The Type-Moon Miscellaneous Thoughts Thread

[Mattias]

It's often used as a device to set up humanity's ascending importance. "Just as X overthrough his father, so too will he be overthrown by his children"

[Ideofago]

Miths, gods, machines, realities, all have a very strong storytelling purpose as of an allegory reminiscent of Homer's Fables, always focused on teaching a philosophical, mostly moral lesson.

[Five_X]

It's often used as a device to set up humanity's ascending importance. "Just as X overthrough his father, so too will he be overthrown by his children"

This is still relatable, because I too locked my dad in the deepest corner of my basement for all eternity.

[Nanashi(kari)]

Did you also castrate him?

[LegalLoliLover]

It's often used as a device to set up humanity's ascending importance. "Just as X overthrough his father, so too will he be overthrown by his children"

So... The Sith Rule of 2 is a fact of life?

[Ideofago]

In a world of dad killing and power usurpation along with a side of castration and mutilation, such correlation may not prove to be causation, but invaritably would become confirmation.

[Zork Knight]

Miths, gods, machines, realities, all have a very strong storytelling purpose as of an allegory reminiscent of Homer's Fables, always focused on teaching a philosophical, mostly moral lesson.

Aren't the Fables Aesop's?

[Ideofago]

The name that stuck with me was Homer, but Aesop also did a bunch of them.

[Walnut Sparks]

Homer wrote epics, not fables. I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Aesop/Aesop's works are the ones that answer to what you're thinking of. If there's didacticism in Homer's works, then it's a broad theme rather than a blatant lesson like in fables.

[Ideofago]

Hmm. I learned of it in brasilian, and I'm pretty sure either my memory is failing me or the translation is messing me up.

[Mattias]

This is still relatable, because I too locked my dad in the deepest corner of my basement for all eternity.

I have seen the prices on Long Term Care, so this is probably the better option on a budget.

[aldeayeah]

Was thinking bout gods and myths

And its quote funny, the head gods in most myths are not the first beings, often there a few generations after actually.

The OG ones are either dead, not as important, incapacitated .

Of course its not 100% accurate, brahma, vishu, shiva being obvious (though there is brahman which is the primordial force but that isnt really a being)

i've noticed the OG ones tend to be wild nature gods, while the current gods in charge tend to be more civilization-oriented

[Ideofago]

I really feel like being a pedantic dipshit that takes any multi cultural pattern and links it to some sort of collective conscious debate.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

And I feel like doing the same and mercilessly deconstructing that nonsense.

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That shit belongs back in the '70s.

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Take that back, it belongs in the 50s.

[Five_X]

i've noticed the OG ones tend to be wild nature gods, while the current gods in charge tend to be more civilization-oriented

An excellent anthropological observation! You'll notice particularly with the Olympians that the older generation (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades) are broadly nature-gods not fundamentally involved in human affairs, whereas the younger generation (Apollo, Athena, Hephaestus, etc.) are defined in scholarship as "civilising gods" whose portfolios centre around human concerns, namely the arts, craftsmanship, and warfare.

[Ideofago]

I honestly think this could fit in very broad narrative of Man vs Nature, in this case the departure/distancing/evolving from nature to the modern civilization over time.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

It doesn't exactly work for the Indian case though, because we went from primarily worshipping the Devas, aka natural forces, to the Trimurti, who are considerably more abstract in nature as forces of the universe broadly speaking.

[Ideofago]

The progression is still there- such metaphysicalities can only start to be considered once man can be removed of his struggles of pain, hunger, and cold, and the burdens of a life in nature.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

True, the religion did change in focus after the Great Axial Shift, which did coincide with massive social change in the area, which did include increased urbanization and a shift to more sedentary political structures.

[Dullahan]

one of these days nasu is going to read Dumezil's Mitra-Varuna and his brain will explode