Re: Vanarus, Machaka Lion Kings etc
Machaka has:
(1) no unique national summons
(2) nothing that doesn't look like an ignorant white man's exoticized concept of Africa.
Now, I'd love to be wrong, but the nation is *incredibly thin*, and I'm pretty sure that's due to a lack of mythological depth. Admittedly, Africa is really big, I'm sure I don't know about all or even most of the mythological traditions, but its #2 above that really gets me.
So for those of you saying it has plenty of African mythology in it - what? where? Because I'm not seeing it.
And just because one of them is a professor of religion does not make him an expert in every mythological system. There's a lot of them. And they aren't considered 'religions' - mythology is a separate field. Now, clearly he knows a lot about some mythological systems. And where he has expertise it shines through. Machaka, otoh, could have used more research.
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