mythology

White Americans certainly have their fair share of folk heroes and mythological characters (think Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Fearsome Critters), Blacks have their own (Br'er Rabbit and John Henry), and Indeginous people of course have their own mythologies. However, to my knowledge Asian...

I'm a really big mythology buff and love learning about little known pieces of world myths. In a recent video I was interested to learn that Poseidon, not Zeus, was considered the chief deity of Mycenaean Greece, the last vestige of the Bronze Age that lasted roughly from 1750 BC to 1050 BC...

Hello all, I know the title is a little unclear, so let me explain. I've been thinking about Alexander the Great -- and more specifically, Alexander's role in myth, legend, religion, and literature. Alexander the Great is very rare. Not only is he identified as an important historical figure...

So, in the Ancient Past, before the rise of Monotheistic religions such as Christianity and Islam, many states such as Persia, Egypt, Rome, all worshiped various gods and goddesses, that by the modern standard, are considered Pagan. When Christianity and then Islam rose, these ancient religions...

Pardon the clickbait-y title; I am not saying Atlantis is real, or that it was in the US. This scenario is sort of about the opposite. According to Plato's Timaeus and Critias, the mythical land of Atlantis was a great continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules (i.e., the Straits of Gibraltar)...

Inspired by @Scorpio Retindar's norse horror thread, I have recently become highly interested in egyptian mythology, and so I wonder what horror media be like in a world where traditional ancient egyptian (or kemetian to be more accurate) be like. Obviously, you're going to have a lot of focus...

So, today, though worship of the Old Slavic pantheon has long since died out (although there are neopagan revivals), Slavic mythology is some of the most well-preserved and well-known mythologies in human history, with only a few others (namely Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology) being...

Recently I’ve been reading a lot more RPG books than standard AH novels. Personally, since many Steampunk stories have magic or paranormal, I often include books like the Percy Jackson series as a type of AH. That being said there’s an RPG called Olympus, Inc. that is equally cool. In it...

How could there have been a religion with a single goddess, that is, a monotheistic religion that genders their deity as female instead of male? Depending on how we bring such a religion about, and that it does very well for itself (in the given context), what would it look like? (As for when...

Before Woden was wise he would go to his uncle, Ingemynd, for council and advice. Ingemynd always had good council, for he had lived long and remembered. One day, Woden asked of his uncle how his Cynn, the Ése, came to be. Wise Ingemynd began; "It was Ídel then, void of life, before the...

A lot has been written about the philosophies of China (Taoism and Confucianism) but I have never seen much attention paid to the gods and goddesses of the Chinese pantheon. Were they conceived as entities to whom sacrifices or prayers were due, or were they just a cosmological backstory to...

Alright, so I've got the beginnings of a TL in my mind, with a POD taking place around the Bronze Age Collapse (12th Century BC). This obviously means that most, if not all, of the religons from OTL will not be made ITTL. And while I probably could make up a bunch of the 'replacement' religions...

Could an ancient civilization/culture group have viewed the sun as an evil, negative force instead of the 'giver of life' or 'king of heavens' it so often appears as? The closest OTL example I can think of are the pre-Islamic Arabs seeing it as a source of dehydration, but in their case they...

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