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Want to know something kind of sad? Some of the designs in the animated movies were Polynesian not Scandinavian. The creators mixed the two up. So as far as the creators care, all heritage is unimportant.
My wife's dad is Icelandic. He demanded I name our biological son Thor. I love this man. My wife has decided not to share the news about the movie to him.
Basically every "island" culture in any Western media becomes Polynesian. Because they are the "boat" people in the simple mines of artists.
I guess they never heard of ancient Greeks and their boat culture.
I guess Ancient Greeks are just too pale for their eyes to be able to see them.
There are a lots of impressive maritime feats all over, but you do have to give this one to the Polynesians. They more or less topped colonization via sea until the European empires practically conquered the oceans.
If you want something the Greeks don't get recognized for in popular culture anymore, it's just how far their reach extended. Some people might be vaguely aware that the Greeks went east, but I don't think many know they made it as far east as India.
Though coincidentally, the Norse do give the Polynesians a run for their money on colonization distance, if not purely by sea. Seems like every few years, there's evidence of Norse contact deeper and deeper into Canada. That would have been as much by rivers, coasts, and land as open sea, but still noteworthy.
Christian Greeks were a very large minority in Anatolia before the Turks genocided them.
Christians ( Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians, etc ) went from 20% of the population is what is now Turkey, to less than 1% after the genocides.
Wasn't Afghanistan a Greek colony? Albeit a long disconnected one that forked off its own culture.
Thor alfredicenglishrulesson
Middle name Albion after my German speaking grandfather.
I mean, I agree with respecting his culture and all, but isn't that a bit too much? It'd be like me demanding that my grandchild was named "God". There would have still been other perfectly acceptable Scandinavian names, like Björn or Ivan, off the top of my head, and surely some other less stereotypical names, too.
What AgnosticTemplar said. Thor is a common name and has been passed down for generations. Heck Thor Heyerdahl became famous in the 70's for his voyages.
There are lots of Hispanics who name their kids 'Jesus'. And let's not forget that 'Muhammad' in it's various spellings is the most common name on Earth.
And I don't particularly agree with calling a kid "Jesus", either. But Thor wasn't just a prophet, like Jesus and Mohammed. He is an actual god. (I don't want to get into a discussion about how some people interpret Jesus as being God himself.) I wouldn't call a kid "Athena", "Odin" or "Zeus", either. Those are the names of gods, and it just seems strange to me to call a human being that.
Jesus isn't 'just a prophet" within Christianity. Fuck your attempted deflection.
Thor is used as a perfectly acceptable name, like Athena from Greek mythology is.
And ''Jesus'' is a common name in Spanish-speaking countries.
It's a perfectly valid name, and as far as holy names go, "Jesus" is the Greek version of the name. Joshua is the Hebrew version- Jesus of Nazareth would have been known as Yehoshua/Yeshua ben Yosef in Jewish circles.