What lead to Greek mythology being the most influential and having such a long standing interest? Of course other mythologies such as Norse have had a recent revival, but none have yet to captivate the interests such as the greek ones. Also Poseidon best god
>>71589
It's probably because:
1. The importance of Greece (and Rome, who highly prized Greek philosophy etc) in Western civilisation, and
2. There's far more written evidence about Greek mythology than other European pantheons
>>71589
It's the one with the most documented material
>>71589
Greeks identified constellations with their gods.
>>71589
>Also Poseidon best god
/hist/ agrees
http://strawpoll.me/5892279/
>>71664
this
>>71589
I would say it's greco-roman mythology and not just greek. Anyways, it's because the people from other mythologies did literally nothing to build western civilization.
>>71664
Also because Greek mythology is much more interesting.
>>74409
Except the Greeks were not Western, nice try though.
>>74818
Gay people have an affinity towards water.
>>74842
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>>75007
Western civilization is intrinsically attached to Christianity, the Germanic Invasions, and Late Roman governance.
The Ancient Greeks had none of this.
>>71589
>What lead to Greek mythology being the most influential and having such a long standing interest?
They killed a LOT of people that had other gods.
>>75092
wow, that's close to Nordicism tier.
>>75092
>greece
>not christian
>not ravaged by germanic tribes
>what are gepids and ostrogoths
All my knowledge about olympians comes from saint seiya.
>>75092
>invented democracy, how all western governments govern today
>somehow not western
>>75132
Germanic civilization is the basis of the West. That doesn't mean they are superior though.
>>75135
Those arn't the 'Ancient Greeks' though and Greece never experienced a massive wave of settlers like the Western empire.
>>75165
No they didn't. The Germans already had a system of democracy called the Thing. Basic hunter-gather societies do too.
>>74163
>Athena winning
Best girl confirmed
>>75280
>things are the basis for modern democratic republicanism
Holy shit, this is one hell of a stretch.
>>75546
I never claimed that, though they certainly did not try to imitate the Athenian system either. Democracies developed independently based on local challenges.
The claim was that the Greeks invented democracy, which is a nonsense statement.
>>71664
Especially the 2nd one. And when you compare it to the rest of th Heathens?
1. Snorre wrote down only some broad strokes because it wasn't exterminated by the time he could write it down. Also super mellowed down and some extreme Christianization
2. Much of the Ulster cycle was written down, but there was purges before it was written down
3. Most of Slavland got purged too early
4. Pre-Russia didn't get to write down too much.
5. The conquistadors didn't prioritize writing everything down, so only a little got written down for something that was being purged as it was written down. It got mellowed down to some degree
6. Anything close to Rome got purged too fast to be written about
7. Islam did a fucking god job of suppressing other religions
8. India being home to shitloads of religions is ignored, and there is a love to presenting it as 1 religion for convenience
9 There was no real interest in writing down a lot of hunter gatherer/nomad tradition, like sami or Inuit
And all of this, is compared to the most well documented religion, which writing got left alone because it left extensive written records.
>>74818
It's too easy to pick Zeus, he's obviously the best god. poseidon is still powerful as fuck and you feel good for rooting for the underdog. Also the ocean is based as fuck
Grey eyes shall be victorious
