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Libation for the Dead: The Ancient Egyptians poured libations to the dead, particularly to dead kings, at least since Old Kingdom times.
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: "Light emerging from primordial darkness" is an idea from the oldest creation myths. Interestingly, this is Truthin Television since at one point, the universe was dark, then light came out once stars and gases began forming. Also, water did cover all or most all of the Earth around 3 billion years ago. It can also represent the collective subconscious recalling birth.
Light Is Not Good: The Egyptian Eyes of Re, such as Sekhmet and Hathor, were solar goddesses, but one of them once almost destroyed humanity in a bloody rampage.
Liminal Being: Egyptian art is full of part-human/part-animal beings.
Liminal Time: The five last days of the year were created to be not properly in any year, so that Nut can give birth despite the curse on her. They are the Demon Days and unlucky.
Little People Are Surreal: Ancient Egypt is the first civilisation known to have employed court dwarfs. In early periods of Egyptian history, dwarfism was seen as an otherworldly, divine trait. After the Old Kingdom, depictions of little people started veering into the more mocking versions of this trope.
A Load of Bull: The Sumerian Gud-alim are similar to the Greek Minotaur, but much older.
Long List: The Litany Of Re is an Egyptian work listing 75 different names and manifestations of the sun god.
Loophole Abuse: The Mesopotamian flood myth has the god who wants to save humanity talk to a wall (which just so happened to have a human next to it) about the gods' genocide plan... apparently, there was an oath not to tell it to people.
Lord of the Ocean: Nearly every polytheistic religion has at least one god associated with water-sources large and small.
Lost Him in a Card Game: Mandala 10, Hymn 34 (1,100 BC or older) of the Rig Veda is the lament of a gambler who has lost not only all his property, but also his wife in games of dice.
Love Goddess: Inanna/Ishtar was the Mesopotamian goddess of love and fertility. Hathor held that role in Egyptian religion.
Magical Eye: This trope is goes back to at least the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, when the Eldritch Abomination serpent Apep/Apophis was believed to have a harmful or hypnotizing gaze. People wore and recited charms and spells to protect themselves from him. On certain occasions the Pharaoh also ritually whacked at a ball that symbolized Apep's eyeball.
Magical Queer: In Mesopotamian Mythology, the underworld goddess Ereshkigal cursed intersex and nonbinary people to be shunned by society, so Ishtar gifted them with healing and prophecy to make up for it. As Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions put it: "So the lesson of this particular legend is if you're gender non-binary, you're magic, Ishtar loves you, and even the queen of hell thinks you're hot."
Making a Splash: Sobek from Egyptian Mythology.
Male Gaze: Male artists have been paying tribute to the female nude ever since the paleolithic "Venus of Willendorf."
Malicious Slander: In the Egyptian New Kingdom "Tale Of Two Brothers", Anubis' wife tried to seduce her brother-in-law Bata. When Bata angrily spurned her, she accused him of trying to seduce her and of beating her when she refused. Anubis tried to kill his brother, which started Bata's fantastic adventures.
Mama Bear: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš initially reacts this way when Apsu wants to kill their children, but later tries to kill them herself.
Meaningful Name: Many Egyptian names had clear meanings; i.e. gods like Amun ("hidden" or "hiddenness") and Meretseger ("she who loves silence"), and kings such as Merikare ("beloved of the ka of Re"), Tutankhamun ("living image of Amun"), Sobekhotep ("Sobek is satisfied"), and Scorpion.
Mesopotamian Monstrosity: Any monster in Mesopotamian Mythology (and there are a fair few) is by definition a Mesopotamian monstrosity. Given that some successor cultures carefully preserved these old myths, the idea of going back to old Mesopotamian myths for cool monsters may itself be old enough to qualify here.
Mission from God: The preface to the Code of Hammurabi declares that Hammurabi wrote down his code at the command of Anu and Bel.
Mr. Seahorse: In Hittite myth, Kumarbi gave birth to Teshub, Tigris, and Tasmisus after biting off Anu's genitals. The Sumerian water god Enki somehow impregnated himself.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Many mythological animals and people, especially in southwest Asia. The girtablullu (scorpion men) of Mesopotamian Mythology, appearing in Enûma Eliš and The Epic of Gilgamesh, were part man, part scorpion. Other examples from this period include griffins, leogryphs, sphinxes, urmalullu, lamassu, shedu, serpopards, sirrush, Anzu, gud-alim, and various dragons. The Egyptian Gods were also sometimes depicted in art as human beings with animal heads, though this wasn't necessarily meant to be taken literally.
Mood-Swinger: The Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar was goddess of love by night, but goddess of war by day. Romantic relations with her were... perilous.
Mortality Phobia: The Epic of Gilgamesh is possibly the oldest example of this trope. It chronicles the life of Gilgamesh as a seeks a way to avert death following an act that angered the Sumerian gods. The title character goes to great lengths to gain immortality, including trying to stay awake for seven days, and swimming to the bottom of the ocean to get a magical weed. His quest for immortality ultimately ends in him having to accept that death cannot be subverted.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš.
Ms. Fanservice: Ishtar from Mesopotamian Mythology.
Multiple-Choice Past: Egyptian sources frequently differ about the parentage of individual deities.
Mummies at the Dinner Table: Gilgamesh refused to accept Enkidu's death for seven days, until finally a maggot fell out of his nose.
My God, What Have I Done?: The title goddess in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld, right after siccing demons on her husband.
Mystical Pregnancy: Weird pregnancies have been around for a very long time:
Enki impregnates himself by consuming his own semen.
Egyptian god Horus was conceived by Isis hovering in the air over Osiris and beating her wings. At the time, Osiris was A: dead, and B: neutered, his p***s being the one piece of his body Isis couldn't recover due to its being eaten by a fish.
Named Weapons: In a fictional Egyptian tale of the conquest of Joppa, the Pharaoh Men-kheper-Re has a named staff/cane. He hides it in the luggage of the protagonist sent to put down a revolt, who kills the rebel leader with it. Unfortunately the text is damaged, so its name and powers are unknown.
Nameless Narrative: Surprisingly for a culture that put such emphasis on names, ancient Egypt has a few such tales: "The Wax Crocodile" (from the Westcar Papyrus), the "Tale Of The Shipwrecked Sailor", and the "Tale Of The Doomed Prince".
Narrative Poem: The Mesopotamians had them.
Nature Hero: Enkidu in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Nature Spirit: There are many, many gods of earth, sun, moon, stars, rivers, trees, fertility, animals, plants, disease, life, death, storms, wind, the sea, the sky, etc. in Mesopotamian Mythology and Egyptian Mythology.
Never Say "Die": The ancient Egyptians believed that to record something in writing made it more real. Scribes usually did not speak of death, only of euphemisms such as passing west (towards the setting sun and The Underworld) or joining the sun god's barque in the sky. Set was never said to have killed or murdered his brother Osiris; instead he knocked him down.
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sobek the crocodile-headed Egyptian god was not entirely bad, but was unpredictable, representing the power the Nile itself held over Egyptians' lives. Another example comes from a folktale where a prince is prophesied to die by "a snake, a crocodile or a dog". Despite efforts to avoid all of those things, he still dies.
Nice Hat: Royal and divine crowns, especially in Egyptian iconography where they can be exceptionally complicated.
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:26 am
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Libation for the Dead: The Ancient Egyptians poured libations to the dead, particularly to dead kings, at least since Old Kingdom times.
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: "Light emerging from primordial darkness" is an idea from the oldest creation myths. Interestingly, this is Truthin Television since at one point, the universe was dark, then light came out once stars and gases began forming. Also, water did cover all or most all of the Earth around 3 billion years ago. It can also represent the collective subconscious recalling birth.
Light Is Not Good: The Egyptian Eyes of Re, such as Sekhmet and Hathor, were solar goddesses, but one of them once almost destroyed humanity in a bloody rampage.
Liminal Being: Egyptian art is full of part-human/part-animal beings.
Liminal Time: The five last days of the year were created to be not properly in any year, so that Nut can give birth despite the curse on her. They are the Demon Days and unlucky.
Little People Are Surreal: Ancient Egypt is the first civilisation known to have employed court dwarfs. In early periods of Egyptian history, dwarfism was seen as an otherworldly, divine trait. After the Old Kingdom, depictions of little people started veering into the more mocking versions of this trope.
A Load of Bull: The Sumerian Gud-alim are similar to the Greek Minotaur, but much older.
Long List: The Litany Of Re is an Egyptian work listing 75 different names and manifestations of the sun god.
Loophole Abuse: The Mesopotamian flood myth has the god who wants to save humanity talk to a wall (which just so happened to have a human next to it) about the gods' genocide plan... apparently, there was an oath not to tell it to people.
Lord of the Ocean: Nearly every polytheistic religion has at least one god associated with water-sources large and small.
Lost Him in a Card Game: Mandala 10, Hymn 34 (1,100 BC or older) of the Rig Veda is the lament of a gambler who has lost not only all his property, but also his wife in games of dice.
Love Goddess: Inanna/Ishtar was the Mesopotamian goddess of love and fertility. Hathor held that role in Egyptian religion.
Magical Eye: This trope is goes back to at least the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, when the Eldritch Abomination serpent Apep/Apophis was believed to have a harmful or hypnotizing gaze. People wore and recited charms and spells to protect themselves from him. On certain occasions the Pharaoh also ritually whacked at a ball that symbolized Apep's eyeball.
Magical Queer: In Mesopotamian Mythology, the underworld goddess Ereshkigal cursed intersex and nonbinary people to be shunned by society, so Ishtar gifted them with healing and prophecy to make up for it. As Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions put it: "So the lesson of this particular legend is if you're gender non-binary, you're magic, Ishtar loves you, and even the queen of hell thinks you're hot."
Making a Splash: Sobek from Egyptian Mythology.
Male Gaze: Male artists have been paying tribute to the female nude ever since the paleolithic "Venus of Willendorf."
Malicious Slander: In the Egyptian New Kingdom "Tale Of Two Brothers", Anubis' wife tried to seduce her brother-in-law Bata. When Bata angrily spurned her, she accused him of trying to seduce her and of beating her when she refused. Anubis tried to kill his brother, which started Bata's fantastic adventures.
Mama Bear: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš initially reacts this way when Apsu wants to kill their children, but later tries to kill them herself.
Meaningful Name: Many Egyptian names had clear meanings; i.e. gods like Amun ("hidden" or "hiddenness") and Meretseger ("she who loves silence"), and kings such as Merikare ("beloved of the ka of Re"), Tutankhamun ("living image of Amun"), Sobekhotep ("Sobek is satisfied"), and Scorpion.
Mesopotamian Monstrosity: Any monster in Mesopotamian Mythology (and there are a fair few) is by definition a Mesopotamian monstrosity. Given that some successor cultures carefully preserved these old myths, the idea of going back to old Mesopotamian myths for cool monsters may itself be old enough to qualify here.
Mission from God: The preface to the Code of Hammurabi declares that Hammurabi wrote down his code at the command of Anu and Bel.
Mr. Seahorse: In Hittite myth, Kumarbi gave birth to Teshub, Tigris, and Tasmisus after biting off Anu's genitals. The Sumerian water god Enki somehow impregnated himself.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Many mythological animals and people, especially in southwest Asia. The girtablullu (scorpion men) of Mesopotamian Mythology, appearing in Enûma Eliš and The Epic of Gilgamesh, were part man, part scorpion. Other examples from this period include griffins, leogryphs, sphinxes, urmalullu, lamassu, shedu, serpopards, sirrush, Anzu, gud-alim, and various dragons. The Egyptian Gods were also sometimes depicted in art as human beings with animal heads, though this wasn't necessarily meant to be taken literally.
Mood-Swinger: The Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar was goddess of love by night, but goddess of war by day. Romantic relations with her were... perilous.
Mortality Phobia: The Epic of Gilgamesh is possibly the oldest example of this trope. It chronicles the life of Gilgamesh as a seeks a way to avert death following an act that angered the Sumerian gods. The title character goes to great lengths to gain immortality, including trying to stay awake for seven days, and swimming to the bottom of the ocean to get a magical weed. His quest for immortality ultimately ends in him having to accept that death cannot be subverted.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš.
Ms. Fanservice: Ishtar from Mesopotamian Mythology.
Multiple-Choice Past: Egyptian sources frequently differ about the parentage of individual deities.
Mummies at the Dinner Table: Gilgamesh refused to accept Enkidu's death for seven days, until finally a maggot fell out of his nose.
My God, What Have I Done?: The title goddess in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld, right after siccing demons on her husband.
Mystical Pregnancy: Weird pregnancies have been around for a very long time:
Enki impregnates himself by consuming his own semen.
Egyptian god Horus was conceived by Isis hovering in the air over Osiris and beating her wings. At the time, Osiris was A: dead, and B: neutered, his p***s being the one piece of his body Isis couldn't recover due to its being eaten by a fish.
Named Weapons: In a fictional Egyptian tale of the conquest of Joppa, the Pharaoh Men-kheper-Re has a named staff/cane. He hides it in the luggage of the protagonist sent to put down a revolt, who kills the rebel leader with it. Unfortunately the text is damaged, so its name and powers are unknown.
Nameless Narrative: Surprisingly for a culture that put such emphasis on names, ancient Egypt has a few such tales: "The Wax Crocodile" (from the Westcar Papyrus), the "Tale Of The Shipwrecked Sailor", and the "Tale Of The Doomed Prince".
Narrative Poem: The Mesopotamians had them.
Nature Hero: Enkidu in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Nature Spirit: There are many, many gods of earth, sun, moon, stars, rivers, trees, fertility, animals, plants, disease, life, death, storms, wind, the sea, the sky, etc. in Mesopotamian Mythology and Egyptian Mythology.
Never Say "Die": The ancient Egyptians believed that to record something in writing made it more real. Scribes usually did not speak of death, only of euphemisms such as passing west (towards the setting sun and The Underworld) or joining the sun god's barque in the sky. Set was never said to have killed or murdered his brother Osiris; instead he knocked him down.
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sobek the crocodile-headed Egyptian god was not entirely bad, but was unpredictable, representing the power the Nile itself held over Egyptians' lives. Another example comes from a folktale where a prince is prophesied to die by "a snake, a crocodile or a dog". Despite efforts to avoid all of those things, he still dies.
Nice Hat: Royal and divine crowns, especially in Egyptian iconography where they can be exceptionally complicated.
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Libation for the Dead: The Ancient Egyptians poured libations to the dead, particularly to dead kings, at least since Old Kingdom times.
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: "Light emerging from primordial darkness" is an idea from the oldest creation myths. Interestingly, this is Truthin Television since at one point, the universe was dark, then light came out once stars and gases began forming. Also, water did cover all or most all of the Earth around 3 billion years ago. It can also represent the collective subconscious recalling birth.
Light Is Not Good: The Egyptian Eyes of Re, such as Sekhmet and Hathor, were solar goddesses, but one of them once almost destroyed humanity in a bloody rampage.
Liminal Being: Egyptian art is full of part-human/part-animal beings.
Liminal Time: The five last days of the year were created to be not properly in any year, so that Nut can give birth despite the curse on her. They are the Demon Days and unlucky.
Little People Are Surreal: Ancient Egypt is the first civilisation known to have employed court dwarfs. In early periods of Egyptian history, dwarfism was seen as an otherworldly, divine trait. After the Old Kingdom, depictions of little people started veering into the more mocking versions of this trope.
A Load of Bull: The Sumerian Gud-alim are similar to the Greek Minotaur, but much older.
Long List: The Litany Of Re is an Egyptian work listing 75 different names and manifestations of the sun god.
Loophole Abuse: The Mesopotamian flood myth has the god who wants to save humanity talk to a wall (which just so happened to have a human next to it) about the gods' genocide plan... apparently, there was an oath not to tell it to people.
Lord of the Ocean: Nearly every polytheistic religion has at least one god associated with water-sources large and small.
Lost Him in a Card Game: Mandala 10, Hymn 34 (1,100 BC or older) of the Rig Veda is the lament of a gambler who has lost not only all his property, but also his wife in games of dice.
Love Goddess: Inanna/Ishtar was the Mesopotamian goddess of love and fertility. Hathor held that role in Egyptian religion.
Magical Eye: This trope is goes back to at least the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, when the Eldritch Abomination serpent Apep/Apophis was believed to have a harmful or hypnotizing gaze. People wore and recited charms and spells to protect themselves from him. On certain occasions the Pharaoh also ritually whacked at a ball that symbolized Apep's eyeball.
Magical Queer: In Mesopotamian Mythology, the underworld goddess Ereshkigal cursed intersex and nonbinary people to be shunned by society, so Ishtar gifted them with healing and prophecy to make up for it. As Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions put it: "So the lesson of this particular legend is if you're gender non-binary, you're magic, Ishtar loves you, and even the queen of hell thinks you're hot."
Making a Splash: Sobek from Egyptian Mythology.
Male Gaze: Male artists have been paying tribute to the female nude ever since the paleolithic "Venus of Willendorf."
Malicious Slander: In the Egyptian New Kingdom "Tale Of Two Brothers", Anubis' wife tried to seduce her brother-in-law Bata. When Bata angrily spurned her, she accused him of trying to seduce her and of beating her when she refused. Anubis tried to kill his brother, which started Bata's fantastic adventures.
Mama Bear: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš initially reacts this way when Apsu wants to kill their children, but later tries to kill them herself.
Meaningful Name: Many Egyptian names had clear meanings; i.e. gods like Amun ("hidden" or "hiddenness") and Meretseger ("she who loves silence"), and kings such as Merikare ("beloved of the ka of Re"), Tutankhamun ("living image of Amun"), Sobekhotep ("Sobek is satisfied"), and Scorpion.
Mesopotamian Monstrosity: Any monster in Mesopotamian Mythology (and there are a fair few) is by definition a Mesopotamian monstrosity. Given that some successor cultures carefully preserved these old myths, the idea of going back to old Mesopotamian myths for cool monsters may itself be old enough to qualify here.
Mission from God: The preface to the Code of Hammurabi declares that Hammurabi wrote down his code at the command of Anu and Bel.
Mr. Seahorse: In Hittite myth, Kumarbi gave birth to Teshub, Tigris, and Tasmisus after biting off Anu's genitals. The Sumerian water god Enki somehow impregnated himself.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Many mythological animals and people, especially in southwest Asia. The girtablullu (scorpion men) of Mesopotamian Mythology, appearing in Enûma Eliš and The Epic of Gilgamesh, were part man, part scorpion. Other examples from this period include griffins, leogryphs, sphinxes, urmalullu, lamassu, shedu, serpopards, sirrush, Anzu, gud-alim, and various dragons. The Egyptian Gods were also sometimes depicted in art as human beings with animal heads, though this wasn't necessarily meant to be taken literally.
Mood-Swinger: The Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar was goddess of love by night, but goddess of war by day. Romantic relations with her were... perilous.
Mortality Phobia: The Epic of Gilgamesh is possibly the oldest example of this trope. It chronicles the life of Gilgamesh as a seeks a way to avert death following an act that angered the Sumerian gods. The title character goes to great lengths to gain immortality, including trying to stay awake for seven days, and swimming to the bottom of the ocean to get a magical weed. His quest for immortality ultimately ends in him having to accept that death cannot be subverted.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš.
Ms. Fanservice: Ishtar from Mesopotamian Mythology.
Multiple-Choice Past: Egyptian sources frequently differ about the parentage of individual deities.
Mummies at the Dinner Table: Gilgamesh refused to accept Enkidu's death for seven days, until finally a maggot fell out of his nose.
My God, What Have I Done?: The title goddess in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld, right after siccing demons on her husband.
Mystical Pregnancy: Weird pregnancies have been around for a very long time:
Enki impregnates himself by consuming his own semen.
Egyptian god Horus was conceived by Isis hovering in the air over Osiris and beating her wings. At the time, Osiris was A: dead, and B: neutered, his p***s being the one piece of his body Isis couldn't recover due to its being eaten by a fish.
Named Weapons: In a fictional Egyptian tale of the conquest of Joppa, the Pharaoh Men-kheper-Re has a named staff/cane. He hides it in the luggage of the protagonist sent to put down a revolt, who kills the rebel leader with it. Unfortunately the text is damaged, so its name and powers are unknown.
Nameless Narrative: Surprisingly for a culture that put such emphasis on names, ancient Egypt has a few such tales: "The Wax Crocodile" (from the Westcar Papyrus), the "Tale Of The Shipwrecked Sailor", and the "Tale Of The Doomed Prince".
Narrative Poem: The Mesopotamians had them.
Nature Hero: Enkidu in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Nature Spirit: There are many, many gods of earth, sun, moon, stars, rivers, trees, fertility, animals, plants, disease, life, death, storms, wind, the sea, the sky, etc. in Mesopotamian Mythology and Egyptian Mythology.
Never Say "Die": The ancient Egyptians believed that to record something in writing made it more real. Scribes usually did not speak of death, only of euphemisms such as passing west (towards the setting sun and The Underworld) or joining the sun god's barque in the sky. Set was never said to have killed or murdered his brother Osiris; instead he knocked him down.
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sobek the crocodile-headed Egyptian god was not entirely bad, but was unpredictable, representing the power the Nile itself held over Egyptians' lives. Another example comes from a folktale where a prince is prophesied to die by "a snake, a crocodile or a dog". Despite efforts to avoid all of those things, he still dies.
Nice Hat: Royal and divine crowns, especially in Egyptian iconography where they can be exceptionally complicated.
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Libation for the Dead: The Ancient Egyptians poured libations to the dead, particularly to dead kings, at least since Old Kingdom times.
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: "Light emerging from primordial darkness" is an idea from the oldest creation myths. Interestingly, this is Truthin Television since at one point, the universe was dark, then light came out once stars and gases began forming. Also, water did cover all or most all of the Earth around 3 billion years ago. It can also represent the collective subconscious recalling birth.
Light Is Not Good: The Egyptian Eyes of Re, such as Sekhmet and Hathor, were solar goddesses, but one of them once almost destroyed humanity in a bloody rampage.
Liminal Being: Egyptian art is full of part-human/part-animal beings.
Liminal Time: The five last days of the year were created to be not properly in any year, so that Nut can give birth despite the curse on her. They are the Demon Days and unlucky.
Little People Are Surreal: Ancient Egypt is the first civilisation known to have employed court dwarfs. In early periods of Egyptian history, dwarfism was seen as an otherworldly, divine trait. After the Old Kingdom, depictions of little people started veering into the more mocking versions of this trope.
A Load of Bull: The Sumerian Gud-alim are similar to the Greek Minotaur, but much older.
Long List: The Litany Of Re is an Egyptian work listing 75 different names and manifestations of the sun god.
Loophole Abuse: The Mesopotamian flood myth has the god who wants to save humanity talk to a wall (which just so happened to have a human next to it) about the gods' genocide plan... apparently, there was an oath not to tell it to people.
Lord of the Ocean: Nearly every polytheistic religion has at least one god associated with water-sources large and small.
Lost Him in a Card Game: Mandala 10, Hymn 34 (1,100 BC or older) of the Rig Veda is the lament of a gambler who has lost not only all his property, but also his wife in games of dice.
Love Goddess: Inanna/Ishtar was the Mesopotamian goddess of love and fertility. Hathor held that role in Egyptian religion.
Magical Eye: This trope is goes back to at least the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, when the Eldritch Abomination serpent Apep/Apophis was believed to have a harmful or hypnotizing gaze. People wore and recited charms and spells to protect themselves from him. On certain occasions the Pharaoh also ritually whacked at a ball that symbolized Apep's eyeball.
Magical Queer: In Mesopotamian Mythology, the underworld goddess Ereshkigal cursed intersex and nonbinary people to be shunned by society, so Ishtar gifted them with healing and prophecy to make up for it. As Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions put it: "So the lesson of this particular legend is if you're gender non-binary, you're magic, Ishtar loves you, and even the queen of hell thinks you're hot."
Making a Splash: Sobek from Egyptian Mythology.
Male Gaze: Male artists have been paying tribute to the female nude ever since the paleolithic "Venus of Willendorf."
Malicious Slander: In the Egyptian New Kingdom "Tale Of Two Brothers", Anubis' wife tried to seduce her brother-in-law Bata. When Bata angrily spurned her, she accused him of trying to seduce her and of beating her when she refused. Anubis tried to kill his brother, which started Bata's fantastic adventures.
Mama Bear: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš initially reacts this way when Apsu wants to kill their children, but later tries to kill them herself.
Meaningful Name: Many Egyptian names had clear meanings; i.e. gods like Amun ("hidden" or "hiddenness") and Meretseger ("she who loves silence"), and kings such as Merikare ("beloved of the ka of Re"), Tutankhamun ("living image of Amun"), Sobekhotep ("Sobek is satisfied"), and Scorpion.
Mesopotamian Monstrosity: Any monster in Mesopotamian Mythology (and there are a fair few) is by definition a Mesopotamian monstrosity. Given that some successor cultures carefully preserved these old myths, the idea of going back to old Mesopotamian myths for cool monsters may itself be old enough to qualify here.
Mission from God: The preface to the Code of Hammurabi declares that Hammurabi wrote down his code at the command of Anu and Bel.
Mr. Seahorse: In Hittite myth, Kumarbi gave birth to Teshub, Tigris, and Tasmisus after biting off Anu's genitals. The Sumerian water god Enki somehow impregnated himself.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Many mythological animals and people, especially in southwest Asia. The girtablullu (scorpion men) of Mesopotamian Mythology, appearing in Enûma Eliš and The Epic of Gilgamesh, were part man, part scorpion. Other examples from this period include griffins, leogryphs, sphinxes, urmalullu, lamassu, shedu, serpopards, sirrush, Anzu, gud-alim, and various dragons. The Egyptian Gods were also sometimes depicted in art as human beings with animal heads, though this wasn't necessarily meant to be taken literally.
Mood-Swinger: The Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar was goddess of love by night, but goddess of war by day. Romantic relations with her were... perilous.
Mortality Phobia: The Epic of Gilgamesh is possibly the oldest example of this trope. It chronicles the life of Gilgamesh as a seeks a way to avert death following an act that angered the Sumerian gods. The title character goes to great lengths to gain immortality, including trying to stay awake for seven days, and swimming to the bottom of the ocean to get a magical weed. His quest for immortality ultimately ends in him having to accept that death cannot be subverted.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš.
Ms. Fanservice: Ishtar from Mesopotamian Mythology.
Multiple-Choice Past: Egyptian sources frequently differ about the parentage of individual deities.
Mummies at the Dinner Table: Gilgamesh refused to accept Enkidu's death for seven days, until finally a maggot fell out of his nose.
My God, What Have I Done?: The title goddess in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld, right after siccing demons on her husband.
Mystical Pregnancy: Weird pregnancies have been around for a very long time:
Enki impregnates himself by consuming his own semen.
Egyptian god Horus was conceived by Isis hovering in the air over Osiris and beating her wings. At the time, Osiris was A: dead, and B: neutered, his p***s being the one piece of his body Isis couldn't recover due to its being eaten by a fish.
Named Weapons: In a fictional Egyptian tale of the conquest of Joppa, the Pharaoh Men-kheper-Re has a named staff/cane. He hides it in the luggage of the protagonist sent to put down a revolt, who kills the rebel leader with it. Unfortunately the text is damaged, so its name and powers are unknown.
Nameless Narrative: Surprisingly for a culture that put such emphasis on names, ancient Egypt has a few such tales: "The Wax Crocodile" (from the Westcar Papyrus), the "Tale Of The Shipwrecked Sailor", and the "Tale Of The Doomed Prince".
Narrative Poem: The Mesopotamians had them.
Nature Hero: Enkidu in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Nature Spirit: There are many, many gods of earth, sun, moon, stars, rivers, trees, fertility, animals, plants, disease, life, death, storms, wind, the sea, the sky, etc. in Mesopotamian Mythology and Egyptian Mythology.
Never Say "Die": The ancient Egyptians believed that to record something in writing made it more real. Scribes usually did not speak of death, only of euphemisms such as passing west (towards the setting sun and The Underworld) or joining the sun god's barque in the sky. Set was never said to have killed or murdered his brother Osiris; instead he knocked him down.
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sobek the crocodile-headed Egyptian god was not entirely bad, but was unpredictable, representing the power the Nile itself held over Egyptians' lives. Another example comes from a folktale where a prince is prophesied to die by "a snake, a crocodile or a dog". Despite efforts to avoid all of those things, he still dies.
Nice Hat: Royal and divine crowns, especially in Egyptian iconography where they can be exceptionally complicated.
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Libation for the Dead: The Ancient Egyptians poured libations to the dead, particularly to dead kings, at least since Old Kingdom times.
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: "Light emerging from primordial darkness" is an idea from the oldest creation myths. Interestingly, this is Truthin Television since at one point, the universe was dark, then light came out once stars and gases began forming. Also, water did cover all or most all of the Earth around 3 billion years ago. It can also represent the collective subconscious recalling birth.
Light Is Not Good: The Egyptian Eyes of Re, such as Sekhmet and Hathor, were solar goddesses, but one of them once almost destroyed humanity in a bloody rampage.
Liminal Being: Egyptian art is full of part-human/part-animal beings.
Liminal Time: The five last days of the year were created to be not properly in any year, so that Nut can give birth despite the curse on her. They are the Demon Days and unlucky.
Little People Are Surreal: Ancient Egypt is the first civilisation known to have employed court dwarfs. In early periods of Egyptian history, dwarfism was seen as an otherworldly, divine trait. After the Old Kingdom, depictions of little people started veering into the more mocking versions of this trope.
A Load of Bull: The Sumerian Gud-alim are similar to the Greek Minotaur, but much older.
Long List: The Litany Of Re is an Egyptian work listing 75 different names and manifestations of the sun god.
Loophole Abuse: The Mesopotamian flood myth has the god who wants to save humanity talk to a wall (which just so happened to have a human next to it) about the gods' genocide plan... apparently, there was an oath not to tell it to people.
Lord of the Ocean: Nearly every polytheistic religion has at least one god associated with water-sources large and small.
Lost Him in a Card Game: Mandala 10, Hymn 34 (1,100 BC or older) of the Rig Veda is the lament of a gambler who has lost not only all his property, but also his wife in games of dice.
Love Goddess: Inanna/Ishtar was the Mesopotamian goddess of love and fertility. Hathor held that role in Egyptian religion.
Magical Eye: This trope is goes back to at least the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, when the Eldritch Abomination serpent Apep/Apophis was believed to have a harmful or hypnotizing gaze. People wore and recited charms and spells to protect themselves from him. On certain occasions the Pharaoh also ritually whacked at a ball that symbolized Apep's eyeball.
Magical Queer: In Mesopotamian Mythology, the underworld goddess Ereshkigal cursed intersex and nonbinary people to be shunned by society, so Ishtar gifted them with healing and prophecy to make up for it. As Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions put it: "So the lesson of this particular legend is if you're gender non-binary, you're magic, Ishtar loves you, and even the queen of hell thinks you're hot."
Making a Splash: Sobek from Egyptian Mythology.
Male Gaze: Male artists have been paying tribute to the female nude ever since the paleolithic "Venus of Willendorf."
Malicious Slander: In the Egyptian New Kingdom "Tale Of Two Brothers", Anubis' wife tried to seduce her brother-in-law Bata. When Bata angrily spurned her, she accused him of trying to seduce her and of beating her when she refused. Anubis tried to kill his brother, which started Bata's fantastic adventures.
Mama Bear: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš initially reacts this way when Apsu wants to kill their children, but later tries to kill them herself.
Meaningful Name: Many Egyptian names had clear meanings; i.e. gods like Amun ("hidden" or "hiddenness") and Meretseger ("she who loves silence"), and kings such as Merikare ("beloved of the ka of Re"), Tutankhamun ("living image of Amun"), Sobekhotep ("Sobek is satisfied"), and Scorpion.
Mesopotamian Monstrosity: Any monster in Mesopotamian Mythology (and there are a fair few) is by definition a Mesopotamian monstrosity. Given that some successor cultures carefully preserved these old myths, the idea of going back to old Mesopotamian myths for cool monsters may itself be old enough to qualify here.
Mission from God: The preface to the Code of Hammurabi declares that Hammurabi wrote down his code at the command of Anu and Bel.
Mr. Seahorse: In Hittite myth, Kumarbi gave birth to Teshub, Tigris, and Tasmisus after biting off Anu's genitals. The Sumerian water god Enki somehow impregnated himself.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Many mythological animals and people, especially in southwest Asia. The girtablullu (scorpion men) of Mesopotamian Mythology, appearing in Enûma Eliš and The Epic of Gilgamesh, were part man, part scorpion. Other examples from this period include griffins, leogryphs, sphinxes, urmalullu, lamassu, shedu, serpopards, sirrush, Anzu, gud-alim, and various dragons. The Egyptian Gods were also sometimes depicted in art as human beings with animal heads, though this wasn't necessarily meant to be taken literally.
Mood-Swinger: The Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar was goddess of love by night, but goddess of war by day. Romantic relations with her were... perilous.
Mortality Phobia: The Epic of Gilgamesh is possibly the oldest example of this trope. It chronicles the life of Gilgamesh as a seeks a way to avert death following an act that angered the Sumerian gods. The title character goes to great lengths to gain immortality, including trying to stay awake for seven days, and swimming to the bottom of the ocean to get a magical weed. His quest for immortality ultimately ends in him having to accept that death cannot be subverted.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš.
Ms. Fanservice: Ishtar from Mesopotamian Mythology.
Multiple-Choice Past: Egyptian sources frequently differ about the parentage of individual deities.
Mummies at the Dinner Table: Gilgamesh refused to accept Enkidu's death for seven days, until finally a maggot fell out of his nose.
My God, What Have I Done?: The title goddess in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld, right after siccing demons on her husband.
Mystical Pregnancy: Weird pregnancies have been around for a very long time:
Enki impregnates himself by consuming his own semen.
Egyptian god Horus was conceived by Isis hovering in the air over Osiris and beating her wings. At the time, Osiris was A: dead, and B: neutered, his p***s being the one piece of his body Isis couldn't recover due to its being eaten by a fish.
Named Weapons: In a fictional Egyptian tale of the conquest of Joppa, the Pharaoh Men-kheper-Re has a named staff/cane. He hides it in the luggage of the protagonist sent to put down a revolt, who kills the rebel leader with it. Unfortunately the text is damaged, so its name and powers are unknown.
Nameless Narrative: Surprisingly for a culture that put such emphasis on names, ancient Egypt has a few such tales: "The Wax Crocodile" (from the Westcar Papyrus), the "Tale Of The Shipwrecked Sailor", and the "Tale Of The Doomed Prince".
Narrative Poem: The Mesopotamians had them.
Nature Hero: Enkidu in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Nature Spirit: There are many, many gods of earth, sun, moon, stars, rivers, trees, fertility, animals, plants, disease, life, death, storms, wind, the sea, the sky, etc. in Mesopotamian Mythology and Egyptian Mythology.
Never Say "Die": The ancient Egyptians believed that to record something in writing made it more real. Scribes usually did not speak of death, only of euphemisms such as passing west (towards the setting sun and The Underworld) or joining the sun god's barque in the sky. Set was never said to have killed or murdered his brother Osiris; instead he knocked him down.
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sobek the crocodile-headed Egyptian god was not entirely bad, but was unpredictable, representing the power the Nile itself held over Egyptians' lives. Another example comes from a folktale where a prince is prophesied to die by "a snake, a crocodile or a dog". Despite efforts to avoid all of those things, he still dies.
Nice Hat: Royal and divine crowns, especially in Egyptian iconography where they can be exceptionally complicated.
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:31 am
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Libation for the Dead: The Ancient Egyptians poured libations to the dead, particularly to dead kings, at least since Old Kingdom times.
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: "Light emerging from primordial darkness" is an idea from the oldest creation myths. Interestingly, this is Truthin Television since at one point, the universe was dark, then light came out once stars and gases began forming. Also, water did cover all or most all of the Earth around 3 billion years ago. It can also represent the collective subconscious recalling birth.
Light Is Not Good: The Egyptian Eyes of Re, such as Sekhmet and Hathor, were solar goddesses, but one of them once almost destroyed humanity in a bloody rampage.
Liminal Being: Egyptian art is full of part-human/part-animal beings.
Liminal Time: The five last days of the year were created to be not properly in any year, so that Nut can give birth despite the curse on her. They are the Demon Days and unlucky.
Little People Are Surreal: Ancient Egypt is the first civilisation known to have employed court dwarfs. In early periods of Egyptian history, dwarfism was seen as an otherworldly, divine trait. After the Old Kingdom, depictions of little people started veering into the more mocking versions of this trope.
A Load of Bull: The Sumerian Gud-alim are similar to the Greek Minotaur, but much older.
Long List: The Litany Of Re is an Egyptian work listing 75 different names and manifestations of the sun god.
Loophole Abuse: The Mesopotamian flood myth has the god who wants to save humanity talk to a wall (which just so happened to have a human next to it) about the gods' genocide plan... apparently, there was an oath not to tell it to people.
Lord of the Ocean: Nearly every polytheistic religion has at least one god associated with water-sources large and small.
Lost Him in a Card Game: Mandala 10, Hymn 34 (1,100 BC or older) of the Rig Veda is the lament of a gambler who has lost not only all his property, but also his wife in games of dice.
Love Goddess: Inanna/Ishtar was the Mesopotamian goddess of love and fertility. Hathor held that role in Egyptian religion.
Magical Eye: This trope is goes back to at least the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, when the Eldritch Abomination serpent Apep/Apophis was believed to have a harmful or hypnotizing gaze. People wore and recited charms and spells to protect themselves from him. On certain occasions the Pharaoh also ritually whacked at a ball that symbolized Apep's eyeball.
Magical Queer: In Mesopotamian Mythology, the underworld goddess Ereshkigal cursed intersex and nonbinary people to be shunned by society, so Ishtar gifted them with healing and prophecy to make up for it. As Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions put it: "So the lesson of this particular legend is if you're gender non-binary, you're magic, Ishtar loves you, and even the queen of hell thinks you're hot."
Making a Splash: Sobek from Egyptian Mythology.
Male Gaze: Male artists have been paying tribute to the female nude ever since the paleolithic "Venus of Willendorf."
Malicious Slander: In the Egyptian New Kingdom "Tale Of Two Brothers", Anubis' wife tried to seduce her brother-in-law Bata. When Bata angrily spurned her, she accused him of trying to seduce her and of beating her when she refused. Anubis tried to kill his brother, which started Bata's fantastic adventures.
Mama Bear: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš initially reacts this way when Apsu wants to kill their children, but later tries to kill them herself.
Meaningful Name: Many Egyptian names had clear meanings; i.e. gods like Amun ("hidden" or "hiddenness") and Meretseger ("she who loves silence"), and kings such as Merikare ("beloved of the ka of Re"), Tutankhamun ("living image of Amun"), Sobekhotep ("Sobek is satisfied"), and Scorpion.
Mesopotamian Monstrosity: Any monster in Mesopotamian Mythology (and there are a fair few) is by definition a Mesopotamian monstrosity. Given that some successor cultures carefully preserved these old myths, the idea of going back to old Mesopotamian myths for cool monsters may itself be old enough to qualify here.
Mission from God: The preface to the Code of Hammurabi declares that Hammurabi wrote down his code at the command of Anu and Bel.
Mr. Seahorse: In Hittite myth, Kumarbi gave birth to Teshub, Tigris, and Tasmisus after biting off Anu's genitals. The Sumerian water god Enki somehow impregnated himself.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Many mythological animals and people, especially in southwest Asia. The girtablullu (scorpion men) of Mesopotamian Mythology, appearing in Enûma Eliš and The Epic of Gilgamesh, were part man, part scorpion. Other examples from this period include griffins, leogryphs, sphinxes, urmalullu, lamassu, shedu, serpopards, sirrush, Anzu, gud-alim, and various dragons. The Egyptian Gods were also sometimes depicted in art as human beings with animal heads, though this wasn't necessarily meant to be taken literally.
Mood-Swinger: The Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar was goddess of love by night, but goddess of war by day. Romantic relations with her were... perilous.
Mortality Phobia: The Epic of Gilgamesh is possibly the oldest example of this trope. It chronicles the life of Gilgamesh as a seeks a way to avert death following an act that angered the Sumerian gods. The title character goes to great lengths to gain immortality, including trying to stay awake for seven days, and swimming to the bottom of the ocean to get a magical weed. His quest for immortality ultimately ends in him having to accept that death cannot be subverted.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš.
Ms. Fanservice: Ishtar from Mesopotamian Mythology.
Multiple-Choice Past: Egyptian sources frequently differ about the parentage of individual deities.
Mummies at the Dinner Table: Gilgamesh refused to accept Enkidu's death for seven days, until finally a maggot fell out of his nose.
My God, What Have I Done?: The title goddess in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld, right after siccing demons on her husband.
Mystical Pregnancy: Weird pregnancies have been around for a very long time:
Enki impregnates himself by consuming his own semen.
Egyptian god Horus was conceived by Isis hovering in the air over Osiris and beating her wings. At the time, Osiris was A: dead, and B: neutered, his p***s being the one piece of his body Isis couldn't recover due to its being eaten by a fish.
Named Weapons: In a fictional Egyptian tale of the conquest of Joppa, the Pharaoh Men-kheper-Re has a named staff/cane. He hides it in the luggage of the protagonist sent to put down a revolt, who kills the rebel leader with it. Unfortunately the text is damaged, so its name and powers are unknown.
Nameless Narrative: Surprisingly for a culture that put such emphasis on names, ancient Egypt has a few such tales: "The Wax Crocodile" (from the Westcar Papyrus), the "Tale Of The Shipwrecked Sailor", and the "Tale Of The Doomed Prince".
Narrative Poem: The Mesopotamians had them.
Nature Hero: Enkidu in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Nature Spirit: There are many, many gods of earth, sun, moon, stars, rivers, trees, fertility, animals, plants, disease, life, death, storms, wind, the sea, the sky, etc. in Mesopotamian Mythology and Egyptian Mythology.
Never Say "Die": The ancient Egyptians believed that to record something in writing made it more real. Scribes usually did not speak of death, only of euphemisms such as passing west (towards the setting sun and The Underworld) or joining the sun god's barque in the sky. Set was never said to have killed or murdered his brother Osiris; instead he knocked him down.
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sobek the crocodile-headed Egyptian god was not entirely bad, but was unpredictable, representing the power the Nile itself held over Egyptians' lives. Another example comes from a folktale where a prince is prophesied to die by "a snake, a crocodile or a dog". Despite efforts to avoid all of those things, he still dies.
Nice Hat: Royal and divine crowns, especially in Egyptian iconography where they can be exceptionally complicated.
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:31 am
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Libation for the Dead: The Ancient Egyptians poured libations to the dead, particularly to dead kings, at least since Old Kingdom times.
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: "Light emerging from primordial darkness" is an idea from the oldest creation myths. Interestingly, this is Truthin Television since at one point, the universe was dark, then light came out once stars and gases began forming. Also, water did cover all or most all of the Earth around 3 billion years ago. It can also represent the collective subconscious recalling birth.
Light Is Not Good: The Egyptian Eyes of Re, such as Sekhmet and Hathor, were solar goddesses, but one of them once almost destroyed humanity in a bloody rampage.
Liminal Being: Egyptian art is full of part-human/part-animal beings.
Liminal Time: The five last days of the year were created to be not properly in any year, so that Nut can give birth despite the curse on her. They are the Demon Days and unlucky.
Little People Are Surreal: Ancient Egypt is the first civilisation known to have employed court dwarfs. In early periods of Egyptian history, dwarfism was seen as an otherworldly, divine trait. After the Old Kingdom, depictions of little people started veering into the more mocking versions of this trope.
A Load of Bull: The Sumerian Gud-alim are similar to the Greek Minotaur, but much older.
Long List: The Litany Of Re is an Egyptian work listing 75 different names and manifestations of the sun god.
Loophole Abuse: The Mesopotamian flood myth has the god who wants to save humanity talk to a wall (which just so happened to have a human next to it) about the gods' genocide plan... apparently, there was an oath not to tell it to people.
Lord of the Ocean: Nearly every polytheistic religion has at least one god associated with water-sources large and small.
Lost Him in a Card Game: Mandala 10, Hymn 34 (1,100 BC or older) of the Rig Veda is the lament of a gambler who has lost not only all his property, but also his wife in games of dice.
Love Goddess: Inanna/Ishtar was the Mesopotamian goddess of love and fertility. Hathor held that role in Egyptian religion.
Magical Eye: This trope is goes back to at least the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, when the Eldritch Abomination serpent Apep/Apophis was believed to have a harmful or hypnotizing gaze. People wore and recited charms and spells to protect themselves from him. On certain occasions the Pharaoh also ritually whacked at a ball that symbolized Apep's eyeball.
Magical Queer: In Mesopotamian Mythology, the underworld goddess Ereshkigal cursed intersex and nonbinary people to be shunned by society, so Ishtar gifted them with healing and prophecy to make up for it. As Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions put it: "So the lesson of this particular legend is if you're gender non-binary, you're magic, Ishtar loves you, and even the queen of hell thinks you're hot."
Making a Splash: Sobek from Egyptian Mythology.
Male Gaze: Male artists have been paying tribute to the female nude ever since the paleolithic "Venus of Willendorf."
Malicious Slander: In the Egyptian New Kingdom "Tale Of Two Brothers", Anubis' wife tried to seduce her brother-in-law Bata. When Bata angrily spurned her, she accused him of trying to seduce her and of beating her when she refused. Anubis tried to kill his brother, which started Bata's fantastic adventures.
Mama Bear: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš initially reacts this way when Apsu wants to kill their children, but later tries to kill them herself.
Meaningful Name: Many Egyptian names had clear meanings; i.e. gods like Amun ("hidden" or "hiddenness") and Meretseger ("she who loves silence"), and kings such as Merikare ("beloved of the ka of Re"), Tutankhamun ("living image of Amun"), Sobekhotep ("Sobek is satisfied"), and Scorpion.
Mesopotamian Monstrosity: Any monster in Mesopotamian Mythology (and there are a fair few) is by definition a Mesopotamian monstrosity. Given that some successor cultures carefully preserved these old myths, the idea of going back to old Mesopotamian myths for cool monsters may itself be old enough to qualify here.
Mission from God: The preface to the Code of Hammurabi declares that Hammurabi wrote down his code at the command of Anu and Bel.
Mr. Seahorse: In Hittite myth, Kumarbi gave birth to Teshub, Tigris, and Tasmisus after biting off Anu's genitals. The Sumerian water god Enki somehow impregnated himself.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Many mythological animals and people, especially in southwest Asia. The girtablullu (scorpion men) of Mesopotamian Mythology, appearing in Enûma Eliš and The Epic of Gilgamesh, were part man, part scorpion. Other examples from this period include griffins, leogryphs, sphinxes, urmalullu, lamassu, shedu, serpopards, sirrush, Anzu, gud-alim, and various dragons. The Egyptian Gods were also sometimes depicted in art as human beings with animal heads, though this wasn't necessarily meant to be taken literally.
Mood-Swinger: The Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar was goddess of love by night, but goddess of war by day. Romantic relations with her were... perilous.
Mortality Phobia: The Epic of Gilgamesh is possibly the oldest example of this trope. It chronicles the life of Gilgamesh as a seeks a way to avert death following an act that angered the Sumerian gods. The title character goes to great lengths to gain immortality, including trying to stay awake for seven days, and swimming to the bottom of the ocean to get a magical weed. His quest for immortality ultimately ends in him having to accept that death cannot be subverted.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Tiamat in Enûma Eliš.
Ms. Fanservice: Ishtar from Mesopotamian Mythology.
Multiple-Choice Past: Egyptian sources frequently differ about the parentage of individual deities.
Mummies at the Dinner Table: Gilgamesh refused to accept Enkidu's death for seven days, until finally a maggot fell out of his nose.
My God, What Have I Done?: The title goddess in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld, right after siccing demons on her husband.
Mystical Pregnancy: Weird pregnancies have been around for a very long time:
Enki impregnates himself by consuming his own semen.
Egyptian god Horus was conceived by Isis hovering in the air over Osiris and beating her wings. At the time, Osiris was A: dead, and B: neutered, his p***s being the one piece of his body Isis couldn't recover due to its being eaten by a fish.
Named Weapons: In a fictional Egyptian tale of the conquest of Joppa, the Pharaoh Men-kheper-Re has a named staff/cane. He hides it in the luggage of the protagonist sent to put down a revolt, who kills the rebel leader with it. Unfortunately the text is damaged, so its name and powers are unknown.
Nameless Narrative: Surprisingly for a culture that put such emphasis on names, ancient Egypt has a few such tales: "The Wax Crocodile" (from the Westcar Papyrus), the "Tale Of The Shipwrecked Sailor", and the "Tale Of The Doomed Prince".
Narrative Poem: The Mesopotamians had them.
Nature Hero: Enkidu in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Nature Spirit: There are many, many gods of earth, sun, moon, stars, rivers, trees, fertility, animals, plants, disease, life, death, storms, wind, the sea, the sky, etc. in Mesopotamian Mythology and Egyptian Mythology.
Never Say "Die": The ancient Egyptians believed that to record something in writing made it more real. Scribes usually did not speak of death, only of euphemisms such as passing west (towards the setting sun and The Underworld) or joining the sun god's barque in the sky. Set was never said to have killed or murdered his brother Osiris; instead he knocked him down.
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sobek the crocodile-headed Egyptian god was not entirely bad, but was unpredictable, representing the power the Nile itself held over Egyptians' lives. Another example comes from a folktale where a prince is prophesied to die by "a snake, a crocodile or a dog". Despite efforts to avoid all of those things, he still dies.
Nice Hat: Royal and divine crowns, especially in Egyptian iconography where they can be exceptionally complicated.
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:35 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:35 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:35 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:36 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:36 am
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Obnoxious In-Laws: The current page quote is a Sumerian proverb.
Oedipus Complex: In the Hittite myth Kingship In Heaven Alalu is overthrown by his son Anu, who is overthrown by his son Kumarbi, who is overthrown by his son Teshub.
Offerings to the Gods: A religious practice that features in cultures all over the world and in recorded history all the way back to Mesopotamia.
Offing the Offspring: Apsu tries it in Enûma Eliš. Tiamat picks up where he left off. Both fail.
The Oldest Profession: While the concept of having sex for goods or services has likely existed for around as long as people have, the oldest known specific example is Shamhat's profession, which was being a temple prostitute.
Only Smart People May Pass: In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, many gates in The Underworld are guarded by fierce minor deities who will only step aside for one who has learned their secret names. The funerary texts of course provided this information.
Only the Worthy May Pass: The Egyptian god Anubis tested the worth of dead people before letting them into paradise, by weighing their hearts on a scale against the Feather of Justice. Any heart that didn't pass got eaten by the monster Ammut, denying that person any afterlife at all.
Orifice Evacuation: In Kingship In Heaven, after the Hittite god Kumarbi became pregnant from eating Anu's genitals, the storm god Teshub had to emerge from his body. He did this through an orifice identified only as "the good place."
Our Centaurs Are Different: Urmahlullu are Mesopotamian lion-centaurs, with lion bodies and human torsos. There aren't any surviving stories of them, just carvings.
Our Werebeasts Are Different: There have been cave paintings over 14,000 years old that depict men with bestial faces, so yeah, it's an old concept.
Out-of-Clothes Experience: Inanna winds up naked in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld.
Outrun the Fireball: Yes, really. At one point, Gilgamesh ended up in a tunnel with the exit on one side and the sun coming at him from the other, and if the sun doesn't count as a fireball...
Overprotective Dad: Destined to become the grandfathers of heroes like Gilgamesh.
Pale Females, Dark Males: This goes way back to the ancient, old, simple caveman paintin
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:36 am
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Obnoxious In-Laws: The current page quote is a Sumerian proverb.
Oedipus Complex: In the Hittite myth Kingship In Heaven Alalu is overthrown by his son Anu, who is overthrown by his son Kumarbi, who is overthrown by his son Teshub.
Offerings to the Gods: A religious practice that features in cultures all over the world and in recorded history all the way back to Mesopotamia.
Offing the Offspring: Apsu tries it in Enûma Eliš. Tiamat picks up where he left off. Both fail.
The Oldest Profession: While the concept of having sex for goods or services has likely existed for around as long as people have, the oldest known specific example is Shamhat's profession, which was being a temple prostitute.
Only Smart People May Pass: In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, many gates in The Underworld are guarded by fierce minor deities who will only step aside for one who has learned their secret names. The funerary texts of course provided this information.
Only the Worthy May Pass: The Egyptian god Anubis tested the worth of dead people before letting them into paradise, by weighing their hearts on a scale against the Feather of Justice. Any heart that didn't pass got eaten by the monster Ammut, denying that person any afterlife at all.
Orifice Evacuation: In Kingship In Heaven, after the Hittite god Kumarbi became pregnant from eating Anu's genitals, the storm god Teshub had to emerge from his body. He did this through an orifice identified only as "the good place."
Our Centaurs Are Different: Urmahlullu are Mesopotamian lion-centaurs, with lion bodies and human torsos. There aren't any surviving stories of them, just carvings.
Our Werebeasts Are Different: There have been cave paintings over 14,000 years old that depict men with bestial faces, so yeah, it's an old concept.
Out-of-Clothes Experience: Inanna winds up naked in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld.
Outrun the Fireball: Yes, really. At one point, Gilgamesh ended up in a tunnel with the exit on one side and the sun coming at him from the other, and if the sun doesn't count as a fireball...
Overprotective Dad: Destined to become the grandfathers of heroes like Gilgamesh.
Pale Females, Dark Males: This goes way back to the ancient, old, simple caveman paintin
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:36 am
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Obnoxious In-Laws: The current page quote is a Sumerian proverb.
Oedipus Complex: In the Hittite myth Kingship In Heaven Alalu is overthrown by his son Anu, who is overthrown by his son Kumarbi, who is overthrown by his son Teshub.
Offerings to the Gods: A religious practice that features in cultures all over the world and in recorded history all the way back to Mesopotamia.
Offing the Offspring: Apsu tries it in Enûma Eliš. Tiamat picks up where he left off. Both fail.
The Oldest Profession: While the concept of having sex for goods or services has likely existed for around as long as people have, the oldest known specific example is Shamhat's profession, which was being a temple prostitute.
Only Smart People May Pass: In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, many gates in The Underworld are guarded by fierce minor deities who will only step aside for one who has learned their secret names. The funerary texts of course provided this information.
Only the Worthy May Pass: The Egyptian god Anubis tested the worth of dead people before letting them into paradise, by weighing their hearts on a scale against the Feather of Justice. Any heart that didn't pass got eaten by the monster Ammut, denying that person any afterlife at all.
Orifice Evacuation: In Kingship In Heaven, after the Hittite god Kumarbi became pregnant from eating Anu's genitals, the storm god Teshub had to emerge from his body. He did this through an orifice identified only as "the good place."
Our Centaurs Are Different: Urmahlullu are Mesopotamian lion-centaurs, with lion bodies and human torsos. There aren't any surviving stories of them, just carvings.
Our Werebeasts Are Different: There have been cave paintings over 14,000 years old that depict men with bestial faces, so yeah, it's an old concept.
Out-of-Clothes Experience: Inanna winds up naked in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld.
Outrun the Fireball: Yes, really. At one point, Gilgamesh ended up in a tunnel with the exit on one side and the sun coming at him from the other, and if the sun doesn't count as a fireball...
Overprotective Dad: Destined to become the grandfathers of heroes like Gilgamesh.
Pale Females, Dark Males: This goes way back to the ancient, old, simple caveman paintin
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:36 am
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Obnoxious In-Laws: The current page quote is a Sumerian proverb.
Oedipus Complex: In the Hittite myth Kingship In Heaven Alalu is overthrown by his son Anu, who is overthrown by his son Kumarbi, who is overthrown by his son Teshub.
Offerings to the Gods: A religious practice that features in cultures all over the world and in recorded history all the way back to Mesopotamia.
Offing the Offspring: Apsu tries it in Enûma Eliš. Tiamat picks up where he left off. Both fail.
The Oldest Profession: While the concept of having sex for goods or services has likely existed for around as long as people have, the oldest known specific example is Shamhat's profession, which was being a temple prostitute.
Only Smart People May Pass: In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, many gates in The Underworld are guarded by fierce minor deities who will only step aside for one who has learned their secret names. The funerary texts of course provided this information.
Only the Worthy May Pass: The Egyptian god Anubis tested the worth of dead people before letting them into paradise, by weighing their hearts on a scale against the Feather of Justice. Any heart that didn't pass got eaten by the monster Ammut, denying that person any afterlife at all.
Orifice Evacuation: In Kingship In Heaven, after the Hittite god Kumarbi became pregnant from eating Anu's genitals, the storm god Teshub had to emerge from his body. He did this through an orifice identified only as "the good place."
Our Centaurs Are Different: Urmahlullu are Mesopotamian lion-centaurs, with lion bodies and human torsos. There aren't any surviving stories of them, just carvings.
Our Werebeasts Are Different: There have been cave paintings over 14,000 years old that depict men with bestial faces, so yeah, it's an old concept.
Out-of-Clothes Experience: Inanna winds up naked in Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld.
Outrun the Fireball: Yes, really. At one point, Gilgamesh ended up in a tunnel with the exit on one side and the sun coming at him from the other, and if the sun doesn't count as a fireball...
Overprotective Dad: Destined to become the grandfathers of heroes like Gilgamesh.
Pale Females, Dark Males: This goes way back to the ancient, old, simple caveman paintin
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