For me any that is not Greco-Roman and Norse have poor representation

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    Look at symbols of Christian holidays, then read where they came from. I’d say that represents misrepresented mythologies. It’s all stolen symbolism to blot out the competition.

    The Easter bunny giving eggs? Spring is about fucking and both of those are symbols of fertility.

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    There are lots of adaptations of Greek myth, but none of them are especially faithful to the source material

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    Indigenous people of north america. Tokenized parts of tales and folklore are often misrepresented and not told by people who grew up learning the stories.

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      And, they’re treated as a monolithic mythos, as though the myriad peoples all had the same, exact set of beliefs and entities. It’s a mess

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    Pretty much all of African mythology. Sometimes it gets mentioned tangentially or included in a half-assed way, and even then it’s almost always misrepresented. Anansi was my favorite character in American Gods, in part because I see so little African mythology, but also just because he’s badass.

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    All mythologies except maybe christian mythology have very bad representation on mainstream media.

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    Zoroastrianism would be cool. Basically the answer is anything not europe or specifically egypt but I always felt that for example a hindu god killer game would be fkn sick. Like either GoW format or Diablo-like.

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    The Dogon tribe around Mali in West African caught attention because they might have been able to identify that a star was a binary system before modern tech did (possibly due to good eyesight but also possibly just bad anthropology.)

    This led to a lot of interest in their religion, which have elements that ancient astronaut weirdos have adopted into that mythology. It deserves some not stupid attention.

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    If by poor representation you mean misrepresentation then Islam hands down. If you meant lack of representation then I’d say zoroastrianism and celtic paganism. There are plenty others I’d love to see but I picked what I did because we know enough about them with enough certainty on details that we could accurately represent them if we tried. I’d also love to see Bedouin paganism and Mayan mythology accurately represented in popular media but this is much more difficult to accomplish.

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    Every single one. They ethier white wash (not in the making people white way but sometimes they too) or villify everything about it. There is no place for nuance in modern retellings for some reason.

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    Christianity is virtually always represented by those who either don’t understand it, or are deliberately slandering it.

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        If your understanding of Christianity is based upon how well mainstream Christianity understands it, then you don’t actually understand it, only the warped form that it takes after thousands of years of infighting and political manoeuvring. For example, did you know that at one point it was actually taboo to depict Christ (or Mary) as a human?

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          all religions change. The gnostics were my favorite offshoot because it seems more believable then God being good after committing multiple genocides.

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            I think you’re confusing the false god “Forethought” with the real God from gnostic writings.