myluckylife:

I rolled on the floor laughing

Nice!

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pixyled:

One thing that bothers me about society is that Greek and Roman stories are “mythology”. I never hear anyone refer to stories in the Bible, Torah or Koran as “Abrahamic mythology”. But I dunno, maybe sometimes they do.

I do.

The definition of mythology is

mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)

Doesn’t say anything about a specific religion OR about the veracity of those stories. “Mythology” can be applied to any religion or culture or etc., so I find it to be fitting.

Then again, my understanding of language is likely colored by the various privileges I have, so take this post with a grain of salt.

Heck, you guys want to read some mythology, crack open a mainstream high school textbook.

^^^ THIS.

Especially a history book. My history teacher last year said something to the tone of, “We teach history in school as a way of passing on our culture.” Sounds exactly like a function of mythology to me. Aren’t most collections of religious mythology basically the history of the people and god(s) of that religion?

I think they were for passing on lessons and stuff. IDK.

Like you shouldn’t love your face too much or you’ll die looking at your reflection.

Or:

Don’t be an asshole and discover a method for human flight but die because you didn’t follow directions

etcetc.

But it’s probably the same thing. I usually fell asleep in history unless it was movie day.

Ughh. Fuck high school history text books.
There was just a tiny paragraph in ours about how Hawai’i became a state, and they made it sound like we poor savages were like YES PLEASE MAKE US A STATE RIGHT NOW, WE ARE UNEDUCATED AND NEED YOUR SUPREME WISDOM TO GUIDE US.
We probably also asked to have the Hawai’ian language banned for years and years, because it would be so awesome if we’d go from about 500,000 native speakers in the late 1700s to like 1,000.

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