Line #21 Awesome/MythologyAndFolklore


1	Because mythology and folklore are the predecessors of modern fiction, they deserve to have their own [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome page of ass-kicking]], not shunted onto some "other" page.
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3	'''Examples''':
4	[[index]]
5	* Awesome/ClassicalMythology
6	* Awesome/HinduMythology
7	* Awesome/NorseMythology
8	[[/index]]
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10	* Any time Cuchulainn appears in Celtic mythology, he gets one of these, but possibly his crowning SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome is taking out [[OneManArmy an entire army. All by himself. And SUCCEEDING.]]
11	* Huitzilopochtli sprung from his dying mother's womb, dressed in full battle regalia, then proceeded to behead and then dismember his older sister (who killed said mother), and lobbed her head into the sky, creating the moon. He then repeated the process on his four hundred other siblings, creating the stars (either he diced them into smaller chunks or improved his throw). Yeah, the Aztecs didn't just worship ANY god.
12	* Empress Jinguu of Japan, due to her husband's stupidity, had to conquer Korea in his place. While pregnant. What did she do? She tied her belly up in a particular way as to prolong the pregnancy and personally led her armies into battle, then had her child after the war.
13	* Moses, parting the Red Sea.
14	* In ''Literature/TheKalevala'':
15	** World being created from seven eggs of a goldeneye - six of gold, one of iron
16	** The Giant Oak, growing from Earth to Heaven, blinding the Sun, Moon and stars
17	*** ... and a dwarf clad on bronze lamellar armour arises from sea, and fells the oak with just three axe blows
18	*** the felled trunk of the oak becomes Finland
19	** Väinämöinen, the greatest sage of all
20	*** ... who [[CurbStompBattle sings Joukahainen, a cocky upstart, into marsh]]
21	*** ... who catches the Giant Pike bare-handed Pikes can be nastier and more vicious than sharks.
22	*** ... who makes a ''kantele'' (traditional Finnish dulcimer-like instrument) out of its jawbone
23	*** ... and whose music is so bespelling that the ''whole nature'' stops and listens to it
24	*** ... and who is also one of the greatest swordsmen and war leaders of the era
25	*** ... and a very accomplished sailor as well
26	** Ilmarinen, the greatest engineer of all
27	*** ... who makes Sampo, the miracle mill, which grinds out material prosperity from trivial feedstocks
28	*** ... and a robot wife after his old wife gets killed
29	** Lemminkäinen, the ChickMagnet
30	*** ... and an accomplished warrior
31	*** ... who kills the Master of North by driving a viper ''through'' him
32	** Mother of Lemminkäinen, who rakes the pieces of his body from the Stream of Death
33	*** and sews him back in to one piece
34	*** ... bringing him back alive
35	** Marjatta, who becomes pregnant from eating a lingonberry
36	*** ... and whose newborn son is fully able to speak and prophetize at age of two weeks
37	*** ... and which wins ''Väinämöinen'' on a debate
38	*** ... and which is divinely destined to become the King of Karelia
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Context Awesome / MythologyAndFolklore