Re: Creation myths Daven daven@priest.com Fri Feb 8 14:45:34 2002 I don't know if this will help or confuse the topic much, but a friend of mine researched a synopsis of the Irish Invasions and wrote it into a file I just uploaded to the Summerlands File area. The link is below.*p**br*Understand that Celtic Creation is not the same thing as "Where we came from" and so on. As far as I know, there IS not Celtic Creation myth. They simply didn't care how the world was made.*p*<snip of three different emails>*p*As to what the authors of those emails are wanting, they each want different things.*p*The first seems to want a Celtic creation myth and there is not a lot that can be done.*p*The last seems to want a Wiccan Creation myth and there I can help. try these links: *p*http://www.robinwood.com/LivingtreeGrove/Philosophy/PhilosophyPages/PhilosophyCreation.html*br*http://pagan-home.com/galena/wicca_myth.htm*br*http://pagan-home.com/stories/create.htm*br*http://www.tryskelion.com/create4.htm*br*http://www.tryskelion.com/create1.htm*br*http://www.tryskelion.com/descent.htm*br*http://www.tryskelion.com/create2.htm*br*http://www.tryskelion.com/create3.htm*p*In my experience there can be a lot of variation in these stories, mainly reflecting the prejudices and Gods of the tradition that is speaking. For intstance, The "Descent" myth earlier is from traditional Gardnerism and talks about how the Goddess got her mystical knowledge.*p*The second person wants a pan-Pagan creation myth and there just isn't one. There are too many religions that make up "paganism" to pluck one out and flourish it as THE creation myth for Paganism.*p*For instance, if I were to decide that the Hindu creation myth was the one she needed, and I told her that THIS one was the myth of all Paganism, an Asatru person would jump up and say that Vishnu was NOT the creater of ALL, but rather the gods of Valhalla crafted the World from the body of the slain Ice Giant. If I recognized that one as the Pan Pagan myth, a practitioner of an african religion would say that more likely that Asanti (sp) was responsible for spinning all of it out of his body. And on and on and on.*p*Try to find out what religion is being spoken on specifically and then we may have a chance of finding the cretion myth that she needs.*p*Daven Creation myths DreamSeekern66 1036 Thu - Feb 7 - 10:19am http://www.summerlands.com/_members/blfsnhdtcqmgngstraoueieaoiuiioae/members/uploads/Irish_Invasion.txt http://www.summerlands.com/_members/blfsnhdtcqmgngstraoueieaoiuiioae/members/uploads/Irish_Invasion.txt http://davensjournal.com/images/DavenAva.gif 207.65.28.2