which books messed up and butchered the myths worst do you think?
Hmm, that’s a tough one because like... my specialty is Greek mythology and of Norse mythology I just know random assorted facts and of Egyptian mythology I mostly know that which intercepts with Greek mythology. Roman mythology is primarily mixed with Greek and Etruscan so I know a good bit there but...
I’d have to say MCGA because like... the entire plot was wrong. That isn’t how Ragnarok works so the entire threat of the books is just inaccurate. I’m working with @icelandicflutterby now to plot out an actual plot line that fits the myths for the rewrite since I’ll be including MCGA at some point (probably after mixing up the timelines a bit).
I don’t know enough about Egyptian mythology to tell how accurate TKC might be (I know enough to know it’s very complicated because Egyptian mythology is very old and vast) and I haven’t seen any breakdowns from Kemetic Pagans (I would actually kill for one) to base my knowledge off of.
The Greek and Roman stuff was very messed up, especially how the Roman stuff was just treated as Greek Lite. It’s complicated because Roman mythology is primarily based on Greek mythology, but there’s also the big differences in culture and beliefs that influenced it and the Greek Gods ended up combined with the Etruscan Gods for it, and the Etruscan beliefs had a big influence too so like... you’ve gotta remember that when you work with Roman stuff and Rick didn’t.
Overall though, I’m gonna say that MCGA had the worst butchering of the myths, even ignoring the Ragnarok mistakes a bunch of other stuff was wrong even in the first few chapters.