Rhaynan mythology (Pacifica)

Rhaynan mythology is the composing of myths, legends, and popular folklore belonging to the culture of the prehistory and from Ancient Rhayna, before and after the formation of aegean city states. These tales deal with deities and heroes, the nature of the world, the origin of it, and the meaning of their own cults and ritual practices. To this day, it's recognized as the major religion of UPRAN, with 49% of the population following it.

Rhaynan mythology appears explicitly in an extensive collection of stories and implicitly in figurative arts such as painted pottery and votive offerings. Rhaynan myths attempt to explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of deities, heroes, and other mythological creatures and apparitions. These stories are mainly known today thanks to Rhaynan literature and oral tradition.

The oldest known literary source, the poem "The Aperogony and Cosmos" (Aegean: Η Απερογονία και ο Κόσμος), focuses on the explanations to the genesis of the world. Some others like "Wine and Men" (Aegean: Οίνος και Άντρες) relate multiple short tales of wars between city states and their heroes, some fictional, and some with archaeological evidence of their existence. Some other poems and tales talk about deities, heroes and creatures, and their roles in rhaynan history, development, and control of every natural act in the world.

Archaeological finds provide an important source of detail about Rhaynan mythology, with deities and heroes featured prominently in the decoration of many objects. Rhaynan mythology has exerted a wide influence on the culture, art, and literature of Rhayna and remains a part of their cultural heritage and language. Rhaynan poets and artists have drawn inspiration from ancient times to the present day and have found contemporary meaning and relevance in classical mythological themes.

Sources

Rhaynan mythology is known today primarily from Rhaynan artistic representations on visual media dating as far back as the 30,000 BCE during the Aegean migration routes. In fact, literary and archaeological sources integrate information with each other, sometimes mutually supportive and sometimes in conflict; however, in many cases, the existence of this corpus of data is a strong indication that many elements of Rhaynan mythology have strong and ancient cultural and historical roots.

Literature

Mythical narration plays an important role in nearly every genre of Rhaynan literature. Nevertheless, the only general mythological literary work to survive from Rhaynan antiquity was "The Panistoria" (Aegean: Η Πανιστόρια) by Tros of Rouketa. This work attempts to reconcile the contradictory tales of the poets and provides a grand summary of traditional Rhaynan mythology and heroic legends, and it's usually recognized as the most complete Rhaynan traditional text ever written.

Among the earliest literary sources are Eratosceres' three epic poems, "Wine and Men" (Aegean: Οίνος και Άντρες), "Untold Tales of the East" (Aegean: Ανιστόρητα παραμύθια της Ανατολής), and "The end is at Liserma" (Aegean: Το τέλος είναι στο Λίσερμα).

Survey of mythic history

Origin of the world and deities

"Myths of origin" or "creation myths" represent an attempt to explain the beginnings of the universe in human language. The most widely accepted version at the time is reported by Antaceus, in his Aperogony and Cosmos. He begins with the Laspotopia, a wide wasteland of mud and rocks. In this barren land, one of the many dynamos, Keos, attempts to build a soldier out of the mud to crush his enemies, but instead, Alysides is bom. Keos introduces Alysides to his family: Drione, her "mother", and her sisters Bevnera and Modnera.

She is regarded as both the first goddess and the one hundredth dynamo, the one that would realize the prophecy for the end of the chaotic rule. As such, she

was subdued by her sisters, while Keos felt great regret for creating her. While the dynamos involved themselves in constant war and cannibalization, Alysides tricked her sisters by saying that however killed her, would gain much more recognition than the other, effectively making them fight each other and escaping. Once she escaped, she ran to the mudflats where she was created, and from them erected an army and the statues of three gods to support her in a war against the dynamos: Geleon, the god of warfare; Gaula, the goddess of agriculture; and Nathos, the god of metallurgy.

The war saw the death of all dynamos who were then buried, except for Bevnera and Modnera, who were captured, chained and forced to carry a heavy yoke to plough the wastelands of war.