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In Reply to: Do the French even have a mythology? posted by dennzio on January 8, 2004 at 19:18:15:
In the Atlantic coast, they had everything Celtic mythology had, basically the same people who built Stonehenge, with a cult to the Great Goddess: look at Graves´s "The White Goddess", and you´ll find much about it.In the North, they shared the same set of beliefs Germanic people had.
In the South, they were sharing Mediterranean mythologies, as that sea was a good medium to bring people in touch with one another, so they first shared what Phenicians, and Greeks, brought with them, and what later became organized under the Roman empire: if you look carefully, you´ll easily see that all Mediterranean countries shared pretty much the same gods, albeit their original Greek, Egyptian, and even Babylonian names were changed (Zeus became Jove, Ares became Mars, Isis became split between Hera and Aphrodite, later June and Venus,...) Originally, there was the Great Goddess, which was multifaceted, and who later, when her cult was overthrown by the patriarchal gods, starting in the East when the Acheans brought Zeus to power, and the cult to YHVH threw politheism away in what today is that troubled part of the world, she was split into different goddesses. A very good work on that was done by Marija Gimbutas, who wrote several books like "The Language of the Goddess", "The Civilization of the Goddess", and "Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe".
And, on a lighter, more appropriate to this forum, side of it, you can always look at "Asterix and Obelix"...
Regards
BF
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Follow Ups
- Of course they do! And more than one, as boundaries were not the same as today´s - orejones 11:53:11 01/09/04 (2)
- Re: Of course they do! And more than one, as boundaries were not the same as today´s - patrickU 13:10:45 01/09/04 (0)
- But still, nothing, you know, French. (nt - dennzio 12:08:47 01/09/04 (0)
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