I can't tell due to my very narrow range of stories I actually know anything about, but what I'm getting is at is this:

Stories about enslaved humans rising up against their oppressors, which just so happen to be non-human entities of some kind (elves, aliens, lizardpeople, dragons, what the fuck ever): Cool, noble, inspiring and good.

Stories about enslaved non-humans rising up against their human oppressors: Not good, very bad. The heroes need to put a stop to this evil uprising.

So is this actually a common thing others have noticed or am I just making assumptions based on my very limited knowledge?

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    The elves, demons, and other sentient beasts in Indian mythology roughly correspond to Indo-Aryan clans vs other indigenous people of South Asia at the time.

    as well as the indigenous peoples of Europe and Iran.

    Sanskrit: Asura-Deva
    Persian: Ahura-Daeva
    Swedish: Aesir-Vanir

    Outside of these three regions, the obliteration by the Indo-Europeans was total and complete (as evidenced by the near-uniform, 80%+ domination of Y-chromosome R1a/R1b in Western Europe, even though the maternal line is made up of indigenous foragers/farmers).

    However in these three areas (arguably Italy also), that falls to more like 20-50%, meaning the indigenous people put up far more resistance (and thus something worth writing about)

    Funnily enough, the Indo-Europeans in the north were enslaved to such an extent by the Uralic peoples, that the word for "slave" is literally "orja" (aka Arya or Aryan) in Finnish/Estonian. Google translate it now if you want