/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1917245]

so /lit/
what mythology is best mythology

I vote Norse.
anyone who says christian is a Huge Orson Welles considering how much it's just based on fact and exaggerated

[Anonymous No.1917247]

Greek or egyptian, no contest.

[Anonymous No.1917253]

Judeo-Christian. I don't even give a fuck. I am including the Inferno and Paradise Lost as well. Angels and Demons and all that shit is just so fucking cool.

[Anonymous No.1917254]

I'm not sure. I have had this overwhelming interest to learn more about Zoroastrianism but I don't know where to start.

[Anonymous No.1917255]

Norse is pretty cool. Greek/Roman is also great.

[Anonymous No.1917278]

Huge fan of Greek Mythology, if I wanted to get into Norse where would you recommend I start?

[Anonymous No.1917284]

Judeo-Christianity is the only literature that spawned worthwhile fanfiction.

[Anonymous No.1917295]

>>1917284
>Book of Mormon
>worthwhile

[Anonymous No.1917305]

>>1917284
>Greek myth
>The Metamorphoses
>The Aeneid

[Anonymous No.1917308]

>>1917295
>The Divine Comedy
>Paradise Lost
>very worthwhile

[Anonymous No.1917310]

>>1917284
.nope (Pic related)

Celtic. Ulster Cycle > Mabinogion > Mythological cycle > Fenian cycle

[Anonymous No.1917314]

>>1917305
>implying any of that comes close to Deuteronomy in either merit or value

[Anonymous No.1917318]

>>1917314
>implying Deuteronomy is fanfiction and not part of the myth
>implying the bible isn't a bore where only the first two pages are worth reading

[Anonymous No.1917319]

would Dr. Faustus count?

[Anonymous No.1917321]

Shamanism

[Anonymous No.1917322]

>Norse
>implying the Eddas weren't mostly fabricated much later on (13th century) and might bear no resemblance to what they really signified..i.e. they were christianized

[Anonymous No.1917323]

Chinese / Taoist
>In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when it's feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, As endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moistures of the Earth,and the powers of the Sun and the Moon all worked upon a certain rock - old as creation, and it magically became fertile... Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey... The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!

[Anonymous No.1917335]

is this stuff like fantasy but since people actually believed the shit to be true it holds some kind of merit?

[Anonymous No.1917337]

>>1917295
Mormons aren't Christian.

[Anonymous No.1917340]

>ITT: faggots who haven't read about Aztec mythology.
lol fags

[Anonymous No.1917341]

I'm a huge Orson Welles

[Anonymous No.1917342]

>>1917335

Greek myth is like fantasy, but good.

[Anonymous No.1917345]

4chan of course.

[Anonymous No.1917347]

Don't you think northe and greek mythology are very similar ? There probably where only one religion in europe at a point in time.

[Anonymous No.1917348]

>>1917342
greek mythology is vastly underrated by the general populous. it should be required reading in schools to just take a book full of the myths home and read them.

[Anonymous No.1917349]

>>1917341
highe orson wells thread

[Sherlock Holmes Guy No.1917382]

/lit/ should work together to create a mythology reading list

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[Anonymous No.1917401]

Norse Mythology is a load of crap.

The only bits we know about it were recorded from the 13th century by some asshole named Snorri, which he wrote hundreds of years after Scandinavia had been converted to Christianity.

[Anonymous No.1917410]

>>1917382
Definitely! And folk tales and shit.

[Anonymous No.1917424]

Mesopotomian

[Anonymous No.1917426]

Norse mythology is disorganized and there's no good primary sources.

Sumerian mythology is suitably ancient, bloody and culturally alien to fascinate me, though Hindu mythology is also quite good.
I suppose objectively, I must consider Greek mythology the most varied and poetic, but I've known about it for far too long, and now it is quite boring to me.

[Anonymous No.1917431]

Slavic.

[Sherlock Holmes Guy No.1917442]

>>1917410
Yes! I'm partial to legends--King Arthur, the Ramayana, Beowulf...

It would be interesting to create a guide consisting of primary and secondary sources, the 'best' translations of a given epic/myth/fable/folktale, notable works by mythologists and why they ought to be read, that sort of thing. I'm not anywhere near knowledgeable enough myself on these topics to create the list alone, but if there's interest I'd study up.

[Anonymous No.1917448]

Buddhism has the most beautiful philosophy and most interesting mythology of all religions.

By extension, Hinduism is pretty interesting, too.

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[Anonymous No.1917555]

Greek mythology is best mythology, though I don't know enough about most Eastern mythology to make a fair judgment.

[Anonymous No.1917646]

greek/egyptian/west african mythologies

[Anonymous No.1917744]

[Anonymous No.1918035]

Lovecraftian

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[Anonymous No.1919106]

Hawaiian

[Anonymous No.1919238]

[Anonymous No.1919242]

Old Norse.

[Anonymous No.1919253]

bathory rules

[Anonymous No.1919265]

I wanted to say Norse/old Greek, but now I have to say Christian because I don't like OP:(

[Anonymous No.1919410]

>considering how much it's just based on fact and exaggerate

doesnt that apply to norse myth too, fag?

[Anonymous No.1919429]

Irish.
Fuck yes, Dagda!

[Anonymous No.1919652]

Sorry, but nothing beats good ol'fashioned Greek/Roman mythology. Bestiality, rape, fighting - Fuck.


That shit is cool.

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[Anonymous No.1920457]

>>1917348
that's exactly what my school did