Finding my Religion

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Earthstepper E
Earthstepper Nov 4, 2003 10:00:36
Replying to Rhiannon

Hutton is good and thorough. He takes a delight in debunking assumptions so some folk might have their "faith " shaken. My particular interest lies in the lost mythologies of Britain and Northern Europe. Brian Branston's "Lost Gods of England" is brilliant and covers a much wider field than England - Indo-European roots, "Celtic" and Germanic similarities and divergences, Norse gods paralleling lost English (Anglo-Saxon) gods. Why have we let our native mythologies been overshadowed by those of Greece and Rome?

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gorseddphungus Nov 4, 2003 10:27:02
Replying to Earthstepper

correct me if I'm wrong but the roman and greek gods and mythologies go back to the same indoeuropean roots you mention; only much much later do they start to adopt christianity or other faiths. most of their early gods are exactly the same as the scando-germanic ones with very minor differences due to adoption of much earlier gods in the original places

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