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Thread: Tribal Mythologies
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2007-11-13, 07:02 PM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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Tribal Mythologies
For numerous reasons I'm looking for information on the mythologies of some of the low technology human cultures that have existed throughout history.
Primarily it's for coming up with "monster" religions. I'm alright at just making stuff up, but more background is always helpful. Also it might be helpful if I was to build non traditional campaign settings. Like a Stone Age world or Subsaharan Africa. Perhaps with such challenges such as needing to steal fire from storm demons, or negotiate with the nation of medicinal plants to cure a plague.
It's easy enough to get information on Greek or Norse Mythology, but Salish or Iroquois aren't so easy. I don't even know the names of very many of the Subsaharan groups to start looking. (Both Shadowrun and my Canadian education have given me a smidge of information about the North American Tribes). This is all fairly understandable considering that it's easier to get at information from groups with a written language.
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2007-11-13, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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Re: Tribal Mythologies
This site may help. It's not exactly what you're looking for, not much info on tribal mythology. But it does cover several different world religions in varying detail.
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2007-11-13, 07:35 PM (ISO 8601)Firbolg in the Playground
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Re: Tribal Mythologies
Try Encyclopedia Mythica. Not perfect, but an extensive resource. Oh, and there's always Wikipedia too.
For sub-Saharan African mythologies, start by looking up Anansi the spider trickster-god, then click on a bunch of random links from his page outward. That's what I did to get ideas for an African-style pantheon.You can call me Draz.
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2007-11-13, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)Ettin in the Playground
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Re: Tribal Mythologies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathala
Here's a link to an article on native Philippine tribal mythology. Like many similar mythologies, it's very nature-based. It's full of fey-like creatures (Diwatas) and also has some undead (aswangs).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakunawa
Bakunawa is very similar to the Egyptian serpent Apep who devoured the sun during eclipses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biag_ni_Lam-ang
An epic poem. (though there's no text there, sadly. I don't think there are complete translations yet)
http://www.geocities.com/marlonfx/Aliguyon.html
Aliguyon is another epic hero.Last edited by AslanCross; 2007-11-13 at 08:21 PM.
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