2006-09-10 07:10:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
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no she means gods
ichor-the rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods and was a mineral that was present in the blood of the gods and helped keep them immortal.
When a god was injured and bled, the ichor made their blood poisonous to mortals, so a mortal couldn't use the Ichor and become immortal
Ichor is also another, rarely used name for bile, and the name for the yellowish-green colour of bile.
2006-09-10 07:22:57 · answer #1 · answered by Myth 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its used for some other things too. I have read that doctors use the name for runny, smelly pus that comes from rotting wounds. In vampire stories they somnetimes say ichor is the vampire's blood. (dead blood) Ichor like the stuff running in a god's veins is something like that. In my opinion it is called that to show us that a god is not human in any way.
2006-09-10 14:21:16 · answer #2 · answered by Joyce R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia:
Ichor is also another, rarely used name for bile, and the name for the yellowish-green colour of bile.
In Greek mythology, ichor (Greek á¼°ÏÏÏ) is the mineral that is the Greek gods' blood, sometimes said to have been present in ambrosia or nectar. When a god was injured and bled, the ichor made his or her blood poisonous to mortals.
The term ichor has also been used to describe the blood in a vampire's veins. Whereas many vampire stories and movies describe them as having reddish or dark red blood, others describe vampire blood as being different from human blood altogether - an ichor that is traditionally dark green in color.
H.P. Lovecraft often used ichor in his descriptions of other-worldly creatures, most prominently in his nightmarish detail of the chimeric remains of Wilbur Whateley, in "The Dunwich Horror".
The term ichor is often misused in fantasy contexts by authors trying to find a different word for "blood" or "ooze", to the point that it has become cliché. Author Ursula LeGuin, in "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie", calls the term “the infallible touchstone of the seventh-rate."
The german rock band Atrocity (band) has a music called Ichor, in his Album Atlantis, a project of the lost land. In the song Ichor was described as the "blood of gods".
Ichor has also been used in science fiction as an alien substitute for blood, as in Garth Nix's book Shade's Children, in Warhammer 40k Tyranids have Blach Ichor, and the Halo series of novels. Additionally, in the Dragonriders of Pern novel series, Anne McCaffrey refers to the blood of the alien (but genetically enhanced by humans) Pernese dragons as ichor.
2006-09-10 14:17:55 · answer #3 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Only the Greeks could have come up with something like that, they were relentlessly anthropocentric (man-centred), most other gods don't take similarity to humans that far.
It's just supposed to be the god's blood, how would humans know what it is, and any bit of divine substance would be deadly for us lesser beings, just because we would be overwhelmed by it.
Sacrilegious too, getting at a god's blood had to be punished.
2006-09-10 14:20:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"when the Gods were injured and bleed, they bled Ichor". Wow, I thought Gods were stronger than that! But as BLiar (Blair) would say "weak, weak, weak"
2006-09-10 14:30:16 · answer #5 · answered by reggaeboi 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
come on Zeus... answer the question... we're waiting...
2006-09-10 14:17:16 · answer #6 · answered by Friendly Neighbor 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you mean 'dogs' my dear??
2006-09-10 14:16:40 · answer #7 · answered by Apple Crumble(Devils Advocate) 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Where did you get that non-sense from. Someone has been filling your head with LIES. Please try protect yourself from people like that....
2006-09-10 14:21:51 · answer #8 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋