Thread:Thor2000/@comment-3406131-20151006083554/@comment-3406131-20151006163755

Thor2000 wrote: I'm not a "Marvel deity expert;" I'm just a guy with an intense interest in mythology. Okay.

Thor2000 wrote: You didn't really read the bio on Utnapisthim before you erased it, did you? His MU history is radically different from his historical/mythological version, which is why I started with "According to mythology...." and ended with "Unknown to the Sumerians, Utnapishtim was actually a member of the Eternals...." and I did add a reference which you must have missed. Yes I did, but the part about the Eternals was already on the page, "according to sumerians" is out of Marvel except if there is a Marvel reference (the page is restricted to the Earth-616 version, and here it's too much Earth-1218 material. Way less and in the notes could be good, but I think a single sentence and the wikipedia link can be good enough), and I saw the reference you've added but it isn't seemingly from Marvel.

My point is that we should reduce as much as possible the part who isn't covered by Marvel, as a matter of accuracy, because as you've said, Marvel do kind of whatever with those myths, so if we add, and of relevancy, because we only add Marvel material, and too much detail out-of-Marvel doesn't serve the purpose of the database.

Thor2000 wrote: As far as Anansi, his father is Nyambe, but the handbooks merged Nyambe (from Infinity Gauntlet #2) with Buluku (from the Doctor Strange series), who they had previously identified as leader of the African gods.

This is why I don't add real world mythology to the bios. It's a waste of time. Marvel's take on these characters are so radically different from the real characters, it's a waste of time to add it because it always gets deleted, even when I try to match it to the MU. Truthfully, I don't know why several of the Olympian gods have relatives added that are not in the handbooks since these figures/relatives might not exist in the MU. I call your attention to the Marvel Appendix whose genealogy for Echidna and Medusa has been skewered to favor Set in the MU instead of her mythological relatives. Thanks. Marvel isn't helping to make things clear.

When you say "As far as Anansi, his father is Nyambe", you mean "in our reality mythology" and/or "in earlier comics" ?

Regarding Set, they have pretty much linked everything to him and Gaea, as the Marvel Mythology start (after Demiurge) by the Elder Gods, and (in general), Gaea and Set are the origin of everything.