From: Nick_Brooke@deloitte.touche.co.uk
Date: Wed 10 Jul 1996 - 18:49:56 EEST
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Chris Pearce asks why we demonise the Monomyth.
In old Joe Campbell's sense, there's nothing wrong with the concept of a
monomyth: a series of patterns in comparative religion which can often be
explained away through nature, biology, psychology, etc. But the Gloranthan
monomyth was a creation of the Jrusteli God Learners, and they didn't just
record the myths of other cultures: they actively intervened to prune away
what they took for "excrescences" and "deviations" and replace them with
the One True Version, trying to return the myths of the world to a supposed
primeval archetypal state which *they* said was "right". (Essentially
inflicting on other peoples the same reductive textual/mythical criticism
with which they'd transformed their own religion of Malkionism).
And that's not nice.
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Jeff posts the Top Ten Things That Are Not From Saird (but I only counted
nine!) :-)
Sorry to disappoint, but some elements of late tenth- and eleventh-century
Carmanian religion are heavily influenced from Saird (e.g. the myth of the
"Carmanian Lightbringers' Quest"), while the royal houses of the two lands
intermarried throughout the Three Generations of Peace. Remember the Three
Brothers Who Divided The World.
Does that make it eight...?!
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