What are the coolest polytheistic mythologies?

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>>2544212
Aztec

>>2544212
Aztec, Egyptian, and Greek.
Greek is god-tier, great mythology.

Hinduism

>>2544291
>Dude gods turn into women and have sex with Huemac who kills himself after sacrificing his children and losing his power.
Uhhhhhh

Chinese mythology is baller as fuck

Love reading about the Xian adventures

>>2544212
>egypt is fifth
>fifth

Delete this

>>2544291
what book is this friend

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>>2544212
Mayan.

If only because they have Ixtab, the goddess of hanging yourself.

>>2544212
Hinduism is pretty neat. They definitely have the coolest looking gods.

I find it wierd how the age of mythology depiction of zeus is one of the only ones you ever see

>>2544477
What other version of Zeus is there? Basically all the classic art shows him like that as an older muscular man man with a beard and long hair.

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>>2544540
>not praying to baby Zues

>>2544477
The art is very good, aom poseidon image was in im on a boat clip.

aom seriously had good art. time tested

>>2544291
What is with south america and their obsession with thicc throughout all of recorded history.

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>>2544291
Toltec myths are influenced by the Huastec sexual perception. Really interesting considering how modest were the Aztecs.

>>2544597
Thicc is perfection

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>>2544477
Another question is why is he always portrayed in modern art as having white hair?
The Greeks seemed to have depicted him with dark hair, plus he's he youngest of the original Olympians in Hesiod's system.

>>2544212
Catholicism.
I can't get enough of worshiping Mary and the Saints.

>>2544893

as a greco-romanaboo this triggers the shit out of me. he's supposed to look virile and powerful

Currencies exchange

All of them

>>2544291
>>2544368

>The fact that he engaged in such activity with male gods would not seem particularly problematic either, as those gods had turned themselves into women,

fuck even aztec's had the whole

>traps aren't gay
>it's not gay if it's a feminine penis

thing going for themselves

Islam.

Any cool Hinduism mythology?

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>>2544291
>this is why women with big asses are so common on brazillian tv

>>2544291
>you will never go around officially measuring women's butts, using your hands because that's the metric your boss/the local ruler works with

>>2544336
Except it's hardly politheistic...
Being those who you call "Gods" the different Avatars of a single being.

>>2544291
>Huemac then had sex with these sorceresses

I fukken kek'd

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>>2545333
I know this is a joke cause of how hardcore Islam is about monotheism (to them, Christianity is polytheistic for having a trinity)
but it's not like God and his word are the only supernatural thing in Islamic culture

Jinn are interesting/kinda freaky. Basically spirits that can haunt places, possess people, occupy objects and do magic (i.e. a genie)

>>2545438
But jinns are not divine, only god is divine.

>>2544212
Beyond the obvious Egyptian, Greek and Norse,
Japanese gods are pretty cool, and I've always found Hinduism kind of fascinating because it's still going strong. The Aztecs were pretty nifty as well, and some of the Pagan gods of England and Ireland were kind of interesting.

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I love Ireland's lore. There are so many good Irish legends, and there's also a rich Irish pantheon. It's unfortunate it goes vastly ignored save by Druidic Pagans such as myself.

>>2545606
>tfw no one to celebrate the Spring Equinox with

>>2545065
Epic, for the win, bro

>>2545606
That's Odin though innit

Thracian mythology

Christianity

>>2544291
>measuring ass width by handspans

This makes total sense to me.

>>2544212
Yoruba orisha are pretty cool. Eshu Elegba is basically a shiva-hermes

>>2545757
Overwatch get out

>>2544212
Dunno, in which ones don't they fuck anything that moves?

>>2545762
Hey /v/. Naming that bitch Shard of Consciousness was fucking retarded.

>>2545471
What each God wants varies, and it varies by the time of year.

You don't even have to sacrifice to all of the gods, or even care about all of them. A man who lives inland and doesn't engage in metalsmithing wouldn't offer substantial worship to Poseidon and Hephaestus for example.

>>2545728
Is it wrist to fingers, or just sides of the palm? Because the first way is super fucking thicc but the second way is more manageable.

>>2544291
>too thin for his taste

>>2545606
The druids were all killed in a single battle. You're not a druid, you're a modernist pretender who has no idea how druidism works because there are hardly any written records of them.

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how is this even a question?

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>>2545775
"Handspan - the maximum distance between the tips of the thumb and little finger, taken as the basis of a measurement equal to 9 inches."

Basiclly 4 handspans in big enough for two hands to cup each asscheek.

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No love for Shinto? I get that it's a clusterfuck with a gorillion kami for every fucking thing and is barely codified, but the stories of Amaterasu, Susanoo and the others are cool.

Norse mythology definitely

The Norsemen were inferior to the Greeks but their mythology was top-notch.

>>2545672
>Thracian mythology
I must ask: why? Because there aren't that many information, it seems.

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Norse

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>>2544212
Aztec hands down

>Born prematurely by his will to hunt down all his 400 (infinite) brothers (emotions) before they hunted him
>Moves the sun across the cosmos and binds it with other ages using his sword, the snake of fire and beauty
>The warriors who were sacrificed to him are his bodyguards and army in his daily battle against the other stars and the night

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>>2545946
Easily.
I like to think the Aztecs were some kind of alternative-history China. Ironworking is never developed and the aesthetics of the Shang dynasty are continued to the point of a weird bloodthirsty rococo.

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Norse myths usually have some humor to spice the stories up.
Like when Thor had to crossdress as Freya to have a fake marriage with a giant and get his stolen hammer back. There's even a prototype of Little Red Riding Hood squeezed in.

>Thrym, the lord of giants, said, "Have you ever seen a bride eat and drink so heartily?"
>The maid-servant wisely answered thus: "Freyja was so eager to come to Jotunheim that she has eaten nothing for eight nights."
>Thrym stooped beneath his bride's veil, wanting to kiss her, then jumped back the whole length of the hall. "Why are Freyja's eyes so fearful?" he said. "I think that fire is flaming from her eyes."
>The maid-servant wisely answered the giant thus: "Freyja was so eager to come to Jotunheim that she has not slept for eight nights."

>>2545606
>There are so many good Irish legends, and there's also a rich Irish pantheon
elaborate pls

>>2544893

Because white hair is equated with wisdom and power in our Christian western culture. Same reason why Jehova is always portrayed with white hair.

>>2544212
Gnosticism, mostly because Yaldabaoth is fun to say.

>>2545987
Shinto is based as fuck but beyond Amaterasu it doesn't have a well known pantheon of deities to worship. I personally like that kind of localism but it kinda ruins easy access for someone living outside of Japan, thinking about it wouldn't you have to "create" new local kami for the region?
That and the old deification of the emperors and association with Japanese militarism/nationalism keep most people away

What is your favorite god of each religion guys?

>>2549306
I like Artemis. Also Tezcatlipoca gets a mention for turning into a woman and fucking a king, ruining his life and kingdom just for shits and gigs.

>>2544212
Dildoniism posits that each of The Amazing Dildoni's five testicles is a separate God with a seperate will to fuck bitches in a different kind of way.

>>2544597
>South America
The Nahuas/Aztecs/Mexicas were located in Mexico though.

>>2545395
>brazil
>aztecs

>>2544291
Aztec are not polytheistic. Pantheism is more appropriate. And even then they weren't very theistic.

>>2544540
Zeus Ktesios

snek zeus

He eats the rats in your storeroom and slows the rot of perishables.

There is a Panhellenic Zeus and there are local Zeuses. The Panhellenic Zeus was still interpreted differently based upon region. Greek myth, despite what you might think, has no canon and the myth itself does not really have to correspond at all with the religious practices. Athena was worshiped in Athens as a virginal woman that embodied crafts and civilization which were integral to their economy, not as a war goddess. On the other hand, some places worshipped her, or even Artemis (Sparta and some other place), as a war goddess.

Common depictions are based upon the most popular forms of myth. Rome and Greece for example share the same gods in a literary sense, but Jove and Zeus were not worshiped in similar ways, nor did any one city/town/whatever worship each in precisely the same way as another.

Religious pluralism is nothing new.
>>2544893
>dark on light pottery
>'omg his hair is dark wtf'
They had to differentiate it from his skin somehow.
>>2545471
Henotheism. It depends on what you want, what your job is, what city you live in, and so on depending on the times.

Goats are pretty common because nobody wants a male kid, but they're honestly more of a cheap sacrifice. Big sacrifices are bulls, cows, horses, etc. The sort of thing not every shepherd can afford to kill (a male kid will grow up competing with the other males, and when it grows its horns it will be an extreme threat, I'm pretty sure the Greeks only sacrificed an adult male when it got too old to breed, and would have probably been killed by the new male anyway).

We do the same with chickens, for example. And, most veal and lamb is from a male of the species for similar reasons.

>>2545345
Ramayana and Mahabharata, maybe?

>>2544212
UNDER THE SWORD! CHRISTIANITY IS THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION!

>>2547507
>maid-servant
I think that Loki had more fun in this cross-dressing escapade than Thor had.

>>2549668
>Rome and Greece for example share the same gods in a literary sense, but Jove and Zeus were not worshiped in similar ways, nor did any one city/town/whatever worship each in precisely the same way as another.
Probably the biggest difference between Greek and Roman pantheon is Ares and Mars. Mars could easily be completely different god (personally, I like to think that Mars is Roman equivalent of Pallas, Titan of War, given how Romans still holds other gods identified with Greek Titans with esteem, like Saturn).

>>2545425
Not quite.

Hinduism is an amalgam of different beliefs.

Some hindus may believe in different avatars. Others believe in many gods. Others believe there are no gods, and its all part of a cosmic monist idea. Etc

Except for the myth of Osiris we don't actually know much about Egyptian mythos. That's a shame.

Finnish

Ukko, Tapio, Ahti, the list can go on..

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>>2549668
>They had to differentiate it from his skin somehow.
Except there are plenty of red figure vase paintings showing light colored hair. They were perfectly willing and able to do so when required.
Zeus was dark-haired.

>>2550068
Sure, it's just not as simple as black hair equates to black hair. It could be any range from brown to dark grey to fucking blue.

>>2545987
get your naturo shit outta here weeb

>>2550894
>Hating on taruno on a malaysian traditional cooking website

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I'd go with Sumerian pantheon.

>>2550068
>Zeus was dark-haired.
A YO
HOL UP

Greek mythologies are the only real interesting ones.
Norse gods were all just proud warrior dudes who lived to fight and were super manly and did manly things because they were men.
We don't know much about South American religions comparatively
Egyptian pantheons were ridiculously fractured and constantly changing, every fucking Pharaoh switched it up and demoted one God or promoted another, struck one from history or made up one from thin air, proclaimed that he was to be worshipped as a God rather than the descendant of Gods, and every fucking village of over 20 had their own version of it the mythologies and pantheon
And I just find all far eastern religious traditions uninteresting, not sure why.

>>2544900
best heresy desu those chr- I mean cathars will never know

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>>2546084

>>2551849
Naruto is still pretty shit anime tbqhwy.

>>2551888
Wrong.

>>2552509
Not an argument

>>2551888
>Norse gods were all just proud warrior dudes who lived to fight and were super manly and did manly things because they were men.
More like a bunch of cucks, crossdressers and furries.

>>2553933
>arguments are good cuz i sed so

>>2552099
I agree tbqhwytherem80

>>2553942
just like modern nordics

>>2545856
Gotta agree with this anon. Lots of these ass backwards pagan shits did crazy stuff like sacrifice animals and people.

Modern reenactments just focus on dancing around a tree and being one with nature. Its entirely made up.

>>2551888
Slavic mythology is the fucking best.

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>>2544212
I've always found Sumerian/Mesopotamian religion intriguing and interesting

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>>2544291
*teleports with a big ass in front of you*

psst nothing personnel, king.

>>2546165
upvote.

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>>2545606
Share with us your mysteries, Druid

>captcha: Nice Britannia

>>2556822
>that rolex

persians never change

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>>2559577
OUR LORD TEZCATLIPOCA

>>2559577
OUR LORD TEZCATLIPOCA

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>>2556822
>a fucking Rolex

So help me if they find a persian statue with an animal print shirt, hairy chest, gaudy gold chains, designer sunglasses, and the faint scent of cheap cologne

I really like the underlying themes of Norse mythology. The fallibility of its gods, the fatalistic nature of their own existence, the impermanence of all things.

>>2544212
Celts

>>2549306
Acionna

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>>2544893
>>2549668
>They had to differentiate it from his skin somehow
Nestor is drawn with White hair.

Checkmate, Atheists

>>2544893
Lmao look at his tiny dick

Shinto.

Since it is still practiced by 120 million people.

>>2559577
>OUR LORD TEZCATLIPOCA

Besides:

Greco-Roman
Norse
Hindu
Aztec/Mayan/Incan
Egyptian
Japanese / Shinto
Chinese
Judeo-Christian
Arabian / Islamic
Celtic / Irish
Sumerian / Mesopotamian
Polynesian
Native American
African
Voodoo
Buddhist

What is your favorite mythology?

>>2560448
I've never actually seen white in an authentic red figure ware piece before. Any idea of what they used as the dye? It honestly fits in horribly
>>2560699
William Blake

>>2560712
>William Blake

nice meme choice

>>2560544
Even if I weren't a weeb, this would be my answer. Shintoism is pretty based desu.

It doesn't even have a solid pantheon like Indo-European polytheism - it's all local spirits, which pretty much makes it impossible to practice outside Japan.

Cernunnos

>>2560699
Slavic

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>>2560712
Honestly, the first time I saw it, I thought it was some kind of defect, but it's pretty consistent with depictions of Nestor.

My guess is they used the same stuff they used to dye white ground pots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_ground_technique

>>2559577


OUR LORD TEZCATLIPOCA

>>2545946
>Itztlacoliuhqui
eets-tlah-koh-LEEHW-kee
Nahuatl names are fun to pronounce

>>2545949
>muh ancestor

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>>2550011
Iku-Turso is neat.

I wish there was more concrete information about the Finnish pantheon.

The possible connection between Ukko and Thor is also interesting.

>>2560699
pokémon

>>2560699
tolkien (basically norse+judeo christian)

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Chink is best

>>2560717
How is that a meme?
>>2561973
Blemmyes are a thing.

>>2545345
Literally everything about Karna.

>>2560699
Korean.

>>2562831
Too bad he was tricked into giving up his divine armour and earrings only to be later on slain by his half brother tossed by Krishna.

>>2563053
>tricked
He knew and gave it up anyway. And he would have beat Arjuna (even after not using his dad's kickass magic chariot because he was gonna beat Arjuna with a regular chariot to show off his l33t skillz) if Krishna didn't tell Arjuna to literally stab him in the back.

100% Ancient Greek. No contest.

>>2559577
OUR LORD TEZCATLIPOCA