[kennydicke]

Does taking over a priestly beaurocracy ala LA Mictlan count as inspiring cults?

I was thinking more along the lines of the 'Mad' and 'Dreamer' chaff being the cultists. Not LA Mictlan.

And perhaps I'm reading to much into it but the idea that Atlantis is just some generic fish/frog men thrown in for the sake of it doesn't sit very well with me.

Sorry, I kind of meant 'original' more than truly 'generic'. Although, fish/frog men have become a bit of a trope, which is why I used the term generic.

More than everyone else the story of Atlantis is the story of disaster and exodus, surviving on the fringes of the world they once knew.

Of course, and fitting with many of the 'stories' made up about Atlantis.

Anecdote. Read over the shoulder of a girl reading 'Book of the Jungle' the other day. Seems that the name 'Bandar log' is the name of the tribe or place where the great apes rule or something. To bad there isn't a big ape god one could name 'King Louie'.

Close, it's what they call the 'monkeys' in the book; they had no ruler, that's a Disney thing. Looks like joining the Cub Scouts was good for something.

Kailasa is a specific, holy site in Buddhism.

Patala, I'm unfamiliar with.

Also I think Agartha is a reference to jewish myth about some subterranian monsters.

I think it might be Hindu or Buddhist myth. I am sure it regards the mountains north or northeast of India - so, possibly, Tibetan.

Although, as someone pointed out previously, Hinnom, Ashdod and Gath are all ancient Hebrew locations; golems are from Hebrew myth.


Yomi is the Japanese hell, and Jomon is an ancient (BC) period in Japanese history. I don't know about Shinuyama, but Shinoyama is a Japanese name.


T'ien Ch'i actually means something like "Energy of Heaven" or "Heavenly Energy", but I don't know of any historical or mythological connection. In these cases, 'energy' refers more to a 'life's-breath' or 'the force' kind of thing.


Btw, Corporal Clegg, I recognize your avatar and I'm impressed.