Best mythology?

What mythology is most interesting to you? For me its of course the good old greek myhtology. I think the creatures are pretty interesting. Like they have extra limbs and magical powers and they are so cruel and disgusting. Its pretty fun.

Christianity

The same, always found Greek mythology the most interesting.

I'm tempted to say Norse, but you are all going to say I'm biased. -_-

Norse is great too!

Batman.

I meant mythology as in the religious beliefs of ancient people... master_live

Greek is my favourite.

BBC, believe it or not, is a myth.

I can never find a good book on Greek Mythology..

@TheHighWind: That's because there isn't... It was an oral trafition past down from generation to generation and sometimes written consisting of many stories that explain phenomena. Greece was at the centre of so many covilisations that it would be hard for any book to include everything. Not to mention its too old to be fully understable to us and some of it was lost because there are no records left...

Yeah Norse is my favourite mythology.

Greek is the only thing I'm familiar with because of Hercules, Xena, God of War etc.

Besides the obviously biased one for me, Norse, I do like Greek Mythology.
Mostly cause nearly all the stories are Zeus wanted to hump something and things happened.

Greek stuff is pretty interesting

Egyptian - it forms the basis of most of the religions that have sprung from that part of the world.

Greek and Roman for me mainly. Oh plus Ray Harryhausen and the screen mythology sprung there of.

Slavic.

When people think of "Norse" or "ancient-Greek" mythology, they probabl just think of romanticist revisionism from the 19th century.

So, Warhammer 40k, best mythology

Norse......though Greek is interesting as well. I remember getting a perfect A+ in the subject (Greek) when I had a class in it in 7th or 8th grade (surprised a course like that was offered).

Reading The Mighty Thor comics (along with Tales of Asgard) from the 60's and 70's spurred my interest. I remember Stan "The Man" Lee writing about his interest in Norse as a kid.

Greek and Egyptian mythologies are intoxicating, but Japanese mythology is astoundingly rich too.

Greek, Egyptian, and Norse I loved growing (still do) Never looked into Japanese. No particular reason, I guess I never thought of doing so.

That actually occurred to me as I was typing that reply. Although Japanese mythology is quite the rich and captivating lore, I've had little exposure to it despite my general interest in the Japanese culture. I ought to watch more classic anime such as Japanese Classic Horror and the spin-off Mononoke (in case you're interested).

Mesopotamian.

Basically it's the foundation of many other mythologies except maybe the far east ones.

Christian myth is pretty boring tbh.

At least Jewish myth has wars and smiting and stuff. Christian myth just has bears eating children.

I love the Japanese tale based around Izanagi and Izanami - It's a great stereotype of relationships.

Greek, no doubt. So many fascinating stories and gods and demi-gods and heroes and monsters.

As a kid I had this book called D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths that had really neat illustrations and just about every story in there, from the birth of creation and the titans to stories of nymphs. I still read it when I go home to visit my folks and sleep in my old bed :D Honestly one of my favorite memories of childhood, oddly enough coming from an atheist. WHen I was really little my dad would read them to me, and as I grew older the stories scared me (but in a comfortable manner) and comforted me and fascinated me.

I like Egyptian mythology as well for pretty much the same reasons, though I am not nearly as familiar with it.

Yeah Japanese mythology is pretty great too. It seems more focused on spirituality than whole-sale gods (I am not too familiar, though, so I might be wrong), what with things such as kami, oni, and so forth. Lots of Buddhist inspiration.

Mononoke was one of my first anime films, a real eye opener in addition to a wonderful work of art; we had a Japanese exchange student live with us when I was a kid, she introduced it to me. I don't avidly watch a lot of Japanese animation, but I do love it and I have Mononoke to thank for it.

None. I just want to be kratos and beat the shit out of all of them

I'm an avid anime fan but I'm guilty of not watching enough animes of the classic genre, which is more reflecting of Japanese culture and history. I watched a couple of episodes of Mononoke a few years back and liked it a lot, but got sidetracked at the time and didn't get to finish it. I'm planning to watch it soon though - this topic excited me for it.

If you liked Mononoke you ought to check out the original work that inspired it, Japanese Classic Horror. Also, Mushi shi is heavily influenced by Japanese mythology and honestly, it's a topnotch show that's perfect for the casual anime fan.

Also, welcome back.