[KevinDavis]

No Falling Skies this weekend..

A non scifi topic...

What is your favorite Mythology group? Mine would be Greek/Roman, and from Anglo Mythology (well mostly stories about King Arthur).

Yours?????

[KevinDavis]

[yarddog]

I always preferred Greek mythology. I was a classics major for around a year.

[dog breath]

Greek, Hermes, Pan and Hecate interest me even if they are not considered the main deities in the mythology. After that it would have to be Norse, the relationship between Odin and Siberian style shamanism is very interesting to me. I like about all mythology especially those with trickster tales. I always thought Bill Clinton was Brer Rabbit come to life, a perfect immoral trickster trying to stay one hop ahead.

[discostu]

I always loved Norse mythology, largely because of the implications of Ragnarok. After Ragnarok things will be peaceful and awesome, but all the gods will be dead so they’re trying to delay it. I like a mythology where what the gods want is not for the best of humanity, shows the way random chance (acts of the gods) affected Nordic people compared to other cultures where their gods tend to be on their side.

[BuffaloJack]

> ... and from Anglo Mythology (well mostly stories about King Arthur).

Arthurian legends are great, but there’s a whole parallel set of legends set in the same time period. Ever read Orlando Furioso? It takes place in France and Italy during the reign of Arthur. In Orlando Furioso I found out that Morgana was the Lady of the Lake, and that Merlin had her make two Excalibers, because he knew one would be broken. When Arthur broke the sword and cast it into the still water of the lake, Morgana caught it, took it to the bottom of the lake and brought up the duplicate Excaliber.
Merlin features prominently in Orlando Furioso. You wouldn’t believe the number of holes in the Arthurian Legends that are filled in.

[yarddog]

I know almost no Celtic mythology. I was watching the movie “Edge of the World” about the remote Scottish island where the government resettled them to the mainland as it was getting too difficult to survive there (despite the fact that the island had been settled for several thousand years.

Anyway they had the actress who was very pretty sing a song to her little baby. It was Dream Angus and a very pleasant song.

I looked it up and it was an old Scottish lullaby about Dream Angus, a beautiful young man who brought dreams to people. In the lullaby he brings fine dreams to sell to the Mother.

[stylecouncilor]

Bookmark.

[Captain Beyond]

I like Norse, Greek, and Roman.

[Krankor]

[Vanders9]

I got to go with the Arthurian mythos, which is at its root Celtic, (although several other cultures have added to it significantly over the past 1500 years or so).

[Vaquero]

watching a rerun of The Big Bang Theory the other night.

Sheldon put Rupert Murdock on his ‘enemys list’....

why?

because he owns Fox, which cancelled ‘Firefly’.

[Duke Nukum]

I don’t think there is a mythology I don’t not like but I do love the Greek, mostly because of Homer.