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MacAllister
03-08-2005, 12:45 PM
Just found this website (http://www.mythinglinks.org/)(while looking for anything informative about Green Man images and lore--but that's another story.) There is some really ...odd...stuff there.

Meanwhile--anyone who happens to be an expert on Green Man stuff, and wants to have your brain picked over, drop me a PM. BWhaAHHAahaaaaa...
Maryn
03-08-2005, 06:20 PM
A truckload of links, but I have to wonder if Pacifica offered Dr. Jenks an extremely attractive retirement package to send her elsewhere to ply her private practice as a past life regression "guide."

Still, an interesting site, no doubt about that!

Maryn, interested in but not knowledgeable about 20th Century Folklore
MacAllister
03-08-2005, 06:22 PM
I have to wonder if Pacifica offered Dr. Jenks an extremely attractive retirement package to send her elsewhere to ply her private practice as a past life regression "guide.
I wondered the same thing,Maryn...<g>
Richard
03-08-2005, 06:29 PM
I have been thinking and thinking about the image and story of Baba Yaga now for months and wondering how girls and women can resolve the seemingly paradoxical story of a bony heartless witch with the image of innocence of a rejected and abandoned girl.

10ccs of codeine, right there.
Spookster
03-08-2005, 06:55 PM
Thanks for the link Mac. There's some really good info on deities there. The symbol/runes links should be helpful in my WIP.
Richard
03-08-2005, 07:01 PM
Encyclopaedia Mythica (http://www.pantheon.org) is a pretty good mythological look-up for gods and monsters. Much nicer to read, if a little dry.
Medievalist
03-08-2005, 08:05 PM
Just found this website (http://www.mythinglinks.org/)(while looking for anything informative about Green Man images and lore--but that's another story.) There is some really ...odd...stuff there.

It is interesting, but I'd use it with caution. I looked at a few of the articles on my own field, Celtic myth, and they're less than accurate in a some parts; more New Age/Neo Pagan than historic. The stuff on runes is also a bit reliant on New Age/Neo Pagan wishful thinking.
MacAllister
03-08-2005, 10:05 PM
oops! Right up at the beginning of this thread I should have said what Lisa said. :)

Although, given the past life regression stuff...perhaps we can just reckon she's counting herself an eyewitness...?

(BAD Mac! That was mean! Get in the box!)