• jettrscga@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    People complained that there was a black character in the video game God Of War Ragnarok.

    They seem to ignore the fact that it’s a game series about Greek mythology and that game is suddenly Norse mythology. Guess continuity issues like entirely different cultures are fine as long as we keep it white!

    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Just want to preface that I completely agree with you, I just want to share some fun trivia. The Greek and Norse mythologies are the same*. They both originate from the Proto-Indo-European people. They’re not the only ones either, the Proto-Indo-Europeans are thought to have a wide reaching influence, even to this day. As stated, Greek and Norse mytholfogies along with the Roman pantheon, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Bahaism, zorastrianism, along with Celtic, Baltic and Slavic mythologies. There’s even reason to believe that the Proto-Indo-Europeans had an influence on Shinto and early Judaism. To my understanding, its believed that Norse mythology is the most “intact” version of the Proto-Indo-European myth. Pretty neat stuff!

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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        7 months ago

        I’ve always been incredibly fascinated by the PIE>Hindu>Zoroastrian path and how that may have influenced early Judaism. The vast majority of religious people today practice a religion that is either directly or indirectly influenced by PIE mythos and culture, and that’s just mind boggling!