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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8295154" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>Yup! I'd note that in other regions, local deities only escaped demonization by the local monotheism of choice by becoming diminished into human heroes, while still retaining elements of their mythological personas. We see this in the Irish and Welsh traditions, where entities that retain all or most of the characteristics of the gods worship in older insular inscriptions and throughout the continental Celtic and Belgic domains are treated as Christian or at the very least ethical pre-Christian heroes fighting against giants and dragons and faeries and whatnot. And of course we see the incorporation of concepts like Wodenaz and the Wild Hunt into both the folkore of Halloween and Christmas. We see this phenomenon throughout Europe with the rise of Christianity, and we see a similar reaction to the old mythic stories in relation to the rise of Islam (those that don't get demonized get Sainted or the hero-folktale treatment). </p><p></p><p>But this isn't really just an Abrahamic religion thing to do; it's what most religions end up doing to their predecessor cultures. We can see how Zarathustranism does this with various RigVedic deities like Indra who are to this day worshipped by the related Hindu religions. We see how Buddhist sects have done this with various local religions. In Japan, it's unclear how much of their Shinto mythology is actually indigenous to the islands and how much were imports alongside Buddhism; the oldest Shinto texts post-date Buddhism in the Islands, and there are clear throughlines from Proto-Indo-European archetypes like the Chaoskampf of the Hero and the Dragon or the Dawn Maiden *Hausos to Susanoo and the Yamata no Orochi or the Dawn Goddess Uzume (herself even etymologically linked directly to Indic form Ushas; side-note that the Greek is Eos, the Roman is Aurora and the Germanic is Easter).</p><p></p><p>My point is that it's not so clear cut and as D&D writers, game masters, and players, we have the room to play in that limnal space and explore the lines of religion, mythology, hero stories, fairy tales, horror and weird fiction tropes. We're operating in that successor state. Heck, even the Marvel Cinematic Universe owes its existence to the Weird Fiction genre stories of the last century, when the lines between Sci-Fi and Fantasy were very much in doubt). This is our New Mythology, we can embrace it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8295154, member: 6803643"] Yup! I'd note that in other regions, local deities only escaped demonization by the local monotheism of choice by becoming diminished into human heroes, while still retaining elements of their mythological personas. We see this in the Irish and Welsh traditions, where entities that retain all or most of the characteristics of the gods worship in older insular inscriptions and throughout the continental Celtic and Belgic domains are treated as Christian or at the very least ethical pre-Christian heroes fighting against giants and dragons and faeries and whatnot. And of course we see the incorporation of concepts like Wodenaz and the Wild Hunt into both the folkore of Halloween and Christmas. We see this phenomenon throughout Europe with the rise of Christianity, and we see a similar reaction to the old mythic stories in relation to the rise of Islam (those that don't get demonized get Sainted or the hero-folktale treatment). But this isn't really just an Abrahamic religion thing to do; it's what most religions end up doing to their predecessor cultures. We can see how Zarathustranism does this with various RigVedic deities like Indra who are to this day worshipped by the related Hindu religions. We see how Buddhist sects have done this with various local religions. In Japan, it's unclear how much of their Shinto mythology is actually indigenous to the islands and how much were imports alongside Buddhism; the oldest Shinto texts post-date Buddhism in the Islands, and there are clear throughlines from Proto-Indo-European archetypes like the Chaoskampf of the Hero and the Dragon or the Dawn Maiden *Hausos to Susanoo and the Yamata no Orochi or the Dawn Goddess Uzume (herself even etymologically linked directly to Indic form Ushas; side-note that the Greek is Eos, the Roman is Aurora and the Germanic is Easter). My point is that it's not so clear cut and as D&D writers, game masters, and players, we have the room to play in that limnal space and explore the lines of religion, mythology, hero stories, fairy tales, horror and weird fiction tropes. We're operating in that successor state. Heck, even the Marvel Cinematic Universe owes its existence to the Weird Fiction genre stories of the last century, when the lines between Sci-Fi and Fantasy were very much in doubt). This is our New Mythology, we can embrace it. [/QUOTE]
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