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Pausanias in its Description of Greece mentions during his visit to Corinth an image of Zeus Chthonios in a temple:
The images of Zeus also are in the open; one had not a surname, another they call Chthonius (of the Lower World) and the third Most High.
This has been confirmed by archeologi...
I've seen a lot of Cthulhu questions on the Sci Fi stack exchange, would he be considered on topic here?
He would be considered a mythological creature wouldn't he, the same as The Minotaur or Medusa?
I was browsing Wikipedia and came upon three different variations for Ra's origins:
In the former version, a mound arises from the waters. An egg was laid upon this mound by a celestial bird. The egg contained Ra. In some variants, the egg is laid by a cosmic goose. However, the egg was a...
He may be an emperor, and with a little digging this is as close as I could find:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retributive_justice
There has been a lot of controversy in Meta and chat about what is and what is not on topic as far as fictional sources, religions, and whatnot.
Should we allow tags for external media?
Are fictional mythologies on topic?
Is Cthulhu on or off topic?
Is scientology on topic here?
Are discussion ...
No, it shouldn't. Age isn't a very good criteria, it sure has something to say, but shouldn't be the be all end all.
For a (purely hypothetical) example: Assume that some Amazonian tribe has a creation myth, but according to it, the world is ~500 years old (so the myth is about ~1500 or somethin...
As I understand it, it was common practice for a playwright to retell a well-known story with the details changed to suit the playwright's needs. A tidy way to avoid a lot of tedious exposition.
In Antigone, this leads to some significantly different endings:
In Sophocles play, she is impris...Ultimately, after much discussion in chat,, it seems clear to me that we are never going to come up with an exacting metric; it's going to have to be up to the community to organically decide what is and what isn't on topic. However, we still need to have some sort of guidance, and the best thing...
Zeus is a complex character; although he is chief among gods, with many noble qualities, he is also deeply flawed. Among various sites on the internet 1 2 3 4, there's this passage which suggests that he is a compilation of various supreme gods:
Zeus was mighty, glorious, awesome and wise, a...
According to Mormon Doctrine, Adam and Eve lived in Adam-ondi-Ahman. Which was revealed to Joseph Smith to be located in Missouri (see D&C 116:1).
This would mean that unless Adam's posterity went on some epic intercontinental journey between Adam and Noah's time, that Noah likely built the ark...
