Great. We get the ugly, crippled god whose only major score was to leg-hump Athena and ejaculate into a rag?
But... but... he had his work to inspire and satisfy him!
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I dunno, I have always found all mythology fascinating. I remember getting so many books out of the library as a kid on mythology. Started with Greek, moved onto Norse; those are the two I know the best (and I suppose I like Norse the better of the two).
Have glossed over some Welsh/Irish myth, Russian myth, Assyrian myth, and African myth in the meanwhile, but more just like bits and pieces.
I sort of veered into "personal" myth by the time I was in middle school, such as Tolkien and LeGuin and Lewis and other fantasy writers, and began working on my own ideas ten years ago or so. Gaiman's "Sandman" mythos is a favorite construction of mine.
Not sure about a "favorite" creature from myth. I always loved some of the Greek stories (such as Daedalus). Orpheus is another great poignant story, one of the best -- such loss, combined with such heroic feat of bravery, thwarted in the end by Orpheus' humanity, resulting in tragedy. But I've always fascinated by symbols such as the unicorn or the minotaur or the medusa. The chimera is neat too, especially the way the word has been melded into medical lit nowadays to signify one of those rare individuals who is genetically two people.
My favorite creatures are bears and ravens... so much that a pair of ravens were incorporated into the stories that my friend and I are writing, as sort of the "eyes and ears" of the Forgotten God and also us as the narrators.