Evil Genius

Are you interested in mythology?

Why? / Why not?

What's your favorite Mythology? Greek? Roman? Norse or perhaps Chinese or Egyptian Mythology!?

I have read it since I was a mere child. I don't regard any mythology more special than any other, I think most of them are great, except Norse then perhaps since it's common knowledge over here to know about it so it feels kind of dull.

Discuss if you like! About your favorite God or anything regarding mythology .

This is a potentially great topic.

I'll have to post some stuff tomorrow though, I think I should sleep now...

I'm generally fascinated with all mythologies, but I've forgotten most of the myths I read, so I can't really recall much.

When I was young, I was truly inspired and fascinated of a known tale in asia named in English 'A journey to the west'

It's about a buddhist monk who is traveling with Sun Wukong - the king of apes,a pig and a dragon.

It was so popular in Japan that they even did a sci-fi animé about it called "Starzinger" (Spaceketeers in the u.s).

i dont know if i could pick one topic that would be my favorite. i suppose i like religions, and mythological monsters the most.

Yeah well those in topic doesn't necessarily have to of your interest perhaps you got something else regarding religion or mythology that you would like to share

Greek and Germanic mythology are my favorites one.
Hearing myths about gods and heroes having and stuff.
I just love it!
And although many anime are based on myths.

I've always liked the Greek/roman mythologies. there too similar you can't really differentiate between the two though.

i also like all of the hollywoodized mythology movies. most of them are just hilarious.

I didn't like the movie Troy though because they had almost enterily left out the fact that the gods had a finger in the war. Like the plague or when they sent down snakes to choke the prophet to death etc...

There is infact difference between Greek/Roman altough I can't remember many of them right now, but for example about Romulus and Remus isn't written in the Greek mythology for instance.

true, but most of the gods only have different names and exactly the same function (ei. god of war, food, etc)

i guess i should have said that it is somewhat pointless to differentiate between them

mm true well let's just say that the Gods are similar but the myths are some very alike for example Hercules in Roman and Herakles in Greek mythology. So the myths can be relative / unrelative...

My favorite god is Poseidon, God of the Seas and Cavalry. In case you don't know, its from the Greek mythology.

Does Star Wars count as mythology or religion as well? lol

Devil_Dante wrote:My favorite god is Poseidon, God of the Seas and Cavalry. In case you don't know, its from the Greek mythology.

Does Star Wars count as mythology or religion as well? lol

Jedi is techniacally a religion, but neither are "Mythology" by any means. Give it a few thousands years though, and they might.

I like most of the mythologies, too. I'm a metalhead after all so I like songs about it as well.

A Journey to the west is pretty cool, they did make an anime on it called Saiyuki. I'm really into norse mythology, the root of my name is Jotun, which is from norse mythology. Some of my good friends that were really into drugs used to call me "Jotaaaaan" when stoned so it was a nickname that stuck.

I like reading about mythologies too. Funniest creation story is from norse mythology, we're all created from the sweat of an ice giant. True story.

No, giants were created from Ymir's (the original giant) sweat. The cow Audhumla was licking the salty ice from Muspelheim and it somehow created the god Buri. Buri begat Bor, Bor begat Odin, Vili, and Ve. Odin killed Ymir the ice giant and created the world out of his body; blood for the seas, flesh for the earth, his skull for the sky, his bones for mountains, and his hair for trees. Then Odin took some sticks and made man out of them. We are all stickmen.

I took a mythology class in highschool, it was one of my favorite classes. I liked Norse the best, it was mostly all new to me. Greek/Roman is interesting but fairly common. We spent some time on Celtic and Arthurian legends, which was fun. But we didnt have time for Egyptian or any asian mythologies cause we spent tons of time on Greek/Roman. I think Greek and Roman mythology are the same, just a few variations in stories and name spellings.

I'm a mythology whore, favorites are norse and christian. Since all religion is basicly mythology until proven better have fun with the church.

Whats norse mythology about? Like thor and what not?

Pretty much, yeah.

One of my favorite God is Hefaistos, The smith God. Thrown out when he was just an infant and when the Gods at Olympos wanted him back he tricked them quite badly. According to the books iv'e read He was badly handicapped and had to create his own equipment to be able to walk. He had arms like gorillas and was quite strong I think and then suddenly he gets married with Aphrodite. That's quite amazing I think how someone weak achieved such status when even Poseidon and Hermes proposed and offered her lot's of other things that would easily make anyone jealous.

My favorite mythology is Norse easily. My favorite is Fenrir/Fenris, the monster wolf that bit off Tyr's hand and broke free of his chains to take part in Ragnarok.

Yer owns, amazing to see how much all those mythologies has inspired authors so much. Tolkien for example.

Laik wrote:My favorite mythology is Norse easily. My favorite is Fenrir/Fenris, the monster wolf that bit off Tyr's hand and broke free of his chains to take part in Ragnarok.

Yeah after I played/read Valkyrie Profile, I found it rather interesting. Though I've never really followed it up.