I'm going to share all of my knowledge of the deadly sins with all you people. I'll tell you the lores and saying they've inspired, along with general information. I'll also talk about my characters who are based off them. So, sit back and enjoy.
gula
(gluttony)
luxuria
(lust)
acedi
(sloth)
invidia
(envy)
avaritia
(greed)
ira
(wrath)
superbia
(pride)
cenodoxia
(vainglory)
apathia
(apathy)
maerens
(melancholy)
Hello everyone! Sinny here, hosting yet another installment of the Ten. It has been a long time indeed. The reason being, I wanted a picture of my character for every post. I haven't been drawning for a while, so I'll just update. As with all the other sins, the information is very brief.
Luxuria
(Lust)
1: intense sexual desire or appetite
2: uncontrolled or illicit sexual desire or appetite; lecherousness
3: a passionate or overmastering desire or craving: a lust for power
4: ardent enthusiasm; zest; relish
In the second spot is the sin known as luxuria, the deadly sin of intense desire. Luxuria was simply used to teach children of yesterday about urges. Very simply, don't act on all your urges because you'll regret it later.
Today nearly everyone is a practicer of luxuria. I'm not talking about just the sex drive, I'm talking more about definitions 3 and 4. What person doesn't have a little lust for power? The business world, the enterainment world, that's all lusting after a form of power. Going to college in itself is lusting after a better life. It's only when we tread on others to get that power or that life that luxuria is harmful in that way. Luxuria as a sexual sin usually ends harmfully. I don't think I even need to elaborate that half.
"She is a cow!"
Have you ever wondered where that phrase came from? It came from this sin. The representory animal of luxuria is a cow. Luxuria today is still tied more to the female gender than the male. We females are either the black widows, or the objects of desire. It's not our fault. The representory color of this sin is blue.
Seven of the ten sins have fasinated the masses for centuries. This would be because the sins only became widely known after the Church claimed them. As I've said, I follow the ten not the seven. There are countless books, movies, and television shows about the seven well known sins. There is even a new short serise on television about the seven.
Because I had a picture of my character, Gula, I will say that my character Luxuria is male.
That's it for the update! Thanks for the massive amount of page views. I can't believe how many I got when I haven't updated in nearly a year.
~Sinny-sama
The legends of the sins pre-date the organization of the Church and Dante. The sins were fables and told to children to teach morals. The great majority of these old fables are lost. Credit for bringing the sins back into light was Dante Alighieri, with his books like Inferno and The Divine Comedy. I'm not excatly sure which of the sins he inclueded but I know it wasn't all ten, at least not all at once. The Church takes credit for the sins now. When they first took the idea they docked off cenodoxia, apathia, and maerens. They're now trying to get some of the strangest things inducted as a deadly sin, like polygomy and homosexuality, but everyone who sees this will know that there are only ten deadly sins; gula, luxuria, acedi, avaritia, invidia, ira, superbia, cenodoxia, apathia, and maerens. The sins the Church preach and take credit for are the Church sins. The Church was also the force that came up with the seven heavenly/cardinal virtues. Truth be told, all of their seven are to fight off only superbia and cenodoxia, no matter what they say. Those are the two most powerful. But the seven heavenly virtues don't really have anything to do with the ten dealy sins from the lost fables. It looks like this is going to be a short post for today.
Just to start out I'll name them off in order:
Anglice:
1.) gluttony
2.) lust
3.) sloth
4.) greed
5.) envy
6.) wrath
7.) pride
8.) vainglory
9.) apathy
10.) melancholy
Latin:
1.) gula
2.) luxuria
3.) acedi
4.) avaritia
5.) invidia
6.) ira
7.) superbia
8.) cenodoxia
9.) apathia
10.) maerens
The sins are placed in that order because it's supposed to be from bad to worst. Cenodoxia, apathia, and maerens are the exceptions since they've been forgotten for centuries. The funny thing is that cenodoxia was the original sin, with apathia and maerens coming into light not long after luxuria and gula. When acedi was added, apathia was omitted. The same thing happened when superbia was added as the seventh and worst with cenodoxia. Superbia is a more general term while cenodoxia isn't, so they can still be seperated. Maerens was the last sin to be kicked out. By this time the Church took the sins as their own and they were now making the rules. They felt that people had a right to mourn. Of course, they had to warm up to the idea by losing someone close to them. So, cenodoxia, apathia, and maerens were omitted by the Church and that's how we got the seven that are known. Pre-date the Church and Dante, there are ten deadly sins.
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