wiccanwade
Unregistered User
(8/12/03 8:40 pm)
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"Faerie Tales" as Myths!
Hello there:
I've always loved faerie tales, ever since I was a child. Anyway, I am researching for a book I've like to write (a series of books, actually) about the Celtic & European deities. Anyway, I believe that these myths, or Gods and Goddess (even archetypes) are encapsulated within them). For example, the tale of "Snow White" seems like a clear telling of the Summer Queern overcoming and vanquishing the Winter Queen. Or, the White Goddess having the power to confer kingship, and thus chooses Her suitor in the cycles of the seasons...ever spinning as the Great Wheal of the Sacred Earth Year. Simmilar to the Green Man/Red Man and the Summer King and Wintern King, respectively. So, I would like to further research this. And, would like any very well researched books and authors (cognate with "authority", IMHO) about this aspect of what we call "Faerie Tales". You might even call such books scholarly discussions. As well as anything which may "draw the lines" as it were, historically and mythically, between our Faerie Tales and various cultural myths. ;o)
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