Do you have any favorite mythologies or specific mythological figures?

I have a hard time deciding on just one, I find mythology in general to be incredibly interesting, but does anyone have any particular favorites? Fictional mythologies are fine too if you don't have a favorite historical one.

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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

Here's a few favorites:

There's like so many I couldn't decide.

[b]Psychopomps[/b].... creatures that escort souls to the underworld. I like underworld myths a lot and can have many variations depending on culture.

[b]Prometheus[/b]: In a way the story sounds awfully like a man facing down a tyrant but that's just my take. I think in a way Prometheus is a much better God than all because he risked eternal punishment to give us fire.

The metaphorical take from that is so righteous 🤗

[quote]Prometheus loved man more then the Olympians, who had banished most of his family to Tartarus. So when Zeus decreed that man must present a portion of each animal he scarified to the gods, Prometheus decided to trick Zeus. He created two piles, one with the bones wrapped in juicy fat, the other with the good meat hidden in the hide. He then bade Zeus to pick. Zeus picked the bones. Since he had given his word, Zeus had to accept this pile as his share for future sacrifices. In his anger over the trick, he took fire away from man. However, Prometheus lit a torch from the sun and brought it back again to man. Zeus was enraged that man again had fire. He decided to inflict a terrible punishment on both man and Prometheus.

http://www.prometheas.org/mythology.html[/quote]

[b]Bastet:[/b] Goddess of cats.. I like to think she is a protector of them since they face abuse at the hands of man and many cats are now extinct because of us. I don't mean to sound like a nerd but I secretly want an animal uprising.

[b]Ars Goetia: Prince Seere[/b].. demon of lost knowledge (can go revel "hidden" treasure..) in this case to me it's knowledge. I like that specifically because every religion likes to ruin vast libraries of knowledge (like the library of Alexandria which we'll never know what was in there and now modern day ones/statues/documents ruined by radical Islam.)

Prince Seere is sort of a rebellion metaphor for me to go seek what is lost.

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@SatanBurger I think there's something to be said for Prometheus being a possible inspiration for the myth of Satan. Still, even that aside, all good choices.

Socialclutz · 36-40, M

I like the epic of homer about Odysseus trying to make it back home. He's a Wiley little fucker

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Socialclutz · 36-40, M

I like the part where Achilles and Patroclus?'s father meet together in the Iliad. But lord is the Iliad a bloody story

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@Socialclutz That'd be Greek epics for you. Them Greeks loved their brutality.

Socialclutz · 36-40, M

Indeed bloody bastards!

Paliglass · 41-45, F

Romany Gypsy mythology is interesting and I also found it humorous.

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Paliglass · 41-45, F

@UndeadPrivateer have you read some?

UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@Paliglass A bit, yeah. I found it pretty hilarious. Strikes me as the kinds of things that people come up with while hanging around a campfire.

Paliglass · 41-45, F

@UndeadPrivateer yeah lol Did you read the one about a gypsy making one of the nails that they nailed Jesus to the cross with?

What I found funny was that while all the previous blacksmiths refused due to the old Jewish ghost warning them off the roma man took the money and did it anyway. (And then him and his descendants were cursed to roam the land).

Or the one about the Palmers holding up the palm leaves for Jesus on the original palm Sunday. My great nan was a Palmer. What I found funny was that they didn't just knock on church doors saying we're Christians please give us work or shelter, they knocked on the doors saying we held up leaves for Jesus.

But their creation story is the best creation story ever - absolutely hilarious.

It's a crying shame really that their culture is as good as dead. I know alot of people, including some gypsies, think it isn't but it is.