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Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:59 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:40 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:46 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:45 am
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 3:12 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:59 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:05 am
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i am reading the immense confusing multivolume epic Aegypt by John Crowley.
it's about having alternate histories and realities and forgetting we do and what happens then
sort of
with Shakespear, alchemy, heresy, Rosicrucians, angry gods, drugs, bdsm, epilepsy, fortune telling, writing, lying, manipulating, hopes and dreams, innocence, motels, factories, the Inquisition, the Spanish Armada, cults, miracles, demon possession, materialism, the Invisible College, hillbillies, out of body experiences, car wrecks, obsession, and true love.
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:17 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:11 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:19 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:29 am
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beaulolais Ping of Death I'm about to finish Myths of the Norsemen by HA Guerber. Title is self-explanatory. mythology is fascinating. i love reading about Celtic myth, but it seems my authors never agree with each other about exactly what those myths and deities and heroes were or what they did. i could have expressed that better. anyway, the writing i use to enlighten me about these myths seems more like speculation than fact. Most myths have that problem especially if very few writings exist. Norse myths for example have only one legit source and that is the Eddas.
Most writers can only speculate at best what those myths mean unless the tribe where it originated still exists.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:52 am
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Ping of Death beaulolais Ping of Death I'm about to finish Myths of the Norsemen by HA Guerber. Title is self-explanatory. mythology is fascinating. i love reading about Celtic myth, but it seems my authors never agree with each other about exactly what those myths and deities and heroes were or what they did. i could have expressed that better. anyway, the writing i use to enlighten me about these myths seems more like speculation than fact. Most myths have that problem especially if very few writings exist. Norse myths for example have only one legit source and that is the Eddas. Most writers can only speculate at best what those myths mean unless the tribe where it originated still exists.
yep, and please correcct me if i am wrong, but were not most people back then illiterate? so they had to hand down these things by word of mouth?
and then when somebody did come along to write the stories down that somebody was usually a Christian monk or something who might not be too objective ... although i do like the early Celtic Christians, before Patric.Padraig.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:04 am
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beaulolais Ping of Death beaulolais Ping of Death I'm about to finish Myths of the Norsemen by HA Guerber. Title is self-explanatory. mythology is fascinating. i love reading about Celtic myth, but it seems my authors never agree with each other about exactly what those myths and deities and heroes were or what they did. i could have expressed that better. anyway, the writing i use to enlighten me about these myths seems more like speculation than fact. Most myths have that problem especially if very few writings exist. Norse myths for example have only one legit source and that is the Eddas. Most writers can only speculate at best what those myths mean unless the tribe where it originated still exists. yep, and please correcct me if i am wrong, but were not most people back then illiterate? so they had to hand down these things by word of mouth? and then when somebody did come along to write the stories down that somebody was usually a Christian monk or something who might not be too objective ... although i do like the early Celtic Christians, before Patric.Padraig. They weren't necessary illiterate but they haven't developed a writing system yet. And if they did have a writing system, some societies limit the knowledge only within the priestly castes and scribes.Which isn't unusual for tribes that travel from one place to another and is mostly engaged in warfare.
Some Christian monks were credible sources but yes, some were not. But we still owe them the survival of most of the classic literature we have.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:41 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:34 pm
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