Which is your favourite myth and why?

Question

actual story please.....

Answer 1

Has to be the Norse myth of Ragnarok... One Hell of a Fight.

Ragnarok ("Doom of the Gods"), also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology. It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between. Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end.
The wolf Skoll will finally devour the sun, and his brother Hati will eat the moon, plunging the earth [into] darkness. The stars will vanish from the sky. The **** Fjalar will crow to the giants and the golden **** Gullinkambi will crow to the gods. A third **** will raise the dead.
The earth will shudder with earthquakes, and every bond and fetter will burst, freeing the terrible wolf Fenrir. The sea will rear up because Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, is twisting and writhing in fury as he makes his way toward the land. With every breath, Jormungand will stain the soil and the sky with his poison. The waves caused by the serpent's emerging will set free the ship Naglfar, and with the giant Hymir as their commander, the giants will sail towards the battlefield. From the realm of the dead a second ship will set sail, and this ship carries the inhabitants of hell, with Loki as their helmsman. The fire giants, led by the giant Surt, will leave Muspell in the south to join against the gods. Surt, carrying a sword that blazes like the sun itself, will scorch the earth.
Meanwhile, Heimdall will sound his horn, calling the sons of Odin and the heroes to the battlefield. From all the corners of the world, gods, giants, dwarves, demons and elves will ride towards the huge plain of Vigrid ("battle shaker") where the last battle will be fought. Odin will engage Fenrir in battle, and Thor will attack Jormungand. Thor will victorious, but the serpent's poison will gradually kill the god of thunder. Surt will seek out the swordless Freyr, who will quickly succumb to the giant. The one-handed Tyr will fight the monstrous hound Garm and they will kill each other. Loki and Heimdall, age-old enemies, will meet for a final time, and neither will survive their encounter. The fight between Odin and Fenrir will rage for a long time, but finally Fenrir will seize Odin and swallow him. Odin's son Vidar will at once leap towards the wolf and kill him with his bare hands, ripping the wolf's jaws apart.
Then Surt will fling fire in every direction. The nine worlds will burn, and friends and foes alike will perish. The earth will sink into the sea.
After the destruction, a new and idyllic world will arise from the sea and will be filled with abundant supplies. Some of the gods will survive, others will be reborn. Wickedness and misery will no longer exist and gods and men will live happily together. The descendants of Lif and Lifthrasir will inhabit this earth.

Answer 2

my fave comes from greek myth it goes like something like this Demeter the earth goddess had a daughter called Persephone and somehow (i cant remember it all) she got caught in the underworld by the lord Hades he thought she was so lovely he wanted to keep her there forever but he could only do this once she had eaten a full pomegranate she was there for ages meanwhile her mother Demeter was beside herself pining for her lost daughter when finally one day Hades offered her the fruit (for he was also now worried she would die of starvation) she could take it no more she asked him to only give her the seeds he gave her 12 seeds and she only ate 6, Demeter later arranged a meeting with Hades and he told her what had transpired so she made a pact with him for six months of the year persehone would be in the underworld and the other 6 on the earth he agreed and released her. So when demeter and persephone are together demeter is so happy she makes the sun shine long and hot on the earth and the plants grow fast but when persephone is with hades demeter is so unhappy that she makes the night draw close and the days are as cold and dead as her heart, and this is how we have seasons!

Answer 3

actually every mythology is interesting.Every single one of them is more than just a story that people or philosopher used to invent to reassure the ignorants or scare them,it is actually the character of the one that invented it.Also when some body likes a myth it's because he feels that it's close to him,you can also like a myth depending on the mood your in.So I like all the myths but actually my favorites are Greek ones that include Hades,Zeus,Poseidon and Athena
PS:if any one is in my opinion you should watch the Japanese series Saint seiya,it contains them all plus an other story created by the author

Answer 4

The story of Medusa. I just love the imagery of it and it was the first myth I ever heard, told me by my father when I was very little and I believed it to be a true story. So it is still a very magical and powerful myth for me loaded with meaning.

Answer 5

I have a ton

Greek myth - Orpheus and Eurydice, because it's so tragic.

Western (other then Greek) - King Arthur, I love the idealism of Camelot.

Native American - Coyote myths.

Answer 6

Icarus. He escaped from a tower by devising a set of wings. He was able to fly as long as he heeded his father's advice to keep an even course. But he got carried away & flew too high... too close to the sun. The wax holding his wings together melted & he fell to his death.

It teaches the lesson of doing things in moderation, respecting other people's advice, & not being too full of yourself. Think of how many mistakes in history could have been avoided if people would have just paid attention to each other's advice.

Answer 7

My favourite myth is an Irish one:
Macha, wife of Cruinniuc. When her husband arrogantly boasted that his wife could beat the king of Ulster's chariot, she was forced to race against it while heavily pregnant. She won, and gave birth to twins at the finish line, explaining the name "Emain Macha" as "Macha's twins". She cursed the men of Ulster to suffer her labour pains in the hour of their greatest need, which is why none of the Ulstermen but Cúchulainn was able to fight in the Táin Bó Cuailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley).

Answer 8

my favorite myth is the myth of the durian(stinky fruit)
a king had a beautiful princess,but she would not marry him,he went to ask help from a wizard and he said give me an egg of a turtle,3 buckets of carabaos milk and the flower of the gumamela.
The king returned with all these things and the wizard put the carabaos milk and the nectar of the gumamela in the egg,the wizard said grow this in your backyard and feed the fruit to the princess,but remember invite me to your celebration.the king planted it ,when the king fed the princess the fruit she fell in love with him and agreed to marry him,the durian was being served in the celebration but the king forgot his promise to the wizard and the wizard made the durian have spikes and have a bad smell

Answer 9

Hades and Persephone (Greek myth of how the seasons came about).

"Persephone is the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, goddess of the harvest. Persephone was such a beautiful young woman that everyone loved her, even Hades wanted her for himself. One day, when she was collecting flowers on the plain of Enna, the earth suddenly opened and Hades rose up from the gap and abducted her. None but Zeus, and the all-seeing sun, Helios, had noticed it.

Broken-hearted, Demeter wandered the earth, looking for her daughter until Helios revealed what had happened. Demeter was so angry that she withdrew herself in loneliness, and the earth ceased to be fertile. Knowing this could not continue much longer, Zeus sent Hermes down to Hades to make him release Persephone. Hades grudgingly agreed, but before she went back he gave Persephone a pomegranate (or the seeds of a pomegranate, according to some sources). When she later ate of it, it bound her to underworld forever and she had to stay there one-third of the year. The other months she stayed with her mother. When Persephone was in Hades, Demeter refused to let anything grow and winter began. This myth is a symbol of the budding and dying of nature. In the Eleusinian mysteries, this happening was celebrated in honor of Demeter and Persephone, who was known in this cult as Kore."

I love it the best because it represents so many parts of the human condition - coming of age, falling in love, breaking away from one's family, the jealousy of parents for their children's love, the things that we do for love, and patterns of dark and light inside every human being... v. Jungian.

Answer 10

All of the Egyptian creation myths. Isis and Osiris story is my favorite.