Which European mythology do you find most interesting?

[Grace O'Malley]

In any religion what is important is the THEOLOGY ON WHICH RELIGION IS BASED ( In simple WORDS to change Christmas from 25 December to 10 July doesn't change THEOLOGY OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION )... Norse/Northern religion/mythology had and has nothing similar to any kind of THEOLOGY/METAPHYSICS....Norse mythology is PURE FANTASY.. you can update any time..like MARVEL COMICS...

It's not really Norse I'm interested in but Gaelic and Irish practices. Even in recent times there is still Holy wells in Ireland which were assigned to Saints. This practice pre-dates Christianity in Ireland. It is a known fact that the Irish incorporated their old ways into Christianity.

[renaissance12]

It's not really Norse I'm interested in but Gaelic and Irish practices. Even in recent times there is still Holy wells in Ireland which were assigned to Saints. This practice pre-dates Christianity in Ireland. It is a known fact that the Irish incorporated their old ways into Christianity.

I think that IRISH mythology has much more historical sources than Northern/scandinavian mythology...

[Samnium]

Greeks stole most of it from the Phoenicians


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No. Sorry.

Your phoenician agenda would not work here.

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[Batman]

It's not really Norse I'm interested in but Gaelic and Irish practices. Even in recent times there is still Holy wells in Ireland which were assigned to Saints. This practice pre-dates Christianity in Ireland. It is a known fact that the Irish incorporated their old ways into Christianity.

Similar methods were used to convert ancient Mediterraneans from their pagan religion to Christianity. There are a lot of resemblances from the Greek polytheistic religion to Christianity, and there are also a lot of differences. Everyone is entitled to their own interpretation.

[Maintenance]

I don't actually know much or anything at all about mythologies other than Norse and Greek.

[Grace O'Malley]

Similar methods were used to convert ancient Mediterraneans from their pagan religion to Christianity. There are a lot of resemblances from the Greek polytheistic religion to Christianity, and there are also a lot of differences. Everyone is entitled to their own interpretation.

I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

The wayward Celtic Church was one of the excuses used by the Normans when they invaded Ireland.

Laudabiliter was a bull issued in 1155 by Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to have served in that office. Existence of the bull has been disputed by scholars over the centuries; no copy is extant but scholars cite the many references to it as early as the 13th century to support the validity of its existence.[1] The bull purports to grant the right to the Angevin King Henry II of England to invade and govern Ireland and to enforce the Gregorian Reforms on the semi-autonomous Christian Church in Ireland. Richard de Clare ("Strongbow") and the other leaders of the Norman invasion of Ireland (1169–71) claimed that Laudabiliter authorised the invasion. These Cambro-Norman knights were retained by Diarmuid MacMorrough, the deposed King of Leinster, as an ally in his fight with the High King of Ireland, Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudabiliter

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[Daco Celtic]

Shame on you. Irish in fact incorporated many of their myths into the Celtic Church. Where do you think St Brigid came from?

You’re right. I should be more respectful. One of these days I’ll learn

[Gwydion]

I find Celtic mythology by far the most fascinating, but not for the typical reasons of actual tales or information about the gods and so on (though these are interesting in Celtic sources too.) I think the unique quality of Celtic mythology is the stronger survival of information regarding the pagan Otherworld, such as its psychic quality, its parallel existence with the everyday world, its qualities of bending space and time, and it being the source of all wisdom, beauty, magic, and power. Its exposition in literature such as the Immrama and Echtrae, for example in the Voyage of Mael Duin, is unique in all of European mythology.

Furthermore the words of Celtic pagan sages and bards/fili who claim to directly understand these mysteries is intriguing. For example Taliesin:



Or Amergin in Irish myth:

"I am the wind on the sea;
I am the wave of the sea;
I am the bull of seven battles;
I am the eagle on the rock
I am a flash from the sun;
I am the most beautiful of plants;
I am a strong wild boar;
I am a salmon in the water;
I am a lake in the plain;
I am the word of knowledge;
I am the head of the spear in battle;
I am the god that puts fire in the head;
Who spreads light in the gathering on the hills?
Who can tell the ages of the moon?
Who can tell the place where the sun rests?

That the medieval European Grail cycle and Arthurian cycle has its roots in Celtic myth also speaks of its lasting potency since outside of perhaps parts of Scandinavia and Iceland these myths were much more important in post-pagan Europe than Norse myth.

[Ruggery]

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

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.