mythology

I'm a fan of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians and have also started reading said author's Kane Chronicles and Heroes of Olympus series. Even before then I started reading about Coyote, the trickster icon of Navajo (and other western tribal) mythology, and found the concept of him...

The sci-fi/comic book genre is to science as religion is to God. There is a secret history to the sci-fi/comic book genre and it involves the paranormal, just so with religion too. Sci-fi/comic books inspire us, and sometimes that inspiration influences science. We write sci-fi, and sci-fi...

In the Bible, there is mention made of the "sons of heaven" who married and produced children with the "daughters of men" prior to the Deluge. This legend is transmitted along with the sorty of the Deluge from Mesopotamia. The first notable culture in that area, the Sumerian, was built by...

What's your favourite myth or legend, and why? My favourite is the Arthurian Legend, purely for the sheer scope of interpretation. There's as many different versions of the tale as there are days in the year. As a tale, it's the ultimate tragedy of human society - the eternal, flawed, noble...

I heard about this ten years ago. http://www.angelfire.com/biz5/piso/ Quick summary, the Roman Piso family wrote the Gospels. It is hard to sum it up, but it is an extensive theory that goes into great detail of the hows and whys. In my experience, the author gets hammered by just about...

For fun, let's give existing gods new roles in science and rank them accordingly to the reduction of science. I don't know which forum this goes into. Science, religion, whatever. Hopefully this is the right one :) I'll start off with a few examples to show you how. Top Ranking Gods - Gods...

Rapture of Understanding I have been reading about mythology written by Joseph Campbell. In his attempt to make it possibly for the reader to comprehend how myth works he speaks about the human ability to ‘make-believe’. He speaks of the universality of childhood make-believe and of how this...

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One criticism I've heard against Christianity and the bible is that it is a poorly written, plagerized version of many different older religions/mythologies. I saw a post recently (I can't recall by whom or which thread) that compared Christianity with Egyptian mythology. They took characters...

My favorite types of mythology would be: Greek mythology, Arthurian legend, and Biblical mythology. I can't get much into Norse mythology. When I think of Norsemen, I picture a bunch of tall burly ugly guys with beards slapping each other on the back and drinking mead. The Norse are too...

I'm quitting the security business soon, for a risky endeavor with far less security: writing. SO, I've become a bit more confrontational, a bit more adversarial, towards those coworkers with whom I've had religious/ethics discussions. Don't have to maintain a good working relationship any...