Are the places real?

cherub

New Member
I was helping my 10 year old daughter with her homework when she asked me a question, and not knowing much about mythology myself, I was stumped on what to say. She was wondering about the places, if they were based on actual locations?
 

LegendofJoe

Active Member
Alot of places are associated with myths.
Mt. Aetna in Sicily is the place where Typhon is buried after his fight with Zeus.
To this day he is spewing forth fire in anger.
That's just one example.
 
There's a field, I wanna say in Crete but don't quote me on that, with red clay where paleontologists found a lot of surfaced dinosaur bones and they believe that is the real inspiration for the mythic location of the Titanomachy.
 

Pegasus

Member
Here is one way of looking at things. Many stories or myths were ways for the people to explain the different things they were seeing like sunrise and sunset. The stories made things believeable or understandable for them. So in some cases, the places were real, and the stories followed. Such as in the case of one story in Native American Folklore and how rivers were formed.
 
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