For me any that is not Greco-Roman and Norse have poor representation
Pretty much all of African mythology. Sometimes it gets mentioned tangentially or included in a half-assed way, and even then it’s almost always misrepresented. Anansi was my favorite character in American Gods, in part because I see so little African mythology, but also just because he’s badass.
Zoroastrianism would be cool. Basically the answer is anything not europe or specifically egypt but I always felt that for example a hindu god killer game would be fkn sick. Like either GoW format or Diablo-like.
Well even in europe there is much beyond greco-roman and norse, but that doesn’t get any media coverage
Indigenous people of north america. Tokenized parts of tales and folklore are often misrepresented and not told by people who grew up learning the stories.
And, they’re treated as a monolithic mythos, as though the myriad peoples all had the same, exact set of beliefs and entities. It’s a mess
The Dogon tribe around Mali in West African caught attention because they might have been able to identify that a star was a binary system before modern tech did (possibly due to good eyesight but also possibly just bad anthropology.)
This led to a lot of interest in their religion, which have elements that ancient astronaut weirdos have adopted into that mythology. It deserves some not stupid attention.
Interesting.
I think this is a better link.
I don’t know anything about any of this other than the 2 minutes I just spent reading wikipedia.
My guess would be that Griaule overlaid a contemporary understanding of astronomy on top of their mythology, either through ineptitude or as a way to procure funding for more expeditions.
What I mean is, it’s infinitely more likely that their mythology was “we are the descendants of the brightest star we can see”, than they are actually descended from refugees from sirius.
If by poor representation you mean misrepresentation then Islam hands down. If you meant lack of representation then I’d say zoroastrianism and celtic paganism. There are plenty others I’d love to see but I picked what I did because we know enough about them with enough certainty on details that we could accurately represent them if we tried. I’d also love to see Bedouin paganism and Mayan mythology accurately represented in popular media but this is much more difficult to accomplish.
