The Mythology Thread!

[The Dude]

I just loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove mythology. Discuss different legends and such from your nation here!

And Iliander, this is not a thread for ancient aliens nor is it a thread for claiming myths are true.

[Miro]

Cronos revive and kill them all :lol:

[iliander]

The lord Marduk kills the evil Tiamat with bow and arrow!

[Paco the Great]

I love the Mabinogion. Such brilliant stories! I like the legend of Bendigeidfran (giant Welsh king of Great Britain) particularly.


And I like Irish myths too. English ones are sometimes good.


Scandinavian sagas and legends are amazing!

That's all my heritage that I know of.

[Pepp]

Each Uisge, water demon. I like it.

[Nero]

I love just about all of Egyptian, Greek and Japanese Mythology.

[Miro]

I like the greek,nordic and egyptian mythology

[Paco the Great]

I like Celtic, Nordic, Japanese and Maori myths especially.

[Pepp]

I love Japanese, Roman, Greek, and Norse myths.

[iliander]

I love ALL myths.

[Paco the Great]

Especially ones with gods in flying machines....?

[iliander]

Yes, and special weapons which explosion is brighter than a 1000 suns and which cause your nails to fall off! :lol:

[Paco the Great]

Is that a myth of the Iliandrian civilisation of ancient Flanders?

[iliander]

That's written in the Baghavad Gita, my friend.

[Paco the Great]

Oh! My brother's got that. You a Hindu, then?

[iliander]

No I'm not.

[Paco the Great]

Why d'you believe it?

[iliander]

So you need to be from the same religion in order to believe the "myths" to be correct? What? That's not true, sorry but it is. And I don't know enough about Hinduism to say if I'm part of it or not, but I think it's overall a correct religion. And those myths are just some history written in the "holy books", it's not some sort of thing you must do to be part of the religion, it's history for them.

[Paco the Great]

But if you believe the myths of a religion, you believe the religion, ergo you adhere to that religion.





I believe that all the sincere religions were sent down by Ahura Mazda/God to prophets, but interpreted differently in different places, so it doesn't matter what religion you are.

[Pepp]

Mess is ongoing, offtopic on the way...

STOP this religion discussion!

[Nero]

AS long as you are a good person, who cares what religion you are. All major religions teach basically the same thing, morally wise.

I honestly find that Mythology is just highly exaggerated stories

[Pepp]

I honestly find that Mythology is just highly exaggerated stories

Some aren't. And some are, surprisingly, a reality.

[Paco the Great]

I like reading them, but I don't believe most of them. Except ones about strange creatures or Leprecauns/Fairies/Trolls/Elves which could be surviving prehistoric people, gone up to live in the hills, who fight with guerrilla warfare, at night, which makes them seem scary and magical, and who live in dwellings like hills, which explains the fact that these creatures often are very involved with hills, and would make people find them scary because they used to bury people in hill-like barrow tombs, and this scariness has been passed down through the generations. Evidence for this is an arrowhead that a 19th century Scottish Presbyterian minister had shot at him by 'elves'. It was flint, and very much like the weapons of pre-Celtic peoples. And other mythical creatures could be cryptids.

[iliander]

You just said something very wise and true, Paco. It's also true that most myths are in fact reality, like Pepp said. But you must know the difference between folkloric beliefs to scare the children and real myths which appear whole over the world.

[Paco the Great]

Did you know that until the 19th century, gorillas were thought to be a stupid myth, the pongo?


But then cryptozoologists found them.

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