The Pantheon

Each figure is a place where a concept lives. Walk the realms, and follow any figure into the tales it appears in.

The Sky

The small allotment open to the lightning: sudden, random, unbounded.

Ouranos: The starry Sky; name and first archetype of the project; The distant sky that cannot be bribed or predicted; Sky and Earth · Born of the Sky · The Founder's Sky · The Imprisoned Thunder
Prometheus: Forethought; the thief of fire; the archetype astrologers give the planet Uranus; The positive Black Swan; the convex payoff, and its daily cost; The Stolen Fire · The Liver That Grows Back · Pandora's Jar
The lightning: Forged by the Cyclopes, the Sky's imprisoned children; wielded by Zeus; The outsized strike; The Imprisoned Thunder · Semele Asks to See the God
The offering: Do ut des: I give so that you may give; The fixed, recurring premium; it buys exposure, not outcome; The Offering
The Golden Fleece: Strabo's fleece laid in the gold-bearing stream; A fixed net left in the current; The Fleece in the Stream
Mars: Gradivus, the one who steps forward; The entry into the convex trade; the pursuit of glory; The One Who Steps Forward
Kairos: The opportune moment, seized by the forelock; The entry that cannot be taken once it has passed; The One Who Steps Forward

The large core kept in the ground: slow, steady, cyclical, durable.

Gaia: The Earth itself; The core portfolio's foundation; Sky and Earth · The Trees That Bear · Typhon Rises
Saturn: The farmer king; discipline, repetition, the tried and true; Governs the garden; the rules; The Farmer King · The Stone in Swaddling Clothes
Demeter: Grain; the freely given gift of agriculture; The garden and its cultivation; The Gift of Grain · The Seasons of Persephone · The Year Nothing Grew · Erysichthon's Hunger
Grain, olive and vine: The Mediterranean triad; Diversification; The Gift of Grain
Persephone: The seasons; Positions have seasons; dormancy is not death; The Seasons of Persephone · The Year Nothing Grew
Ploutos: Wealth, born in a thrice-ploughed field; blind; The visible harvest, distributed without sight; The Blind God of Wealth
Hera's golden-apple tree: Gaia's wedding gift, guarded in the Hesperides; A holding kept for its yield; The Trees That Bear
Athena's olive: Slow-growing; bears for generations; The buy-and-hold holding; The Trees That Bear
Hestia: Keeper of the hearth fire; Cash and the reserve: fire that is kept; The Keeper of the Hearth

The law and the crossings that divide what falls between the two.

Aphrodite Ourania: Born of the Sky; rules the Bull; The bridge: a gift from the sky carried into the enduring core; Born of the Sky · The Founder's Sky
Themis: Divine law; daughter of Sky and Earth; holds the scales; The allocation rules, fixed in advance; The Division of the Fire
The Horai: Keep the cloud-gates of heaven; The cadence at which fire moves between realms; The Division of the Fire
Nemesis: Distribution; trims what outgrows its share; Rebalancing; The Division of the Fire · Narcissus at the Pool
Hermes: God of crossings, commerce and the windfall; Execution: carrying capital between realms, and its toll; The Division of the Fire · Hermes at the Crossroads
Talos: The bronze automaton who circled Crete; The automated system, and its single point of failure; The Bronze Guardian

Myth to Market: what else each figure is famous for, and what that predicts.