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Originally Posted by Beowulf
Saya, you rock !!!. 
What are your favourite legends in mythology and what ancient civilisation or era of history are you most interested in ?
I`m also interested in paleontology too, dinosaurs were amazing creatures and some of their descendents and other species that existed at that time are still with us today in one form or another !!!. |
Gosh, I really wouldn't know what my favourites are. I like the Baba Yaga stories of Eastern Europe, the Indian myth of Indra's net, and the story of King Shibi and the pigeon, the death of Baldr in Norse mythology, and Hermes is my favourite greek god, I like the one where he saved Io from Hera's watchman Argus by boring him to death, and then the gods vote on whether he should be punished. I'm sure there's more but I'm drawing a blank.
As far as civilizations and history goes, I'm very interested in the Edo period of Japan, ancient Egypt, Rome, ancient India and ancient China. My passion is with the actual evolution of man and prehistory, before we could write things down. Its also interesting in mythology where it alludes to the conditions of what life was like at that time, how different cultures borrow myths from each other, and how religions adapted these myths and they changed over time.
I like watching birds and thinking "they are the descendants of dinosaurs" ^_^