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Also the tomb is on Kobol, home of the gods, the implication being that it was built the gods, especially if we take Boomer's bit about Athena topping herself by diving off a cliff literally.
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of course, the Tomb of Athena might not actually be where Athena's body was kept.. that might just be the name given to it over time, because it looks like a tomb and is related to Athena.
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The Greek gods are very specifically not immortal, at least not in the sense of being able to live in the mortal realm forever and ever no matter what. Sure, they pass into the underworld and live on there, but then so do you.
No idea if anyone ever built a "Tomb of Cronus," though.
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I'm sure they just stuffed his carcass down the laundry chute.
As for the non-Stargate Cronos, wasn't he imprisoned in Tartarus, rather than killed? One would think that one would require the other, but as I recall Tartarus was more of a hold all pen for the nasty types that Zeus didn't want roaming the Earth than an actual afterlife kinda place.
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Tartarus is hell. Some stories put Cronus in there, others, if I recall correctly, have him in the paradisiacal Elysian Fields.
But both of these places, among others, are in Hades, which is as afterlife as you can get. If you want to argue that the existence of an afterlife, especially one you can maybe come back from, rather mutes the whole notion of death I won't disagree with you, but that's the size of it.
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I was never clear on the exact nature of Tartarus. Somehow I thought it was the deepest darkest level of the underworld, the foundations of the world (Gia?) if you will and that Hades had the bit right above that. Mind you it's been a while since I read up on the subject so I won't be surprised if it's just my wandering memory.
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Well, even Greek mythographers themselves weren't clear on the exact nature of the underworld, since it sometimes consists of three distinct layers (Elysion, Hades, and Tartaros) and some other times just of Hades, with Elysion and Tartaros being regions in Hades, so, erh, if you're planning to go there, bring a map. B)
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