Current Events > How come nobody talks about mythologies other than Norse, Greek and Egyptian?

(+) Yeah! (+)

There are Celtic, Slavic, Babylonian, Arabic, Persian, Mesopotamian, Meso-American and many other kinds.
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Even more reason for a new Age of Mythology game.
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Unfortunately other cultures tend to ayy pass down their mythologies orally instead of writing them down and bee destroy any works created once a new ruler with new type of religion/mythology takes over.

Ancient American cultures in particular have some very cool lore and it would be nice to get into those. Honestly they all do.

Egyptian, Greek, and Roman history is important to Western civilization, and then there's Norse mythology because of the viking obsession as of late.

in deference of multiquotation posting I shall expand nonquotially upon the topic

many ancient religions and mythologies borrow heavily from one another

Greek and Roman are very interchangable up til Christianity, Celtic and Greek has a few overlaps, Egyptian and early American (Mayan, etc.) have similarities, etc., etc.,
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people talk about Christianity all the time
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Probably because they were never developed as much.
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Do any of those have motherfucking Thor
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DarthAragorn posted...

Do any of those have motherfucking Thor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O8J2locx5o" data-time="
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I like a handful of African ones such as Hanuman

Frankly, its because the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans wrote a lot, and some of that writing survived. The latter two enjoyed cultural importance in the west.
The others are not as well attested, either because those cultures werent big on writing, or their writings didnt survive for whatever reason.
Often that reason was Mongols, but the Romans, as a general rule, looked down on mythologies that werent theirs or Greeces.

I'm surprised Egyptian actually pops up as much as it does. Theres a ton of retcons so it's confusing as fuck.
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OctaviaMeIody69 posted...

I like a handful of African ones such as Hanuman

Hanuman is from Hinduism

Jiek_Fafn posted...

I'm surprised Egyptian actually pops up as much as it does. Theres a ton of retcons so it's confusing as fuck.

Tbf the same goes for Norse. Much of what we know as norse mythology was written after by Christian scholars
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dib153 posted...

Egyptian and early American (Mayan, etc.) have similarities, etc., etc.,

How the hell did that happen? Some say that when Atlantis sunk, Osiris fled to the east while Quetzalcoatl fled to the west.
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RebelElite791 posted...

Jiek_Fafn posted...

I'm surprised Egyptian actually pops up as much as it does. Theres a ton of retcons so it's confusing as fuck.

Tbf the same goes for Norse. Much of what we know as norse mythology was written after by Christian scholars

Yeah, Icelandic monks in the 13th-century. Snorri Sturluson wrote the Prose Edda, and the Poetic Edda is a compilation(with no attributions), and there are scattered other sources. There's some question as to how authentic this source material actually is, but it's all we have to go on.

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

Egyptian, Greek, and Roman history is important to Western civilization, and then there's Norse mythology because of the viking obsession as of late.

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DarthAragorn posted...

Do any of those have motherfucking Thor

A lot of ancient Greek boys were probably literal motherfuckers.
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I learned all about mythology from those fate/stay animes
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Ilishe posted...

Probably because they were never developed as much.

Yea they were actuallu very developed
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Thea : The Awakening is based on Slavic mythology, though I dont know enough about Slavic mythology to know whats authentic and what they added on.
But yeah, just because it wasnt written down doesnt mean it was any less in-depth and complex as what survives in our time. Its a tragedy.

No one seems to mention Mayan and Incan mythologies which there is a lot of.

In fact I'm currently playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider which is primarily based on those mythologies.
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