mythology | mythology
Dec.08.2010
We've taken Narcissus and Echo as far as I can go for right now. Like the hummingbirds that visit our feeder, our mythic investigations are moving onto the next nectar filled flower. I found this Persian tale in a collection by Heinrich Zimmer (edited by Joseph Campbell), called The King and The...
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Aug.29.2010
Joseph Campbell used to tell a story about a conversation he overhead, between a young boy and his mother. The boy had written a paper about evolution for class. His teacher told him that evolution was wrong and that Adam and Eve were the first human beings. His mother actually agreed with the...
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Aug.21.2010
Phillip and I recently made a long car trip. On the way, we listened to the digital recording of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Motivated by the realization that he didn't understand anything about the universe, planet Earth, or the conditions that make life as we know it...
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Jul.12.2010
I was with my father in the ICU the moment he died. When he did, something died in me, too. Although I had been a minister all my adult life and had counseled others in times of overwhelming sadness and grief, when it occurred in me, I was completely unprepared for it. The pain was incredible...
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Jun.25.2010
Riting Myth, Mythic Writing:Invoking the Embodied Energy of Presencewith Dennis Patrick Slattery
Two Separate Retreats Offered in Santa Barbara, CA August 12-15 or August 19-22
Thursday 6:30-8:30 pm Friday 9:00 am-5:00 pm...
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Apr.03.2010
When you start studying mythology or looking for the mythological background to your ideas, one thing is immediately clear: our ideas co-exist in the present with those of our ancestors. The past is not locked up in a trunk in a dusty attic, separate from the present. The past is more like a...
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Mar.21.2010
Please check out my brand new book trailer for Twenty-Five Years Ago Today on YouTube at http://bit.ly/d1q71I .
For twenty-five years, Diana Ferguson's killer has gotten away with murder. When rookie obit writer and newsroom editorial assistant Kris Langley investigates the cold case of the...
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Feb.28.2010
On March 24th, a sale of Japanese & Korean Art will take place at Christie's in New York, and amongst the 166 lots is a hanging scroll by the well-known artist Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-89). The painting depicts the Hell Courtesan (Jigoku dayū), a Takasu prostitute who is said to have attained...
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Feb.04.2010
In Celtic myth, Brighid is one of the most ancient goddesses known and revered in many European countries. Even today in Ireland, Spain, Scotland, Wales, Britain, and France, honor and devotion is rendered to her principles and culminated in the celebration of Imbolc, a symbolic festival signifying...
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Nov.06.2009
Born in Tahiti, Pele is the Hawaiin Goddess of fire, lightning, volcanoes, dance, and violence. Landing first at Ni'ihau, then Kauai, Pele moved down the chain of islands in order of their geological formation, eventually landing on the Big Island's Mauna Loa. As a word in the Hawaiian language her...
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