While Greek mythology has more literature, I like the overall fatalistic vibe of the Norse and the fact that they don’t have stories of women being f$%^ed by animals while men f$%# little boys.

Admin, is the planet deserted and invulnerable at least. Haha, Kenny you do raise some good points.

In terms of power, i’d say Greeks had more gods? as well as demi gods…though ya, some aren’t exactly “gods of war”

i’d pay to see odin vs. Zeus

Well in terms of importance, Greek Myth takes its mythological roots in the Indo-European culture (along with India and others).

Norse is basically a diffusion of Greek Myth incorporated into the Norse culture and lifestyle, so Greek definitely has more impact.

In terms of power, I would probably lean to the Greek Pantheon as it quite a variety of characters and such.

Admin, this is going to be a silly question, but is this “current” mythology or composite. I.e. are the titans in Greek Myth defeated and such or is everyone allowed in battle, despite their current status (chained up for example).

well marvel has already graces us with thor vs hercules…twice

“Haha, i’d take Hel anyday…you gö numb as yøu freeze,nõ? Thor can take on hercules and mars?”

in norse mythology, hel was invincible on the basis that no one, no matter how powerful, escapes death

so hades, another patron god of the afterlife and death….

“since the norse afterlife consists of eating, drinking and fighting.”

its not quite as versitile as my afterlife… i will leave you pondering the meaning of that, im off for some il2

“Considering that 90% of the significant figures in Greek Mythology are vile, depraved, incestuous, rapist pedophile bisexual party animals who will f*ck literally anything that moves”

if you dont like that, heres some advice: never come to fife

AAA WTF

i just had the most wtf crash on il2….

in a straight up fight, who would win: thor or zeus?

@i dunno
probably zues as he is the alpha god in his pantheon

well also zueses ability to hold lighting without being shocked might render all electricity based attacks worthless

Did Norse Mythology adopt a similar figure to Hephaestus in Greek mythology?
If they didn’t, he could have the potential to craft some epic weapons for the Greek Pantheon.

is it me or does ragnarok show an unknown level of knoledge in the norse religion:

the big bang theoreticaly happened to start a new universe after the end of the last universe before it. creating a new universe,with new life and sentient species.

at the end of the world in norse myth, the last fire giant set the world ablaze, consuming all that remained of the world (to my knowledge) after which, a new world was born with new humans and gods.

early awareness of the big bang theory?

“at the end of the world in norse myth, the last fire giant set the world ablaze, consuming all that remained of the world (to my knowledge) after which, a new world was born with new humans and gods.

early awareness of the big bang theory?”

I highly doubt the ancient norse men were considering that the Big Bang shaped their universe, when their story of creation differs:

“According to Norse myth, the beginning of life was fire and ice, with the existence of only two worlds: Muspelheim and Niflheim. When the warm air of Muspelheim hit the cold ice of Niflheim, the jötunn Ymir and the icy cow Audhumla were created. Ymir’s foot bred a son and a man and a woman emerged from his armpits, making Ymir the progenitor of the Jötnar. Whilst Ymir slept, the intense heat from Muspelheim made him sweat, and he sweated out Surtr, a jötunn of fire. Later Ymir woke and drank Audhumbla’s milk. Whilst he drank, the cow Audhumbla licked on a salt stone. On the first day after this a man’s hair appeared on the stone, on the second day a head and on the third day an entire man emerged from the stone. His name was Búri and with an unknown jötunn female he fathered Bor, the father of the three gods Odin, Vili and Ve.”

Be quite a stretch to claim that norse mythology (an ancient religion) would be talking about the atheistic explanation of the beginning……

- the pondering fool

“Be quite a stretch to claim that norse mythology (an ancient religion) would be talking about the atheistic explanation of the beginning……”

it was just a thought, jeez….

anyhow, im not as well informed on the topic as you are.
but numerous cultures have met aliens

“truly interesting how religions either take form 1 another or are similar”

and now, ss, i feel the need to start foaming at the mouth

INNOWAYISGODANYTHINGLIKETHOSENORSEGODS,WHOMAKEFORGOODREADINGBUTAREENTIRELYFICTIONAL,ONLYGODISTHEGODTHATISGODIFYOUCATCHMYDRIFTASSHOLES.

ahem,…. there we go.

DAMN IT

yup, the Bi-1 sucks ass

@ PF – Look up Puma Pinko in relation to ancient aliens (probably spelled it wrong).

@i dunno
i wasnt trying to insult christianity i was merely pointing out that similarity, i myself am christian

it just upsets me because several assholes start spweing shit about religion being repetitive.

they wont say that when the apocalypse comes….

Ok, i dunno, please stop. Shaun182, was correct when he states we have no need of a religion argument on this site. I know you are strong in your beliefs (your previous post do show this), but please, keep your comments in check also.

- the pondering fool

i wasnt saying it was ive just always been facinated by the similarities

Like the name orpheus.
Orpheus had to journey to hades to save Eurydice, and all he used was his flute. He was able to charm anybody no matter how fierce with his music, he even calmed down Cereberus with his music.

In the inevitable years america and maybe the rest of the world will become a dystopia society.
Us human’s are just so easily fragile, wether it’s our physical health or sanity.
Is it so wrong for me to be so infuriated with the human genome.
Two words Super human

orpheus- Your comment’s sheer unrelatedness is paramount to a guy in a car being told to go right and he decides to yell “marshmellow!!!!” while performing figures of eight.

Lovely political standings there guys, but I’m not sure Thor, Ares or even Aphrodite would care about the world at large, and so its not entirely linked.

In a straight up battle, the Norse come out on top so long as we allow for it to be set before Ragnarok. If not, then… well, everyones dead.

Come on, Loki and his family (Hel, Fenrir, Fenrir’s kids, a fair few ice giants) alone could take out most of the Greek Panthenon. Odin and Zeus would be fighting, not Thor and Zeus, Ares would likely end up taking on Baldur… maybe Heimdall… It’d be a massacre of (Hah!) biblical proportions.

However, influnecially its much harder to say.

Who’s the bigger franchise? Hercule’s and all things related to him (TV shows, movies, cartoons, spin offs, xena, etc) or Thor (pretty much just Marvel and a few video games)

@ kenny I was just giving my thoughts about I dunno’s comment.WoW deja vu.
But anyway im not the only one would sometimes linger on to unrelated topics.
Besides just read my other comment on the character orpheus. I believe he could charm anyone and anything with his music to do his bidding.

Wow you guys must really hate Xena for some reason.

Secret weapon of the Greek mythology would be Cronus.

Alter time itself…..

Steam rolling? The Greek Pantheon could use the 5 Titans, pretty sure the Norse doesn’t have an answer for this…

What if the Norse warriors sees Achilles & Kratos?

well the what about the world serpent for the norse

hmmm maybe we should limmit this to just the gods

“Steam rolling? The Greek Pantheon could use the 5 Titans, pretty sure the Norse doesn’t have an answer for this…”

The sons of Fenrir, both of whom will, in ragnarok, swallow either the moon or the sun.

Thats quite a feat. Plus theres always the dwarves, masteer craftsmen that they are, capable of creating bindings that can restrain the Gods (or Fenrir, the godhand eating wolf)

Eating the sun? Holding up the Sky? How seriously can one actually consider these feats? More so than that of Mario characters per say?

Altas is the God of the Sky, according to Greek Myth he is what is preventing it from falling on us.

Does it make Scientific sense? No. But that is what he is doing.

And for reference, I think Heracles had to hold the sky in Atlas’s absence for some period of time.

Yea thanks.

Heracles alone could probably slay several Gods. He’s a beast.

“The sons of Fenrir, both of whom will, in ragnarok, swallow either the moon or the sun.”

The Greek Pantheon has Atlas as their own sun, no problem for that….Besides the Greek Pantheon has Artemis (“Diana” in Roman Equivalent) to outmatch the Norse Valkyries …

I’ve got ten bucks that says Loki can get into “Diana’s” grove…

Hail Loki God of Fire

The Greeks may have an overwhelming amount of gods and creatures, but the Norse can counter every single one, blow for blow. The real question would be what the two focus on and are about. For instance, while Zeus was having sex with everything on two leg, Odin was having one of his eyes ripped out so as to possess greater wisdom for the eventual end of the universe. The Norse may not have been as civilized as the Greeks, but at least their gods weren’t a bunch of vain, decadent, hypocritical, childish, spoiled, sex deviants.

@ PAppa (whatever way you put it)- SO MANY CAPITALS!!!!! Sorry.

you have to consider also that just about every norse god is an armed warrior

Plus without Norse Mythology, we wouldn’t have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Sunday… Saturn’s day can go screw itself!!!

Though I guess most of the modern influence for days of the week are actually Germanic… Meh.

@PaPPa

I didn’t notice that ’till now… Thanks for correcting me.

“Xena had better hope that she doesn’t show up onto the battlefield while Rand al’Thor is around, because that might cause a paradox of logic in the universe. See, if two people engage in combat, then there is the assumption that they are both guiding their actions to attempt to win. The idea of Xena even daring to try to fight someone as awesome and powerful as Rand al’Thor would be such a grave insult to logic and all common sense, the universe would erase Xena from existence to avoid the humiliation of there even being a thought of her being victorious.”

I couldn’t imagine it, any other way.

“His plan will go like this: Right before the battle starts, put a bunch of naked women and young boys in front of the Greek Team. When Zeus freezes to goggle them all, overwhelmed by lust and needing a conscious effort not to spring at them or transform into “golden rain”, he’ll get Mjolnir to the face.”

I imagine Hera will have to be right next to Zeus in combat, as to keep the fear of a woman’s wrath in his heart when Loki does such devious seductive plots. Otherwise, the Greek Pantheon is going to have a lot more demi-gods…..

- the pondering fool

the one that has only one hand is Tyr God of single combat

The God I would be most Impressed to see take the feild is Odin God of War, Magic, Death and Poetry Armed with his Magic Spear Gungnir, which never misses its target Riding Sleipnir, an octopedal horse, who was given to Odin by Loki, and the severed head of Mímir, which foretold the future.

Well, if I had to look at how well they fought in God of War, I’m giving it to the Norse.

1) Norse Mythology is a religion of viking warriors, who wanted their deities to be butt kickers. Greek Mythology was less on fighting and more on intellectual and perversion.
2) As much as the Greek Mythology is used these days, it’s not in a positive light. GoW have them being taken out by their own creation. Xena killed Zeus in an episode. Marvel made Hercules apparently a dead beat dad. Marvel’s Aries is in the Dark Avengers. Hercules (TV Show) just reminded us that the Greek mythos has them sleeping around and Hercules (Disney) kiddify them.
When you think Norse Mythology, you think Valhalla, the resting place for warriors. You think of Marvel’s Thor, who is apparently a power hitter who can go toe to toe with the Hulk. You don’t think of all the time they slept around with whatever they did.

So while the Greek Mythology is more well known, it’s not treated with the same respect that the Norse Mythology has.

“1) Norse Mythology is a religion of viking warriors, who wanted their deities to be butt kickers. Greek Mythology was less on fighting and more on intellectual and perversion.”

“Not to mention, what can a sick gang of pedophile rapists really do? They’ll piss themselves and leg it in no time.”

I agree completely.

It would be really amusing, the viking pantheon of butt-kickers attack in full force and the decadant Greek perverts run away. Turns the tables on them and gives ‘em a taste of the torment they’ve been giving the poor mortals.

“Given the poor kids you mean? Yeah, it’ll be a righteous slaughter. Justice finally prevails as a whole pantheon of warrior gods storms in and destroy every single god of rape, sex, homosexuality, heterosexuality, sodomy, blowjobs, missionairy poses, anal style, child porn or whatever.”

That would be a pretty strange title/name to be addressed/introduced by. Seriously, what kind of lunatic styles themselves as the lord of all blowjobs?

I’m not a thorough expert on mythology, but I believe that most of them(or at least the major ones) represented concepts like war, love, water, etc. The list above were just their favorite pasttimes.

“When it comes down to it the greeks would be too interested in a massive orgy to realize someone’s there to kill them.”

Hmm, maybe that would be a good strategy for the Norse team. Wait until all the Greeks are busy partying, than attack. It would probably be the most epic party crash ever to exist.

“Too bad the gods of sex in general would perish, but we got other to take their role. And those who take over the job are hopefully more interested in minding their own penis rather than the neighbours vagi…ahem. I think i’ll leave it at that. I ain’t no fan of the greek gods.”

Me neither.

Well, some female Greek godess could present herself as the “lady of all blowjobs” and no one would think of it as strange at all. So why not? I swear the only reason we don’t hear about the god of blowjobs is because of another god being over both war AND blowjobs. And since evryone knows about the blowjob part, the merely say god of war. I’m certain of it.

Norse for the FP award.

if the greeks bring in titans, it will only make the norse unleash frost giants and surtr.

“When it comes down to it the greeks would be too interested in a massive orgy to realize someone’s there to kill them. Too bad the gods of sex in general would perish, but we got other to take their role.”

Is the job open? Where do I sign up?