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Thread: Which European mythology do you find most interesting?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grace O'Malley View Post
    Irish mythology with their Giants, Gods & Goddesses, fairies, leprechauns, spirits, selkies etc. Most of the witchy stuff is based on Irish mythology.

    Some figures from Irish mythology

    Finn Maccool


    Deirdre of the Sorrows


    Children of Lir


    Cú Chulainn (hound of Cullen) born as Sétante, the son of the god Lug (Lugh) of the Long Arm and Dechtire


    Danu (she's like a Mother Goddess). Her people are the Tuatha Dé Danann (People of the Goddess Danu)


    Angus Og (god of youth, love and poetic inspiration)


    Lugh (God of light)


    The Morrigan (shape shifting Goddess of War, Fate and Death)


    Brigid, the Triple Goddess, daughter the The Dagda (she is associated with spring, fertility, healing, poetry and smithscraft)


    The Dagda also called Eochaid Ollathair (“Eochaid the All-Father”). He is the good god. He is associated with fertility, agriculture, virility and strength, as well as magic, druidry and wisdom.


    Manannán mac Lir ("son of the sea"). He is the ruler and guardian of the otherworld. He has cool things like a cloak of invisibility.


    There are many, many more but this is just to show how magical and wonderful Irish mythology is. It just isn't well known.
    Is Irish mythology different than Scottish, English and Welsh mythology?

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    Slavic mythology.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maintenance View Post
    A big difference between Greek and Norse mythology is that the gods in Norse mythology are a lot closer to mankind. They get hungry, they get hurt, they die; whereas Greek gods have very little physical connections to mankind. Norse gods also interact with humans a lot more than Greek gods. Zeus would pretty much only head down the mountain to sleep with human women. While In order to get around the nine worlds of the Norse, the gods had to interact with humans and even rely on them
    Quote Originally Posted by Ruggery View Post
    You are right, even in the final act of Norse mythology, Ragnarok, there is intervention by the Nordic gods in Midgard (earth) while the Greek gods almost never intervened on earth and had contacts with humans.

    I think the Nordic gods that were most in Midgard were Thor and Balder, I don't know much about Odin.
    Tell me you're kidding...

    And when they help the heroes?

    The gods acted like humans and had human vices.[3] They would interact with humans, sometimes even spawning children with them
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien...gion#Mythology

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinervaItalica View Post
    Tell me you're kidding...

    And when they help the heroes?



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien...gion#Mythology
    Only Zeus?

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    Even though I'm mostly of Germanic extraction, I've always felt more of an affinity for Greco-Roman mythology and religion. I can't believe how underrepresented Greco-Roman polytheists are among "neo-pagans." We have much more textual, anthropological, and epigraphical evidence of Greco-Roman myth and culture. And Greco-Roman realism in art is unparalleled.







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    Things regarding Greco-Roman culture is superior to most things in this world.

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    Greek

    Its like "bible" of european culture

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruggery View Post
    Is Irish mythology different than Scottish, English and Welsh mythology?
    very

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    Quote Originally Posted by renaissance12 View Post
    You are wrong.. there is no mention of any pagan gods in almost every Christian Monk's saga regard Northern mythology..
    .The poem Beowulf is not a source for Viking beliefs...
    I never mentioned Beowulf? The Lebor na Gabala Erinn mentions a lot of irish gods, and we know too because many of their names or descriptions are similar to ancient celtic finds, such as Lugh vs Lugus or the fact in the book he was born as triplets, and in the statues he has a triple face (sometimes). The poetic edda, written by a christian, 200 years after the last true norse pagan likely died, mentions stories depicted on rune stones made centuries previous, including one where Thor is fishing for Jormundgandr, and he pulls the fishing rod so hard, his foot burst through the bottom of the boat, there is a runestone depicting this scene exactly, down to the bull's head used as bait.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheOldNorth View Post
    very
    And which of all do you think is more interesting?

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