Religion

facts and patterns of behaviour regarding the following religions for the sake of understanding humans and their societal behaviours more correctly — studied comparatively rather than confessionally.

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six traditions account for most of humanity’s religious life: hinduism, buddhism, judaism, christianity, islam and daoism. studied side by side they stop being a list of exotic facts and start being a set of answers to the same handful of questions — what is ultimately real, what is a human life for, how should we act, and what do we do about death. 𐃏

No other forms of mythology fascinate me as much as Greek Mythology does.

I would love to produce a list of spiritual figures, both mortal and immortal, for the benefit of understanding their strengths, weaknesses, symbolisms and ancestry.

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greek mythology is not a scripture. there is no canonical text, no founding prophet, no council that fixed the stories — only a sprawling, self-contradicting body of tales told and retold for over a thousand years, from bronze-age hymns to roman verse. the myths were the connective tissue of greek life: they explained the cosmos, named the gods you sacrificed to, decorated the temple you walked past, and supplied the plots of the plays you watched at a state festival. to read them as mere fairy tales is to miss that a greek farmer, athlete, sailor and playwright all lived inside this material. 𐃏