Name A Mythological Figure!

[Draygonia]

This was in part why I signed up! Since this is about mythology, what would this forum be without a mythology figure thread?

Basically, the rules are that you must name a creature/hero/legend, etc from mythology or anything thats basically fictional/non-existent, etc.

I will start out by naming something I believe is from mythology...

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Pegasus

[vicki2]

That's easy for me since I named one of my dogs ...ZEUS.

[Melos]

Let's stick with a Greek theme here :) -- Medusa the Gorgon

[palefrost]

Persephone has always been my favorite. I love all the stories about her.

[Draygonia]

Hades! My favorite greek god :)

[danrak]

Ok, I'll stick with Greek too: Gaia

[Draygonia]

CHASM! My website revolves around him/her, so i take back my last post :D

[htmlmaster]

You mentioned Zeus, so I'll say Hera (I think I'm spelling that right).

[Draygonia]

Aprodite... or is it aphrodite? I think the first spelling is the most correct.

[Honi]

Enkidu was a wild man living with the animals until he was tamed by the priestess Shamhat. He became Gilgamesh's close companion. It was the death of Enkidu that sent Gilgamesh on a search for immortality.

[Tealight]

Loki Laufeyjarson.

[AcadianSidhe]

Inanna

One of my recent faves.

[Aegipan]

Aegipan

Fertility god, son of Pan and Aega who helped Zeus defeat Typhoon.

[castor]

Pollux.

Why?

Bare is the back without a brother.

[AcadianSidhe]

Pollux.

Why?

Bare is the back without a brother.




Whoa.... do you read Marion Zimmer Bradley?

[castor]

Whoa.... do you read Marion Zimmer Bradley?
I have read I think about 10 novels of her. :cool:

I especially like Darkover landfall. Isn't this a phrase("bare is the back....) out of the novel Sword of the Aldones?

More recently in run into the Nordic saga:: Grettir the strong which contains the following phrase:"

Then cried Grettir, "Bare is the back of the brotherless." And Illugi threw his shield over Grettir, and warded him in so stout a wise that all men praised his defence

If you are interested in the text it's now on-line:
Grettir the Strong, Magnusson and Morris tr. index (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/gre/index.htm)

[AcadianSidhe]

I have read I think about 10 novels of her. :cool:

I especially like Darkover landfall. Isn't this a phrase("bare is the back....) out of the novel Sword of the Aldones?



It was that you just quoted almost exactly how the phrase turns up in her stories over and over. In the Darkover series tons, and a bit in Avalon.

[castor]

Funny how memory plays trics on you . It seems it made a deeper impression on me than I realized.

What do you think does the type of fantasy stories like the darkover-series rate as modern Mythology?

[AcadianSidhe]

Funny how memory plays trics on you . It seems it made a deeper impression on me than I realized.

What do you think does the type of fantasy stories like the darkover-series rate as modern Mythology?


Honestly, I love the pantheon MZB creates, but I don't really read her books for the mythological aspects. Well, not Darkover, at least. I read them from a largely anthropological point of view. I love how she depicts culture clash and the differences and similarities between different peoples. I also love her attempt to marry science and magic. I tend to look at the Darkover series as more social commentary than modern mythology.

I do really wish someone would come out with a detailed compilation of the Darkover myths and legends- especially the Hastur legend. You can only get so much out of the snippets she gives of the Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda.

[Laurel Tavington]

Merlin... the solitary figure that connects ancient Brittan and the Christianized world.

[Hector of Troy]

Hector of Troy

[Boltleader1]

I dont believe anyone has mentioned Volcan the roman god of the forge. How can we possibly ignore the god that supplies the weapons for every one else?

by the by, props to loki :D

[Herrresjonny]

I'll go for Ares, spends all his days fighting, killing and maiming and still gets to have an affair with Aphrodite, goddess of beauty. lucky man

[Sekhmet]

Athena Goddess of wisdom born full grown from the head of her father Zeus. Master cobbler who fashioned the winged shoes of Hermes the messenger among other things.

[Rascaduanok]

http://www.sighcographics.com/imgs/pazuzu_noborder.gif

Pazuzu: Mesopotamian Storm Demon.

[Kveldulfr]

I'm going to go with Fenrir, the wolf that cannot be bound, who devours Odin during Ragnarok. (Fenrir is also known as Fenris or Fenrisulfr)

[Garmr]

Since someone already said Fenrir, also known as Hrodvintir, I'll have to go with Odin.

[ipisademonslayer]

Sorry.

but I could not resist writing this.

So, Mr. OP. it seems for you "mythology" is about things that are fictional or non-existant.

I very very strongly disgree to your basics (and therefore protesting to such views hereby). To me mythology is about "myth"s which are stories passed down innumerable generations about things whose truth cannot be established through modern "scientific" means (meaning they are unknown/unseen to modern science), but which at the same time are so popularly known and believed that they cannot be dismissed as completely false either.


My favourite Thesaurus seems to think "myth" = A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world*view of a people.

And in my personal opinion, every word of mythology coming from ANY culture or people across the globe, conveys truth in some form or the other; sometimes verbatim, sometimes figurative. "Truth", that our modern science (something the average human of today are so proud about) is far too immature to see or establish. But definitely, things that very much ARE a part of our reality and affects and determines our courses through the journey of our selves from a bacteria to a fully enlightened beings to a GREAT extent.

Or do you still not agree?
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[Sasodara]

Amaterasu and Tsukyomi, the sun and moon gods of Japanese Mythology.

[Guardia]

Susanoo, Amaterasu's brother, with whom she always appear to be in conflict with. -Japanese Mythology

[Eragon]

Posiden god of water

[HermesRulz101]

Hermes is great o and by the way props to Athena for making Hermes shoe's:D

[HermesRulz101]

Polyphemus the cyclops

[Metocles]

Hyperion, the father of Helios and a Titan. Pretty cool name if I do say so

[OlympianIncorporated]

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