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  1. Camma

    Etruscan myths

    Well, I don't know much about the Etruscans - I think they came long before what we call "ancient" Rome - ie: long before the Republic, 1000bc or earlier. But much later, in the Empire, Claudius in the 1st Century AD claimed that he was descended from these people - he was a serioushsitorian and...
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    Fairies

    Well, my little resident fairy brought me right back here to you fairy-imbued people today ! I love Yeats, I know his work very well - I have posted "Song of Wandering Aengus" in full elsewhere on this forum. I looked up the book you recommended Talaria and it looks just wonderful - one for me...
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    Welsh myth of rhiannon, pwyll and pryderi

    This is a brillianr thread and it has brought back to me a lot of reading that I did as a young teenager about the Mabinogion. I read Jeffrey Gantz's translation. I shall have to revisit Rhiannon et al.
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    Fairies

    That was an intersting read - thank you for sharing. I read somewhere once (can't remember where - but it was a book, not the web) that "fairy" is an element of personality which can be found in humans. It adds to their sense of kindness and fun. Somebody with a bit of fairy in them is a little...
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    Odin - was he an extremist ?

    "Odin" is a name that most people have heard, even if they know nothing else about Norse mythology. Now I like the stories associated with Odin, he had a great sense of justice - but was he a bit of an extremist or maybe an exhibitionist. He exchanged an eye for wisdom and he hung himself in a...
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    Similiarity between greek and roman myths

    I think there might also be a much simpler explanation - after all Greece, or Macedonia as it was then called, was an important part of the Roman Empire. The Greek lnaguage was a highly rated as classical Latin amongst the higher social echelons of Roman society. It could be that a lot of the...
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    Anger?

    I found this : "LYSSA was the goddess or daimona (spirit) of rage, fury, raging madness, frenzy, and, in animals, of the madness of rabies." Here: http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Lyssa.html She sounds rather wonderful ! The article goes on to say that she was related to the goddess of mania and...
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    Aphrodite is in the news

    Oh the irony ! I think the most telling point about the article is that the Cypriot Interior Ministry failed to consult with the Foreign Ministry about the use of the Goddess of Love ! Not much love lost there !
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    The oak & holly kings

    No I hadn't - but I have now, well I looked it up after seeing your post. Apparently the "Holly King" is also the same as the "Green Man" - a figure that I have heard about before. In the UK there are many pubs called "The Green Man".
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    The "collective unconscious" and mythology

    I've read a little about Jung's theory on the collective unconscious and feel that there must be some connection between this psychological hypothesis and the impact of myth in human societies across barriers of time and geography. Any thoughts ?
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    The oracle

    I've heard about the "Delphic Oracle" - and presume it's the same one that RLynn write about. She figues in both the book "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves and in the TV series based on the book. The Emperor Claudius wrotes a "warts and all" history of his family after the Oracle told him that it...
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    Calendars

    Hi Rhonda - I enjoyed your article - it always fascinates me how the male and female are separated so fundamentally in most mythology - and how this impacts on modern life. I never knew that early calendars were based upon menstrual cycles - although it makes sense as the menses of the woman...
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    New year's eve traditions and mythology

    "In with the old - out with the new" - I suppose the declaration of resolutions for the year to come is one of the most overused (and ill kept) traditions. A pleasanter one - and porbably easier to keep - is to kiss somebody at midnight. I guess it depends on who you're kissing and the nature...
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    Stonhenge

    I have been there a few times over the last 20 years and it is a fascinating place. I don't get any spiritual or mystical feelings from such places - but I do feel a sense of awe for civilizations in the past that felt a need for such edifices and built them without the use of modern technology...
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    Televison Shows

    Definitely "House" - I love his use of metaphor ! I also love anything historical - even if it gets a bit soap-operish like, say "The Tudors" Now that series was well out of line in many historical facts, dates and names - but it gave the story in broad strokes and I have read that the costumes...
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    What's your favorite symbol associated with mythology?

    Well, I see unicorns all the time ! So I'd have to say the unicorn horn is my favourite mythological symbol. As a horn it is symbolic of purity - when used as a wand the unicorn horn is a powerful symbolic aid to achieving wishes and goals in your personal and spiritual life.
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    Celtic poems

    My all time favourite poet for both his poems relating to Celtic mythology and his other poetry is W.B Yeats. There a so many Celtic allusions throughout his work that it is hard to know where to start - he writes about Fergus, Conchubar, Cuchulainn, Dairmuid, Grania ...... I shall plump for a...
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    Modern myth making

    Are myths being created as we live and breath ? For example, is the modern "cult of celebrity" creating records that future generations will see as late 20th and early 21st century myths? What other current human activity could be giving rise to myths?
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    Real amazons

    In Kazakhstan there are graves of female warriors. They were buried with weapons between 600BC and 200BC - each grace having bows, about 100 arrowheads and warrior's jewelry. Interestingly, some of the genetic evidence found linked some Mongolian familes, who usually have black hair, with proof...
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    Celts and oral history

    I tend to believe that because their laws, traditions and religious beliefs were primarily transmitted orally our knowledge of pagan Celtic culture cannot be compared in terms of trustworthiness with those cultures that did keep accurate written records such as Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt...
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