Which religion has the most interesting stories, from a literary point of view?
I won't be making a poll since there are tons of religions. Here is a small sampling:
Norse: Giants, dwarves, elves, gods, dragons, and various other creatures all fight a lot.
Greek: Giants, centaurs, gods, and various other creatures all fight a lot. The gods tend to rape humans fairly frequently, and otherwise procreate in extremely strange manners. I believe Athena was inside Zeus's skull and his head was cracked open so she could be born.
Egyptian: I don't know as much about this one. It seems to have mutated over the centuries when it was followed. Here's a story: Set kills Osiris and cuts his body into pieces. Isis revives Osiris and reassembles his body. Horus is conceived by Osiris's revived corpse and Isis. Horus fights against Set. Set tears out an eye from Horus, and Set ultimately loses. Horus becomes the king of all of Egypt. The Pharaohs are Horus's earthly incarnation.
Judachrislam: You're already familiar with these stories. Small sampling: Yahweh burns down two cities and the Earth opens up to swallow them. Lot's wife looks back at the cities and transforms into salt.
Hinduism: A brahmin ascetic climbs to a mountaintop and meditates for a million years. At the end of that time, he becomes a god, more powerful than the other gods. While at the mountaintop, he didn't eat, drink, or breathe, and the sun was his only nourishment.
Yanomami: The Yanomami worship some deities, the forms of which I can't remember. There is a story where two gods fight, and mountains fall down during the fight. Also, their folklore tells of victors eating the losers.
There are countless other religions in the world and I know only a tiny sampling of those religions. Feel free to include any other fun stories from religions you are familiar with.
I won't be making a poll since there are tons of religions. Here is a small sampling:
Norse: Giants, dwarves, elves, gods, dragons, and various other creatures all fight a lot.
Greek: Giants, centaurs, gods, and various other creatures all fight a lot. The gods tend to rape humans fairly frequently, and otherwise procreate in extremely strange manners. I believe Athena was inside Zeus's skull and his head was cracked open so she could be born.
Egyptian: I don't know as much about this one. It seems to have mutated over the centuries when it was followed. Here's a story: Set kills Osiris and cuts his body into pieces. Isis revives Osiris and reassembles his body. Horus is conceived by Osiris's revived corpse and Isis. Horus fights against Set. Set tears out an eye from Horus, and Set ultimately loses. Horus becomes the king of all of Egypt. The Pharaohs are Horus's earthly incarnation.
Judachrislam: You're already familiar with these stories. Small sampling: Yahweh burns down two cities and the Earth opens up to swallow them. Lot's wife looks back at the cities and transforms into salt.
Hinduism: A brahmin ascetic climbs to a mountaintop and meditates for a million years. At the end of that time, he becomes a god, more powerful than the other gods. While at the mountaintop, he didn't eat, drink, or breathe, and the sun was his only nourishment.
Yanomami: The Yanomami worship some deities, the forms of which I can't remember. There is a story where two gods fight, and mountains fall down during the fight. Also, their folklore tells of victors eating the losers.
There are countless other religions in the world and I know only a tiny sampling of those religions. Feel free to include any other fun stories from religions you are familiar with.
