I know! It's just undescribable... What kind of myth are we trying to have here? It's one thing if there is "one true religion" and all these various myths are just various interpretations of this one religions, correct or otherwise, but it's another to moosh together bits and pieces of various religons and beliefs and expect us to think they go together.
Like Greek myth-wise, angels don't really exist (I think). There's gods and titans and demigods and nymphs and spirits and sprites. I'm not well-versed in Cherokee stuff, but so far I know, they don't have angels too. Do they ever establish how exactly this "religion" works? So far I see they're just cribbing names and terms from various others. I mean, okay, they may say that this Ultimate Goddess they worship is called Nyx by the Greeks. Okay. But is her real name Nyx to the vampyres? How did the Greeks interpret her as so and so? Etc etc etc... I mean, Nyx DID claim she was the inspiration for various goddesses and holy figures in various beliefs...
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Date: 2011-07-05 02:49 am (UTC)Like Greek myth-wise, angels don't really exist (I think). There's gods and titans and demigods and nymphs and spirits and sprites. I'm not well-versed in Cherokee stuff, but so far I know, they don't have angels too. Do they ever establish how exactly this "religion" works? So far I see they're just cribbing names and terms from various others. I mean, okay, they may say that this Ultimate Goddess they worship is called Nyx by the Greeks. Okay. But is her real name Nyx to the vampyres? How did the Greeks interpret her as so and so? Etc etc etc... I mean, Nyx DID claim she was the inspiration for various goddesses and holy figures in various beliefs...