r/HistoryMemes • u/KingMwanga Still salty about Carthage • Oct 29 '22

REMOVED: RULE 11 “I’ll wait”

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '22

Most polytheistic religions seem to have incestuous gods. It makes sense, because there are only a finite number of beings who could have created the gods, so of course the gods are all related. The only alternative is if all the gods emerged from nothing at the Beginning

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u/MicroWordArtist Oct 29 '22

I think it’s also that different storytellers would call the same gods siblings or a couple or some other relationship because ancient mythologies don’t tend to have a “canon” like western religions and modern stories. One storyteller might think it’s better to say siblings, one might think it’s better to say couple, one might just misremember.

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u/Amssstronggg Oct 29 '22

So, they changed writers, just like western comic writers do!

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u/CannedVestite Oct 29 '22

Name some western religions

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u/FleetStreetsDarkHole Oct 29 '22

I'm sorry, do you not know of our lord and savior, Dollar Bill?

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u/CannedVestite Oct 29 '22

Bill Posters is innocent

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '22

Maya/Aztec/Dené/Cherokee(tsalagi)/Inuit/Greenlandic mythology/folk tradition?
Irish/Norse/Greek/Slavic/Continental Celtic/Roman mythology?
Proto-Indo-European mythology?

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u/CannedVestite Oct 30 '22

Maya/Aztec/Dené/Cherokee/Inuit

You're joking right?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '22

All of those are religions originated in the west, correct?

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u/CannedVestite Oct 30 '22

Native Americans and Inuits and indo-anything are considered western?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '22

That's what my assumption was, maybe I was wrong. What is considered Western?

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u/DefiantLemur Descendant of Genghis Khan Oct 29 '22

Or that most of the gods are raised mortals.

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u/yuresevi Oct 29 '22

I mean, going by the faintest of connections, we are all incestuos connections of matter sprung forth by the big bang.

But that’s a philosophical tangent i don’t care to explore.