Talk:Egyptian mythology

Gods of Egypt

The usage and primary topic of "Gods of Egypt" is under discussion, see talk:Gods of Egypt (film) -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:41, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 14 April 2018

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the pages at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 01:41, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

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• Egyptian mythology → Ancient Egyptian mythology
• Egyptian temple → Ancient Egyptian temple

– Nearly all articles that refer to ancient Egypt in the title use the word "ancient": ancient Egyptian history, ancient Egyptian technology, slavery in ancient Egypt, et cetera. Although I created these articles under their current names, I now think titles like these should be consistent. A. Parrot (talk) 22:50, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose WP:CONSISTENCY- see Roman mythology, Greek mythology. Also, is there a modern or Medieval Egyptian mythology to disambiguate this from? Ribbet32 (talk) 07:04, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

  Ribbet32: There is not. Nor do modern Egyptians build temples that are called temples (they're called churches and mosques). The consistency argument, however, cuts both ways. As I said, nearly all articles on general ancient Egyptian topics are titled this way. A. Parrot (talk) 14:12, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

I think this should be decided by a source-check, if any one wants to do one. I've almost never heard of "Ancient Roman mythology" or "Ancient Greek mythology", but I'm not entirely comfortable saying the same about "Ancient Egyptian mythology". Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose There may be modern Egyptian myths, but the subject had little notability compared to the ancient ones. Nine Zulu queens (talk) 11:49, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose Per WP:CONCISE. "Mythology" and "temples" inherently imply that it is ancient history._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 00:59, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

@Zxcvbnm: I don't understand your rationale: if CONCISE applied here wouldn't it apply all the more to Slavery in ancient Egypt? I'm pretty sure slavery is illegal in modern Egypt like most of the rest of the world; conversely, "mythology" doesn't simply "ancient" at all, and "temples" exist in abundance in modern Japan and China, and I'm pretty sure modern Jews frequently refer to their houses of worship as "temple" as well. Islam and Christianity may be the two largest religions in contemporary Egypt and both these religions may refrain from using the word "temple" (although I'm actually not sure about this one; there are lots of placenames in Ireland, whose Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish populations were negligible until fairly recently), but that doesn't make your argument any better. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

• Neutral, but... Arguments on both sides to this point should depend largely on whether English-language reliable sources prefer one description over the other. All three "oppose" rationales are weaker still from this point of view than the OP, who also would have done better than cite corresponding Wikipedia articles with may just all have been misnamed. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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"mythology"

I just find it horribly ironic and hypocritical that we call ancient religions "myth" yet if we do that with modern ones we get yelled out of the room. Alex of Canada (talk)

This is different from Ancient Egyptian religion. I never studied Egyptology; but I did study Greek myth, and myth as a series of stories are separate from religious belief; Zeus is a god in Greek religion who is also featured in Greek myth. Aside from that, mythology doesn't carry the same connotations in academics as it does it common speak. Myth doesn't mean "false"- plenty of ancient peoples presumed their mythology to be true. Ribbet32 (talk) 14:30, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Speaking of myths, how did the chaos god Nun come about? Did the Egyptians wondered how water came to exist anyways? Multiple myths state existence used to be water in the beginning, maybe with mud underneath, and the gods came about later. Which is weird, you would think a god would exist first and start everything else, not water.137.118.103.153 (talk) 06:34, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

https://www.ancient.eu/mythology/

The word myth in mythology has lead some people to believe it means not true. But that’s not exactly the case.

Mythology (from the Greek mythos for story-of-the-people, and logos for word or speech, so the spoken story of a people) is the study and interpretation of often sacred tales or fables of a culture known as myths.

https://www.wordreference.com/definition/mythology

CycoMa (talk) 19:15, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

We should protect this page

some vandals may try to deface it Irindu10 (talk) 07:09, 24 July 2024 (UTC)