DPP: Mythology
Jan. 28th, 2012 12:37 amI'm pretty fond of all the Greek (and later Roman) references that are woven throughout BSG. For some reason, I love when people incorporate the mythologies into their fics. What's your favorite thing for people to work into fics? What's your favorite bit of mythology related to pilots (see my icon for mine! The whole Arrow of Apollo thing is just priceless.)
I also like when the actual historical mythology comes up in BSG discussions and meta, and it tends to illuminate things in different ways. What pieces of mythology have you come across that make you rethink some of your assumptions? What make you see the story in a different way?
We've pretty much been talking about this all week, haven't we?? ;-)
I also like when the actual historical mythology comes up in BSG discussions and meta, and it tends to illuminate things in different ways. What pieces of mythology have you come across that make you rethink some of your assumptions? What make you see the story in a different way?
We've pretty much been talking about this all week, haven't we?? ;-)
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Date: 2012-01-28 07:23 pm (UTC)If the conceit of Daybreak is that the Colonials are the first humans on Earth, wouldn't all really old religions/beliefs (Buddhism, Celtic paganism, etc, in addition to the ones already included) stem from the colonists?
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Date: 2012-01-28 07:27 pm (UTC)I actually really like this notion. I always try and associate different myths and cultures with each of the 12 colonies but they never really told us much about each one, so it's kind of hard. The only ones we know are Caprica and a bit of Tauron. And a small bit about others. But I do think it would be interesting to actually apply all the religions to the different colonies.
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Date: 2012-01-28 07:34 pm (UTC)I don't even know that the planets would have different religious ideas necessarily, or if just in settling on Earth, the majority of Thor worshipers got together and wound up in Scandinavia, the people with Hindu ideas stopped in Asia, the Greek/Roman idea took root especially strongly in the Mediterranean, and so on.
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Date: 2012-01-28 07:36 pm (UTC)