Whats your favorite mythological story?

[scullpanda]

So you see a lot of comics now a days about greek mythology especially Persephone and Hades, but what are some lesser known myths that you would love to make into a comic or see as one(any myths are fine) ?

Personally as a Classical Archeologist I want to see the darker sides of the Gods the stories that get glossed over in most cases (the attempted rape of athena, arachne, Cassandra, Titanomachy)

[Kura]

It's hard to pick, I enjoy looking into and reading a lot of different mythos. As for wanting to make them into comics... I... kind of do that already sorta but not really.

When I was a little kid Coyote the trickster / troublemaker and any similar stories where animals were either helping or interfering with humans were my favourites, the four horsemen was also one that I remember liking a lot.

I also enjoy a lot of Egyptian myths.

[J.Z.Castillo]

I really love the one with Galatea and Pygmalion. Pygmalion was a sculptor who made a beautiful ivory statue of a woman and he fell in love with it, so Aphrodite came down and was all like "alright, you thirsty ass man, here BAM I turned your statue into a woman." And Pygmalion was all like "AW MAW GAWD! Thank you so much!!" and Galatea was all like "da fuqq?" and Aphrodite was all like (while chewing gum) "so, like, y'all wanna get married?" and Galatea and Pygmalion were like "HELL YEAH!" So Aphrodite married them and they had two daughters. The end.

I am also a fan of the Daphne and Apollo story. Apollo was just a plain old thirsty homeboy, lounging about shooting arrows at the sun or whatever, cuz what do fuckboys do? So one day he was strolling around and he saw this fine lil' ol' thang walking by the river, and he was like "DAAAYYUUUMMMM LEMME HOLLA AT CHU!" Daphne was all like "naaaah, son, swerve" and Apollo was all like "why tho?" and Daphne was like "cuz, I don't want no scrub!" and then she walked off. So Apollo was all like, "pft, you ugly anyway!" and left to meet up with his boy Eros.

Now, Eros was one of those yuppies who got a job at his mom's company because nepotism, so he really didn't care much about his job. So he met up with Apollo and he was all like "Yo, Apollo, what's good fam?" and Apollo was like "I just saw the finest lil' thing down by the river, but she blew me off, man." So Eros, being the great thinker he is, told Apollo "Yo, you know I got these from my job, just slip them in her drink and she'll fall in love with you instantly!" Apollo said "Yo, my man, forreal?? Thanks!" So Eros gave Apollo one of his "golden arrows" and slipped a "lead arrow" into Daphne's drink. But Daphne, being the bad bitch she is, was drinking too much and when it was time to leave the club she had to go to the bathroom to throw up, no sexy time in her mind with Apollo. But Apollo, was ready to go, so he started chasing her, yelling things like "but I bought you drinks! Come on, just 30 minutes! You HAVE to!" but Daphne only wanted to throw up her alcohol and go to sleep. She was so tired, though, all that dancing left her drained and Apollo was catching up to her, the effects of the golden arrow apparent through his ripped white jeans. So Daphne, disgusted, yelled out to her father "EW! I'D RATHER BE WOOD THAN GET WOOD!" So her dad was like, "alright" and turned her into a tree.

The next day, Apollo felt betrayed and had major blue-balls, so he went to the tattoo shop and got the name "Laurel" on his bicep. When his boy Eros asked him "yo, who's Laurel? I thought the chick's name was Daphne?" Apollo answered "OH, Lmao, whatever, bruh, idc." The end.

[scullpanda]

Dude Daphne got turned into a flowering shrub not even a majestic ass tree a flowering shrub T^T this personally pains me @mrjonzap

[AnnaLandin]

You mean other than "all of them"? I'm a big nerd for mythology!

I personally really enjoy the creation of the world in Norse mythology. Odin and his brothers Vile and Ve (Vile isn't pronounced like the English word; it's more like "Vi-leh"), whose giant parents were born out of the flesh of the immense primordial frost-giant Ymir, decide one day to build a better world than the frosty, hell-fiery one they life in - the Norse primordial world was basically a glacier sitting next to a giant hell-mouth, with Ymir chilling in between.

So they kill Ymir, and fashion the world out of his dead body. His flesh becomes the earth, his bones become the mountains, his blood becomes the rivers and oceans of the world, and the bowl of his skull becomes the sky, with his brains turning into the clouds. The skull-bowl of the sky is held up by one sturdy dwarf in each cardinal direction.

... I also like the Norse myth about those dead warriors in Hel (which is not Hell; it's just the cold, dreary realm of the dead) who spend their afterlife endlessly building a boat that will help them sail to the battle of Ragnarok, whenever it comes. The boat is made of finger and toe nails, and is named Naglfar.

Because building a toenail-boat is completely reasonable.

Also, Loki once saved the gods from danger by turning into a lady horse and having sex with a big, powerful stallion. He came back a couple of weeks later with an eight-legged foal named Sleipnir that Odin rides into battle. And he once made Thor dress up in a wedding dress and pretend to marry a giant so they could get his hammer back.

Mythology is fun!

[phen]

Yeah, mythology is an endless trove of joy to go through. I've yet to come across any ancient mythological tale and been anything short of enamoured immediately upon finishing reading.

As for my favourite... which... dang, there are far too many to pick from, this is terribly cruel! Between classes, I picked through a book that my university published called "El perro que habló y más cuentos mayas" or "The Dog Who Spoke and More Mayan Folktales" and fell deeply in love with Mayan mythology. The title piece, "El perro que habló" was such an inspration, I even enrolled in a Mesoamerican art and literature class because it was such a beautiful tale!

It's fairly short, you can read it right here as a selected except on Amazon (just scroll down a smidge to the editorial review)! If you've got 10 minutes, please give it a read, I swear it won't disappoint!

EDIT: It's very spooky, too, beautiful, hauntingly spooky! Don't read alone but yo, if you do and you've got a pet dog present, keep that little homey close by! X]

[jerreaudriessen]

I really like indian mythology, their gods and the creation myths.

[punkarsenic]

i mean, im making a whole comic about the battle of Tureadhe, from Irish mythology, so i guess thats my favourite? generally i prefer celtic mythology to greek, because im celtic pagan. anything with the Morrigan is awesome if you ask me.

[El_Psy_Congroo]

Hahaha dude you should write for Sparky Sweets PhD.

As for me, I've recently become interested in the Persian mythology behind the Simorgh, which is kind of similar to the Phoenix. Its talked about in the Shahnahmeh by the poet Ferdowsi although I haven't read it yet.

I was interested in it because I started reading Conference of the Birds by the Persian poet, Farid ud-Din Attar. It's a Sufi parable about the Way to annihilation with God and its about a gathering of all the birds of the world to decide their king. One bird, the Hoopoe, says they already have one, the Simorgh, and leads them on a journey to find it. One by one, many can't make the journey due to some flaw they have (love of material things, cowardice, etc) which serve didactic purposes. I won't spoil the ending because its an interesting read.

Here's an example of a beautiful manuscript of it at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/63.210.11/

[J.Z.Castillo]

haha that would be awesome! Either write for them or for Drunk History (my favorite show)

[Jerimah]

I think a lot of Inuit myths would make good comics but if I had to choose I'd say the Qalupalik that steals children that play near the sea ice

[GesuGesu]

Hands down Dionysus's promise to fuck himself with a wooden dildo placed on top of the grave of a young man who helped him find the entrance to the Underworld so he could retrieve his mother's soul.

The young human was enamoured with Dionysus' pretty boy looks, and asked as a reward for helping the young (half)god to have sex with him. However, by the time Dionysus returned from the Underworld, a long time had passed and the human had already died. But keeping his promise, the young god carved a piece of wood into a phallic-like shape, stuck it firmly on top of the young human's grave, and proceeded to "have sex" as promised.

[eslameldeeb]

Oooh, The Shahnameh
Loved it sooo much and
Particularly Zal's story <3

[eslameldeeb]

I love all world mythologies
But, i enjoy creation myths the most
My fav is the Egyptian creation myth(s)

[BlackMantaStudios]

I personally like the myth of the Quest of the Golden Fleece, because Medea was awesome there. Jason was an ungrateful bastard, though.

@mrjonzap We can say that Galatea was the first instance of a "waifu" in history.

[VermillionWorks]

Been strangely into Slavic mythology lately, been flip-flopping on the idea of using it in some form in this novel I'm trying to get into writing, but probably won't outside of some things being mildly inspired by it. XP

Also very fond of Irish mythology!

[Herofeeder]

iliad and odyssey BUT the Alan Ford version , not the Homer version

[nolongerusestheforum]

Any and all of the Norse myths, especially the ones about Loki.

I also love the Greek myths Pygmalion and Cupid and Psyche, and there are a lot of Native American myths I love to read as well.

[vongcw]

Lol - one I repeat often is that of Tiamat and how she was torn apart to form the world. It relates closely to the Biblical 7 day creation story. And the comparisons and implications are very interesting.

[carloswebcomic]

My favourite mythological story is 'trickle down economics'. What a wonderfully absurd flight of fancy!