10-09-2014, 05:47 AM | #91 |
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Re: How exactly would a Religion of a god of theives work?
The literature of Greece and Rome has been studied throughout the West since ancient times. The Norse and Celtic literature has really only been availible from the mid-19th century on. Every schoolchild hears about the Trojan War, learns the names of the Greek Gods, hears about Homer. How many even hear about the Poetic and Prose Eddas or the Taine?
For every schoolkid who has read a version of a Norse or Celtic Myth, there are ten who've read multiple versions of the Greek myths. Hercules has been the hero of dozens of movies and about a dozen TV series both live action and cartoon. Thor has had a couple of Films and a long running comicbook. It's clear that the Olympians are a powerhouse in the Cantosphere (as Ken Hite called the realms of song and legend). When you take a gander over at the African and Hindu Myths, the Greeks, lacking worshipers for millenia, still compete pretty well with these Mythologies as well. This in spite of both the Hindu and Yoruba/Voudoun faiths having far more worshipers than the Olympians ever had.
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10-09-2014, 08:22 AM | #92 |
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Re: How exactly would a Religion of a god of theives work?
Could there also be an issue of interpratio - given that the Romans tended to re-skin local deities as another aspect-cult of their own Gods?
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10-10-2014, 05:41 AM | #93 |
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Re: How exactly would a Religion of a god of theives work?
That was common to most peoples where the High God was a God of Nature. "He who you call Indra we call Zeus!" The Abrahamic faiths made a god of the Tribe Jehovah/Yahweh the High God. And "He who you call Yahweh we call Dispater" makes no sense and is deeply insulting to both peoples.
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10-10-2014, 10:08 AM | #94 | |
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Re: How exactly would a Religion of a god of theives work?
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Jews and Greco-Romans had a tacit deal going and sometimes got along fairly well especially in the Diaspora. Some actually admired Jews more then is remembered and a performance of Exodus was once sponsored in the Alexandria theater by a wealthy Jew.
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