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What religion had/has the craziest creation (genesis) story?
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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
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
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
^ The ancients were real big on the seed of the gods so..
Was it the Sumerians that had the creation myth that mankind came from a god's river of cum?
edit: hm, not finding it immediately. I definitely recall reading something to that effect but can't recall who it was. RIP my search history.
Was it the Sumerians that had the creation myth that mankind came from a god's river of cum?
edit: hm, not finding it immediately. I definitely recall reading something to that effect but can't recall who it was. RIP my search history.
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PBS Crash Course has a good set of videos about this
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.
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.
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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.
You left out the craziest part: everyone in that story, other than the cow, was spawned from Ymir's armpit sweat while he slept.
As a former Mormon...nothing beats Mormonism. At least most of the others aren't racist as fuck...
I mean the discordians are probably up there, but then that's also because they wanted their creation myth to be ridiculous as possible
I want this version of the Bible.
Dinosaur army??
Btw, you ever see the Noah movie starring Russell Crowe?
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.
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.
Can you imagine? Aw shit, I accidentally created another sentient being from a paper cut.
The first time I saw this on Digital Devil Saga my mind went wild
Wikipedia don't say anyting about semen, but I still lol about 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.
They're all absurd, but only some of them are really CRAZY.
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.
That is hilarious. I always imagined God had a sense of humor lol.
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.
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.
Once you have leadership like Kings and a functioning body underneath the tasks can be delegated so we could form the understanding that one being could be responsible for it and monotheism follows. It is a bit funny that even in systems of godly powers where all things are possible we still need at least something analogous that we can materialize in our minds or it doesn't seem to take root.
As far as coming from clay and whatnot I imagine that comes from a shared observation that plants are alive and spring from the Earth so animals must have followed suit. Funny enough a primitive understanding of evolution, but just my speculation if anyone is aware of any theories I'd like to hear them.
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