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Genealogies that are supplied by piecing together in blindly logical fashion remarks from various mythical couplings and encounters, stitched together without source or setting, produce prattle, which if thoughtlessly carried out to an absurdity finds one listing Orthrus' half-siblings. Myth, like dream, exists in a number of static perceptions of roles or relationships: to set them into "logical" narratives or "sequence" them as anecdotes, or to draw up genealogical charts is less than naive. What can we do with this article but start again? --Wetman 12:11, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- Is it your stance that the genealogical information banally misses the point of the story, or am I misinterpreting you? Trying to expand the article, I googled and found three things: his place in mythology in the tenth labor (which was already covered), and two different parentages. If you think it's non-notable, ugly, banal, or whatever, happily delete or rewrite it. - JustSomeKid 12:29, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Yes, the genealogical information banally misses the point of Orthrus, which is a double for Cerberus. I think JustSomeKid's google results do just about cover Orthrus. Makes a rather brief article. Any objections? --Wetman 16:10, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Any objections to removing the misunderstood relations, such as " Due to his mother's relation to Heracles (taken from Herodotus), his half-siblings include Agathyrsi, Gelonus, and Scytha." These three were the eponyms of various Scythian tribes (Herodotus, Histories iv). Do we all see this connection, that their "half-brother" was a two-headed dog, is zany? --Wetman 03:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
