If you want to see something weird, try Celtic mythology.

You have interesting characters like Math fab Mathonwy, who somehow must rest his feet in the lap of a virgin unless he was at war, or he will die. Or Cú Chulainn, who was amazingly badass to the point that he had to be stopped by mass female toplessness.

I haven't the faintest clue what those are supposed to symbolize or represent, but it's sure interesting.