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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 9826945" data-attributes="member: 710">I can absolutely not say where I learned something about the Greek or Nordic Gods and beliefs. I would say I learned more in depth-thing around the time I went into RPG (which was in my adolescent years), but first exposure was definitely sooner than that. Was it school? Was it just reading or some movies/TV stuff? In Germany, we had for example the "Was ist Was" series of books that contained various topics, but I don't remember one about Greek specifically (though it exists). It's even possible we learned about in Religion class (which in my case - since that was my denomination via my parents - evangelic/lutherian, but the curricilum also included sometimes other belief systems.). It could have been something like German or History class, too, though, covered as literature of the time?My sisters got into Egyptian history in their teenage years from books (one of them enough to study at the university about that and related topics).I know I learned about Voodoo and Loas from Shadowrun's 3E magic sourcebook. And my knowledge doesn't get much deeper than that, admittedly.I just realize from the previous posts: I think some of my Greek mythology knowledge might have started due to my interest in astronomy and the constellations. While I never really "learned" the constellations, I read about the origins of their names.And I also think some of them knowledge is basically because elements of Greek mythology are used in historical references, like associated Europe that was impregnated by Zeus as bull, which writers would pick up for symbology both in texts and illustrations, especially in satire. To understand such references, you need to go back to the Greek myths. (Why would you illustrate Europe as a young woman sitting on a bull?)</blockquote>

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