Post by spidershinobi on Sept 26, 2016 22:26:35 GMT
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I'm not sure you legit never noticed that or if you're denying it, but if you think there's no excuse for weighing a religion over another, then you can't excuse Christianity for doing that. Its lore was made mostly from parts of Hebrew mythology and a few parts of the Greek one, among others; and in turn it immediately tried to negate those by using the dogma that a vaguely defined being was responsible for corrupting the word of his god for the whole world, and to solidify that notion the romans proceeded to raze temples of legitimate gods.
Also, there are no christian or islamic oral traditions, not only because those simply aren't ancient religions, but because they were made with the intention of creating religion - with all the meaning of the word as we know today - and thus all their "meat" reside in their texts. So, for example, while we have been citing Enoch's tale and it is part of hebrew, islamic and christian mythologies, it's positively not part of the christian religion. Yes, that means YWHW had very little reason to flood the "world" in the Christian religions' telling of that (hi)story.
I don't doubt that you find the tales fascinating, because even I find tales of Jesus Christ fascinating, but I wouldn't let what religious leaders/salesmen say murk my judgement. The stories of the Old Testament are fucking awesome and they mean a lot, but unfortunately they are the stories of a rather small group of people situated in sumerian-styled myths and religious notions while not actually being part of that very meta. At the same time they are not the stories of romans themselves, who had their own myths and beliefs.
It's really not, though. I mean, hey! We live we in a rather dumb world in which schools teach us egyptian and greek mythology in ways that are so twisted that people don't actually know what gods mentioned in those even do. And under this condition we know a lot more of sumerian mythology than the world lets us. Did you know that most of what we know of Aphrodite is of sumerian origin? Did you know that Alma's tale sounds very weird and dumb if you don't know about sumerian myths? Or did we know that she's a frequent presence in the Megami Tensei series, along with other major figures? And that the game in which she narrates is one of Atlus's best sellers of Ps3/360 gen?
If it was obscure at some point, pop culture sure made it surface at least.
I'm not sure you legit never noticed that or if you're denying it, but if you think there's no excuse for weighing a religion over another, then you can't excuse Christianity for doing that. Its lore was made mostly from parts of Hebrew mythology and a few parts of the Greek one, among others; and in turn it immediately tried to negate those by using the dogma that a vaguely defined being was responsible for corrupting the word of his god for the whole world, and to solidify that notion the romans proceeded to raze temples of legitimate gods.
Also, there are no christian or islamic oral traditions, not only because those simply aren't ancient religions, but because they were made with the intention of creating religion - with all the meaning of the word as we know today - and thus all their "meat" reside in their texts. So, for example, while we have been citing Enoch's tale and it is part of hebrew, islamic and christian mythologies, it's positively not part of the christian religion. Yes, that means YWHW had very little reason to flood the "world" in the Christian religions' telling of that (hi)story.
I don't doubt that you find the tales fascinating, because even I find tales of Jesus Christ fascinating, but I wouldn't let what religious leaders/salesmen say murk my judgement. The stories of the Old Testament are fucking awesome and they mean a lot, but unfortunately they are the stories of a rather small group of people situated in sumerian-styled myths and religious notions while not actually being part of that very meta. At the same time they are not the stories of romans themselves, who had their own myths and beliefs.
For Sumerian mythology, Ninja Gaiden did a really good job. There's also The Tower of Druaga series and some references to Gilgamesh and Tiamat in various Final Fantasies. It's not a lot but, hey, it's a very obscure mythology anyway.
If it was obscure at some point, pop culture sure made it surface at least.