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I think mythology is kind of interesting, I should research more on some Abrahamic mythology like all of these mythic creatures.
(06-03-2013, 07:15 PM)Fullmoon Wrote: [ -> ]
(06-03-2013, 03:15 PM)Grungie Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry, but Hinduism is not classified as a Pagan religion

Just looked it up, You are correct, my mistake, I don't know much about Hinduism in fairness, I thought they believed in different gods and goddesses, but it appears they are incarnations of the same god. My bad.
This is sort of true. They're all incarnations of the same god apparently, but they're all also very distinct entities. Hinduism is kind of odd, in that its beliefs span monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, monism, and atheism. Basically, how you see Hinduism depends on the tradition and philosophy you follow. Anyway, I wouldn't call Hinduism pagan, but I would say that certain worshippers of Hinduism worship in a pagan manner. If that makes sense...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism#Beliefs

(06-03-2013, 08:23 PM)JoelCarli Wrote: [ -> ]I see. Final Fantasy does often alter character concepts from what I've seen hah.
They're hardly the only ones to do that. Many fantasy games writers or authors of fantasy books also do that. They also take a lot of inspiration from various religions texts. Tolkien, who wrote the LotR books, use bastardizations of Biblical names occasionally in his writings, as well as a few Christian concepts (none of which are fleshed out enough to be truly Christian). CS Lewis, who wrote the Narnia stories, wrote them as Christian allegories. Many other authors take inspiration from Jewish mysticism or from Hinduism. I'm sure there's tons of other influences, but those are what I can think of at almost 2:30AM, lol.
(06-04-2013, 07:20 AM)crazysam23 Wrote: [ -> ]This is sort of true. They're all incarnations of the same god apparently, but they're all also very distinct entities. Hinduism is kind of odd, in that its beliefs span monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, monism, and atheism. Basically, how you see Hinduism depends on the tradition and philosophy you follow. Anyway, I wouldn't call Hinduism pagan, but I would say that certain worshippers of Hinduism worship in a pagan manner. If that makes sense...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism#Beliefs
Hinduism is rather interesting but it's SO. VAST. I can't keep track of anything I learn from it.

But yeah, Hinduism began and evolved as a bunch of various different philosophies, traditions, spiritualities and practices and eventually became what it is today (and like I said, it's extraordinarily vast; it's the oldest major religion after all). By definition, Hinduism is a syncretic religion.

(06-04-2013, 07:20 AM)crazysam23 Wrote: [ -> ]They're hardly the only ones to do that. Many fantasy games writers or authors of fantasy books also do that. They also take a lot of inspiration from various religions texts. Tolkien, who wrote the LotR books, use bastardizations of Biblical names occasionally in his writings, as well as a few Christian concepts (none of which are fleshed out enough to be truly Christian). CS Lewis, who wrote the Narnia stories, wrote them as Christian allegories. Many other authors take inspiration from Jewish mysticism or from Hinduism. I'm sure there's tons of other influences, but those are what I can think of at almost 2:30AM, lol.
Oh no, I know that, but CS Lewis wrote Narnia, like you said, as an allegory, and not just for artistic purpose, which is I assume the reason FF does. Besides, the lion is not named "Jesus" but rather "Aslan"; the latter represents the former, but isn't explicitly the former. Either way, I just find it a little silly that someone would change Shiva to female for no particular reason :haha:

But you're right, I just notice that FF does it a lot.

This is maybe a little off-topic but it's also interesting that in the west, dragons are reptilian fire-breathing winged creatures (the four-limbed variant being called a wyvern), whereas in the east, they are literally any type of mythical chimeric creature.
Tolkien also used a lot of viking mythology, as does most fantasy writers.
(06-04-2013, 03:31 PM)Grungie Wrote: [ -> ]Tolkien also used a lot of viking mythology, as does most fantasy writers.
Naturally. That's like a fantasy trope. To be fair though, Tolkien did it in his own way, partially because there wasn't too much fantasy in that style back in '40s and partially because he could. Confusedhrug:
I just read about Hell in Islam.

I sure hope Islam is wrong.
Don't worry. It is.
:haha:

Seriously though, I read a bit about Bahai Faith this morning and quite frankly it sounds really neat.
Nah, Janism is where it's at.

"Yo that Janism is some great shit" - Ghandi

How's that for a recommendation?
It's spelled "Jainism" Wink

And Jainism is pretty brutal too.