|
|
Post by Bannanachair on Apr 8, 2017 8:40:55 GMT -4
This was nearly posted on the Roleplay Talk board, but I figured that I had enough threads there for the time being and that I could remove the aspects of this thread relating to potential future roleplays for now until I upload the two roleplays that I have promised, and even then I don't know what roleplay I would write with this thread. So recently this video appeared in my suggestions feed and it left me with two main impressions. The first was that the ability to just jump into water and turn into a salmon would be absolutely awesome and I wish I could do that. The second thing that it left me with, though, was an agreement with something said on the periphery of the video about how everyone knows about Greek mythology and increasingly Norse mythology, and most people probably also know about Egyptian mythology, but nobody knows about any other ancient mythologies. They advocate Irish mythology, which is really cool and interesting, but don't quite seem to realize how many mythologies there are that are just ignored by people at large. How often, for instance, do you think about ancient Olmec, Finnic, Turkic or Nakh mythology compared to Greek, Egyptian and Norse mythology? If you think that Olmec, Finnic, Turkic and Nakh are less established in the popular consciousness due to cultural differences, then how often do you think about ancient Gaulish, Anglo-Saxon, Slavic or Akkadian/Assyrian mythologies - hell, how often do you think of the still-alive-and-thriving relgions of Taoism, Zoroastrianism and Hinduism? There are so many religions and mythologies and pantheons from throughout human history that it begs the question - which one is your favourite of them all, and which one do you think is the most underrated? To avoid religious squabbles let's not discus any religions that are still alive (ignore my earlier mentions of Taoism, Hinduism and Zoroastrianism). |
|
|
|
Post by Duck14 on Apr 8, 2017 9:32:31 GMT -4
By Anicent Anglo-Saxons are you referring to the Celts and Picts?
|
|
|
|
Post by Bannanachair on Apr 8, 2017 9:47:57 GMT -4
By Anicent Anglo-Saxons are you referring to the Celts and Picts? The beginning of the middle ages (and thus the end of antiquity) is a fuzzy thing to define. Sure, "the fall of the Roman Empire" seems like a good place to start, but that could mean different things to different people. Is it when Rome left Britain? When the Visigoths and the Vandals sacked Rome? After the conquests of Justinian and when the Romans were kicked out of Rome once more? By most of those definitions the earliest part of Anglo-Saxon history, at least the pre-Christian part of their history, may be considered part of antiquity. I meant Anglo-Saxons specifically, but the Romanized Britonnic Celts and the Picts are equally valid examples of the point that I'm discussing. |
|
Dex
Themes
Time to help the one who ends realize the errors of their ways.
Posts: 5,318 
|
Post by Dex on Apr 8, 2017 14:05:38 GMT -4
Probably going to be the unoriginal one and say Ancient Greek and Roman mythology, I mean they were the coolest. Sure the Vikings have Thor and their Valhalla but the Greeks man. They actually made you have to do something great to get into the best afterlife, all the gods were constantly fighting and they all had big egos. Mainly I think they're cool because of the Percy Jackson books but also because of the times I binge-read wikipedia articles to build my schizophrenic pantheon.
|
|
|
|
Post by Death on Apr 8, 2017 15:42:35 GMT -4
|
|
|
|
Post by hygenisthygenist on Apr 8, 2017 19:32:16 GMT -4
I am hesitant to call this a mythology (because people still practice this religion today)but the Mandaeans have a neato take on both Christian and Jewish Scripture...
|
|
|
|
Post by Bannanachair on Apr 8, 2017 20:27:40 GMT -4
Is it possible for you to have an entire conversation not about Warhammer 40k? |
|
|
|
Post by Death on Apr 9, 2017 3:58:53 GMT -4
Is it possible for you to have an entire conversation not about Warhammer 40k? Indeed it is- there's just a surprising amount of funny shit that people make for warhammer 40,000 that it's hard to keep it under my hat. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 8:06:44 GMT -4
Mesoamerican mythology is pretty interesting across the board. Sky gods and blood gods and all that.
|
|
|
|
Post by Bannanachair on Apr 9, 2017 8:10:42 GMT -4
I am hesitant to call this a mythology (because people still practice this religion today)but the Mandaeans have a neato take on both Christian and Jewish Scripture... Are they even technically Abrahamic, given, well, their views on Abraham? |
|
|
|
Post by Bannanachair on Apr 9, 2017 8:17:24 GMT -4
Mesoamerican mythology is pretty interesting across the board. Sky gods and blood gods and all that. Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture is grossly misrepresented as having constant human sacrifice. Sure, there was a time when the Aztecs sacrificed people every day, but I've heard "one thousand people must be sacrificed per day in order for the sun to rise, according to Aztec mythology" and other ridiculously exaggerated bullshit like that. Taking into account that some people seem to think that all Mesoamericans were the same ("Incas, Aztecs, Mayans - those are just different names for the same people, right?" is something that I've actually heard before) and it gets a really bad reputation. Added to those myths of human sacrifice at levels that would seem grotesquely self-destructive is the fact that basically nobody (aside from those who study it for a living) knows anything else of Mesoamerican mythologies, aside from that whole 2012 hoax that the world proceeded to forget about. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 21:54:41 GMT -4
Mesoamerican mythology is pretty interesting across the board. Sky gods and blood gods and all that. Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture is grossly misrepresented as having constant human sacrifice. Sure, there was a time when the Aztecs sacrificed people every day, but I've heard "one thousand people must be sacrificed per day in order for the sun to rise, according to Aztec mythology" and other ridiculously exaggerated bullshit like that. Taking into account that some people seem to think that all Mesoamericans were the same ("Incas, Aztecs, Mayans - those are just different names for the same people, right?" is something that I've actually heard before) and it gets a really bad reputation. Added to those myths of human sacrifice at levels that would seem grotesquely self-destructive is the fact that basically nobody (aside from those who study it for a living) knows anything else of Mesoamerican mythologies, aside from that whole 2012 hoax that the world proceeded to forget about. I can't claim to be any kind of expert on Mesoamerican mythology, but I have a decent bit of knowledge on the subject. The cultures were different, but generally speaking, the Mesoamerican pantheon had some very similar themes no matter where you went. There was a lot of emphasis on nature, and both the helpful and harmful effects of it. Many gods were depicted as basically chaotic nuetral. Basically equally good and evil. Appeasement and reverence were what most Mesoamerican religions believed would sate the gods, and prevent them from fucking everyone over with some kind of massive flood or tornado. Human sacrifices were almost never from their own people, for that matter, but from slaves and war prisoners. If I remember correctly as well, the Incans had mire of an emphasis on the earth, and the Aztecs looked more to sky gods, but take that statement with a grain of salt. Can't say I know much about the Mayans, or the Mesoamerican kingdoms nobody remembers, like the Olmecs or the Zapotecs |
|
|
|
Post by Tikobe on Apr 9, 2017 22:57:33 GMT -4
I suppose some of my favorites would be Russian, Norse and Egyptian mythologies.
Another one would probably be Christian and Jewish mythologies (Would they be mythologies? Eh, who cares). I don't mean just the Noah of Ark and Jesus and stuff, I mean things like the Book of Revelations. I may be a Christian and so even I think there isn't there could be a little bias in this statement, but I do think that we often move away from such things because we consider them "normal" and part of our everyday lives and we ignore some really obscure and interesting material to work with there.
|
|
|
|
Post by Death on Apr 10, 2017 10:13:14 GMT -4
Greece mythology was always interesting. Celtic mythology was also interesting. I mean, the Morrigan is a cool af God imo.
|
|
|
|
Post by Duck14 on Apr 10, 2017 11:43:50 GMT -4
Greece mythology was always interesting. Celtic mythology was also interesting. I mean, the Morrigan is a cool af God imo. Oh yeah, The Morrigan is pretty great. I'm also a fan of Arawn. |
|
|
|
Post by hygenisthygenist on Apr 10, 2017 15:03:46 GMT -4
I am hesitant to call this a mythology (because people still practice this religion today)but the Mandaeans have a neato take on both Christian and Jewish Scripture... Are they even technically Abrahamic, given, well, their views on Abraham? I'd err on the side of... no on a technicality. They're clearly related traditions, as they do believe Abraham was a real person (to my knowledge). But But if you mean Abrahamic in the sense of the belief that Abraham's status as a prophet is legitimate, then they are clearly not Abrahamic. To allow you to make up your own mind on that front, here are the two definitions of "Abrahamic" that show up immediately when you Google "Define Abrahamic": Search Results A·bra·ham·ic ˌābrəˈhamik/ adjective adjective: Abrahamic 1. denoting any or all of the religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) that revere Abraham, the Biblical patriarch. "the monotheistic faiths that grew out of the Abrahamic heritage" 2. relating specifically to the Biblical patriarch Abraham. |
|
