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what, if any, are your favorite types of mythology.

I love the Egytpian Mythology the best because I think it offers the best base of awe and interest. There are so many of them, and they have a certain type of class to them as well! There is so much history behind them and the Egytpian people. Their religion seems like it offers so much more than the other ancient religions--i guess that is why many of the Greeks during the Hellenistic period turned away from their own gods and sought the pleasures of mystecism, especially Isis She has got to be the hottest goddes I have yet seen!


THeir mythological creatures are pretty classie too! Anubites

Greek. It's beautifully fucked up.

Zaia wrote:Greek. It's beautifully fucked up.

Yes... gods springing forth from other gods heads, babies strangling snakes, people turning into flowers, deer, all other sorts of stuff, a POMYGRANDE being the object that caused the creation of winter, pregancies occuring from *ahem* golden showers....

Meso-American. Bizarre stories, lots o' blood, and groovy art.

Greek is my easy fave.

Some others are Korean, Japanese and Chinese for flavor.

I do enjoy though some Celtic and Nodric mythos as well.

Oh. I gotta check out the meso-american mythology. Never looked into it.

Greek, because I nearly started a revolution with it in my Sunday School class when I brought in my book on Greek mythology and the kids in my class liked it better.

Cornelius wrote:Oh. I gotta check out the meso-american mythology. Never looked into it.

Find a copy of the Popol Vuh, preferably the Dennis Tedlock translation.

Norse mythology. Why? Dunno.

XENA! Lol...she seems to incorporate Greek, Roman, Norse, Chinese, Asian, etc....wonder how she manages to pop up everywhere..never really watched the show regularly.

Norse Mythology is kinda cool. It has that rough canadian-Hemann atmospher to it.

Greek mythology is great. It has classics like Illiod and Oddysy.

Hindu, I enjoyed the bigativa-gita

The whole General is the chief god, and the best quote a long time ago.

I would also say buddhism, but that really isnt Mythology...is it? I am not aware that they have God's and mythological creatures.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Hindu, I enjoyed the bigativa-gita

The whole General is the chief god, and the best quote a long time ago.

Actualy that would be Vagabat Gita. If you liked it I would also recommend Pandavas and Ramayan. Both are great works of literature.

Norse mythology is my favorite.

Cornelius wrote:I would also say buddhism, but that really isnt Mythology...is it? I am not aware that they have God's and mythological creatures.

Mahayana Buddhism borrows heavily from the Hindu myths and pantheon. I don't know about the Theravada branch.

Norse, Slavic, and Greek/Roman.

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-fgalkin

Japanese and Judeo-Christian mythology/folklore.

Norse, and Greek.

btw, there's a hilarious book out there, "Pyramid Scheme", where you have crazyGreek and Egyptian gods run around

Greek, Norse, Shinto, Hindu and old-skool uk folklores. Although i know jack-shit about the shinto gods, truth be told, outside of the snippets you see on "Big Trouble in Little China" and animés and other films.

Greek's my favourite though. Proper epic.

btw, there's a hilarious book out there, "Pyramid Scheme", where you have crazyGreek and Egyptian gods run around

Who is the author???

Cornelius wrote:

btw, there's a hilarious book out there, "Pyramid Scheme", where you have crazyGreek and Egyptian gods run around

Who is the author???

Dave Freer and Eric Flint. Can read it online, for free over at Baen

Another fun one is "Blues Mythology" where Robert Johnson sold his soul, mojo hands can make a woman love you or stop time briefly, and that bad things lurk at cross streets.

Chinese all the way!