What mythology do you know best, and how?

[Thespian]

I know a lot of the old Irish mythology of the Tuath de Danann. Norse Mythology is where most of my knowledge lies. Both are interesting in their own right.

IMHO, all religions should be like Norse Mythology, in that a battle between all of the gods where a god of thunder drunk on Mead battles a giant death serpent and evil wolf along with his All-Father as armies of death, fire and chaos march on them.

I'd still be atheist if they were, but reluctantly atheist.

Celtic, probably. It's what happens when you live in Ireland.

Same. I actually found it pretty interesting after googling it one day.

 

[Cazza]

I'm no expert on mythology. Mythology was never a subject I got into. I kind of picked things up here and there. Though I know a few dreamtime stories.

My favourite ones are the frog that drunk all the water, why lyrebirds can talk to all the animals and why crows are black.

The frog story is about sharing. The lyrebird about working together and the crow is about kindness. Well thats versions I was told.

 

[Psykoma]

Norse.
I got into amon amarth 5ish years ago, and wanted to know what most of their lyrics were about, so I spent almost a year reading everything I could about norse mythos.

 

[Hyper-space]

I know most of Norse mythology, next Greek mythology and then some pieces here and there of Egyptian and Christian mythology.

 

[Genixma]

Japanese Mythology, with a bit or norse, celtic, greek, chinese, and American/Mexican/British Folklore/Myth/Legend

 

[DirtyMagic]

Dutch mythology!
Just look at this old guy, isn't he AWESOME?

Yup, that's our mythology. >_>

 

[redisforever]

Ancient Greek, mostly from the Sierra game "Master of Olympus: Zeus" though then leading onto just interested internet browsing... Hardly a historian in the period but things gleaned out of interest from that. See? Games can be educational Shame it was never a history period we did in school....

I learned Greek mythology as well, but from Age of Mythology. It's encyclopedia is fantastically interesting.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Ummmm... Does the Dungeons and Dragons mythos count?

Well, that has to be based on something. Don't tell me you've never Googled the name of a D&D monster and gotten back something almost totally unrelated to D&D, bar the name and a mention of 'In popular culture'?

 

[Biodeamon]

Cthulu mythos.

You can't deny it's the most ancient mythology of them all.

trying topping the beggining of time.

 

[hitman_7]

To b honest i learn all my mithology by watching tv and playing games and currently i know A LOT of greek/roman mythology Here is an example:
The father of all gods is Zeus/Jupiter
The God of the sun is Helios/Apollo
The God of the sea is Poisideon/Mercury
And the godess of love is Afrodite/Venus
But this is just basic stuff bottom line TV and Video Games can teach ppl stuff also i learn to speak English by them

 

[Ladette]

I had a couple classes on Greek/Roman mythology, so there's that.

Growing up in a very Christian house has left me with quite a bit of knowledge on the Christian stuff too.

 

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

Greek Mythology (Specificlly the Odyssey) as I did a GCSE in Classical Civilisations and that was 50% of the course.

It was an awesome moment to have an exam question of "Describe how Monsters and Magic play a role in the Novel"

 

[Atmos Duality]

The biggest myth I know of is that of there being lasting, meaningful discussion on the Internet.

More seriously, I've a smattering of knowledge about the older myths; Egyptian, Greek Pantheon, Norse, Celtic, then some Summarian and Babylonian myths...nothing in particular really.

 

[Sean951]

I know a bit of Greek (and by extension, Roman), Egyptian, and Norse mythology with much less of various Asian and Middle Eastern cultures. Much of what I know I learned from Age of Mythology and reading a lot of books and wikipedia pages on the various mythologies. I also know some Lovecraft, but I don't think that counts.

 

[Agayek]

The mythology I know best? Christian, simply due to exposure. I grew up Christian, and I've read the Bible cover to cover 2-3 times, so I am quite familiar with just about all of it.

After that, in descending order, I know the other Abrahamic, Ancient Greek/Roman, Norse and Shinto mythologies better than average. I spent a lot of time in my adolescence reading up about various mythologies and religions, because none of them made any sense to me. It's quite fascinating reading, in all honesty.

 

[Condor219]

Norse. I like the world and their ideals better than any other mythology, and I come from Nordic descent, so it's good to know what my ancestors believed.

 

[Spacewolf]

Probably Greek as i did classics in school and read all of the absurdly detailed text dumps in age of mythology, as well as a bit of on my own time reading

 

[NerfedFalcon]

It's great to see everyone being so well-read! Even if it's in fictional mythology, that's still going to earn you some points somewhere...