SR - "alchemical" and mythic musings .... naming the region

j'lynn yeates jyeates at bga.com
Thu Aug 20 11:21:01 PDT 1998


Tivar mentioned "dragons" as a possibility and it generated a bit of 
immediate resistance because of the prevalence of dragon "soup" already 
in use ... there's another route to the same end-point
 
serpents = dragons (in the eye's a "diffusionist" looking at the symbols ... 
they represent many of the same things and serpents are already linked 
historically to this part of  the world via the native cultures ...
 
and in mayan myth, wasn't it the "white bearded gods who traveled in ships 
without oars" that brougth high culture to the america's, long, long ago ??? 
("... high on the mountain stands a boat, but are they gods or real folk? .. 
horslips, book of invasions) ... images that were passed down in central 
american myth until it met the spaniards via the aztec (quetzacoatl ... 
sp???, not fluent in natal).  love those "great circles" ... "feathered 
serpents" and all that ... eagles and serpents ... 

re: dragons ... while in west they usually represent "fire" attributes, they are 
also the icons of deep waters and air (especially in the eastern cultures) ... 
giving links to the land of the region and sky (a connection to the 
ansteorran star ...) represent knowledge, connections to the "deep", 
guardians, avatars ... could possibly work on a "phoenix" / "rising" 
approach.

'wolf


... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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