In Norse mythology, a cow licked salty ice blocks until Buri was created. Buri had three grandchildren: Odin, Vili, and Ve. They killed Ymir who was the chief frost giant. His blood drowned most of the other frost giants. They used his skull to create the sky, flung his brian matter into the sky to create the clouds, and fires from the battle to create the stars. After maggots formed in the body, they gave them understanding and turned them into men.
Creationism ?
When fallen angels led a dinosaur army in pourring rain to an epic battle to sink Noah's ark and all failed, hence the dinosaurs drowning, that why all fossiles are heads up, to reach for the surface
It's not part of the creation story but the part in the Bible where Samson kills an entire army with a donkey jawbone is amazing
I want an X rated mini series of the entire book
There's a part where a shitload of enemy foreskins are dumped on a king's table or something. I can't even imagine.
I'm surprised they could write it down.The people who wrote some parts of the Bible were on that GOOD SHIT
One common trend I do notice among myths is that god fluids and body parts are really magical.In Norse mythology, a cow licked salty ice blocks until Buri was created. Buri had three grandchildren: Odin, Vili, and Ve. They killed Ymir who was the chief frost giant. His blood drowned most of the other frost giants. They used his skull to create the sky, flung his brian matter into the sky to create the clouds, and fires from the battle to create the stars. After maggots formed in the body, they gave them understanding and turned them into men.
The people who wrote some parts of the Bible were on that GOOD SHIT
Some Indian myths are pretty out there. I'd og into detail but I think I should let someone better versed do it.
No way. I was raised atheist and ancient Egyptian or Norse world creation myths are about a billion times more crazy (and entertaining) than your bargain bucket Christianity "chill dude God made the universe in 7 days, go figure". That's without even getting into LDS and Scientology and shit.Crazy just means "how different from the one I was raised with" when it comes to religion. They're all equally crazy in a vacuum, but no human is in a vacuum when it comes to religion and superstition
Where the fuck do that cow and ice come from?In Norse mythology, a cow licked salty ice blocks until Buri was created. Buri had three grandchildren: Odin, Vili, and Ve. They killed Ymir who was the chief frost giant. His blood drowned most of the other frost giants. They used his skull to create the sky, flung his brian matter into the sky to create the clouds, and fires from the battle to create the stars. After maggots formed in the body, they gave them understanding and turned them into men.
Listen, I'll need you to shut up, don't pull on this loose thread
This is kinda true but there's also just "crazy" from a narrative story perspective lol.Crazy just means "how different from the one I was raised with" when it comes to religion. They're all equally crazy in a vacuum, but no human is in a vacuum when it comes to religion and superstition
That is hilarious. I always imagined God had a sense of humor lol.The Kuba of africa believe their creator god puked out the universe apropos of nothing.
The Bushmen believe that Praying mantis named Cagn married a Hyrax and adpted a porcupine, and that most of the animals were the result of Cagn's favourite eland (think african deer) being accidentally killed and Cagn having his wife bake up replacement animals, none of which were as good. Also appparently the only reason people exist is so that he would have someone to prank, as that is about the only interaction he has with mortals: him playing practical jokes on them for no reason other than he finds it hilarious.
There's literally a myth where he disguises himself as a fat antelope carcass and just lies out in the sun for a few days until some kids find him and are elated at what appears to be a mountain of free food. So they butrcher the carcass and hang the various bits up in a thorn bush in order to dry them out and prevent animals from getting at them. When they turn heir backs, he reassembles himself and puts himself on the ground. They put his bits back on the thorns again and again, he knocks them off. When they hang him up a third time, he reassembles himself in fron of their eyes, and as a frankensteins monster of butchered antelope bits says "Do you mind? It is incredibly itchy up there!?"
The children lose their shit and run home, having learned no lesson aside from the fact that the universe is controlled by what amounts to a celestial Bugs Bunny who will mess with you for no reason other than to prove what an incorrigible stinker he is.
As you can probably tell, this is the most awesome religion ever.
Also the separation of Earth and skyI always found it interesting how the creation myths of so many cultures that are totally isolated from one another in all respects still have a ton of of similarities. One of the big ones is humanity being made by a god or higher being from mud, earth, clay or some kind of earthy material.
I know one common element of polytheism is believed to be because before we had a strong understanding of complex functioning hierarchical systems we didn't have the understanding a single being could be capable of being responsible for all of it, hence polytheism being common and assigning different things to this god or that god.I always found it interesting how the creation myths of so many cultures that are totally isolated from one another in all respects still have a ton of of similarities. One of the big ones is humanity being made by a god or higher being from mud, earth, clay or some kind of earthy material.