Hey, i just decided to sign up, so this is my first post. Anyways, i was wondering where people think the idea of vampires, faeries, or actually anything mythological came from. Homo Vamprius (i think thats it, i havent studied my latin for a while, srry) was an earlier stage of human evolution, but amazingly it did have fangs and a jaw structure that would allow it to open to about 8 inches. the muscles in the jaw are just as amazing. but oddly, the supposedly didnt produce enough blood to sustain the body, so how did they survive?

and just so i dont have to make another post:

I dont know if this site is for actual vampire-lovers or not, so could someone clear up just how much you worship these animals?

Thanks

DeadEarth

that Homo Vampirus is a hoax,

most these beliefs come from our fear of the dark, in ancient times the dark was much different than what you see today, with out any city or house lights, or street lights any where the darkness is indeed terrifying and humans being diurnal "day dwelling animals by nature" the night was out of our element with our limited sensary perceptions that are too weak for the night time and the fact our greatest predators came out at night we had reason in those little villages to fear the dark "instinct alone makes us uneasy in the darkness for this reason" but as time goes on the cities grew but people still feared the darkness, so stories came about to explaine this fear and as our predators became less of a threat we invented reasons to fear the dark.

also in those old villages every one knew each other, and couldn't believe that one of their relatives or friends could be responsible for a murder, "we know better now" so if a murder occured they could only point the blame at a monster.
illness was the same way, the most often explination was to blame the dead for death thus we get creatures like vampires out of those beliefs. and over time someone's explanation which becomesm popular becomes common belief and thus a monster is created by the imaginations of the people.

In answer to your post about how much worshipping we do:

Er... everyone is different. Some here have studied and are in a sense continuing their studies and sharing what they've learned. Some are here because they don't know why, they just like Vampires, Some here (although a minority at the moment which we are hoping will change) live a Vampire Lifestyle. Basically it is a mixed bag.

I've often wondered how much of our myth's and legends are based of actual occurances.

If you can imagine it...humans have done it...what is worse? A human who does what vampires are said to do or a real 'vampire'?

I'm not going to touch "Homo Vampirus", but please feel free to explain further if you wish.

Anything mythological (odd word to use for this?) ? Probably just from the world around them and themselves. Going to logical, boring mode now, it is thought that a lot of the prehistoric depictions (predating known civilizations that we know of scientifically) which show hunts, were almost magic[k]al to the artists in that they were supposed to somehow bring about better results in the hunts (e.g. the cave carving of a deer shot by an arrow would bring about results in real life) Also a "later" thought, that gods and goddesses were manifestations of forces or aspects of nature brought into "single" representation which was more aproachable or better comprehended by the people. Related, a way of explaining why things worked a certain way and how they came to be. Example: look into the stories of some of the constellations.

i agree with everything posted above (well for the most part)