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I just watched Blood of Zeus and the aesthetics reminded me of Olympus Guardian an animated series from Korea as well as Saint Seiya which is comics from Japan that was adapted into one of the most popular anime franchises worldwide esp in Latin America and Europe. And made made realize something I never thought about before..............
That far more people know about the god and goddesses of Olympias and the heroes of the Illiad and the Oyddssey along with Perseus and Jason's quest for the Golden fleece than any other mythology foreign to their own cultures in the world. As seen with Saint Seiya and other popular media made in other nations, far more movies, video games, live theatre, and TV shows have been made on Hellenic stories than any other countries (except for native mythic literature of non-Christian counties ass seen with Shinto Japan and even then non-Christians are far more likely to use Greek mythology than other foreign sagas and legends if they create a story in the myths retelling genre).
That for Christian countries is even the presence is even more in-grained in popular consciousness because so many people in converted places like Mexico, Philippines, and Lebanon don't know any folklore stuff thats unrelated to Christianity esp predating their pre-current predominant Abrahamic religions yet at least the most famous Greek gods and goddesses can be named by the general public in now Christian countries.
This is esp true in Europe where not only a modern retellings of the ancient stories in novels, TV, interactive tabletop experiences, comics, animation, cinema, and computer games are published all the time but its required reading in the college level. That even for the few countries in the continent where the general populace still has some vague awareness of their pre-Abrahamic mythos such as Sweden with the Norse stories, they'd still get more exposure to Hellenic Polytheism just by classes from post-secondary education having assignments as prerequisites towards the path to your major. That unless they take specific classes or gear towards a specific major that primarily focuses on pre-modern history or classical literature of their culture, even people from places that kept the memory of local pre-Christian myths will end up knowing more about the Hellenic figures than they do about their own local gods. As seen in Germany despite the presence of Siegfried's Cycle in high culture and mass media, more educated people know more tidbits about say Athena than the specificity of trivia of Siegfried himself.
So I'm wondering why is this the case? How come for example Beowulf never became a globally famous name despite the presence of the British empire as the largest civilization in history? Or why aren't there much retelling of Siegfried outside of Germany and Austria even withing Europe despite being the icon of the DACH and the fame of Wagner's Opera in the theatre world? Why is Hollywood far more interested in recreating the Greek ancient religion onsceen than showcasing say the still-known Celtic gods of Ireland?
Greek civilization is the basis of Western Civilization, and Greek civilization is based on the poet Homer, and his great epic poem, The Iliad. The Greeks developed the first true alphabet, probably to transcribe the Homeric poems. This allowed the development and dissemination of literature and ideas on a much wider scale than ever before. So, the ideas and religious Gods of the Greeks have far greater importance in the history of human civilization than any others. Homer simplified traditional Greek polytheism into a pantheon of a small number of human-like Gods, leading the way, centuries later, to monotheism.
Didn't the Phoenician alphabet pre-date the Greeks'?
The Phoenician alphabet wasn't a "true alphabet", it didn't transcribe vowels, just consonants, thus leaving out a very significant element of human speech sounds, and true phonemes. The Greeks loved the beauty of Homer's poems so much, they insisted on being able to transcribe the sound of them perfectly into writing. They added vowel sounds to the Phoenician alphabet, and, this created a perfect device to easily write down all human speech, with just a couple dozen characters, instead of the hundreds or thousands from earlier writing systems. Much easier to learn, and to employ. Thus, the explosion of Greek culture.
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Also you are making up shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
Is it the most popular? Indian mythology is likely contemplated by a larger number of people per day.
If you mean Hindu "mythology", it's not considered mythology, it's considered to be real, including reincarnation. Hindu scientists do experiments on it, in universities, proving that many people have memories of past lives. The Greek Gods no longer exist, the Hindu Gods most certainly do continue to exist.
That doesn't mean Hindu mythology doesn't exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_mythology
You should tell this Wikipedia article to re-title itself because it doesn't exist.
The title is questionable. Certainly, I would change it. We refer to Greek mythology, because this religion no longer exists. However, I would suggest that telling a Hindu that what they believe in is "mythology", would offend them, and they would disagree. Would Wikipedia refer to Christian mythology, or Jewish mythology? I think this title is very, very ethnocentric. I would simply call it "Hinduism". How about scientific mythology, like Relativity Theory?
Hey, they do!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mythology
So, I think all this tells us is that Wikipedia is using the term "mythology" in a rather broader sense than is usually employed, I think!
Or you are being overly narrow. Just like you were overly narrow with what constitutes an alphabet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
It seems to be a theme. You need to expand your mind instead of hallucinating restrictions that don't exist. Sure there is overlap between Hindu theology and mythology, but categories are not mutually exclusive.
Oh, I'm not hallucinating anything. Clear definitions are important, and they are rarely employed. There's no overlap between Hindu mythology and Hindu theology, they're one and the same. Same with Christian mythology and theology. In other words, they're both theologies, not mythologies.
Bear in mind, Wikipedia is European based, and, hence, atheistic. They don't like religion, in general.
Well I guess Greek mythology isn't a mythology either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenism_(modern_religion)
So now that they are on equal footing for being a mythology, Hindu mythology is more popular. Geeez.
Nope. There are 2000 modern "Hellenists' who actually "worship" the ancient Greek Gods. There are over a billion Hindus, who worship the Hindu Gods.
On the other hand, there are probably billions of people worldwide who are fascinated by Greek mythology.
Clear definitions are important. And, the Phoenician alphabet is NOT a true alphabet, it cannot be used to write the sounds of all words.
Non-sequitur. The number of people who practice a religion does not make one a religion and the other not. You are grasping at straws. If one is categorically not a mythology because its stories also relate to a religion then the logic must apply consistently. Your view, which is not in agreement with anyone else is not self consistent, or in agreement with itself.
A better and more accurate world view is that religions contain both mythology and theology. This mythology is mythology from day one. This would be consistent with how everyone else uses the term. https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Hindu_Mythology
Anyways I'm done talking to an idiot who pulls mutual exclusions out of his butt to try to sound smart while understanding nothing he's talking about.
By the way the English alphabet can't be used to write the sounds of all words either. But we still call it an alphabet. Meanwhile there is a lot of academic literature referring to the Phoenician alphabet. Making up reddit style "well actually's" doesn't make you sound smart to smart people.
Have a nice day.