I'm writing a myth on how something in nature was created and why. Does anybody know any good stories I could read for some ideas or does anyone have any ideas to help me? The story has to have at least one god or goddess in it and there has to be dialogue between characters. Any suggestions would be wonderful, I'm having a really difficult time!
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The story of Echo and Narcissus explains why we have echos and daffoldils (narcissus.) Read the web site and then write a myth about a different spring flower such as tulips, hyacinth, lilac, or violets.
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I'm pretty sure the River he's talking about is actually the Mythical river the dead cross by ferry. The River Styx.  I myself have never read the book nor actually want to only because of experiencing personal bad vibes from a book a friend had.\n About the best I can come up with at the moment is some sites I found on the history of the Necronomicon and other info on the book. As well as info on the River Styx. Wish I could have offered more, though I'll keep looking. Maybe I'll luck out from one of my friends who has read the book and studied it intensely. Oh some of the sites are talking about the first two books of the Necronomicon, the one written by Crowley and the one written by the Mad Arab also known as Abdul Alhazred. I honestly don't know which one came first between Alhazred's and Crowley but if I remember right I think Alhazred's was the first written rendition of the Neconomicon. Anyway I supplied those links as well. Maybe one will help.
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Does this mean that the first man in the holy book was the bastard son of a goddess? Who got her pregnant. I like this story. Was it one of the other Gods?
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the first thing you need to do is examine the question:  how old is greek mythology?  pretty old, of course.  but it's not older than egyptian mythology, and norse mythology evolved totally independent of greek mythology.  so there's a good case that people are going to have mythology whether there was a special greek kind or not.  your teacher should be looking for this answer.  in any case, focus on the dates and show that mythology was alive and well both before the greek sort and after and you're golden.
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STAR LEGEND\nThe group of stars known to us as the Pleiades gave food for much thought to the aborigines. There are several legends surrounding these heavenly bodies. One is that the Kamilaroys of the North Coast were at enmity with those of the mountains, and a messenger had been sent from group to group with the message-stick calling a council to discuss measures for the protection of the camps. But the messenger had become enamoured of a young woman of one of the groups he had visited, and his affection was returned. However, she proved to be of the same totem, and a marriage was forbidden. Both the young people were very sad, and the man pleaded with the head-man, but all for nothing. He was advised to return to his own people.\n\nThen, like so many other disappointed lovers, he grew resentful, and at last determined to be revenged, and even then, if possible, to secure the lady of his choice.\n\nSo he went away to the enemies of the group, and conspired with them to show them the "pukkan" by which they might steal unseen to the camps of the coast lands. This track belonged to the priest, and led to a sacred spot where the Great Spirit could be communed with by the priest.\n\nNow, the first thing was to drive the people together, or by some subtle means persuade them to congregate on the one place. This was not an easy thing to do. The people were widely separated during the day, for some were in the bush engaged in hunting there or in obtaining those things from it that were needed to fashion all the implements incidental to camp life, others were still in the camp; many were down on the beach either playing there or searching for food, and the whereabouts of still more were always uncertain, for they were roamers.\n\nMany consultations were held; many plans were formulated; many tricks were explained; but at last it was decided that the messenger return to that group and pretend to have given up all thought of marrying the coveted girl.\n\nWhen he was back he sought the confidence of the headman and soon was received without suspicion. Then one day, having prepared and found a chance, he set fire to the bush. He had laid good plans for he knew just where to find the girl. He had seen to it that she was persuaded to go out of the way to get something that she wanted. It was to the pukkan that led to the sacred place. When the fire raged towards them they ran right on to the holy of holies. The only other people who saw them were women who were led by the guardians of young girls. These guardians were watching the girl wanted by the messenger. Now they were all frightened and they all rushed to the clearing. This invasion by women into such a place was against all commandments, and evil was bound to follow.\n\nHeaps of clay left by the priest were seen, and all commenced to smear themselves with it without knowing how to do it properly. They thought it would surely preserve them.\n\nThey were changed into witchetty grubs. They found holes in a moist and rotten log into which, as is the habit of witchetty grubs, they crept. They were shrunken into very small beings compared with the beings they once were.\n\nThe fire came on and on. People ran in all directions and many were destroyed.\n\nThen by the treachery of the messenger the men of the hills came down and they fell upon the rest and the beach group were nearly all killed. Only the denseness of the smoke prevented more of the mountain people from coming down, and those that did come were glad to hasten away to escape it.\n\nOf those that were not killed there was a priest who went to the sacred spot as soon as he could. He sat on the moist and rotten log and mourned for a long time. Then growing hungry he searched for witchetty grubs, for he knew that the log was a favourite place for them. He found first the woman who was the first one to change. He knew that group to be different from those he had seen before and he suspected witchery. He uttered an incanta
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I've put a link below to an article about Graves that discusses some of his preoccupations and personal mythology. Read the paragraphs just before the mention of the poem to get an idea of what the writer thinks of Graves's motivation. \n\nBecause of the strong rhetoric in the first line - something about there being one story and one story only (I don't have the text in front of me right now), one is inclined to think that WHATEVER the story is behind the poem is a universal one, and quite possibly "the story of Graves's life." \n\nPoems are never only autobiographical, though. Nor are their symbols always completely coherent and discernible. \n\nGood luck.\n\n[By the way, I didn't copy from the answer above - which is a very good one - it's just a coincidence that we were looking in the same place. The other answerer posted 59 seconds before I got there, but after I'd started writing.]
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Not all of it, but quite a bit of it. The creation of mankind relates most closely to the myth of Enki and Ninhursag. The Creation itself relates to myths that can be found throughout Sumer. Cain and Able comes from the myth Inanna prefers the farmer. The biblical myth of the snake and the tree comes fgrom a portion of Gilgamesh even so much as to include lilith. Much of the begats were taken as the hebrew version of the kings list. Noah can be taken from the sumerian flood stories. \n\nMuch ot the later stuff is Canaanite. Job was taken from Canaanite stories forexample. \n\nThis was because Abraham came from the city of Ur. He would have worshiped the sumerian gods by their Akkadian names and would have done things in a sumerian manner. \n\nThe ten commandments are actually rather close to a sumerian contract, and the commandments, if taken in the proper historical context, can be shown to make much more sense from a sumerian point of view.\n\nAdendum:\nto T.O. snooze !: the tablets we have from the sumerians can be easily dated both by scientific means and by comparing them to the historical accounts shown elsewhere. If compared with the bible we see that Abraham was said to come from the city of Ur and so if we find biblical stories in an erlier form then we can tell who had the stories first. \n\nTo Kevin: Where are you getting this? Your information doesn't fit with the known archeological evidence. \n\nTo Jengen: Why answer the question if you know nothing about the subject. He asked a simple archeology based question. He did not request a flawed sermon.
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Here's a resource. Go check it out. For more, just type "T.S. Eliot 'the Wasteland', mythology" into your search engine and look it up, the old-fashioned way!\n\nDon't forget Five-paragraph construction, especially on a 12-page paper!
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There's an excellent essay about this story at http://www.netwood.net/~kosenko/jackson.html .\nAs a teacher, I don't condone plagiarism, but perhaps by reading the essay you can understand more about what's going on in the story.  \n\nAs for comparison and contrast, you could look at the role of tradition in ancient and modern societies, but you'd need to do a little research.  Or you could discuss the change in Tessie Hutchinson's attitude about the lottery before and after her selection.  Also you could contrast the ordinariness of the setting with the horror of what takes place.\n\nGood luck.
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From what anyone religious icon can, r will, tell us, God has always existed, and that nothing had to create it.  I have asked the same question, and I always come back to Roman and Greek mythology, in which each God/Goddess has parents.  However, if there only is one God, and there were parents, then you have to ask: What happened to the parents?  In my opinion, this question is too difficult to be answered until we can (if we can) ask God itself/himself/herself.  Whenever you find an answer to one question, another pops up.  However, I must say this is a good question.  There are not many good ones out there, so congratulations.
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The Urantia book was created by a small group of men in Chicago in the 1950's. When you read it you will notice the stilted language of that era. It is supposed to be a message from the "Masters" and is a sort of New Age hierarchy of heaven leading up to God. It is a fascinating cultural study, but I would certainly not buy into its mythology.
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I read a translation of the Illiad this summer.  and I thouhg it was pretty good.  You just have to get the translation that isn't as long. I'd say the storyline etc was 5 out of 5.  a bit of a challenge to read it but you just have to get yourself in the right mindset.
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Why is a serpent used to incite Eve to eat \n>from the forbidden tree in the biblical tale ?\n\nWhy NOT?\n\n\n>Why is the serpent the one who incited Eve to eat \n>from the forbidden tree? \n\nWhy NOT?\n\n>and what does the serpent symbolise? \n>in many civilizations the serpent was depicted as a deity \n>symbol as the egyptian and sumerican civilizations , \n>what was the reality behind the serpent symbol \n>in the garden of Eden? \n\nCould it be the same, the Deceiver? The one who deceived them in the Garden of Eden and the one who got the Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations to worship him as Deity?  Isn't that what he always wants? To be "like god"?
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Wrong section to post this question.\n\nTry re-posting in Mythology and Folklore.\n\nPeace.
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Superstitions & Folklore.\n\nhttp://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html\n\nhttp://www.brownielocks.com/superstitions.html\n\nhttp://www.islandnet.com/~luree/silly.html\n\nWEB SITES ON GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Greek_and_Roman_Mythology.htm\n\nMythology\n\nhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/mythology.html\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/today/today01.html\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/25535/\n\nhttp://www.cln.org/themes/mythology.html\n\nhttp://www.magictails.com/creationlinks.html\n\nMyths often tell the story of ancestors, supernatural beings, heroes, gods, or goddesses with special powers. Sometimes myths try to describe aspects of customs or explain natural events such as the sun or lightning.\n\nhttp://www.42explore2.com/myth.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Don't make up stories.\n Strange facts always wins, over made up fiction.\n\nFind something real to write about.
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How about Themis as Goddess of Order?\nOr maybe ya should just look into Saints. \nSt. Expiditius is cool.