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 Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:43 am
Blackwing Rose I know it's D & D, hence not real world mythology, but it illustrates some philosphical points I haven't in alot of other places. lol I know what you meant XD By the way, those college classes you took/are taking, I took in high school O.O
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:52 am
I took that as a fun class, and actually I had to take it twice due to some messed life circumstances. Between the two times, with seperate professors, we read some pretty interesting stuff smile
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:46 pm
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. It's about a man who is conscripted to work for a mysterious man who turns out to be a god, and about all the people he meets, many of which turn out to be gods and goddesses themselves. Odin, Bast, Anubis, Anansi, et cetera. It also talks about the war between these gods and the gods of material things, like television and electricity. And there are gods in this book who are really old, some of which I had never heard of. There's a sequel, Anansi Boys, but I haven't read it yet.
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:41 am
Blackwing Rose I took that as a fun class, and actually I had to take it twice due to some messed life circumstances. Between the two times, with seperate professors, we read some pretty interesting stuff smile Same here. lol And when we went over stuff the second time, that we did the first time, the teacher was like "Who's teahing this class, Mr. French?" I was so tempted to say "As long as you refer to me as Mr. French, I'm guessing me, now sit down, today we're gonna talk about Star Wars and the allusions to stereotypes in the story..." XD
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:58 pm
The magic the gathering serious pool a lot of religous instances and put them in the books, they change them somewhat but they are in there. Like Gaia being Gaea its all very interesting. and as for a real life is-educated-in-this-field edith hamilton is very good, she quotes ovid and virgill and all the great masters of the greek to roman times
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:07 am
Werewolf Tyr I'm currently reading Brisingamen by Diana L Paxson. It alludes heavily to Norse mythology - the story is centred on Loki attempting to recover the Brisingamen necklace, lost for centuries. I'm not sure how great the mythology is yet though as I haven't finished... just thought it was worth a mention. I've finally managed to finish it - I really ought to read more. The characterisation of Loki might be a little harsh, and Freya looses some of her magick associations, but I feel that Odin and Heimdall aren't too bad. Thor's just a bit thin on the ground, but the faux-Ragnarok at the end was fairly good. Has anybody else read it?
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:00 am
Amaterasu American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. It's about a man who is conscripted to work for a mysterious man who turns out to be a god, and about all the people he meets, many of which turn out to be gods and goddesses themselves. Odin, Bast, Anubis, Anansi, et cetera. It also talks about the war between these gods and the gods of material things, like television and electricity. And there are gods in this book who are really old, some of which I had never heard of. There's a sequel, Anansi Boys, but I haven't read it yet. I personally like Good Omens by the Neil Gaimen. The entire instance of 'Crawly' and that flaming sword is absolutely hilarious.
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:49 am
Sileny American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. It's about a man who is conscripted to work for a mysterious man who turns out to be a god, and about all the people he meets, many of which turn out to be gods and goddesses themselves. Odin, Bast, Anubis, Anansi, et cetera. It also talks about the war between these gods and the gods of material things, like television and electricity. And there are gods in this book who are really old, some of which I had never heard of. There's a sequel, Anansi Boys, but I haven't read it yet.
Goddess of Spring is a great book for any fans of the Hades and Persephone myth and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief *though for a younger audience* is a great modern uptake on the Greek gods.
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:10 pm
Mythology: The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling written by C. Scott Littleton is one of if not the best book you can find on many different mythologys. a teacher of mine bought this book and i have only gotten a chance to read it once(i am planing to buy it off of amazon.com) it tells storys of many different mythologys including Greek, Norse, Celtic, Japaneese and many many others.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 2:19 pm
Tempest Says:
I love the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. (The lightning theif, The sea of monsters) They are by Rick Riordian
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