Poll of the Day > Mythology

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My favorite are probably Roman but Greek and Norse have some good ones also
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Modern
Book of Job, Chapters 38-41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZqRX-HYpcI
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I think the Greek gods were taken from Roman gods.

Paganism was/is great then. No one really took it too seriously either. They were more like mascots.

jamieyello3 posted...

I think the Greek gods were taken from Roman gods.

I really hope this is a joke.
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GrimCyclone posted...

Modern
Book of Job, Chapters 38-41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZqRX-HYpcI

Why would you quote the book of job? That's the dumbest part of the Bible.

I was in a play about the book of job once. It's a story about how Satan and God were hanging out one day, then Satan told god he could get job to curse him, so they made a bet and God let Satan murder Job's family to see if Job would curse him.

The whole thing treats Job's family as an asset that belonged to Job. Like god just murdered a whole family over a bet.

I'm torn between Greek and Norse. I think I like Norse more but am more familiar with Greek.
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The one where the creation myth was that the god spilled his seed aka wanking, and humanity or something sprung from it.
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Claude_Frollo posted...

jamieyello3 posted...

I think the Greek gods were taken from Roman gods.

I really hope this is a joke.

Hence why I was unsure.

jamieyello3 posted...

Claude_Frollo posted...

jamieyello3 posted...

I think the Greek gods were taken from Roman gods.

I really hope this is a joke.

Hence why I was unsure.

Greek and Roman are basically identical. Romans took Greek and changed names and added to it.

I actually knew that but I got the original one mixed up.

jamieyello3 posted...

I actually knew that but I got the original one mixed up.

50/50. Coulda happened to anyone.
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Greek.
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Lil69Leo posted...

Greek and Roman are basically identical. Romans took Greek and changed names and added to it.

The Romans had their own mythology, but it was a lot more simplistic, and most of it sort of fell by the wayside once they started to absorb the Greek worldview. Most of what we think of as Roman mythology is just Greek with the serial numbers filed off.

That being said, Romans would occasionally interpret the stories in slightly different ways, because their culture inherently valued different things and saw the world in a different light from the original Greeks. In a way, it's very similar to how modern culture tends to interpret those stories in our own way, because we're looking at them through a different lens as well. While the Roman "Mars" is basically just the Greek "Ares", the Romans viewed him a lot differently than the Greeks did. Sometimes the fusion of two pre-existing figures would result in a god very different from how the Greeks would have seen them.

(Incidentally, the same thing happened in reverse with Egyptian myth - a lot of what we know about it today isn't necessarily what the Egyptians themselves would have believed originally, as much as it is a syncretic hybrid of original Egyptian with the mythos of the Greeks... nearly every name we think of when we think Egyptian gods is actually the Greek version of their names)

To throw even more of a monkey wrench into things, though, there's also Etruscan mythology to consider, which was closely related to the original Latin/Roman, but had its own distinctions and variations. As well as the fact that Greek myth occasionally borrowed elements from outside cultures as well, like absorbing Cybele from eastern lands.


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Greek myths boil down to someone, be it a mortal or Zeus himself (and rarely anyone in between) not being able to keep it in their pants.

Judo-Christian stories are a lot like dungeons or raids in a MMORPG: "Hey, don't do this one thing." "We did the thing." "Aannnd smited..."

I may not have learned all there is to know of the others, but they seem to vary a fair deal more thematically.
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Greek, out of those options. Granted,a lot of mythologies have been left off the table.

Entity13 posted...

Greek myths boil down to someone, be it a mortal or Zeus himself (and rarely anyone in between) not being able to keep it in their pants.

It was a groovier time.
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Why no Hindu?
Those are easily the best ones.

jamieyello3 posted...

It's a story about how Satan and God were hanging out one day, then Satan told god he could get job to curse him, so they made a bet and God let Satan murder Job's family to see if Job would curse him.

That's what satans are in the bible yes, those send by god to test people.
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Greek is super overrated.
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I prefer Norse Mythology, but the greeks have the most extense and most known one.
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Entity13 posted...

I may not have learned all there is to know of the others, but they seem to vary a fair deal more thematically.

Norse myth is basically "We live in a really shitty, bleak place, therefore, the universe is a shitty, bleak universe. Also, everyone and everything is pretty much fucked. So let's get drunk."


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Of those listed, I guess Greek. It's the Married: With Children of mythology, and that's awesome!

Native American was tempting just because of how cool the Popuh Vul and legend of the Hero Twins is in Mayan mythology, but that's not enough to carry it. Xibalba is the coolest underworld ever, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba

Japanese deities themselves don't really interest me, but that mythology probably has the best list of creatures.

Hindu myths are pretty crazy, it's basically sci-fi before there was sci-fi.

I'm not too familiar, but I've heard Celtic...in particular Irish myths...have some over the top stories.

Judeo-Christian/Islam myths are pretty dull. Main story I like from them is Sampson, that dude was a badass. I guess the Exodus is pretty good, too.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Entity13 posted...

I may not have learned all there is to know of the others, but they seem to vary a fair deal more thematically.

Norse myth is basically "We live in a really shitty, bleak place, therefore, the universe is a shitty, bleak universe. Also, everyone and everything is pretty much fucked. So let's get drunk."

I mean, the Christian idea is literally that the world is suffering until you get to heaven.
Every religion follows the "the world is crap".