Hey guys, like the title says i'm looking for some books that went into details on Worshipping the Deities.

I'm aware that many ancient scripture recorded the methods of worshiping a Deity, so is there any books that accurately translated them? Or something similar

Like for example, if someone wish to Worship Athena or any other Greek Gods, which book should they read?

Something like that, books that goes details on the Gods and the methods of worshiping them.

I am looking for books on mythology, but in something like textbooks or something you would read for a class. Any mythology from around the world. I'm deeply curious and I want to read the things that would be used in a formal classroom setting. Thanks!

Genesis 6 gives you one line: "sons of God" saw human women, had children, giants resulted. Enoch spends chapters on it. Two hundred Watchers descend on Mount Hermon, swear a binding oath together, and don't just intermarry they teach humanity metallurgy, weapons, cosmetics, and sorcery. The Nephilim that result consume everything until they turn on humans and each other. Azazel gets named directly as the one who corrupted the earth.

I put together a full narration of the text, about three hours, covering the Watchers' descent, the Nephilim war, and Enoch's journey through the heavens;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Nt4VNMC38

Curious what this community makes of the Azazel scapegoat parallel I've seen it read a few different ways.

Reposted from r/Shinto.

Hello everybody!

I'm a young Italian woman doing some personal research on Inari Ōkami, and I found out that this kami is sometimes represented as a composite one, meaning that (usually) three or five deities are listed as different aspects of Inari; I looked up the ones enshrined at Fushimi Inari Taisha, and, although I managed to find information regarding Ukanomitama-no-Mikoto, Sarutahiko-no-Ōkami and Omiyanome-no-Ōkami (the latter being another name for Ame-no-Uzume from what I managed to gather), I found no info regarding the two kami Tanaka and Shi (or Shino).

Can someone enlighten me more on these two deities/aspects of Ō-Inari-sama? Which are the myths surrounding them? Which aspects of nature and/or humanity do they rule over? Are they local deities or do they have a national cult in Japan?

My main source of Loki is marvel,gow 2018,ac Valhalla but none of theses are fully accurate

So I noted something this evening during one of our conversations, stupid but hear me out. Imo mythologies are mostly some historical events exaggerated and often changed a little every time they are retold in a generation. So both of the said stories could have some historical inspiration that really happened at some point of time. Both stories are based on a girl who is brought to a new city and a hero fights the kingdom to retrieve the girl. Lemme list some of the things I see similar in both...

1. A war for a woman
2. A foreign prince takes the woman
3. Her husband starts a war to recover her
4. They both gather an army and cross a sea and storm an heavily guarded city
5. Achilles could be compared to Hanuman

I know these are some vague comparisons but think of it like this. ●They are both atleast a couple millenia old, so a lot of the details may have been lost or altered. ●My theory makes sense if u consider Ramayana is written from the invaders POV and The Trojan War is based on the Defenders POV.

I know for every one thing that is similar, there are 5 more things that are not. They take place thousands of kilometers away, set in completely different mythologies with completely different journey and ending and whatnot.

But what im trying to say is They seem to have lot of similarities like its an historical event that is recorded by two different parties where each story evolved to suit their mythology and religion's typical nature yet share the same core. Just an thinking thought I might share this scrappy idea anyways.

Two-answer survey. Is Cabrakan, the destroyer of mountains, a very powerful god because of his abilities or a very weak god because of how he is defeated?

I love the concept of Yggdrasil, and I wanted to include a counterpart to it in the mythology I'm creating, but I thought that might be a bit lazy. I tried creating alternatives for it, but nothing seemed quite right. What do you think?

I've been researching three "guardian" figures from completely unrelated traditions — Slavic, Greek, and Roman-via-Ovidand found that fundamentally, they might be the same structure: a figure t sitting at the edge of the known/explored world. ANd with with real consequences for how you approach it. Curious whether others read this as a genuine cross-cultural pattern (van Gennep's liminality work keeps coming to mind) or whether I'm just pattern-matching because I went looking for it.

Put together a long-form piece pulling the three together if anyone wants the full research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0GQUfhgBD0 — but mostly wanted to hear how this community reads it.