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The origins of myth
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redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.

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les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien
it's the 4th of July and you didn't include USA as one of the voting options so i'm out, cya, so long *isn't American*

Fuck Your Website
Nov 29, 2003
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR WEBSITE

redshirt posted:

At least my God can literally strike you down.

Big deal, so can heart disease. Do you worship heart disease? That's hosed up bro.

SirEvelynTremble
Dec 25, 2013

FUCK YOU HITLER
STALINGRAD
ROFLMFAO
Thunder would be Lightning's sidekick

naem
May 29, 2011

It bothers me that myths were the best people could come up with like, c'mon guys

psyopmonkey
Nov 15, 2008

by Lowtax

I believe in turbo space jesus. Do you?

Soft Shell Crab
Apr 12, 2006

naem posted:

It bothers me that myths were the best people could come up with like, c'mon guys
Wow lol. Give the ancient little respect. Modern people don't even understand what myths are.

SirEvelynTremble
Dec 25, 2013

FUCK YOU HITLER
STALINGRAD
ROFLMFAO
Of course I loving do!

They're those fluttering insects that gather round a light source at night!

Soft Shell Crab posted:

Wow lol. Give the ancient little respect. Modern people don't even understand what myths are.

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:
this has the potential to be the most interesting thread on SA but i'm too lazy to make it good.

someone halp

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.

A misanthrope posted:

this has the potential to be the most interesting thread on SA but i'm too lazy to make it good.

someone halp

lol


fart.

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

redshirt posted:

lol


fart.

yup, fart :(

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.



Look at the titties on this slam whale!


We've found these little figurines all over Europe and even into Central Asia.

They date from like 20000 years ago.

Ask yourself: Were dudes into slam whales in 20000BCE?

Dieting Hippo
Jan 5, 2006

THIS IS NOT A PROPER DIET FOR A HIPPO

backup mask in case of overthrow of government and capitalism

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

redshirt posted:



Look at the titties on this slam whale!


We've found these little figurines all over Europe and even into Central Asia.

They date from like 20000 years ago.

Ask yourself: Were dudes into slam whales in 20000BCE?

:eyepop:

drat earth mother got some fat titties

quote:

She was originally nicknamed la poire - "the pear"
http://72.52.202.216/~fenderse/Venus.htm


lol i dated a girl we called the pear because she had a skinny hot face and a big ol fat booty. i may be a throwback to neolithic times.

les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien
To be honest I still don't get what the original point of the thread was so here ya go have this instead:








i HOPE that's what you had in mind, anyway.

Fuck Your Website
Nov 29, 2003
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR WEBSITE

redshirt posted:



Look at the titties on this slam whale!


We've found these little figurines all over Europe and even into Central Asia.

They date from like 20000 years ago.

Ask yourself: Were dudes into slam whales in 20000BCE?

Ask yourself: if a dude has a choice of maybe three viable females in his life does he still like vagina

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.

gently caress Your Website posted:

Ask yourself: if a dude has a choice of maybe three viable females in his life does he still like vagina

Good question. You're right, dudes in 20000BCE probably on average did not get a lot of choice in women.

Did this increase the virginity percentage? I'm sure it increased the frequency of incest.

And why would it make slam whales more attractive?

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

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imagine when there was that bottle neck from climate change or whatever and there were only like 5,000 humans alive on the entire planet

imagine the stories that had roots in that apocalypse -- flood myth? garden of eden and the fall?

imagine how much incest there was

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:
i bet if i smoked pot i could be blowing all your minds with poo poo right now

les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien

redshirt posted:

Good question. You're right, dudes in 20000BCE probably on average did not get a lot of choice in women.

Did this increase the virginity percentage? I'm sure it increased the frequency of incest.

And why would it make slam whales more attractive?

The figurines were the first, crude form of a meme, pre-verbal language. The equivalent of "lol dude i saw this mega slam whale".

All the theories about fertility worship etc. Are just thought up by self-conscious slamwhales

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.

A misanthrope posted:

i bet if i smoked pot i could be blowing all your minds with poo poo right now

You don't?!?!?

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
Cuz no doubt there were smoking hot chicks in 20000BCE too. Just out there, hunting and gathering, all nubile and poo poo.

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

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redshirt posted:

You don't?!?!?

i know, right??

no i act like this because my parents did a lot of acid






ancient man ate psychedelics he found in the wild. bet that's where religion really comes from

Fuck Your Website
Nov 29, 2003
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR WEBSITE

A misanthrope posted:

i know, right??

no i act like this because my parents did a lot of acid






ancient man ate psychedelics he found in the wild. bet that's where religion really comes from

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redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.

A misanthrope posted:


ancient man ate psychedelics he found in the wild. bet that's where religion really comes from
Probably, in that hallucinogens can be found world wide, and no doubt it is the Shaman/Witch Doctor who was present long, long before the priest.

Some charismatic guy eats shrooms, trips out, starts talking far out talk to his tribe of 30-50 people tops. Repeat over thousands of years and eventually someone's tripped out story will become dominant.

Combine that with real life poo poo like epic migrations, and actual super floods at the end of the last ice age, and the historical basis of myth is clear.

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