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The Special Features of European Mythology

Most of the fairy tales start in Europe; they talked about heroes, dragons, devils, and fairy (of course). But there’s a distinguish feature, the good always wins.

Heroes were the most popular character in European Mythology, Greek heroes were the mightiest. Heroes were believed to be a demigod; they have super power to defeat the evils. Like Heracles the strong guy, son of Zeus, had awesome power to lift a huge mountain and broke a cursed chain.

Heroes often fought with dragons, and dragons always symbolize the bad side. European myths attached important on the weapons. Heroes often equipped heavy and cursed weapons. In some portraits and poems, heroes were armored with spiky armor, long sword, and a heavy shield.

The moral of European mythology—the good always wins—handed down until today. The opponent of a hero was often stupid and dumb. For example, in ‘The Odyssey’, Polyphemus the Cyclops was defeated by Odysseus easily. Besides, there is another unique feature among European tales: heroes fought to save the princess. I hate this part of story.

Besides of dragons, witches and leviathan are also heroes’ foe. Medusa, the snake-haired woman who can turn a person who was staring her to stone, was killed by Perseus. Witch was hated by the European of Middle Age. In 10th century, almost all witches had been burned into ashes. Now you can see, what people hate is always a hero’s foe.

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The Curse of the Cyclops:

"Hear me, Poseidon ... If truly I am your son, and you acknowledge yourself as my father, grant that Odysseus, who styles himself Sacker of Cities and son of Laertes, may never reach his home in Ithaca. But if he is destined to reach his native land, to come once more to his own house and see his friends again, let him come late, in evil plight, with all his comrades dead, in someone else's ship, and find troubles in his household." [Polyphemus 2. Homer, Odyssey 9.528]

What do you think mythology is? For us, mythology is nothing, because we are the mythic one!