I've basically reached the limit of how much my friends and family will let me ramble about religious lore and history, so I'm branching out.
Ask me questions about mythology, and I will do my best to give you an answer befitting the general academic consensus at the time. I will also do my best to distinguish between... See more
[deleted]reddit.comI am an undergrad anthropology student specializing in religion and mythology. Ask me questions, if you want.
I find the Abrahamic God interesting personally, largely because he's one of the few specific deities that is still largely worshipped, whether as Allah, Jesus, or Yahweh. The domino effects of one god being adopted by the Israelites 3,000 years ago is responsible for entire empires and much of modern culture is quite frankly insane, and tracking... See more
[deleted] • I am an undergrad anthropology student specializing in religion and mythology. Ask me questions, if you want.
I think the thing that binds us together, is that we see life and love and humanity in the inanimate life around us.
[deleted] • I am an undergrad anthropology student specializing in religion and mythology. Ask me questions, if you want.
I think right now my favorite area is religious archaeology. Written records are possibly the largest source we have for dead religions, and in some cases, like classical Greece, we have loads of records of stories. However, in the majority of mainland Europe, we have middling to no pre-Christian accounts. Archaeology does its best to fill in the... See more