Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170430155022/@comment-25936766-20170502002755

PisceanWaterbender wrote: That's not even mentioning the multiple versions of the same story. If I remember correctly (probably don't, so take this with a grain of salt), there were several versions of the story where Osiris and Isis fathered Horus, and Set was married to Nepthys, but in a whole other story, the 5 were siblings. Except they were always, in all stories and all their versions, siblings. They were siblings from the start.

Which is no more and no less "mentally scarring" than traditional incest was. Marriage between relatives, even siblings, was a common practice in ancient times, and it only truly disappeared for the most part just a few centuries ago.

"For the most part" because some cultures still retain the practice, and even multiple nations nowadays still allow marriage between relatives to some extents. Multiple states in the US, for example, allow marriage between cousins.

And that, friends, is part of the reason why royal families tend to hold the genes for bad diseases, particularly the Russians and hemophilia. Inbreeding. Russians? A disease?