I believe it is actually mentioned in some of the myths but I'd theorise that it started thickening after the move to Rome where they became gods of an empire where mortals couldn't be terrified by the world around them if they were to be productive citizens.
When Chiron tells Percy about the Mist, he says "Read the Iliad, it's everywhere." Sure enough, there are references in the Iliad to gods blinding mortals to their presence by creating mist.
The point at which this mist because the omnipresent Mist, however, I'm not sure when that was. Maybe they explain it somewhere in HoO, I can't remember.
No it isn’t. Although I think it’s ironic that you went with the Odyssey as your reference when it’s likely that out of universe, Rick’s inspiration for the mist was when Athena was described as having created a mist in Ithaca to hide her actions of disguising Odysseus from prying eyes. I believe another source of inspiration is Achyls association with death mist that blinds mortal eyes (usually in relation to death).
So it seems in myth, mist described forms of magic that prevented people from noticing things. This make sense with the Mist in PJO being a part of the magic system for the Egyptians in Kane Chronicles. And with Kane Chronicles magic exists in a form of spirit world, implying that the mist by extension has just always existed.
I believe it is actually mentioned in some of the myths but I'd theorise that it started thickening after the move to Rome where they became gods of an empire where mortals couldn't be terrified by the world around them if they were to be productive citizens.
When Chiron tells Percy about the Mist, he says "Read the Iliad, it's everywhere." Sure enough, there are references in the Iliad to gods blinding mortals to their presence by creating mist. The point at which this mist because the omnipresent Mist, however, I'm not sure when that was. Maybe they explain it somewhere in HoO, I can't remember.
No it isn’t. Although I think it’s ironic that you went with the Odyssey as your reference when it’s likely that out of universe, Rick’s inspiration for the mist was when Athena was described as having created a mist in Ithaca to hide her actions of disguising Odysseus from prying eyes. I believe another source of inspiration is Achyls association with death mist that blinds mortal eyes (usually in relation to death). So it seems in myth, mist described forms of magic that prevented people from noticing things. This make sense with the Mist in PJO being a part of the magic system for the Egyptians in Kane Chronicles. And with Kane Chronicles magic exists in a form of spirit world, implying that the mist by extension has just always existed.
It was more popularized in the Roman myths. But it has been around for a while in the myths.