My mythology experience: Level 2
Now what I call level 2 is the mythologies were I know quite a lot (not as much as the Greek mythology, but still numerous enough legends and gods) but of which I’m not at all an expert. I’m just like a regular person who took interest in them and vaguely made researches about them.
In this level I include two mythologies:
1- The Egyptian mythology. I learned about it when I was a kid, at the same time that the Greek mythology. However, I was always a bit less interested in the Egygptian one. It was still interesting, but where I would have ten books about the Greek mythology I would have three or four about the Egyptian one. However, it was quite a fascination of me when I was young... the pyramids, the mummies... For the information, when I was in pre-school, that’s when I started to do “exposés”, small presentations/lectures. My first one ever, like I said earlier, was about the Odyssey, my favorite tale. The one that followed, however, was about mummification. In my mind there was nothing wrong with that, and I quite liked to talk about it. Some of my comrades had nightmares at night after that: they dreamt that people were trying to take of their brain by the nose.
However, my obsession for the Egyptian mythology vanished when I became a teenager. Now it is coming back. But in my teenagehood it was replaced by...
2- The Nordic mythology. Now, while my researches and reading about Egyptian mythology were fueled by obsession and fascination, when I started to take interest in the Nordic mythology, it was mainly to study it and learn things. I never had a passion to start with, and I only started to like and be fascinated by it after reading things about it. I read some pretty complete and interesting books, learned a bit thanks to @neil-gaiman, another bit thanks to @thehumon... I’m not an expert, but still I known the basics and more. I still have to read Neil Gaiman’s book about the Nordic mythology though.
