I Love Myths and Legends From All Cultures

It's definitions, because around the globe the different families of gods are so easily compared to others, and the names are just particular to the social anthropology of the people involved.

Classical hierarchies are so similar.. Zeus is Jupiter, Apollo is Apollo, but Ares is Mars, Artemis is Diana, and so on, Aphrodite is Venus.

The stories of the heroes of antiquity are also so similar. The only god who differs is Oðin, who actually was a Germanic wizard who do impressed his people they made him into their Jupiter.

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Ingwe · F

the Lammergeier was a revered legend in our time
if you were to ditch school
the lammergeier would always get you
you cannot outrun and hide from his all seeing eye
lol

Ingwe · F

locally he was know as
die lammervanger
meaning the catcher of lambs

DianaGyana · 31-35, F

@Ingwe how is he a god? He is an urban legend, big difference...jeez

SomeMichGuy · M

@DianaGyana The [i]Lämmergeier[/i] is the bird attributed by legend to be the one which killed the playwright Æschylus.

Not an urban legend, an ancient attribution to a huge, strong bird.

Fits in with the category, the post, etc.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

Greek culture heavily influenced Roman culture.

While Odin and Wodan, were outside that sphere of influence at the time they emerged. The origin story in Norse mythology is also diffrent then the one Greek/Roman mythologie.

And since you seem to have reads parts of the Bahagavad Ghita, these things are even more diffrent, because ideas just didn't spread that easily at those timeS.

SomeMichGuy · M

@Kwek00 Yeah, except for, say, engineering--which was a truly Roman contribution to Western culture--the Romans looked to the Greeks for nearly all things.

[FYI, it's [i]Bhagavad Gita.[/i]]

ronisme1 · 61-69, M

Yep, Hermes is mercury. I know what you mean

DianaGyana · 31-35, F

@ronisme1 take the messages and forget about the guy's name

ronisme1 · 61-69, M

Yes, learned all of thst ages ago

ronisme1 · 61-69, M

Yeah I wonder why the Norwegian gods are so much different than the Roman and Greek gods

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