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I would see how the King pressured his daughter or the way his demeanor towards her turned her ruthless.

I'm a big fan of nature spirits- nymphs. I love Dryads and Naiads, and all the other types (Oreads, Nereids, etc.)

I've been thinking of getting ahold of those soon. Speaking of, if you guys haven't read Lewis's "Till We Have Faces", do yourself a favor, and get it. Excellent story. The only book I ever saw captivate an entire class when I was in school.

From Wikipedia's Ennead article: Creation-myth From the primeval waters represented by Nun, a mound appeared. Upon the mound sat Atum who had begotten himself. Bored and alone, he masturbated — some think the myth actually states he committed autofellatio —- or (according to other stories)...

my grandmother has those, but I haven't read them. I'm a big fan of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon series (just read the Forest House for the first time)- she toys with the Atlantean theories as well. I don't believe all of it, and if it was at all real, I doubt atlantis had anything to do...

I think he was real in the sense that most myths and legends start with a kernel of truth. I think the real story, however, would be very different from how we (or Jerry Bruckheimer) would imagine it.

It's definitely Grimm's or Anderson's. I want to say Grimm's. I used to have a couple of ancient books of their tales, but I really wish I could find them now, because I know the exact story you're talking about. I think it's called the four servants or something.

God vs. Goddess In recent years, there has been a lot of scholarly and non-scholarly discussion regarding the origins of religion and the existence of a Great Mother Goddess archetype which spans most cultures. Some people insist that the patriarchal religions overcame the more primal...

Honestly, I love the pantheon MZB creates, but I don't really read her books for the mythological aspects. Well, not Darkover, at least. I read them from a largely anthropological point of view. I love how she depicts culture clash and the differences and similarities between different...

Probably a fable about staying out of what is clearly women's business :P

What's your favorite flavor of Arthurian Legend? Arthurian legend comes wrapped in all sorts of packages. I'm sure we can imagine the reasons why: oral retellings, different literature styles as the ages passed... What kind of Arthurian legend do you like best? The pagan flavor we've seen...

It was that you just quoted almost exactly how the phrase turns up in her stories over and over. In the Darkover series tons, and a bit in Avalon.

I kind of like this whole vanity thing. I think it's funny the goddesses are so shallow they don't actually care WHO is the most beautiful enough to let the contest be based on actual fairness (ha! double entendre!).

@ Aegipan I thought Hera offered Paris Asia. Power. I'm sure it's just a conflict of stories. I would totally have picked Athena.

Well, the lines between Christianity and Eastern Mythology are fuzzy- you ought to know that :p I was more referring to how he drags things out of 1001 Arabian Nights, and talks about djinni, and all that. Even in Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Beavers tell the Pevensies that Jadis is...

American Gods.... now that's one of those books that I love like it's a friend. It's up there with The Red Tent. When I was almost 9, my grandmother began a mission to turn my cousin that was my age and I onto mythology. I became deeply entrenched almost immediately- she bought us both a...

I've read the whole series just about every year since I was 10, and I love every movie they have ever done. the whole series has a soft spot in my heart. And yes, Lewis does borrow liberally from Classical mythology, and a bit of mideastern.

Ask tiresas.

Whoa.... do you read Marion Zimmer Bradley?

Three is also a significant number because it means a group- neither single or pair. I think in Mesopotamia or Egypt, they specify that being the reason. But you see this all over the world. Notice the number 2 is just as significant, but we don't really acknowledge it because pairs are so...