tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post7040144435012220242..comments2024-03-25T08:41:57.698+13:00Comments on Kiwi Hellenist: Titans and OlympiansPeter Gainsfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448862214081111386noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post-44906451402769173832022-11-14T02:43:26.176+13:002022-11-14T02:43:26.176+13:00Pantheons with two orders of gods aren't limit...Pantheons with two orders of gods aren't limited to Indo-European and Mesopotamian cultures. At least one such pantheon flourishes today. Modern Chinese are well aware that some of their traditional gods are Taoist and others are Buddhist, and they're also aware that Buddhism, and by extension the Buddhist gods, are foreign to them in a way that Taoism and the Taoist gods are not.<br /><Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post-11121651306790360122019-06-17T22:16:17.200+12:002019-06-17T22:16:17.200+12:00My spider-sense is tingling. I smell influence fro...My spider-sense is tingling. I smell influence from Greco-Roman myth and classical music combined. 'Kronika' sounds suspiciously like 'Kronos', and 'Geras' isn't too far from a Greek word for 'old age', geron -- and in Holst's The Planets, Saturn (Kronos' Roman counterpart) is called 'the bringer of old age'.<br /><br />Or it could all just be Peter Gainsfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448862214081111386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post-88386221553665670432019-06-17T21:25:48.444+12:002019-06-17T21:25:48.444+12:00Thanks, this was very interesting. In case you are...Thanks, this was very interesting. In case you are remotely interested, the Chinese-mythology-based Mortal Kombat videogame franchise has just taken a step in this direction. Its story-world has always featured 'Elder Gods', such as Raiden the lightning god or Shinnok the ruler of the dead. But in Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), a new arch-villain was introduced - she is near-omnipotent, with Typhoeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12420594078456559040noreply@blogger.com