Help with Greek gods – how would Artemis and Zeus talk on IM?

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1. X Y says:

   September 1, 2009 at 1:09 pm

   Here is a description of Artemis asking her father for gifts from a hymn:

   "Of Artemis we hymn – no light thing is it for singers to forget her – whose study is the bow and the shooting of hares and the spacious dance and sport upon the mountains; beginning with the time when sitting on her father’s knees – still a little maid – she spake these words to her sire [Zeus]: ‘Give me to keep my maidenhood, Father, forever: and give me to be of many names, that Phoibos [Apollon] may not vie with me. And give me arrows and a bow – stay, Father, I ask thee not for quiver or for mighty bow: for me the Kyklopes will straightway fashion arrows and fashion for me a well-bent bow. But give me to be Phaesphoria (Bringer of Light) and give me to gird me in a tunic with embroidered border reaching to the knee, that I may slay wild beasts. And give me sixty daughters of Okeanos for my choir – all nine years old, all maidens yet ungirdled; and give me for handmaidens twenty Nymphai Amnisides [of the Amnisos River in Krete] who shall tend well my buskins, and, when I shoot no more at lynx or stag, shall tend my swift hounds. And give to me all mountains; and for city, assign me any, even whatsoever thou wilt: for seldom is it that Artemis goes down to the town. On the mountains will I dwell and the cities of men I will visit only when women vexed by the sharp pang of childbirth call me to their aid – even in the hour when I was born the Moirai (Fates) ordained that I should be their helper, forasmuch as my mother suffered no pain either when she gave me birth or when she carried me win her womb, but without travail put me from her body.’
   So spake the child and would have touched her father’s beard, but many a hand did she reach forth in vain, that she might touch it [in supplication]. And her father smiled and bowed assent. And as he caressed her, he said: ‘When goddesses bear me children like this, little need I heed the wrath of jealous Hera. Take, child, all that thou askest, heartily. Yea, and other things therewith yet greater will thy father give thee. Three times ten cities and towers more than one will I vouchsafe thee – three times ten cities that shall not know to glorify any other god but to glorify the only and be called of Artemis And thou shalt be Watcher over Streets and harbours.’ So he spake and bent his head to confirm his words.

   She recruited her nymphs from the forest, went to the cyclopes for her bow and arrows, went to Pan for her hounds, and captured a deer for her chariot.

   Hope that helps.
2. Jennifer M says:

   September 1, 2009 at 1:09 pm

   Zues: Umm… hello? Who is this?
   Artemis: Your daughter
   Zues: I have a lot of daughters kid, on account of me being such a player, what is your name?
   Artemis: My name is Artemis, anyway I wanted to ask u if I can borrow some items
3. borris the bat says:

   September 1, 2009 at 1:09 pm

   I think the Olympus broadband connection is down this month. They have had terrible problems getting the fiber-optics up the steep hills. No chance of IM. They would have to use cell-phones.