it can only get better from there, right? Right?