<Boilerplate_> Geisha...I found this world map of mythology BTW on facebook: https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/945592_257334091072762_684565450_n.jpg
<Corbiu_Geisha> Again, overly simplistic
<Boilerplate_> I guess it's more complex and myths (especially religion) are more widespread and not locked into a single geograhpic area perhaps?
<Corbiu_Geisha> Yes
<Corbiu_Geisha> Buddhism has influenced a lot of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean mythology
<Corbiu_Geisha> And again
<Corbiu_Geisha> Japanese, Korean, adn Vietnamese mythology has had a ton of influence from Chinese
<Corbiu_Geisha> Hinduism and Buddhism also influenced a lot of South East Asian mthologies
<Corbiu_Geisha> Islam too in Malay and Indonesian communities
<Corbiu_Geisha> Also
<Corbiu_Geisha> Malasia and Indonesia has a lot of Chinese and Indian immigrants
<Corbiu_Geisha> As does Singapore
<Boilerplate_> So basically Hinduism/Buddahism is the main influence in the Eastern hemisphere but different cultures made their own versions of it?
<Boilerplate_> I heard something about comparitive mythology
<Corbiu_Geisha> Islam also probably influenced African mythologies in areas where it is active, but I don't know the details
<Corbiu_Geisha> Ancient Greeks also borrowed a lot of iconography from Ancient Egypt
<Corbiu_Geisha> Then the Romans had a Mithras cult
<Corbiu_Geisha> Which is Aryan in origin
<Corbiu_Geisha> Not sure how that affects the mythology
<Boilerplate_> So basically Greek Mythology originated from Egyption Mythology but they only had they're language changed and the Greeks europeanized them?
<Corbiu_Geisha> No
<Corbiu_Geisha> Firstly because there wa sno such thing as Europe back then
<Corbiu_Geisha> Second, I said they borrowed things from Egyptian religion into their own
<Corbiu_Geisha> Not that it was originated from
<Boilerplate_> So "Europe" is a 19th century invention?
<Corbiu_Geisha> Recent, yes
<Boilerplate_> What was the land called then?
<Corbiu_Geisha> Depends on who you asked
<Corbiu_Geisha> The idea of a continental identity just didn't exist back then
<Corbiu_Geisha> Also, just look at the damn map
<Corbiu_Geisha> Look at Europe
<Corbiu_Geisha> How the fuck is that a continent?
<Boilerplate_> I noticed that everything connecting Europe, Asia, etc is just one bog continent. "Europe" as seen today is nothing more than a product of 19th century nationalism
<Corbiu_Geisha> I would say white supremacy and racism to be exact
<Boilerplate_> More accurately
<Boilerplate_> A "Exclusive Nation of Surperior Whites as the beacon of civilations while looking down at the foreign uncivilized below" which is what they had in mind when creating "Europe"
<Boilerplate_> I wonder where the origin of continental idenity came from and importantly the existence of white surpremacy and racism came into being.
<Boilerplate_> I thought it had something to do with the Reinasannace and Christianity itself that could be the origin of white surpremicy with the whole "God's Chosen People" thing or similarly.
<Corbiu_Geisha> Um
<Corbiu_Geisha> I told you before
<Corbiu_Geisha> Blumenbach
<Boilerplate_> Ah....so is he also the one who also invented the concept of continentel idenity?
<Corbiu_Geisha> No idea
<Boilerplate_> Hmmm.....
<Boilerplate_> But we do know though that "Europe" never existed and just a imaginary 'stronghold' invented by white surpemicists/nationalists in the 19th century.
<Corbiu_Geisha> I think it happened more like
<Corbiu_Geisha> Looking at the map
<Corbiu_Geisha> And you realised that all these landmasses are similar
<Corbiu_Geisha> So you call them continents
<Corbiu_Geisha> But then they realised that
<Corbiu_Geisha> White people don't have their own continent
<Corbiu_Geisha> So they decided to just make Europe one
<Boilerplate_> and made a exclusive club barring from everyone else while missing the point that anyone could live at any land.
<Boilerplate_> Since Europe and Asia all connect to one continent
<Corbiu_Geisha> I don't think they were missing any point
<Boilerplate_> They were just being assholes
<Boilerplate_> oh I think I was wrong with the whole "God's Chosen People" since that concept only belongs in Judahism I think.
<Boilerplate_> or I don't know
<Boilerplate_> but point is, I thought white surpremicism might have Christian origins which I picked that as a possible one but I don't know.
<Boilerplate_> Since I notice that the west basically changes the language of Christianity to make it sound secular but it's origins isn't though hence the same thing (much like the Ancient Theroists try to change the language to make it metal and make sense to the modern ear but they're still the same thing in the end)
<Boilerplate_> Another example would be "Divine Right to Kings" becomes "Human Nature" and such.
<Boilerplate_> *Ancient Astronaut Theorists
<Boilerplate_> Corbiu_Geisha if your still here, how would you redo that map I linked to a while ago?
<Corbiu_Geisha> I won't