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    What is your favourite folktale/myth, and why?

    What is your favourite folktale, or myth, and why is it your favourite? Does it teach something valuable to you?


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    calling down the moon i love that just feels like in touch with more than just the day to day
    MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

    all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
    NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
    don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




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      #3
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      I've really become fascinated with the tale of Cerridwen and Taliesen. Damh the Bard has a song that tells their story and that's where my interest started. It fascinates me that a mother went to such lengths to help her child fit in, and never asked if that's what they wanted. Basically, he was disfigured and she tried to give him powers of some sort to make up for it but it went awry, like it usually does.

      We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now. -Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood

      I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love.
      It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss.
      Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.
      -Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Curse

      Service to your fellows is the root of peace.

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        #4
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        wow shah,that really spoke to me,it gave me an understanding of some things i have had issues with. thank you for posting it.
        MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

        all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
        NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
        don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




        sigpic

        my new page here,let me know what you think.


        nothing but the shadow of what was

        witchvox
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          #5
          Re: What is your favourite folktale/myth, and why?

          Originally posted by anunitu View Post
          wow shah,that really spoke to me,it gave me an understanding of some things i have had issues with. thank you for posting it.
          Damh is amazing like that. Down in the garden has been my theme song since I started my program. I also love Green and Grey.
          We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now. -Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood

          I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love.
          It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss.
          Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.
          -Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Curse

          Service to your fellows is the root of peace.

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            #6
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            I'm fond of a particular piece of Neil Gaiman's telling of Ragnarok. I never read his full book on Norse Mythology and I'm rather sure that the discussion in his telling of Ragnarok doesn't show up in any of the Eddas but the discussion between Heimdall and Loki caught my attention. They're both bleeding out from wounds inflicted on each other and Loki will bring up how something (The Gods/the world/people/pick one) has been brought down. Every time Heimdall comes back with, "I see farther than you, Loki," and he explains describes the seeds of renewal for whatever Loki asserts is at an end.

            Along with a rather beautifully understated put down, the discussion put an oddly optimistic approach to armageddon.
            life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

            Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

            "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

            John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

            "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

            Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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              #7
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              I'm a major fan of the story of Isis and Osiris - the whole death and resurrection thing. Although I don't believe in an afterlife, or the possibility of resurrection, I still like this. I honestly don't know why, or, at least, I don't think I can put it into words.

              "Can't put it into words why I like it" is a good description of an effective myth, IMHO.
              Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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                #8
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                going under the knife is in its own way death and resurrection to a brand new life and spirit,that i know personally.

                - - - Updated - - -

                I became who I always was,but all shiny and new,a fresh mind and body to enter the world again
                MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

                all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
                NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
                don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




                sigpic

                my new page here,let me know what you think.


                nothing but the shadow of what was

                witchvox
                http://www.witchvox.com/vu/vxposts.html

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