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Hey lit, I get to write a paper for class where I make a variation on a myth to comment on something, say, society, or humanity or some issue and so on.

--Like Camus and Sisyphus. But I'm not very well versed in myths. So /lit/, what are some of your favorites? What myths do you find interesting or insightful? Adages or 1001 Arabian Nights style tales are good also!

>> No.1613564

Christian and Greek myths are the only myths worth reading

>> No.1613576

Apollo and Hyacinthus

Apollo and Daphne

Cadmus and all of his shit

>>1613564
shut the fuck up

>> No.1613601

>>1613576
Turns out Cadmus was a bit of a boss

>> No.1613704
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1613704

Write about the Aztec myth where Quetzalcoatl collects the jade bones that are the only remains of mankind, takes them into the underworld, crushes them into powder (after seperating them into male and female bones, of course) and then bleeds his penis on the bone powder to revive humans for the fifth age.

>> No.1613728

Zoroastrian myths or bust.

>> No.1613762

Do icarus, easiest myth to commentate on society on ever

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1613777

The Golem of Prague

>> No.1613780

>>1613777
is that from that kafka fountain where it pisses on prague

>> No.1613789

>>1613777
Kafka was a German speaker among Czechs. He was a German writer. U MAD?

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>>1613780

Nope

>>1613789

Not at all.

What language is wrote in is irrelevant to his significance in Czech culture.

>> No.1613799

Narcissus.

>> No.1613804

I fucking love greek mythology. Even the well known stuff.
Easy options for a paper:
Pandora's box
Theseus and the Minotaur
Narcissus loving his reflection
Echo the nymph

Fucking awesome ones
Daphne turning into a tree (Desire/greed)
Orpheus and Eurydice (Human weakness)

>> No.1614031

>>1613804
Orpheus and Eurydice is really good- I think I might use it.

Quite a bit like Lot and turning his wife into a pillar of salt.

>> No.1614040

>>1613789

Beckett was Irish.

Waiting for Godot was written in French.

Beckett was an Irish writer.

U MAD?

>> No.1614125

Dostoevsky was Russian.

Brothers Karamazov was written in English.

Dostoevsky is an English writer.

>> No.1614136

>>1614040
i dont care that he write one book in french. take your hipster shit elsewhere.

>> No.1614146

>>1614136

> Waiting for Godot
> Book
> Hipster

Wow. Just, wow.

>> No.1614164

>>1614136
What. The. Fuck?

>> No.1614170

>>1614146
>>1614164

Nothing to be done.

>> No.1614171

>>1614136
Becket wrote a bunch of books in French

>> No.1614174

>>1614136

Also, Beckett was well know for producing lots of his work in French first, then English, but that doesn't mean he isn't an Irish writer.

The more you know, brah.

>> No.1614178

Definitely narcissus.

>> No.1614769

>>1614178
>>1613804


Narcissus almost seems too obvious, but reading Ovid lead me in a pretty interesting direction. Thanks for the suggestions.

>> No.1615698

Any other thoughts /lit/? I really like the Daphne idea.