As per usual, never change African mythology. But mythology of white cultures? That's free game. These freaks are always the same.
I've stopped hating modern TV though. I've simply moved on. There's so much old media out there, both films and series I haven't watched and those that are worthy of re-watching. Occasionally a new show might break through with enough praise from the sources I trust, but otherwise I just ignore it. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy. And I am apathetic to pretty much anything from modern media bar a small handful of exceptions.
Can confirm having grown up in sub Saharan Africa. They have no written tradition, everything is passed down orally through word of mouth. Which is why different tribes have wildly different interpretations of the same legends, like a game of broken telephone spanning hundreds of years.
They also never invented the wheel.
They also stack bricks beneath their beds because they believe in a demon midget called the Tokolosh who hides under there and waits until you’re asleep.
Learning one of their languages was something else as well. Once you figure out the clicks and lisp sounds, they’re actually basic and primitive to a fault. There aren’t actually enough words in Zulu for example to describe all the things out in the world. Some words therefore have like five different meanings.
Imagine someone telling you, “I think your wife is purple/goose/sandwich/sunbeam/suspension bridge...”
Yip, and then I get to hear dow-eyed foreign TV doctors celebrate how this or that tribe from this or that African country, “don’t even have a word for heart disease! 😱”
Motherfucker it’s not because they’re all healthy. They don’t have a word for gravity either 😐😑🤦🏼
As per usual, never change African mythology. But mythology of white cultures? That's free game. These freaks are always the same.
I've stopped hating modern TV though. I've simply moved on. There's so much old media out there, both films and series I haven't watched and those that are worthy of re-watching. Occasionally a new show might break through with enough praise from the sources I trust, but otherwise I just ignore it. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy. And I am apathetic to pretty much anything from modern media bar a small handful of exceptions.
Africans would have to have recorded their mythology in some fashion for other people to be able to update it.
Can confirm having grown up in sub Saharan Africa. They have no written tradition, everything is passed down orally through word of mouth. Which is why different tribes have wildly different interpretations of the same legends, like a game of broken telephone spanning hundreds of years.
They also never invented the wheel.
They also stack bricks beneath their beds because they believe in a demon midget called the Tokolosh who hides under there and waits until you’re asleep.
Learning one of their languages was something else as well. Once you figure out the clicks and lisp sounds, they’re actually basic and primitive to a fault. There aren’t actually enough words in Zulu for example to describe all the things out in the world. Some words therefore have like five different meanings.
Imagine someone telling you, “I think your wife is purple/goose/sandwich/sunbeam/suspension bridge...”
It’s no wonder they’re perpetually confused.
This explains why the zulu to english dictionary is only around 100 pages long
Yip, and then I get to hear dow-eyed foreign TV doctors celebrate how this or that tribe from this or that African country, “don’t even have a word for heart disease! 😱”
Motherfucker it’s not because they’re all healthy. They don’t have a word for gravity either 😐😑🤦🏼