What are cool mythologies to base fantasy worlds on besides Greco-Roman, Norse, and Shinto?

Mixing religions is always the most fun

> Charismatic as fuck
> gets the truth out of everyone
> motivates others to greatness
> kicks ass up n' down the block
> quantum tree-chopping powers
> wooden teeth that never rot
> was never a child; just materialized as he was, and then disappeared after his work was finished.

Judeo/Christian, if you remember each of the Rings of Hell is its own biome.

t. buttmad schismfag

English mythology.

youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc

Buddhism. By the time it hits Japan, it has assimilated Hindu, Chinese and Shinto deities.

>Fucking stabbed enemy soldiers to death while they were sleeping.
>On fucking Christmas.
>In one of his first battles, back when he was British aligned, he took command of the troops and had his horse shot out from under him twice.
>In the same battle four bullets were found to have been lodged in his coat.
>This was after getting over a sickness which left him incapacitated for ten days.
>Later, a native american chief came to pay homage to "Who can never die in battle.
>Fucking rode into a battle during the actual Revolutionary War where the Americans had already lost and were routed.
>Shouted "Parade with us, my brave fellows! There is but a handful of the enemy, and we will have them directly." and led them to charge the British directly, also not dying from bullets.

George Washinton sound scary.

He had a pocket full of horses. He fucked the shit out of bears. He threw a knife into heaven and could kill with a stare.

He's twelve stories tall and made of radiation.

What about the time when he stood directly in between his own and the enemy firing lines while they were both firing off volleys, but didn't get hit by a single bullet?

Or how he ended the war in a single strategic maneuver in between the beginning and end of a round of chess, and we know this because General Cornwallace was warned ahead of time, but decided that taking action against Washington could wait, it's not like anything could happen during one chess game, right?

Hinduism

This, Americans, Celts, Zulu or other Africans, etc.

Aztec and or Mayan

Fucking skeletons from space and shit

Patrician taste

It helps that Washington actually was larger than life and seemed magically unkillable. There were a lot of great men that took part in the founding of the country too and of course everyone know knows that Ben Franklin screwed all of France and discovered Electricity because he was really a shapeshifted Zeus looking to create a new Democracy

Wasn't there also this fuckhuge river in America Washington supposedly skipped a doller across, all the way from one side to the other?

>General Cornwallace
Kek, Cornwallis had the questionable honor of surrendering to both Lafayette [who insisted he surrendered to Washington instead] and Napoleon in his lifetime.

>Wasn't there also this fuckhuge river in America Washington supposedly skipped a doller across, all the way from one side to the other?
No, that was Scrooge McDuck.

>implying Scrooge didn't get the idea from Washington

Seconded.
Their creation myth is pretty cool, along with a colorful pantheon.

I can't believe nobody mentioned the greatest TRUE AND ACCURATE story about Washington's life.

youtube.com/watch?v=bn-7UtKNuwE

Yeah. Slavic, Celtic, Indian (Hindu, especially older stuff). It's fairly interesting to look into some central-asian and non-abrahamic middle eastern religions, Zoroastrism, Manism, various types of gnosis are all fairly fun.
Tengri-ism and beliefs and myths of Himalaya also contain some really cool shit.

Then you have mythology of the Sami people, of Siberian inuit tribes, mythology of Indonesian cultures (pre-budhims)... Or you could just go look into pre-Abrahamic semitic mythologies: Canaanites are know for their rather fascinating pantheon and mythology, elements of which even seeped into Abrahamisms.

Basically, there is inspiration everywhere and basically every single folklore or mythological system you'll can bother yourself to study is going to offer some amazing shit.

Hindu.

>Amaterasu
>Bad-ass-samurai-chick

There is a point where this shit starts being not only tasteless, pathetic and boring, but also actually just really fucking insulting to the original culture, it's history and mythology.

Take Animism (everything has a guiding spirit), fuse with Singularity (everything has a guiding AI) and sprinkle with (AI) gods - ranging from household AI to guiding intelligences of entire space empires - from any setting you care to use.

Basically, mix old myths with modern ones and see what comes out.

>implying Scrooge isn't the real OG

Celtic, Canaanite, various Christian Heresies, every fucking thing mentioned in this thread, and then - mix em. I almost created a world where the primary culture was an unholy fusion of Scots/Irish, Norse, Germanic, and bits of America, all viewed through the lens of Heavy Metal.

I liked Brutal Legend too.

Take Brutal Legend, remove the fact that you're doing shit by playing heavy metal, and turn into an actual culture. AS in, from a basis of the cultures that are stereotypical shown in heavy metal, using only the paradigm that the songs present them in, make a culture.
Their honor duels were going to be "Grab long pointy stick, strap on glider wings, add rocket engine, jump out of aircraft, and attempt to hit opponent."
It was kind of over the top.

Why not have the pantheon be based on metal? The Panther, the Slayer, A'mon, Bodm and his children, the Great Furred Beast, the Darkened Rainbow, and the Great Betrayer, the Four-who-are-One.

Let me tell you some Maori myths. They're quite similar to other Pacific creation myths if you are familiar with them

Outside of two lovers is nothingness, Te Kore, the Void. No light, no life, nothingness.
First, Papatuanuku the Earth Mother and Ranginui the Sky Father were engaged in perpetual coitus, birthing children into the space between them.
Crushed between their parents, the children plan a revolt. Tanemahuta, Tangaroa, Ruamoko and others grow tired of life crushed in the dark between the bodies of their parents. Tu, the most violent of the children, indeed the future god of war, suggests they kill their parents, though the others find this suggestion distasteful. It is agreed that the children will force their parents apart. Not all, however are pleased with this, some like Tawhirimatea prefer the safety, intimacy and warmth of his parents embrace. After many attempts from his other siblings, Tanemahuta pushes his father away from his mother with his legs, lying so that his shoulders brace against the ground and his legs thrust upwards, separating Ranginui from his wife Papatuanuku for the first time. Te Ao, or the light/world breaks across the surface of Papatuanuku.
Tawhirimatea, furious that his tight embrace with his parents has been stopped rises to the sky to join his father. Ashamed of his fathers nakedness, he clothes him in a cloak of stars and clouds. He wreaks his fury on his siblings by howling wind and lashing the ground with rain.
Tangaroa takes residence in the waters that have been revealed by the coming of the first dawn, becoming king of seas, populating it with servants. Ruamoko becomes a vast dragon or taniwha that slips beneath the skin of his mother to sleep, his turnings becoming our earthquakes. Tanemahuta's legs grow up to the sky becoming the canopy of the tallest trees that hold the sky away from us
In this way, the children of Ranginui and Papatuanuku become Atua of their various domains.

In this newly formed land, it is chaos.

Tu, or Tumatauenga, observes Tawhirimatea lashing the ground with torrential wind and rain leaving the ground desolate and bare. Tu crafts himself a taiaha, a warspear, and with shocking and explosive violence he strikes at his brother Tawhirimatea, nearly killing him with one blow and permanently dashing the power of the Wind God.

Tu is made hungry by his victories. Into the forest Tu ventures, to make snares with which to catch the birds which are the children of Tanemahuta. Tu also makes baskets to throw in the sea to capture the children of Tangaroa, those fish and creatures that are good eating. He digs in the earth, to plant himself root vegetables, and he finds those plants in the forest that are good eating.

His brothers are horrified, and in defense attempt to stop Tu, but Tu, in his violence and savagery he strikes down his brothers, allowing them escape but proving his dominance.

Bored with his victories, Tu makes a race of children of his own, to replicate in small his own victories against his brothers, to have a successor that can continue his legacy, to have conflicts to keep him entertained. The children of Tu are called Maori, or people.

Generations pass. A woman named Taranga gives birth, but her birth is too soon and the child is cast into the ocean. She wraps the infant in the hair cut from her topknot, in seaweed and in flax before consigning him to the waves.

The baby is washed up on an island, and nursed back to health by his uncle Tamanui-te-ra. Tamanui is himself a minor Atua, and the thread by which the infant, called Maui, is connected to the divine.

Maui grows under the gruff tutelage of Tamanui, until Maui grows of age, and Tamanui sends Maui to find his family. Already his trickster nature finds a way to the surface as, when he finds the village of his birth mother, he sneaks into the Marae, the meeting-house, and helps himself to food and drink.

His brothers find him, and in anger they beat him, falling upon the teenage Maui and kicking him to a pulp. Smiling throughout, Maui is brought before Taranga his mother. His brothers are prepared to dash his brains out with a patu, but Maui shares the circumstances of his birth, and his mother takes him into the fold.

Life in this village is hard. The sun in the sky is not constant, with Ra, the sun sometimes racing across the sky in minutes, and sometimes lingering at noon for many days. The crops of the village wither because it is either too hot, or the sun never shines on the leaves enough. Pleading, the people ask Ra to let their crops grow, and allow them to work during the day, but Ra is not inclined to take instruction from such miniscule creatures as man.

Maui needs a weapon to fix this problem. So he steals the jawbone of his grandmother from the private belongings of his mother. Binding the jawbone in flax twine, he fashions himself a weapon of divine power.

With ropes made of flax, Maui's brothers and himself set a trap for Ra, the Sun. They bind the sun with these ropes, and Maui bludgeons the Sun with his jawbone club until the Sun relents and accepts the terms that Maui sets. We can still see the ropes today, in the beams that shine from the sun on a bright day.

After, Maui desires more land, but he's banned from voyaging in the waka, the canoe, with his brothers because he's a colossal dick, always eats all the food and is a quarrelsome asshole who always tries to fight his brothers. So of course when he learns that his brothers are going on a fishing trip, Maui turns into a Kiore, a Pacific rat and hides in the food supplies. Of course Maui eats all the damn food on the waka. Maui's brothers find him, days away from home and force him to explain what he's doing. Threatening to drown him, Maui's brothers demand he fishes up something for them to eat, so that they could survive on their way back home.

Mezo-american

>the three gods inheriting sky, sea and earth from their defeated ancestors

Ok, just what kind of rebellion/war happened back in Africa or Mesopotamia that almost every older human religion seems to have this element.

same thing that happened that made almost every myth include a flood story

also primer numbers are magic and sky, sea, earth are very definable geographies to ancient peoples

Maui bloodies his nose, and uses the blood to bait his jawbone that was once his grandmothers, and uses it as a hook.
Miraculously, he gets a bite.
Hauling, his muscles popping and cracking, his veins standing out, Maui pulls a gigantic fish out of the sea, huge enough to satisfy Maui's lust for exploration. Dragging this fish out of the ocean represents enough food for Maui's tribe for hundreds of years, and Maui leaves his brothers to look after the catch as Maui takes the waka back home to report his success.

While he's away, in order to take their share, Maui's brothers take to the flesh of the fish with blades and paddles, chopping it into strange shapes and tortured landscapes. We call this rough landscape Te Ika a Maui, the Fish of Maui, the North Island of New Zealand.

I know a few more Maui stories, but I think that's enough for now.

Good question. We'll never know, of course. I personally believe it to be from the Indus Valley civilization, but I think that's a result of a focus of my study and not as a result of reality.

>same thing that happened that made almost every myth include a flood story

The great post ice age melt flooding the black sea into existence and obliterating land bridges across the globe ain't hard to figure out.

An indicator of what could be the first bloody conflict in human sapience harsh enough to leave the species traumatized for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years is a whole different matter.

No user, you are the schismatics.

t. orthodox

And that, children, is why New Zealanders like fish and chips.

There is very little actual accurate knowledge regarding slavic mythology. Most of the stuff posted online is just a product of some turboslav magical realm

>I personally believe it to be from the Indus Valley civilization

Could be, would be interesting to see if this element is present in sub Saharan myths as an indicator if it originated in Africa or came about later, after the first migrations.

wtf am I watching.

He liked big butts and he could not lie.

the butts were a lie though

Deadliest Warrior, basically "knights vs samurai: the show".

I know that the very idea of Washington, a mediocre general and statesman at best, defeating Napoleon, a general who went down in history as the equal of Caesar and Hannibal on the field of battle and Justinian and Augustus in the field of statescraft, is stupid but allow me to play the devil's advocate. This is from I think the second season of the show. In the first season they had an episode where they compared some American elite unite to some Russian elite unit (I think US Marines vs Spetznaz or something) and the end result favored Spetznaz. This resulted in a massive lashback from the viewers, mostly consisting of flagwaving patriots, and from that point onward it has been an unwritten rule in the series that Americans aren't allowed to lose. This is why Washington defeats Napoleon even though the comparison shouldn't have even been made in the first place (Napoleon vs Frederick the Great, now there's a matchup I'd pay to see).

Not everything has to be a 1:1 adaptation.

Cry harder, weeb.

Polynesian myth

Basically any of them.

And with a bit of reading up on them, you could probably find a way to do Greco-Roman, Norse or Shinto-based that end up quite different from how they're usually portrayed.

>Ancient Mesoamerican genderbending

because slavic mythology is at the same time very depresing. We dont really have much "great heros" and most monster are super OP. The forest will try to kill you, so will the witch, the lakes are infested with people who drowned there and became zombies trying to drown others. The lords are assholes, the knights are worse, the king dose not give a fuck. We slavs were fucked for most of our history, our main interest was to survive, and our mythology shows that. Also we dont know as much about it, because the church did a lot to destroy slavic culture

>Two gods turning themselves into THICC women to have a threesome with a guy

I hear he once held an opponent's wife's hand.
In a jar of acid.
At a party.

You are the schismatics.

Regards,
G_d's Chosen People.

They both did it. Scrooge just caught it on the other side.

Babylonians.

>mfw the constant ritual sacrifice of the Aztecs "makes sense" when you realize they believed the world was made from the literal flesh of the gods, and therefore had to be renewed with blood so that it stayed alive

Fucking Aztecs. They were horrifically brutal people who were simultaneously extremely interesting and complex.

sacrifice is a common theme in almost all ancient societies, Aztecs are just a little more metal in that they performed sacrifice of living humans.

30 penises

>A deities chosen
>Fucked repeatedly through history
Pick one.

Im-fucking-plying the japs have any qualms about doing whatever the fuck with their mythological figures

Im pretty sure i fugged amaterasu in some visual novel or porn game

Was always one of my favorite bits
>Sacrificing people to the gods so the world keeps turning is necessary
"Alright, fine." said all the neighbors.
>You first.
"NOW we have a problem."

Hearts for the sky god? Hearts for the sky god.

Literally all of them, even contemporaneous mythology.

The problem to most people is making an effort and researching it, shifting the ore to find the gold.

>Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them - Franklin, Washington, and the horse - conducted the entire revolution by themselves.
-Quote from 1776, an alteration of an actual John Adams line.

>almost every myth include a flood story
My guess is that sedentary civilizations leave written records. To settle, they had to develop agriculture. That demands rivers. Rivers flood from time to time. Even a small flood was very traumatic in the way it destroyed towns and lead to hunger.