Saturday, February 27, 2010

Blasphemy in a Myth's Cloak?


What do you think?
I am fond of mythology as I am with other great legends, epics and all.

Is there a possibility that mythology is not entirely just a pigment of the imagination but rather a hint of what used to be there but has been banished, allowed only to be remembered as myths, twisted in such a way that it will convince us that all of it is purely fiction.

There was a time when angels saw that the women on earth were beautiful and at some point, some of them came down and made love to them. The courtship was not detailed. But it was written that it happened. Children were born of them, half human, half angels. It was written that they were the giants of their time. Some of them heroes. But they were erased from the face of the earth. (BOOK OF GENESIS; THE BIBLE)


What if Greek mythology actually originated from this event? What if the people then who did not know what to call them but who were sure that they were more than human and that because they know not any other being more glorious than a God, they called them Gods foolishly. What if some of them acted like Gods, what if they were looked up upon, feared upon, loved because they were beautiful, because they were different, because they were rare and they knew. And they were banished for all these reasons? Maybe some of them abused their indifference and used it to their advantage?



What choices did they have? What rights/stands/arguments/pleas did they have to protect themselves from being wiped out? Were all of them evil? Were they children of the devils the moment these angels crossed the boundaries?

If the story is unrelated and the slight similarity is a coincidence...whats the story behind the story?

(FYI...ah yes. I know the meaning and concept of fiction...I dont think Edward Cullen exist..dont worry =)...just this one time for this case only...i'd like to challenge its myth factor.)

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