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Since I heard her name I couldn't get the similarities between Galicea (fantasy high) and Galatea (Greek mythology). The myth of Galatea is basically that an incredibly skilled sculptor was incredibly repulsed by the idea that women could speak and express themselves, but he still wanted a girlfriend so he made a marble statue and named her Galatea (Roughly translate to white as milk). But he soon realized that a less comfortable body pillow wasn’t the best option for a fulfilling relationship so he asked Aphrodite for help. The goddess then transformed Galatea into a real woman who, unfortunately, could talk and have emotions and opinions so their whole thing kind of fell apart. All this to say, I think this myth of Galatea where she is only accepted when she follows a very strict set of rules laid out for her by the person who is supposed to love her, has some very intriguing parallels to Galacea the “werewolf moon” goddess, being forced into just “moon” goddess she isn’t by her followers, who only accept her as a restricted version of herself that can’t express the werewolf aspect of her divinity.
I don’t know if this was intentional on Brennan's part, but considering there have been a lot of different parallels with characters with greek myth inspired/adjacent names i wouldnt put it past him. Either way I hope we get to see more interactions between Cassandra and Galicea because I wanna know what their sibling relationship was. Were they on good terms? Was it another Abernant situation? What did Galacea think of Ankarna? How did Galicea react when her sister became the nightmare king? Did she know? I need the rest of the season to drop tomorrow. I swear to god I wanna know everything KNOW!
#fhjy spoilers#galicaea#ankarna#cassandra#If you coment on my spelling on any of these names i'll be upset#or just my spelling/grammar in general#Non first language enligsh/dyslexia combo is rough#kristen applebees#I like greek mythology and the amount of refrences this season is everything to me#I also have some thoughts on Beardsly giving Cassandra the name of the greek myhtological figure WHO WAS LITERALY NEVER BELIVED#Intentional or not#Sure cassandra was cursed to be a prophet that nobody belived to tell the truth#But our Cassandra is a goddes who is having a really hard time making people belive (in) her#Also a goddess of mystery and doubt being named after mythological figure who was doubted#i'll stop with these tags now oml thats a lot
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