Talk:Incest in folklore and mythology

Requests for changes
Could someone find a better wording for "Arthur accidentally begats a son by his sister Morgaine le Fay" please? Is was scarcely accidental on his part, he was merely unaware of the relationship. JohnHarris (talk) 21:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

If anyone out there is qualified, I would like to see some addition of analysis of why this is prevalent in folklore. For example, while we moderns tend to think in terms of genetic abnormalities some of the stories seem to rely on "blood" as in the idea of noble blood (Siegmund and Sieglinde) being so important that it takes such a union to raise a hero. The film Excalibur seems to take the same position, ( "I will find a man and give birth to a god" as Morgana goes off to seduce her brother) but overlays it with the of off-spring of this being evil - sort of telling the pagan story with the patina of Christianity overlaying it. More modern stories seem to be about making it erotic, twisted, or jokes at the expense of Appalachia. While I don't know if I interpret these correctly at all, what I would like to see is not just that the depictions are different from the modern, but some analysis of the reasons for this. 98.121.92.169 (talk) 21:04, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Hon Vong Phu
In most version of the story that I have heard of, he went away to war to forget and after many years he finally returned only to find that she had died. --220.239.166.54 (talk) 13:01, 8 February 2009 (UTC)21:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Adam and Eve
I am not entirely sure these are considered Brother and Sister in the traditional sense. Even if their DNA were identical except for the gender chromosome, the two were born at vastly different times, so they can't be considered twins. If anything, Eve is more of a clone of Adam and not a sibling. --24.20.145.95 (talk) 22:51, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The religious mythology definitely would not talk about DNA. You cannot mix mythological history of the earth and scientific history of the earth. This article is about folklore and mythology and the matter of whether they are siblings or not has to be sorted out by mythological evidence and not scientific evidence; I guess Ritigala Jayasena (talk) 09:56, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree that this takes a position not warranted by the text, that they were brother and sister. However, the necessity of inbreeding between their children or between they and their children is fully implied. 98.121.92.169 (talk) 21:47, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm surprised to find that this article makes no mention of the incest that occurs in the Bible: - Adam and Eve's children have children, which implies some combination of sibling incest or parent-child incest - A similar situation occurs with Noah's children. While he takes his sons and their wives, his grandchildren would have no one to marry except their cousins. - Lot's children by his daughters - Judah and Tamar, though in this case they are related by law rather than by blood. Archbish99 (talk) 13:43, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Andhaka
The story of Andhaka from hindu mythology also involves incest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.252.130.44 (talk) 12:16, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

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