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 Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:49 pm
Aztec=Snake People
Chinese (creation myth)= Snake People
^Is that a good enough pair?
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:45 am
Indeed, but another great coupling would be more of a threesome (sory kids for the adult lingo): Cambodians, Mayans and Egyptians all built pyramids without known contact to each other. The Japanese KINDA made pyramids, but they turned out to be pagodas instead. *tsk tsk* They almost had it, too.
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:26 am
The Japanese barly had history that far back I don't think they ment Pryamids, I think they tried to copy Chinese Imprial Palaces
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:52 pm
Well, technically, the Mayans built ziggurats. xp So if they count, I don''t see why pagodas wouldn''t.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:53 pm
Ziggurats are pretty much temples, and temples are a form of pyramids. And, even considering the Chinese Imperial designs, they stole that idea from the Cambodians...so...YEAH! Pagodas ARE pyramids...in their own distinguished...um...way...Oh, and the Neubians. They had the pyramid thing goin' for them too. So ha.
I win.
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:05 am
I disagree. Pyramids are a form of temple. xp Not all temples are pyramids, but all pyramids are temples.
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 1:26 pm
No...pyramids are burial chambers. I may be contradicting myself, but the structure of a pyramid is just that: a structure. Same with the Cambodian and Mayan pyramids. They're structures, all of them. They were used for different things, but look similar structurally. So hah, I win. NEXT COMMON THINGY!
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:43 pm
A Temple is a shrine dedicated to a deified being by definition. The pyramid was a lavish tomb built to commemorate the deceased man-god that is Pharaoh. Therefore, whether worship was conducted there in later ages or not, it was still technically a temple because some form of worship had once been practiced within and it was built with said worship in mind. xp
Next common thing...hm...resurrection?
Every "savior character" in mythological collections spanning time have had a moment of resurrection. Be it Jesus the Christ, Osiris, Dionysus, Mithra, what have you, there has been death followed by the conquering of death by a return to life. I think Odin even pulls this off, though it doesn't specifically say it, during the Ragnarok: Twilight of the Gods. Odin is swallowed by the wolf Fenrir/Fenris(who is promptly ripped in twine by his son Vidar), yet the Alfadur(Allfather), the Eternal One, who Odin is considered to be, still remains to recreate the world after the great destruction.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:13 pm
Yeah, rebirth can also be tacked on to that resurrection stuff. Hinduism and the whole karma stuff sounds all kinds of fun.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:44 am
Rebirth/reincarnation is probably among my favorite religious themes. Interestingly enough(to me atleast), up until the mainstream boom of Christianity, every religion except Judaism believed time was cyclical. Most now believe it to be zoroastrianic, which pretty much kills any logical argument anyone could ever have about the religion...permanently.
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:42 pm
Yes, very interesting. ^_^
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:56 am
Being the new year, I guess that I should start out with another fact of the day: many cultures share the idea of a new year, to start things anew. As d**k Clarck said last night, the first to celebrate this occasion were the Babylonians of 4000 years ago, or so records say. Though they're not quite insync with each other, they still do exist.
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:59 am
MorgueLeFay The Japanese barly had history that far back I don't think they ment Pryamids, I think they tried to copy Chinese Imprial Palaces Which in turn, were copied from the Cambodians, so, in turn, the pagodas are copies of a copy of a cylindrical pyramid.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:29 am
One-handed, left-handed warriors? Tyr in Norse mythology and "what's-his-name" Silver Hand in Celtic. Only Tyr didn't get his hand replaced.
As an aside but linked, Tolkien also did the same thing with the warrior human Beren in the Lay of Leithian. That was random.
Great apologies to anybody who knows more about Celtic than I do. If someone can remember his name, please say!
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:00 pm
That'd be Nuada of the Silver Arm. xp At your service. And that's 'cause the Nords aren't shallow aesthetic-perfectionists. evil
Hm, a common theme, a common theme...
Serpents?
Christianity&friends have "Satan" in the Garden of Eden and Leviathan.
The Norse have Jormungand, those lucky sons of bitches.
The Chinese have those...really...weird...dragon things.
Several other religions, most notably the Celts, have the "western" dragons(that is, the dragon with a dinosaur-esque body, wings, and fire breath).
So on and so forth.
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