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 Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:17 pm
KumarKakarla VCmnky Indian Mythology is my favorite. "I have killed you because it is my dharma to kill" "That is why I am not ashamed to be killed by you" I'm Indian. And, actually, Indian mythology is pretty cool. I say this from the standpoint of an essential American person with Indian parents who expose me to Indian culture. i really like indian mythology, but i don't know a whole lot about it beyond the outline of the religious stuff in my hist 101 class
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:00 pm
[Midori Asuka] The person of Mythology I most really want to know about is Medusa.
And I know there were two other Gorgons besides for her. But I don't know much about those other two, just that they were... there. Haha! xD
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:15 pm
I prefer Norse mythology over any other mythology.
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:51 am
Tasty Crayons [Midori Asuka] The person of Mythology I most really want to know about is Medusa.
And I know there were two other Gorgons besides for her. But I don't know much about those other two, just that they were... there. Haha! xD
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:59 pm
DragonLady71 Tasty Crayons [Midori Asuka] The person of Mythology I most really want to know about is Medusa.
And I know there were two other Gorgons besides for her. But I don't know much about those other two, just that they were... there. Haha! xD
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:20 am
I'm rather fascinated with the elder gods mythology... it's not as popular today... well, except in video games, but that's not much. I think you should research alittle into this.
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:56 am
I know Japanese and Buddhist mythology myself.
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:56 pm
Blind Guardian the 2nd I know Japanese and Buddhist mythology myself.
I'd like to learn some but I've bee nrather lazy about that.
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:16 am
Moonlite Symphony Blind Guardian the 2nd I know Japanese and Buddhist mythology myself.
I'd like to learn some but I've bee nrather lazy about that.Well, being a Buddhist I am already familiar with the system. But here's one Japanese Buddhist story for you. The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parent went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbours and everything else he needed.
A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.
The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back.
Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:44 pm
Blind Guardian the 2nd Moonlite Symphony Blind Guardian the 2nd I know Japanese and Buddhist mythology myself.
I'd like to learn some but I've bee nrather lazy about that.Well, being a Buddhist I am already familiar with the system. But here's one Japanese Buddhist story for you. The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parent went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbours and everything else he needed.
A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.
The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back.
Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:09 pm
there is no such thing as mythology, because all gods are true
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:08 pm
jestiferjames there is no such thing as mythology, because all gods are true
Or are you being sarcastic? xd
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:22 pm
Writing this directly from Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. Why? Because I am bored and wish to spread the Greek Mythology love. ;_;Page 238, under The Royal House of Athens Procne and Philomela
Procne, the elder of the two, was married to Tereus of Thrace, a son of Ares, who proved to have inherited all his father's detestable qualities. The two had a son, Itys, and when he was five years old Procne, who had all this while been living in Thrace separated from her family, begged Tereus to let her invite her sister Philomela to visit her. He agreed, and said he would go to Athens himself and escort her. But as soon as he set eyes on the girl he fell in love with her. She was beautiful as a nymph or a naiad. He easily persuaded her father to allow her to go back with him, and she herself was happy beyond words at the prospect. All went well on the voyage, but when they disembarked and started overland for the palace, Tereus told Philomela that he had received news of Procne's death and he forced her into a pretended marriage. Within a very short time, however, she learned the truth, and was ill-advised enough to threaten him. She would surely find means to let the world know what he had done, she told him, and he would be an outcast among men. She aroused both his fury and his fear. He seized her and cut out her tongue. Then he left her in a strongly guarded place and went to Procne with a story that Philomela had died on the journey.
Philomela's case looked hopeless. She was shut up; she could not speak; in those days there was no writing. It seemed that Tereus was safe. However, although people could not write, they could tell a story without speaking because they were marvelous craftsmen, such as have never been known since. A smith could make a shield which showed on its surface a lion-hunt, two lions devouring a bull while herdsmen urged their dogs on to attack them. Or he could depict a harvest scene, a field with reapers and sheaf-binders, and a vineyard teeming with clusters of grapes which youths and maidens gathered into baskets while one of them played on a shepherds pipe to cheer their labors. The women were equally remarkable in their kind of work. They could weave, into the lovely stuffs they made, forms so lifelike anyone could see what tale they illustrated. Philomela accordingly turned to her loom. She had a greater motive to make clear the story she wove than any artist ever had. With infinite pains and surpassing skill she produced a wonderous tapestry on which the whole account of her wrongs was unfolded. She gave it to the old woman who attended her and signified that it was for the Queen.
Proud of bearing so beautiful a gift the aged creature crried it to Procne, who was still wearing deep mourning for her sister and whose spirit was as mournful as her garments. She unrolled the web. There she saw Philomela, her very face and form, and Tereus equally unmistakable. With horror she read what had happened, all as plain to her as if in print. Her deep sense of outrage helped her to self-control. Here was no room for tears or for words, either. She bent her whole mind to delivering her sister and devising a fit punishment for her husband. First, she made her way to Philomela, doubtless through the old woman messenger, and when she had told her, who could not speak in return, that she knew all, she took her back to the palace. There while Philomela wept, Procne thought. "Let us weep hereafter," she told her sister, "I am prepared for any deed that will make Tereus pay for he has done to you." At this moment her little son Itys, ran into the room and suddenly as she looked at him it seemed to her that she hated him. "How like your father you are," she said slowly, and with the words her plan was clear to her. She killed the child with one stroke of the dagger. She cut the little dead body up, put the limbs in a kettle over the fire, and served them to Tereus that night for supper. She watched him as he ate; then she told him what he had feasted on.
In his first sickening horror he could not move, and the two sisters were able to flee. Near Daulis, however, he overtook them, and was about to kill them when suddenly the gods turned them into birds, Procne into a nightingale and Philomela into a swallow, which, because her tongue was cut out, only twitters and can never sing. Procne,The bird with wings of brown,
Musical nightingale,
Mourns forever; O Itys, child,
Lost to me, lost. Of all the birds her song is the sweetest because it is saddest. She never forgets the son she killed.
The wretched Tereus too was changed into a bird, an ugly bird with a huge beak, said sometimes to be a hawk.
The Roman writers who told the story somehow got the sisters confused and said the tongueless Philomela was the nightingale, which was obviously absurd. But so she is always called in English poetry.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:38 pm
ummm shouldn't this belong under theology and religion, just becuase ssome people could believe in certain mythological creatures and beings
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:33 pm
Septomor ummm shouldn't this belong under theology and religion, just becuase ssome people could believe in certain mythological creatures and beings Myths can also contain non-religious figures. So I say.... no.
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