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Klingonized human history...
Posted: 2003-07-14 10:01pm
by The Yosemite Bear
I was thinking about the Klingons stealing Hamlet, Gengis Khan etc. and claiming them as their own. Is it possible that in a simular sense to the Holy Roman empire, that the Klingons simply "Converted" human historical and fictional works into Klingon one, much as the Christian church "Christianized" existing legends and Holidays?
Re: Klingonized human history...
Posted: 2003-07-14 10:08pm
by Kitsune
The Yosemite Bear wrote:I was thinking about the Klingons stealing Hamlet, Gengis Khan etc. and claiming them as their own. Is it possible that in a simular sense to the Holy Roman empire, that the Klingons simply "Converted" human historical and fictional works into Klingon one, much as the Christian church "Christianized" existing legends and Holidays?
I think the real question is why, are they so lacking in their own cultureal icons?
Posted: 2003-07-14 10:32pm
by The Yosemite Bear
Purhaps they felt we didn't deserve ours...
Re: Klingonized human history...
Posted: 2003-07-14 11:08pm
by Admiral Johnason
Kitsune wrote:The Yosemite Bear wrote:I was thinking about the Klingons stealing Hamlet, Gengis Khan etc. and claiming them as their own. Is it possible that in a simular sense to the Holy Roman empire, that the Klingons simply "Converted" human historical and fictional works into Klingon one, much as the Christian church "Christianized" existing legends and Holidays?
I think the real question is why, are they so lacking in their own cultureal icons?
I think so. They did tend to act like the Soviet Union for many years and could've wipped out a lot of their history.
Posted: 2003-07-18 12:16pm
by FTeik
No, they tried to save as much of humans glorious past, which the Federation tried to forget.
Or the Klingons were simply mocking them in a "look at your history and don´t dare to claim you are better than us"-fashion.
Posted: 2003-07-19 02:44am
by Equinox2003
I think they were probably lacking for thier own history, legends and
so on. Other than Kahless, there does not seem to be any pure
Klingon legend/mythology. None that I ever heard of anyway.
Posted: 2003-07-20 10:36am
by Peregrin Toker
Equinox2003 wrote:I think they were probably lacking for thier own history, legends and
so on. Other than Kahless, there does not seem to be any pure
Klingon legend/mythology. None that I ever heard of anyway.
Actually, we know more about Klingon mythology than the worship of Kahless.
They believe in Heaven and Hell, although they call it Stovokor and Gre'thor, respectively. (The Klingon counterpart to Hell, Gre'thor is also guarded by a demonic beast called the Fek'lhr)
I also recall reading that the Klingons believe that they once had gods, but that these gods were killed by their own worshippers!!
Posted: 2003-07-20 10:15pm
by Equinox2003
Of course!! Th Klingon afterlife, I saw a Voyager about that.
Be'Lanna was in and out of there for that whole episode.
Still, even with that, there is not much in the way of Klingon
legends/mythology.
I also read about them the non cannon book Kahless. It gave a
first hand account of the events the mythos of Kahless is based on,
the base of what appears to be the only religion the Klingons have.
If you have heard of a Klingon religion other than the Kahless based
stuff, post it.