User:Satanael/About

Personality and interests
My primary interests are religion, mythology and folkloristics.

I'm interested in varying forms of literature(mostly epics, George MacDonald, Umberto Eco, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky; plus some mythopoeic books, mostly Neil Gaiman), philosophy(Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Tillich; mainly existentialism, and axiology). I'm also interested in J. R. R. Tolkien for his philological studies, which is what I consider his best and most important work.

I love most or everything about Japan(Yoko Ono *shivers* being an exception), so one can basically call me a Japanophile, but I'm very much interested in Asia and Asian culture in general. While some people mistake my interest for Japan as an obsession, I don't plan on studying too many aspects of Japan itself(I'm not too crazy about Japanese literature, and ain't going to study the language much beyond learning it). I'm also interested in the PIEs and Indo-European studies, in ancient history and archaeological findings, as well as language and historical linguistics. I'm intrigued by the current advances in Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic studies, together with the Dravidian languages, particularly Tamil, and the possibility of Elamo-Dravidian. I'm studying as vigilantly as I can, but my research and study materials are somewhat limited.

I'm currently writing a novel and several essays, but because of a lack of research material and/or inspiration, many of those are currently on hold.

Faith/Spiritual beliefs
I'm not really sure what I believe, and I'm not really sure if I care to carry a designation for myself, mostly because I don't feel like it and don't have the need to. There are times when I'm nontheistic, times when I'm agnostic, and times when I am omnitheistic. Though one thing is certain that I do not worship any entities, however I don't have a moral(or any other) objection in offering a prayer to a divinity or at a shrine. Even though I formally called myself Christian, it really wasn't more than a designation, and I didn't really feel or perceive anything else differently. Although, even though I do at times, I really won't consider myself to be an atheist, because it would imply that I believe that I have absolute empirical perception of the cosmos(and that I assuredly deny any form of higher consience and/or existence), something which I don't. Though I am an atheist in the sense that I don't worship any divine beings, which is the more general definition of atheism.

However, one thing I do know is that I'm a religious pluralist, as I respect and feel that there is some truth in every religion. This is further strengthened by my status as a mythologist(especially as a comparative mythologist).

Mythology
One of my greatest interests is mythology. A myth is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form, and refers to a collection of stories about a people, usually concerning their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes behind the belief structure and faith. The stories discussed express the viewpoints and beliefs of the country, time period, culture, and/or religion which gave birth to them. Mythology is used to refer to stories that, whether or not believers accept them as strictly factual, are believed to reveal fundamental truths and insights about human nature, often through the use of archetypes. Use of the term by scholars does not imply that the narrative is either true or false.

Wikipedia articles that I am watching / occasionally editing / plan to edit
I am still engaged in exploring what is already present on Wikipedia in order to determine where I can make significant contributions. If you know of an article that requires some work, and it seems related in theme to the articles listed below, feel free to leave me a note on my talkpage.

History, Ethnography, & Anthropology
Anthropology | Anthropology of religion | Archaeology | Claude Levi-Strauss | Comparative religion | Indo-European studies | Japanese culture | Levant | Neolithic religion | Social anthropology | Sociology of religion | Ugarit

Linguistics & Philology

 * Indo-European studies

Music
Beethoven | Carl Orff | Evanescence | Gackt | Gåte | Malice Mizer | Mozart | Nobuo Uematsu | Rammstein | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Rhapsody | Richard Wagner | System Of A Down

Comics & Graphic Novels
Angel Sanctuary | Biju | Hyuga Hinata | Lucifer (DC comics) | Naruto | Negima | Tsubasa | Uzumaki Naruto | XXXHolic

Media & Entertainment
Anime | chaos | Devil May Cry | Final Fantasy | KOS-MOS | Neon Genesis Evangelion | Princess Mononoke | Rei Ayanami | Suikoden | Xenogears | Xenosaga

Religion & Beliefs
Celtic mythology | Christian mythology | Greek mythology | Japanese mythology | Jewish mythology | Mesopotamian mythology | Norse mythology | Roman mythology Anafiel | Angelology | | Beelzebub | Camael (archangel) | Demonology | Gabriel | Haniel | Lucifer | Metatron | Michael (archangel) | Phanuel (angel) | Raphael (archangel) | Raziel | Sandalphon | Satan | Suriel (archangel) | Uriel | Zadkiel (archangel) | Zagzagel | Zaphkiel (archangel) | Zophiel (archangel) | YHWH Christianity | Gnosticism | Shintoism
 * Mythology
 * Mythologists
 * J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Joseph Campbell
 * Religion

Philosophy

 * Philosophers
 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Paul Tillich
 * Søren Kierkegaard

Literature and Poetry
Anatomy of Melancholy | Piers Plowman | William Blake
 * John Milton
 * Paradise Lost
 * Dante Alighieri
 * The Divine Comedy
 * Mark Twain
 * The Mysterious Stranger
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Leo Tolstoy
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bio
Location: Meh, who cares

Gender: male

Occupation: Secondary school, 2nd year.

Birthday: November 14, 1988

Western Zodiac: Scorpio

Eastern Zodiac: Dragon

Birthstone: Topaz

Birth Tree: Walnut

Blood Type: O

Height/Weight: 188cm/63 kg

Hobbies: Video games, mythology, language, etc Sport: Formerly Greco-Roman wrestling

Prized possession: Everything or nothing

Enjoys: Life itself

Fears: Being alone, something or other

Quote: "Men förhelvete nu jävlar!" {|
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Favorites

 * Favourite Language: Sanskrit
 * Favourite Video Game: Final Fantasy VII
 * Favourite Actor: Bruno Ganz
 * Favourite Seijū: Hideo Ishikawa
 * Favourite Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Favourite Author: George MacDonald
 * Favourite Poet: Edgar Allan Poe
 * Favourite Singer: Gackt: O.O
 * Favourite Webcomic: Megatokyo
 * Favourite Color: Blue
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General interests

 * Mythology
 * Religion
 * Philosophy
 * Literature
 * Anthropology
 * Language: Linguistics & Philology
 * Paleontology
 * Psychology
 * Sociology
 * Asia: Japan
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An analysis of me, done through What is Your World View? You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational. 81%    Existentialist     75%     Romanticist     69%     Postmodernist     63%     Idealist     50%     Fundamentalist     44%     Modernist     38%     Materialist     31%

Favourite games
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PlayStation

 * 1) Final Fantasy VII
 * 2) Final Fantasy VIII
 * 3) Metal Gear Solid
 * 4) Suikoden II
 * 5) Breath of Fire III
 * 6) Alundra
 * 7) Tekken 2
 * 8) Xenogears
 * 9) Tomb Raider
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PlayStation 2

 * 1) Devil May Cry/Devil May Cry 3
 * 2) Kingdom Hearts/Kingdom Hearts II
 * 3) Shadow Hearts/Shadow Hearts II
 * 4) Final Fantasy X/Final Fantasy XII
 * 5) Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
 * 6) Persona 3
 * 7) Shadow of the Colossus
 * 8) Okami
 * 9) Resident Evil 4
 * 10) Xenosaga III
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PlayStation 3

 * 1) Devil May Cry 4
 * 2) Metal Gear Solid 4
 * 3) Shin Megami Tensei PS3
 * 4) Final Fantasy XIII
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Series
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 * Final Fantasy
 * Devil May Cry
 * Metal Gear Solid
 * Suikoden
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * Megami Tensei
 * Xeno-series
 * Tomb Raider
 * Resident Evil
 * Tekken
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Manga

 * Ai Yori Aoshi 1-2 & 7-9
 * Angel Sanctuary 1-6
 * Chobits 1-8
 * Death Note 1, 8 & 9
 * Love Hina 1-14
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion 1-9
 * Naruto 1-11 & 15-33
 * Negima 1-7
 * XXXHolic 1-6
 * Tsubasa 1-7
 * Vagabond 1-20
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Anime

 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Angel Sanctuary
 * Naruto
 * Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
 * Chobits

Movies

 * Akira
 * Ghost in the Shell
 * Princess Mononoke
 * Spirited Away
 * End of Evangelion
 * Ninja Scroll
 * Ghost in the Shell 2
 * Steamboy
 * Howl's Moving Castle
 * Grave of the Fireflies
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Movies
"Western"
 * Jurassic Park
 * Mulan
 * Nightmare Before Christmas
 * The Matrix

"Eastern"
 * Casshern
 * Death Note
 * Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
 * Hana and Alice
 * House of Flying Daggers
 * Moon Child
 * Old Boy
 * Seven Swords
 * Wonderful Days
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Afro-Asiatic

 * Afro-Asiatic languages
 * Semitic languages
 * East Semitic languages
 * Akkadian language
 * Eblaite language
 * West Semitic languages
 * Central Semitic languages
 * Arabic languages
 * Arabic language
 * Northwest Semitic languages
 * Aramaic languages
 * Aramaic
 * Canaanite languages
 * Hebrew languages
 * Biblical Hebrew language
 * Hebrew language
 * Phoenician languages
 * Ugaritic language
 * South Semitic languages
 * Ethiopic languages
 * South Arabian languages

Elamo-Dravidian

 * Elamo-Dravidian
 * Dravidian languages
 * Southern Dravidian
 * Tamil language
 * Elamite language

Indo-European

 * Indo-European languages
 * Celtic languages
 * Germanic languages
 * Old Norse language
 * Greek dialects
 * Attic Greek
 * Greek language
 * Indo-Iranian languages
 * Iranian languages
 * Western Iranian languages
 * Old Persian
 * Persian language
 * Eastern Iranian languages'
 * Avestan language
 * Indo-Aryan languages
 * Vedic Sanskrit
 * Sanskrit
 * Italic languages
 * Latino-Faliscan languages
 * Latin
 * Balto-Slavic
 * Slavic languages
 * East Slavic languages
 * Russian language
 * Proto-Indo-European

Japonic

 * Japonic languages
 * Japanese language

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Anthropology

 * Archaeology
 * Levant
 * Ugarit
 * Claude Levi-Strauss
 * Comparative religion & Comparative mythology
 * Georges Dumezil
 * Joseph Campbell
 * Social anthropology
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Religion

 * William G. Dever
 * Bart D. Ehrman
 * Richard E. Friedman
 * Kenneth L., Jr. Gentry
 * Elaine Pagels
 * Jeffrey Burton Russell

Teology

 * Saint Augustine
 * Origen
 * Thomas Aquinas
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Philosophy

 * Axiology
 * Epistemology
 * Logic
 * Metaphysics

Philosophers

 * A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Mahatma Gandhi
 * Paul Tillich
 * Søren Kierkegaard
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Psychology

 * C.G. Jung

Paleontology

 * Dinosaur

Sociology

 * Max Weber
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Literature
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Prose

 * Harry Potter
 * H.P. Lovecraft(Call of Cthulhu)
 * Friedrich Nietzsche(Also Sprach Zarathustra)
 * Mark Twain
 * George MacDonald
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * Leo Tolstoy
 * Umberto Eco
 * Neil Gaiman
 * The Tale of Genji
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Poetry
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 * Poetry
 * Dante Alighieri
 * William Blake
 * Lord Byron
 * John Milton
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * William Langland(Piers Plowman)
 * Geoffrey Chaucer
 * John Gower
 * The Pearl Poet
 * Man'yoshu
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Music

 * Ayu
 * Billy Talent
 * Dream Theater
 * Evanescence
 * Frank Sinatra
 * Gackt
 * Gåte
 * Johnny Cash
 * L'Arc~en~Ciel
 * Led Zeppelin
 * Maaya Sakamoto
 * Malice Mizer
 * Motoi Sakuraba
 * Nobuo Uematsu
 * Pink Floyd
 * Rage Against the Machine
 * Rammstein
 * Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Rhapsody
 * Rikki
 * Shiro Sagisu
 * System of a Down
 * the pillows
 * Utada Hikaru
 * Vitas
 * Yuki Kajiura
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Anime/Videogames

 * Angel Sanctuary
 * Baten Kaitos Origins
 * Breath of Fire
 * Disgaea
 * Final Fantasy
 * Legend of Dragoon
 * Legend of Legaia
 * Legend of Zelda
 * Metal Gear Solid
 * Naruto
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Resident Evil
 * Shadow Hearts
 * Shadow of the Colossus
 * Shin Megami Tensei
 * Soul Calibur 3
 * Suikoden
 * Tales
 * Wild Arms
 * World of Warcraft
 * Xenosaga
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Misc
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Favourite divinities

 * Yahweh
 * Shekinah
 * Odin
 * Marduk
 * Amaterasu
 * Saraswati
 * Indra
 * Kannon
 * Eos
 * Selene
 * Horus
 * Isis
 * Parjanya
 * Vayu
 * Thanatos
 * Anteros
 * Cernunnos
 * Veles
 * Perun
 * Yaw

Favourite PIE gods

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Favourite demons

 * 1) Satan
 * 2) Beelzebub
 * 3) Lilith
 * 4) Adramelech
 * 5) Lucifuge Rofocale

Favourite angels

 * 1) Satan
 * 2) Michael
 * 3) Gabriel
 * 4) Haniel
 * 5) Metatron


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Favourite saints

 * 1) St. Michael the Archangel
 * 2) Gabriel
 * 3) Mary, the mother of Jesus
 * 4) Mary Magdalene
 * 5) John Paul II
 * 6) Thomas Aquinas
 * 7) Saint Margaret the Virgin
 * 8) Brigid of Ireland
 * 9) Saint Lucy
 * 10) Saint Corneły
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People I like

 * My senpai
 * Jesus
 * Mohammed
 * Baha'ullah
 * Gautama Buddha
 * Mahatma Gandhi
 * Søren Kierkegaard
 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Joseph Campbell
 * Gustav Davidson
 * Thomas Aquinas
 * Hideaki Anno
 * Nobuo Uematsu
 * George MacDonald
 * Mark Twain
 * William Blake
 * J. K. Rowling

Quotes

 * Bertrand Russell
 * "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."


 * "Christianus mihi nonem est, nihilus cognomen."


 * Mahatma Gandhi
 * "As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side".
 * "The sayings of Muhammad are a treasure of wisdom, not only for Muslims but for all of mankind".
 * Later in his life when he was asked whether he was a Hindu, he replied: "Yes I am. I am also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist and a Jew".


 * Mark Twain
 * Land of religions, cradle of human race, birthplace of human speech, grandmother of legend, great grandmother of tradition. The land that all men desire to see and having seen once even by a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest of the globe combined.


 * Martin Amis
 * "Now I say that I am an agnostic. People think that's pusillanimous and covering your bets. But it's not based on any belief or yearning for an afterlife but on the fact that we actually know so little about the cosmos. It is a tribute to the complexity and, at our present stage of development, the unknowability of the universe."


 * "And God Said: Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me, and let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan" — John Wing


 * "Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."

Religion and mythology
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