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8/10/2025, 1:06:52 AM
>>534613682
>metaphors and analogies are only possible if I see them fitting my perfect view of a legend.
>>534616641
>Fuck it, I'm not done. Comparing Orpheus and Eurydice to Izanagi and Izanami is fucking retarded. The only common point between the two is a journey to hell, which is barely a surface-level observation. For all your talk of symbolism, you fail to notice the spirit of both stories are completely at odds.
Comparative mythology is always like this. It's about archetypes and finding the commonalities. You can't see yugi as osiris or horus without acknowleding archetypes. Man journeying into hell to save his love is a notable point of comparison on its own. As for your interpretation of orpheus and eurydice, there's no truly set version of events. old legends were told again and again slightly changing with different meanings applied, and ideas of gods punishing and rewarding mortals varied from storyteller to storyteller. Major poets of greek mythology like Homer, Hesiod, Ovid lived hundreds of years separate from each other and each had different view of man positon the gods. Then of course a lot of these legends were matters of cult worship and may have symbolized forms of religious practice. A character like Orpheus could have been a real person mythologized after death.
>metaphors and analogies are only possible if I see them fitting my perfect view of a legend.
>>534616641
>Fuck it, I'm not done. Comparing Orpheus and Eurydice to Izanagi and Izanami is fucking retarded. The only common point between the two is a journey to hell, which is barely a surface-level observation. For all your talk of symbolism, you fail to notice the spirit of both stories are completely at odds.
Comparative mythology is always like this. It's about archetypes and finding the commonalities. You can't see yugi as osiris or horus without acknowleding archetypes. Man journeying into hell to save his love is a notable point of comparison on its own. As for your interpretation of orpheus and eurydice, there's no truly set version of events. old legends were told again and again slightly changing with different meanings applied, and ideas of gods punishing and rewarding mortals varied from storyteller to storyteller. Major poets of greek mythology like Homer, Hesiod, Ovid lived hundreds of years separate from each other and each had different view of man positon the gods. Then of course a lot of these legends were matters of cult worship and may have symbolized forms of religious practice. A character like Orpheus could have been a real person mythologized after death.
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