From: Nick Eden (pheasant@cix.compulink.co.uk)
Date: Sat 03 Sep 1994 - 22:57:25 EEST
In-Reply-To: <9409030715.AA24642@glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM>
Alex Writes:
"If there's a problem with the flood myth, it might be that the Terran
analogue is very familiar, if not overly so, to all us (lapsed or
otherwise) Judeo-Christian tradition types."
And its worth remembering that the flood myth turns up everywhere. Its
there in the Judeo-Christian bible, but it also appears in Babylonian
myths (runic source?) Greek myths and even the Viking mythology. Of
course by the time the Viking myths were written down they were all
Christians, but the idea of the Earth being covered by the sea is very
widespread. it's probably there in Egyptian as well, but they have some
different ideas about floods (live giving instead of destroying).
Now if I was a Cambell or Jung actolyte I would start saying that there is something fundemental about the idea of a world destroying flood that resonates with a part of the human psyche, which would explain why they'd appear in all those ancient cultures and in Glorantha as well, since Glorantha is still human mythology, just mythology that no-one beleived in until 1966. Fortuneately I'm not a Jung or Cambell acolyte. but I know a man who is....
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