Nah, the funny thing is, they make us learn all this stupid detail about Greek mythology and about how Zeus fucked his sisters and basically just anything that had boobs and he liked doing it in all sorts of animal forms but our educatin program doesn't include slavian mythology, not even one class or something despite us being effing slavian. Because it's pagan. Oh yeah, because Greek mythology SO isn't pagan and we're SUCH a catholic country OMG xD Our educational system is ridiculous that way.

I literally can't believe you never learned about Zeus, or Hades or anything :D You must've at least heard the names: Hera (Zeus's wife and sister), Demeter (Zeus's sister), Mercury, Aphrodite, Persephone (Zeus and Demeter's daughter/niece), Hercules (technically he's a hero, not a god and I can't remember if he ever made it to the Olympus mountain), Athena? for example Gaia is a Greek mythology name, it's the proto-goddess, mother-earth. Uranos was the sky-father if I remember correctly.
Oh, if you've ever watched Disney's Hercules, it lies about his parentage XD

Well, if it's quiet there, maybe the previous owner were paranoid or something? I wouldn't really be that worried about an amount of locks on the door. They're there to keep the door closed and people inside safe :)
Overal it sounds like a really good localization.

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But he does live by a funeral home, so maybe they moved there.

When I read this, it made me and then

@Moi: then you know Zeus was the highest god on Olympus, he was throwing lightnings and stuff. He married his sister Hera (goddess of women, mothers, wifes, labor etc.) but kept on cheating on her, for example with Hercules's mother (who was a queen, btw) and Hera was so jealous she decided to torment Hercules for his whole life, because we all know it's the child's fault, not the unfaithful father's xD Hades had nothing to do with this. But it was a nice movie plot :)
While we're on Hades, Zeus's brother, god of the dead and underworld, he married Kora-Persephone, who was the only daughter of Zeus and Demeter (another one of their sisters). He actually kidnapped her and Demeter, who was the goddess of harvest etc.) was miserable so every plant on earth was dying. I think she found out Hades took her daughter and she went to complain to Zeus and what he decided was Kora-Persephone would stay for one half of the year with her (now) husband (and double uncle, ew), Hades in the underworld and the other half she'd stay with her mother. That's the myth about seasons.
There was of course also Poseidon, their brother, god of the ocean etc. And also they had another sister, Hestia, goddess of home and security (basically). I don't really know any myths about those two.
But Athena for example was only Zeus's daughter as one day he just had a headache and she jumped out of his head XD She's the goddess of wisdom.
Ooh, I think Ares was the son of Zeus and Hera, he was the god of war. Had an affair with Aphrodite, goddess of romantic love who was the wife of Hephaestus, god of blacksmithing, craft etc, also he had a limp because one day Zeus and Hera were fighting and Hephaestus stood on his mother's side so Zeus went all rage and threw him off the Olympus, I think Aphrodite might've been an "apology"? Not sure. anyways, Aphrodite and Ares had a child, Eros, god of sexual love.
I could go on but this is getting long xD

what do you mean your dad hears shit a lot in there? Like noises? Or do you mean gossip?

I've only been to a funeral home thrice maybe. I don't think I can share your enthusiasm xD

I love Greek mythology, it is very interesting! I cannot tell you where I got my knowledge from though. I think it's mostly movies and TV and when I was interested I read up on the gods.
I had to know a bit about them at work, too as we have some stucco statues representing the Gods. I always confuse the Greek and Roman names though.

It's a pity they did not teach you about Slavic stories..

@Moi: See? I knew you'd know them XD Greek mythology is the most popular so there's tons of references in pop culture. It's a given everybody knows something about the basic pantheon gods ;)
And yeah, Zeus had it going XD

Wow, from the street? That's insane! Walls should be much thicker than that ;_;

I'm proud to say I'm forgetting how all the prayers go. I'm so sick of remembering them all my life. I used to be the best at religion in my class. Not that it was difficult but my granny is a zealot and she was feeding me with religious stuff my whole childhood and I memorised all the prayers with ease because I already knew them from her. And yes, we had to recite prayers to pass religion.

I recently found out some dirt in my family. I'd rather forget mom told me...

@Julez: In Poland it's mandatory to read at least the most important myths. And I was genuinely interested in them so I read more than the mandatory parts xD But most people don't remember shit.
I always remember the Romans used to call the main pantheon by the planet names. But then some further names I might mix up, tho usually I get them right.

Yeah, they're mostly forgotten, rooted out by christianity. Very little is known about the Slavic pantheon, there's mostly speculations. And then we have some information about Slavic demons and other capricious spirits that are easily angered. From what I could read there's very few positive entities we know of, mostly they're either evil or ambivalent. I suppose our kowledge about Slavic mythology is contaminated. The most positive traditions were adopted into the new beliefs and others were demonized.
It just pisses me off that we literally HAVE to lear about cultures of other nations jsut because they're very influential but we don't learn about our own heritage because the church wouldn't admit they forced the faith on our people centuries ago. It's how things work with religion, grow up and let us learn our history