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You won't learn anything by watching it, you must watch it! In this volume, we will continue the journey of the previous volume, starting from Iceland to Greenland. Under the aurora, we took a sled across the frozen Arctic Ocean to the American continent on the other side of the sea. Then we went to the Mayan and Aztec ruins, and went south to the Inca in South America. On this mythical journey, we review together the collective memory constructed by human beings using impressions and dreams... A long time ago, there were no scientists in the world who could speculate and deduce the laws of nature. Supernatural forces were everywhere, and there were gods in mountains, rivers, lakes, and forests. Myths explain the origin and nature of all things, and provide a spiritual foundation for human beings to understand life and establish beliefs. Some myths are far older than we imagine, but there is little doubt that they existed long before the invention of writing and the formation of written history. Although mythology as a way of understanding the world has long faded out of the stage of history, there are some things that have remained original after thousands of years of changing times. For example, biblical stories, Greek mythology, and Nordic mythology constitute the spiritual prototypes of Western fantasy novels. It is these archetypes that make the great themes of world mythology relevant to today's world. "This is a myth," people say, implying that there is something absurd or untrue about it. But people also talk about things that touch their souls like this: "Like a myth!" Just as in today's urban reinforced concrete forest, there is still a need for lush woods and green spaces for people to rest, we also need ancient fantasies to turn into a breeze blowing through, so that the hope deep in our hearts can gallop freely in a land of imagination. Bing Zhixuanji, a lover of mythology and fantasy, a contributor to the mythology column of "Fantasy World", a fan of Western fantasy, loves to collect, discover, and organize forgotten stories (and gossip) about gods and goddesses.

You won't learn anything by watching it, you must watch it! The work includes articles about Western mythology written by the author for the "Mythology" column of "Fantasy World". The first volume covers Greece, Persia and Mesopotamia. Our journey begins in the Afaqa Valley of Syria, originally inspired by the legend of Adonis. In pursuit of the traces of Dionysus, the wine god, we roamed along the Mediterranean coast. After that, we come to Mesopotamia and Persia. From Greek mythology to Syrian legends, from Zoroastrianism to the Book of Kings, from Sumer to Babylon, the myths of the ancient Mediterranean coast and Canaan region influenced and interpreted each other to form the mythological chapters we are familiar with today... A long time ago, there were no scientists in the world who could speculate and deduce the laws of nature. Supernatural forces were everywhere, and there were gods in mountains, rivers, lakes, and forests. Myths explain the origin and nature of all things, and provide a spiritual foundation for human beings to understand life and establish beliefs. Some myths are far older than we imagine, but there is little doubt that they existed long before the invention of writing and the formation of written history. Although mythology as a way of understanding the world has long faded out of the stage of history, there are some things that have remained original after thousands of years of changing times. For example, biblical stories, Greek mythology, and Nordic mythology constitute the spiritual prototypes of Western fantasy novels. It is these archetypes that make the great themes of world mythology relevant to today's world. "This is a myth," people say, implying that there is something absurd or untrue about it. But people also talk about things that touch their souls like this: "Like a myth!" Just as in today's urban reinforced concrete forest, there is still a need for lush woods and green spaces for people to rest, we also need ancient fantasies to turn into a breeze blowing through, so that the hope deep in our hearts can gallop freely in a land of imagination. Bing Zhixuanji, a lover of mythology and fantasy, a contributor to the mythology column of "Fantasy World", a fan of Western fantasy, loves to collect, discover, and organize forgotten stories (and gossip) about gods and goddesses.

You won't learn anything by watching it, you must watch it! The work contains the author's small discoveries while writing Western mythological stories. In the journey of searching for legends, we also found something else, from Thoth magic to funerary rituals, from the legends of cats, stars, apples, mirrors and beauty, showing us the strange and interesting side of mythology... Although mythology has long since faded out of history as a way of understanding the world, ancient beliefs have not been completely extinct. Most of them develop in secret instead, often in the form of folklore. The ancient gods were surprised to find that they had become fairies, dwarfs or devils in folk songs... Bing Zhixuanji, a lover of mythology and fantasy, a contributor to the mythology column of "Fantasy World", a fan of Western fantasy, loves to collect, discover, and organize forgotten stories (and gossip) about gods and goddesses.