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Well, I was first exposed to Norse mythology. My dad and his mom (my grandma) would always be telling me some of the more exciting or funny tales from the Norsemen. It's because I'm Danish, so it's an ancestral thing for us. It's just like faerie-tales to English kids, you know? Of course, I also grew up with some (most probably English/Celtic-inspired) faerie tales, due to the proximity of the areas.

All in all, I loved Norse mythology greatly. I was obsessed with it. Then it was Egyptian, then Greek/Roman. I got obsessed with all aspects of Rome for a while, and only recently (like within the last few years) have I re-visited Norse mythology. I've since read a bunch of the (more colourful and/or 'adult'-oriented) tales that my father didn't tell me as a child, and that's how I came to learn those ones.

I've also started to do somewhat more sophisticated research, like how Christianity doesn't really seem to give the Devil a name (aside from Devil), but instead assigns pagan deities to him. Like Satan (Egyptian Seth, Set-hen) and Lucifer (Roman pagan god originally, god of fire and bringer of light).

I always found this phenomenon interesting. Did this occur because of an attempt to discourage worship of dieties like this by local diety-specific pagan cults? Maybe not in Satan's case, because that Egyptian diety did act kind of like the Devil, but Luficer I don't see the resemblance at all.

It's also great fun to track Egyptian mythology's metamorphoses through the ages, because the Pharaohs would literally change the mythos and predominant-cults to suit their patron gods and agendas. So religion was a politcal tool in Egypt, and as such it changes a lot. The most extreme examples are Horus, Set, and Aton, but there were also lots of tiny changes.

Sorry if I rambled on too long... I just get passionate about mythology redface

Yea, and the whole "the Devil has a forked tail" comes from Set and his notoriously forked tail... and I believe the Devil's serpentine aspects come from Apophis (bizarre, in that the one slays the other).

But yes, that's a soapbox of mine as well (so to speak) so I shan't belabour the point.

I was always a bookworm so I suposse yhat0s how I started with mythology. However I got fascinated with it when I started all te symboism that you can find in myths. An other thing is that I always considered fairy tales a kind of myth, so that helped

Since seventh grade, I was told the story of Echo and Narcissus and fell in love with Greek Mythology. I'm trying to get a book with all the Mythologies except Roman, I dont like it. stressed

Mine was a bit like that in places, like... "WTF? But I thought it went like that..."

Most annoying for me was that Heracles was Greek and Hercules was Roman. That probably took the edge off some classical for me.

It started for me in 5th grade, where I found a Greek Mythology book. Since then, I have started reading all about Greek Mythology, and some Asian mythology, but Greece is my homie-dawg (jk)

Remembering past lives.





I'm serious.

I always loved storytelling and reading as a kid, and naturally got into mythology, which intensified even further when I got into magick, and all the gods and goddesses.