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Mythology is not a lie.
Mythology is poetry reaching out with words and images
to search out with our innermost being,
seeking to touch the face of the Great Mystery, who is beyond words, beyond images.
whose Song breathed us into being.
The Truth of what Lies Beyond lies in a realm murky and timeless.
Mythology pitches our minds past those boundaries of clumsy words and images
to sense what cannot be conveyed with mere tongue or pen.
We need myths that will link the individual, not with his tribe, but with the whole planet ...
for Man is the sick animal who does not know what to do with himself.
Follow the path of myth and doors will open that you had not noticed were even there.
A special treat today.
WOLF HOWL IS DOING A
GUEST POST HERE!
I am Wolf Howl.
Myth.
When you are living it, you do not realize it.
When you are living it, you do not realize it.
Looking back, I realize I was living a fairy tale of how I felt life to be.
Those memories, for what they are worth, for what they may recapture,
are glimpses of attitudes and times that are gone forever from this world.
For so long the White Man has suckled on fear and fear alone.
Yet nothing good is produced from fear. Its children are Cruelty, Deceit, and Suspicion ...
germinating in the darkness of souls grown numb.
And just as surely as the White Man is poisoning the air with his factories and machines,
tainting the oceans with his radioactive wastes ...
So is he poisoning his soul with his fears, his greed, and his denial of all but his ambitions.
Come with me now to a Time that Once Was, a Time you no longer remember ...
the Time of ...
THE LAST SHAMAN
That was a lovely video, Roland - thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteMyth is the story of us, our most powerful stories, and you certainly know how to tell them.
Sorry if I haven't been around for the last couple days. I've been under the weather and have all the energy of a squashed earthworm. But I hope your own life is going well.
Sorry to hear you have been so ill. I hate that. I have worked the weekend solo again. Whew! There are things I need to do tomorrow, but I think I will just sleep! :-)
DeleteEach of us lives the myth within our heads. The trick is to make the myth worthwhile!
May you grow stronger and better each day! :-)
Hi Roland - sadly we're not born with wisdom, and myth we need to feel, to acquire as we live life ... we are a selfish being ... too many poisons - of mind and of the earth .. so right. Great way of setting where we need to be in life ... thanks - Hilary
ReplyDeleteThank you, Hilary, for visiting and commenting as you though my scant free time leaves me hardly any time to visit my friends. Yes, we poison our minds and those of our children and wonder why life has become twisted, right?
DeleteIt's in a trilogy now - how cool!
ReplyDeleteMyths are how stories get passed on from one generation to the next.
I like to think we are writing modern day myths! :-) Yes, Wolf Howl's entire story is now in paperback.
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