Biohistorian Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Many people know the Great Beings with their great powers, but what do you know about our long forgotton "great Beings"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroMagnonMan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 There were so many of them that I see considerable difficulty in attempting to compose a concise answer to that question...I used to be big on Egyptian mythology when I was younger, though I never actually knew very much about it. Mythologies in general still interest me, but I don't know where I could find good resources on them. It seems ancient religion was invariably a very confusing mess, which makes it difficult to get into it. I like things organized. Talking Over an Ocean - Hahli and Amaya are best friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyrd Bid Ful Araed Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 but what do you know about our long forgotton "great Beings"?'Lots' is probably the simple answer to that :PCollecting them is a hobby of mine, supplementary to the work I do in the field of archaeology. I generally seek out connections and similarities between separate myths as links between cultures. And there are tons of connecting myths... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inferna Firesword Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 but what do you know about our long forgotton "great Beings"?Quite a bit, my friend. :PI've been reading mythology since third grade (the santitation of said myths have vanished as I got older, naturally). Favorites include Norse and Celtic, but I guess Greek is an obligitory answer, since everyone seems to get their start there.-Inferna Reborn: a new epic by Inferna Firesword Now recruiting for the Matoran Militia! Cool Stuff: The Legends of Taladi Nui Terrible Comics Oblivion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 I wouldn't say they're long-forgotten.Somehow I don't like the term mythology. They're just other religions after all. ([More modern and popular religion] mythology would seem offensive) We could however do the opposite and call them all mythology, but I get the odd feeling some people might not like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padishah Mehmet II Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 but what do you know about our long forgotton "great Beings"?Quite a bit, my friend. :PI've been reading mythology since third grade (the santitation of said myths have vanished as I got older, naturally). Favorites include Norse and Celtic, but I guess Greek is an obligitory answer, since everyone seems to get their start there.-InfernaI got started on Norse/Germanic, actually. xD-Dovydas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Rather a big fan of Celtic mythology, though Egyptian's good too. I know rather more, I'll admit, about Greek mythology than Celtic, but I'm working on it. We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioGio Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 but what do you know about our long forgotton "great Beings"?Quite a bit, my friend. :PI've been reading mythology since third grade (the santitation of said myths have vanished as I got older, naturally). Favorites include Norse and Celtic, but I guess Greek is an obligitory answer, since everyone seems to get their start there.-InfernaI got started on Norse/Germanic, actually. xD-DovydasYeah, and I probably started with Egyptian mythology, although that was because of school. Greco-Roman myths are cool and probably the best-known in America and a lot of Western Europe (from what I've heard); however, Norse myths are absolutely the most interesting (assuming we aren't including "modern" religions under the umbrella of "myth").~ BioGio dig "You're a scientist? The proposal you make violates parsimony; it introduces extra unknowns without proof for them. One might as well say unicorns power it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inferna Firesword Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 but what do you know about our long forgotton "great Beings"?Quite a bit, my friend. :PI've been reading mythology since third grade (the santitation of said myths have vanished as I got older, naturally). Favorites include Norse and Celtic, but I guess Greek is an obligitory answer, since everyone seems to get their start there.-InfernaI got started on Norse/Germanic, actually. xD-DovydasI was being a bit general; pretty much everyone at my school got their start in Greek. (Granted, that was mostly through Percy Jackson books, which aren't always faithful to the story, but what can you do?)Favorite Greek deity: Hades (the Furies too, if they count)Favorite Norse deity: FreyaFavorite Egyptian deity: Sekhmet or ThothFavorite Celtic deity: Epona (horse goddess) or Aengus (love god)-Inferna Reborn: a new epic by Inferna Firesword Now recruiting for the Matoran Militia! Cool Stuff: The Legends of Taladi Nui Terrible Comics Oblivion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protodite Karzahni Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Mythology is a silly way of distracting ourselves from the true hard facts.Cthulhu would frown upon you silly actions. Now if you don't mind me, I'm off to try to find R'lyeh. I wrote stories once. They were okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyrd Bid Ful Araed Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Favorite Greek deity: Hades (the Furies too, if they count)Favorite Norse deity: FreyaFavorite Egyptian deity: Sekhmet or ThothFavorite Celtic deity: Epona (horse goddess) or Aengus (love god)-InfernaI agree with the choice of Greek gods, Hades is seriously under-appreciated in these modern times.Favourite Norse deity possibly Heimdall. Or Loki, just for the various characterisations you could read into himFavourite Egyptian deity would Thoth. A librarian of a god who could nevertheless lay the smackdown on you if he needed to. He's like a nerd's best fantasy :PCeltic deity most likely the Dagda. Because you cannot go wrong with a god clearly styled after Brian BlessedFavourite Aztec deity is Huehuecoyotl for the same reasons as Loki (they are basically the same archetype) though Nanauatzin gets points for turning himself into a sun god by throwing himself into a fireFave Akkadian god would be Ea/Enki because its rare to see a god care about humanity as much as him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padishah Mehmet II Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) My favourite Nors deity is probably Hodur. Poor Hodur. Got punished for something he didn't really intentionally do.Favourite Egyptian deity... probably hated Isis the least. I dunno, Egyptian gods (not to say the mythology itself) never appealed to me, any of them. None of them really had anything interesting to me.Greek deity, yeah, Hades.Agreed with TPTI on Ea/Enki.Favourite Mesoamerican deity amounts to... yeah, Hernan Cortez comes the closest. Call me an ignorant uneducated twat unable to see past allegory, but from a number of gods who constantly tear out the intestines of their brothers and sisters yeah thanks no.-Dovydas Edited January 8, 2012 by Dovydas the Nerevarine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Favourite Mesoamerican deity amounts to... yeah, Hernan Cortez comes the closest. Call me an ignorant uneducated *oh my* unable to see past allegory, but from a number of gods who constantly tear out the intestines of their brothers and sisters yeah thanks no.-DovydasGoing over, for a moment, the fact that Hernan Cortez was pretty murder-happy too, but the Aztec gods, while violent, are still pretty interesting.Also, ah, language. We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Humva Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Ah, ancient mythologies. Cool stuff if I do say so myself. Sadly I'm sort of a generalist; I know bits and pieces from Greek, Norse, Roman, Aztec, and Native American mythologies, as well as a dabbling of Egyptian, but not much substantial in any of them, except maybe Greek.I gotta agree with the other peeps on Hades being my favorite Greek god. He was the nicest of all the gods and yet he's so unappreciated. :| 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 "In short, my English Lit friend, living in a mental world of absolute rights and wrongs, may be imagining that because all theories are wrong, the earth may be thought spherical now, but cubical next century, and a hollow icosahedron the next, and a doughnut shape the one after." -Isaac Asimov, responding to a letter he had received saying that scientific certainty was false, The Relativity of Wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padishah Mehmet II Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Favourite Mesoamerican deity amounts to... yeah, Hernan Cortez comes the closest. Call me an ignorant uneducated *oh my* unable to see past allegory, but from a number of gods who constantly tear out the intestines of their brothers and sisters yeah thanks no.-DovydasGoing over, for a moment, the fact that Hernan Cortez was pretty murder-happy too, but the Aztec gods, while violent, are still pretty interesting.Also, ah, language.No doubt for either of those points. Hernan Cortez was a murdering maniac, and I agree that the Aztec gods are certainly interesting - as is much of mythology, but... idunno. They're pretty meh to me. I was never particularly interested in any of the Native American mythologies, probably because I never tried to get interested, and my knowledge of them amounts to a few history books and Brother Bear.So I really can't say I know a lot about them.-Dovydas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyrd Bid Ful Araed Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 If it helps, Dovy, they weren't all blood-crazed lunatics (as an example, Quetzalcoatl, arguably the most well-known of them all, wasn't given human sacrifice). Aztec culture did have a bit of a thing about spilling blood, but then so did a lot of older European and Middle Eastern mythologies. Go look at what the Priests of Cybele did, for instance. Like all ancient cultures they drew a link between blood and fertility, possibly because blood does increase fertility in the ground, possibly because they thought it would keep other stuff alive just as well as it kept us alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padishah Mehmet II Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) Eh, blood crazed lunacy doesn't really come across as disturbing anymore to me. I don't even know why I mentioned that: possibly looking for a reason why I never was interested in Aztec mythology. If really, I probably just happened to evade it by half-accident.-Dovydas Edited January 9, 2012 by Dovydas the Nerevarine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
man774 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 greek, egyptian, norse, and native american are my favorite. my favorite dietes are dionosys, bes, loki, and kokopeli. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klak Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I have been interested mostly in Greco-Roman classical mythology, and Norse mythology, but the other day I was looking up interesting tidbits of Slavic mythology, mainly Polish.There were so many of them that I see considerable difficulty in attempting to compose a concise answer to that question...I used to be big on Egyptian mythology when I was younger, though I never actually knew very much about it. Mythologies in general still interest me, but I don't know where I could find good resources on them. It seems ancient religion was invariably a very confusing mess, which makes it difficult to get into it. I like things organized.Indeed. My Comedies: The Krika Show (Season 1)The Krika Show Season 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archer Vonn Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 God of War butchered the mythologystill a fun game don't get me wrong 3DS: 3711-9364-3152 PSN: AidecVoros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaku Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I think fornnordisk mythology is the most interesting one. http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?showtopic=8708 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Six Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Revival.Thread closed. Bio of a BZP Admin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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