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 Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:21 am
I think it was a culmination of my grandfather, who lived with my family for a time, and my mom.
Both loved history and I always was reading bits of historical information about it.
I guess when I trapsed upon ancient history, that caught my eye. As well as the mythology and religion of my ancestors.
I've always found the cultures around the Mediterranean most fascinating. Others take second place for me.
What say you?
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:54 am
My love of mythology started after I started watching Inuyasha! I know its weird a Japanese cartoon bring me to mythology and all, but that is how it all began.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:40 pm
I'm not quite sure, I've always liked stories. My grandmama used to tell me all these stories of her childhood (and still does on occasion) and I loved hearing about them. Mythology to me is like these wonderful elaborate stories that are rooted somewhere in truth.
I used to do mostly Ancient Egyptian mythology and then moved onto Greco/Roman. It's all very fascinating.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:28 am
My real name is from Welsh mythology, so that triggered the original liking. I think that Eoin Colfer and the Artemis Fowl books have got a lot to answer for though.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:21 pm
I have always found it fascinating. But more recently I've been getting into complicated histories like tacitas and Tiberius Claudious Drusus Nero Germanicus. I like reading the interesting things about rome and egypt and a lot of other places that most have a lot of mythology. I just find it fascinating
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:54 pm
My favorit would have to be Japanes mithology! 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:26 pm
I'm fascinated on a psychological/sociological level mostly, though my affinities with Celtic and Nordic mythologies are derived strongly from my ancestral lines(I've always loved mythology, but I REALLY got into it when I found pieces of these religions in a "heritage chest").
It makes me feel giddy inside when I read a story from, say, Hindu, and I can draw a lot of likenesses towards a religion as different as Norse. It gets even better when that trait resonates through countless other religions. It was due to things like this that I became an avid studier of Jungian archetypes, trancendental idealism, and the "unus mundus" theory.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:48 pm
twisted I don't know exactly how or when I began loving mythology. I just know that it sparked my interest as a child, so I have studied it and loved every minute of the mythology lesson. twisted
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:22 pm
Hmm...well, in elementary school, I was a major bookworm, though I not only read stories and histories, but science books on subjects like taxonomy and mitichondrial DNA and weird stuff like that.
Then, in junior high, I moved to a new town, and my new very close best friend (like a sister to me still, though I've moved away again) and I would spend a lot of time in the library of the "country-ghetto" school we went to, which was pretty pathetic, actually (I mean... Dr. Seuss at a Junior High Library? And Bearenstein Bears?). The library was a sort of sanctuary, though, with the COOLEST LIBRARIAN EVER... too bad they had such a meager selection of books.
But they had a few good mythology books and my friend, I guess because she was into the TV show Xena, would be in there reading those books, and I'd get bored and read the ones she just read. I've been friendly with mythology ever since.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:40 pm
My love of it came when I was about 3 years of age, asking why people went to church. When I found out about God, I wondered what other gods there were. So I poked around for a few years and asked people what they believe and I can honestly say that by the time I got into school, I knew more about everyone's religion in the class than the teacher thought. My favorite was when Mr. Meta was confused as to how I knew he was Muslim XD
Anyways, I learned more about the stories behind the gods as I got older and by the time I got into Advanced Cirriculum English Classes: Mythology/Allusion and Irish Literature, I was giving the teachers some of my material to teach the class. After graduation, I was contemplating doing more research on the works of Frued, Jung and Campbell to get the extra grip in mythology and the psyche.
And now that I'm 21 and know so much about mythology, I've actually begun to decipher what connects everyone inthe world...other than being a carbon based organism. And my proof is in the Common Grounds thread ^_^
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Gothic Romantic Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:04 am
Wow, some of you on here have been learning for years! I've only been researching properly for about two years, since taking on the task of writing a novel. Since the MC's name came from mythology, it made sense to begin research, and now I just search for interest. I feel like an absolute novice on here, though I know more than any of my friends!
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:01 am
I first became fascinated by mythology and religions when I was around 4 or 5... We had moved to Japan and the culture there was so rich with superstition, folklore, myths and the like that I was entranced. I loved having the traditional stories and myths told to me. I loved visiting the shrines, both the large ones in rural areas and the tiny Inari shrines on the back roads. I think Inari and Kitsune were what fascinated me the most, along with Obake, Oni and Kwaidan. Though Kwaidan and Oni used to freak me out when I heard the stories about them.
After we moved back to the states, I was about ten, my family started researching geneology. And I started getting deeper into mythology, ancient history and languages from other areas... Its always been my passion, and it still is to this day. Though I am especially attentive to the mythos and history associated to my religious orientation.
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:03 pm
wow beware_the jabberwock,
that exactly how i learned
kinda freaky
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:36 am
I've been reading it for as long as I can remember. My mom's a librarian, so ever since I was little I had freee run of our library for hours on end. The mythology books were some of the first books I discovered. Especially the Greco-Roman mythology. I really liked that.
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:01 pm
Like many of you, I really liked stories as a kid, so my first exposure to myth was picture books and such. Whenever studying history in school, all the way back to grade school, I was most interested in the religous practices of whatever culture we were studying. The book that really hooked me into mythology officially was D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths in the sixth grade. I must have read that thing 20 times. It's not a definitive text by any means, but it got me started smile .
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