Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

[shadow cat]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

Are you aware there are only 109 more days till Christmas?!

Yay!

*goes to Photobucket to find my LOLcat santa pic*

[Amelia-Mary]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

Well I am now XD

[Medusa]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

What is your favorite myth?

[thalassa]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

What is your favorite myth?

Pandora (and not the sissy woman-hating version by Hesiod)

[Ophidia]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

What is your favorite myth?

I love the Coyote stories in Native American cultures. Especially the ones about his prodigious and free-spirited genitalia. :devil:

[thalassa]

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I love the Coyote stories in Native American cultures. Especially the ones about his prodigious and free-spirited genitalia. :devil:

I remember one of the Coyote myths where he ends up with a woman and her two daughters with teeth in their vaginas, and a penchant for eating penii...it was so crazy, and pretty amusing, but I'm pretty sure its not PG enough for the main forum

[Ophidia]

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I remember one of the Coyote myths where he ends up with a woman and her two daughters with teeth in their vaginas, and a penchant for eating penii...it was so crazy, and pretty amusing, but I'm pretty sure its not PG enough for the main forum

One I will always remember is how Coyote's parts get up & walk off, & land in patches of poison ivy or brambles & end up getting 'saved' by a woman with ointment... so all men have this itch only a woman can scratch :P

But yeah, most of the Coyote 'Richard' tales are a little more NC-17.

[ChainLightning]

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What is your favorite myth?

Oy!!!


There's so many wonderful tales that I seriously enjoy, over and over. Endless. I don't think I have a favorite, actually.

Unless you count, as a myth, life having meaning.

[Dez]

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I've put a lot of my favorites over in the Fairytale thread.

I read a LOT of Greek and Norse myth books growing up...it might actually be easier to say which ones bothered me. The way people tell Freya getting Brisingamen, for example, bugged the heck out of me, even as a small child.

[Clive]

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I like the one where Apollo's lover Hyacinthus was killed by a jealous rival, so Apollo turned the dead boy into the hyacinth flower.

[Corvus]

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I like the one where Apollo's lover Hyacinthus was killed by a jealous rival, so Apollo turned the dead boy into the hyacinth flower.

This is actually one of my favorites too.
Hyacinth was a beautiful boy who was loved by both the sun god Apollo and the west wind Zephyrus. One day Apollo and Hyacinth were throwing discus. Zephyrus was jealous that Hyacinth preferred the radiant archery god Apollo, Zephyrus blew Apollo's discus off course, so as to injure and kill Hyacinth. When he died, Apollo didn't allow Hades to claim the boy; rather, he made a flower, the hyacinth, from his spilled blood. According to Ovid's account, the tears of Apollo stained the newly formed flower's petals with ai, ai, the sign of his grief. The flower of the mythological Hyacinth has been identified with a number of plants other than the true hyacinth, such as the iris
This just makes me so sad. Another favorite is the murder of Osiris and Aset reviving him.

[B. de Corbin]

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The saga of Isis' search for Osiris.

[volcaniclastic]

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What is your favorite myth?

Depends on whether you think it's a myth or not, but on the assumption that most of what we know about it is false, I'm going to say King Arthur. But not the PG rated for Disney one, the real one.

[Medusa]

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What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

[Ophidia]

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What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

Working. Of course. Like I ever do anything else.