Your favourite Myth (legend)

[Amarantine]

I wonder what is your favourite myth? If this or similar thread was before, please delete it.

I like mythology and one of my favourite is Myth about Argonauts and quest for the Golden Fleece.

I will not post all the myth just a link, becouse you probably all know the legend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonauts#Story

[Beorn]

Absolutely love the tales of Jason and the Argonauts, and have always adored reading the tales from the Greeks and the Romans, whether it be the great Achilles or the valiant Horatio Cocles, or my favourite to ensure I slept with one eye open as a child; the Minotaur and the labyrinth.

I loved to read the tales of the Celts, Norse and the Anglo-Saxons, with the near God like antics of Cú Chulainn or how the mighty Thor would roam and kill giants and cast down his great hammer, and also the tale of Beowulf who slayed the great Grendel and his mother, but all of these paled into nothing compared to the great tales of King Arthur.

The whole tales from the moment Arthur is conceived to the moment he dies are all tales I could read and read till the day I die and never tire of them, but my exceptional favourites are Gawain and the Green Giant and Tristan and Iseult.

[Amarantine]

Oh King Arthur is one of my favourite, too.

King Arthur was the son of Uther Pendragon and Igraine. Igraine was the wife to Duke Gorlois of Cornwall when she conceived Arthur. Through Merlin's magic, Uther was transformed to look exactly like her husband. Uther made love to Igraine. When Gorlois was killed, Uther immediately married Igraine.

According to Geoffrey, Uther and Igraine were parents of King Arthur and a daughter named Anna, who married King Lot of Orkney. Chretien de Troyes' introduces Morgan le Fay as the sister of King Arthur.

In Gerald of Wales Tour of Wales (1188), he has Morgan as Arthur's cousin.

Malory credits King Arthur with three half-sisters: Morgawse, Elaine (Blasine) and Morgan le Fay. Morgawse had married King Lot of Orkney, Elaine (Blasine) was married to King Nentres of Garlot, and Morgan was wife of King Urien of Gorre, brother of Lot.

Most souces do not ascribe any children to King Arthur and his wife Guinevere. But Chretien de Troyes' gives a son Lohot (or Loholt) fathered by King Arthur, but the mother being Lisanor. Lohot was one of the Knights of the Round Table. Lohot was also one of the knights captured by the lord of Dolorous Guard.

What kind of language was in 12th century in Wales and England? What do you think?

[Beorn]

What kind of language was in 12th century in Wales and England? What do you think?

The Welsh were speaking Welsh and the English were speaking English. You must also remember that Cornwall and the Cornish were still predominately speaking their own language, Kernowek, at this point also.

Quite clearly the tales of King Arthur descend from the culture of the Welsh and Cornish Celts although some may say, (rightly or wrongly) that the Western English have just as much claim to their rightful king

[Lyfing]

Balder's myths are my favorite.



Later,
-Lyfing

[Óttar]

The buffalo-asura (malevolent spirit) Mahisa has been granted many powers by the gods due to his spiritual austerities. He becomes so powerful that he threatens to destroy the world. The gods go to the goddess Durga begging Her to defeat him so that the world can be saved. The goddess Durga has all the powers of the gods combined, so she is depicted with many arms each holding one of the gods' weapons, i.e. the discus of Vishnu, the trident of Shiva, the noose of Ganesh, Indra's mace etc.

She manifests an army of goddesses including the dark goddess Kali from her third eye. Durga, with Her lion mount, strikes and slashes the buffalo demon Mahisa. As Mahisa is about to die, he looks up at the goddess, and before he perishes, She tells him that She will grant him a request before he dies. Mahisa then says "Verily, I ask that I may never be seperated from thee.", and so Durga grants him this request, telling him that he shall never be seperated from Her, and that many times when people see an image of the goddess Durga, there they shall see Mahisa under Her feet.

There is an analogous idea in Catholicism. There is a verse in Genesis where God curses the serpent, saying "And He shall put enmity between you and the woman, and she shall crush your head, and you her heal."

^ When the bible was being translated out of Greek and Hebrew into Latin the word "she" was originally "he", but due to the Latin word ipsa the original was mistranslated as "she." Due to the Roman Church's excessive love of the Virgin (along with the fact that having a feminine object of veneration in the church is an absolute necessity, and the fact that ancient goddess cults were HUGE sources of revenue cleverly co-opted by the Church) the verse has never been clarified and corrected.

Both allegories to me represent the dissolution of the imperfect and mortal ego in ultimate Union with the Divine Essence.

Verily, I am a serpent, and I eagerly await my Mistress' heel.

[Cato]

To name a few:

The Saga of Hrolf Kraki.
The Illiad and the Odyssey.
The Aeneid.
Posthomerica.
Hesiod's Theogony.
The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
The Death of Arthur.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Enuma Elish.

[Brynhild]

To name but a few:

Death of Baldur
Brynhild and Sigurd
Cu Chullain and the feast of Bricriu
Dierdre and the sons of Usnach
Tristan and Isolt
The seven deeds of the sons of Tuireann
anything with Lugh and the Morrigan
The Iliad and Odyssey
Jason and the Argonauts
Death of Osiris
Any tale of Thor and Loki, as they had a lot of adventures! (My favourite is how Thor dressed as Freyja in order to fool the giant Thrym and win back his hammer)

There are tons of them. I remember as a kid in school learning of the Greek and Egyptian tales and acquired a lifelong passion for myths ever since.

[Cato]

Any tale of Thor and Loki, as they had a lot of adventures! (My favourite is how Thor dressed as Freyja in order to fool the giant Thrym and win back his hammer)

The tale where the two visit Utgard-Loki is very enjoyable.

[Thorum]

Santa Klaus




Tomten (Jultomten)




Great Pumpkin (Halloween)



Shows you how far advanced my intellect is, no?