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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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]]