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Ok /lit/ I'm dying and I wanna read some dope ass myth legends, so far I've been reading māori myths still not done actually. But I rlcould use some good recs.

>> No.9230935

>>9230931
What's wrong?

>> No.9230943

>>9230935
Nothing I literally have cancer and I hurt a lot everyday but it's ok reading about Maui and how much he's struggled for life is really fun even his death was fucking hilarious.

>> No.9230944

>>9230931
start with the Greeks

>> No.9230946

>>9230931
rilke, dosto, solzhen, tolstoy, freud, kierkegaard, nietzsche, schopenhauer, baudelaire, holderlin, beckett, gass, gaddis. We're all dying anon

>> No.9230955

Do you really want to die without revisiting IJ?

>> No.9230977

>>9230944
Greeks? Like Hercules and stuff? Yeah ok I'll dig In.
>>9230946
Never heard of any of these guys I'll Google them real quick.
>>9230955
I'm not understanding you sorry.

>> No.9231259

>>9230931
You could read The Kalevala. It's like a Finnish version of The Odyssey I suppose, although obviously written quite differently with how it moves along.

The Silmarillion also has that mythos feel to it and you'd probably really love it.

Also read The Bible and accept Jesus.

>> No.9231267

>>9230931
Völsung saga
Poetry Edda
Ring des Nibelungen

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>>9230943
>>9230931
Stop being a pathetical sentimental dredge with this fairy tale shit you frog posting child.
Read something with teeth now that you have nothing left to lose.

I recommend pic related

>> No.9231305

>>9231276
Cringe

>> No.9231362

Bump

>> No.9232621

>>9230931
Are you the pancreatic cancer, op?
>>9231259
>>9231267
These are all good recs, try them.
>>9231276
Ignore this childish display.

I'd like to add to the above the epic of Gilgamesh. It has some beautiful parts about death. Get the Andrew George translation and make sure you read all the fragments and the Sumerian poems too. If you want me I'll post a link.

>> No.9232863

>>9230931
>>9232621
The Epic of Gilgamesh, A. George translation:
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Where did you get those maori myths, op? Do you have a title for me, please?

>> No.9232872

Here are some arabic folk takes
http://www.rodneyohebsion.com/mulla-nasrudin.htm

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>>9231259
>Also read The Bible and accept Jesus.

>> No.9233445

>>9232957
See what happens when you don't allow Jesus to save you? One of those two sodomites in red is having a heart attack and the other one is going to die a slow death from hepatic cancer. Their screams must be awful.

>> No.9233629

why you mentioned you are dying? Its not related to your question at all

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The Odyssey
Nikolai Leskov

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>>9233445
I'm actually having a heart attack of laughter after reading that.

>> No.9234253

Maybe the Bhagavad Gita if you haven't read it already


Best of luck to you in whatever happens

>> No.9234263

Phillipine mythology is pretty dope
https://www.aswangproject.com/bathala/