Can we just cut back on having so many pages for cultures of African Mythology? It feels like spam, and I mean why stop there? Get like a bajillion pages for seperate Native American tribes, or every island in the South Pacific's Polynesian region.
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There Is No Such Thing as Notability. As long as each of those pages respect the same criteria for every other work page (such as minimum number of tropes, etc...) there's nothing wrong about having so many pages for African Mythologies. If your concern is that they look too "encyclopedic" for TV Tropes, we could discuss how to rework the writing style and the linguistic choices. But there's no reason why these pages should be outright cut.
Willhelmina Fernandez
Greetings everyone, I am planning on adding 4 new pages to this category- Inuit, Oceanian, Mongolian and African. This way I think we would have a kind of complete atlas of world mythologies. Granted, there are plenty of smaller and more obscure ones which could be added by anyone who thinks they are worthy of a separate entry. However, I plan on creating pages for only these 4 and wish to ask for permission if it is alright to do it. Please keep in mind I will add only the things I know about these mythologies, if there are errors and/or if anyone has more things to add, then feel free to help and contribute! Could I just ask first if the names I picked for these pages are correct or should I write something else instead (please know that I will mention in the pages that the mythology encompasses several cultures- e.g. the Mongol includes Turkic, Siberian and Altaic; also is it "Mongol mythology" or "Mongolian mythology" the decided and correct version)?
Edited by 1234SynchroRainbow I am a girl BTW. Hide / Show Replies
African mythology is my primary area of study and I’ve decided to create works pages for them. I’m starting with Mande mythology right now. My hope is to share a more comprehensive idea of African lores than the typical “beast fables for kids” nobody actually believed in or collections of random Digest style names & briefs with no context.
I think there should be some way to find fictional works that references elements of a specific mythology. IE, if I'm looking at the Norse Mythology page, there should be something on it that either lists works that are based on Norse Myth or a link to a tropes page that does. Every page I looked which does this doesn't organize it by Mythology.
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I noticed on "Mythology" it list "Papa Figo". I cannot find any prove this myth exists outside this one mention. Can anyone else find any evidence of this myth?
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The Portuguese Wikipedia
has an article on him. It's apparently a legend of Brasilian folklore.
I redirected Main.Myth here. There's currently a Myth YKTTW, but so long as it is in Development Hell, this is the most sensible solution IMO.
Wandering...
I understand why we need this, but since Mythology Tropes is basically this without the description, should it be (a) cut, (b) renamed, or (c) split into something else?
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I think Mythology Tropes should be cut. We currently don't have an agreement on whether the "mythologies" pages should be considered Useful Notes or a kind of works pages (discussion), but it is pretty clear that they are not tropes.
Before anyone gets outraged over it:
Yes, putting Abrahamic Sacred Literature (The Bible and The Quran) on this page is intentional. This page treats all religions as equal, not singling out some religions as superior or more true than others.
The intention is to treat all religions as equal, not to be insulting. The description states that "mythology" is not (and should not be) a synonym for "fiction." As terms for genres in literary analysis, "myth" and "mythology" don't carry conotations of being fiction or morally wrong or something (although myths can be analyzed like fictional stories). Whether or not they're true is a religious question (or in some cases a scientific question if you want literal truth), not a question for literary analysis.
Edited by ArcadesSabboth Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.
Why are the Nart Sagas in “Miscellaneous”? I understand with Wicca and Nautical folklore are there, but the sagas from the Northern Caucus, also known as the part of Russia near the Black Sea. It doesn’t make any sense.
Why do we have timezones for Antarctica?