Mythology − 4 December, 2001
When you're getting to know someone, as I was getting to know Marja during this time, it's like you're walking onto the stage of that person's personal mythology.
If that person makes up the central hero in their own, personal quest, then their friends and family make up the gods and goddesses; their guides and teachers become the soothsayers; their adversaries and obstacles in their paths become the gravest of evils; and their most treasured objects become magical items, gifts from the gods. It feels like there's some sort of mythological analog for everything in our world, and that interacting with this person's myths helps some of that might and magic rub off on you. Just stepping out the door to go to work in the morning can be the stuff of legend. A weekend trip might make up the beginnings of a quest.
And what did all that make me? At that point, just a minor character. One of the slaves working on a pyramid, perhaps, or someone lost in the labyrinth and left to the dark ways of the minotaur.
But as I grew closer to Marja, I felt like my mythos and hers combined to become something new; a fresh story that hadn't been told yet. And when we married, I felt sure that this story was important and would continue for the rest of our lives.
Who are the heroes in your life? The gods and goddesses? Who helps you along on your quest and who stands in the way?
If that person makes up the central hero in their own, personal quest, then their friends and family make up the gods and goddesses; their guides and teachers become the soothsayers; their adversaries and obstacles in their paths become the gravest of evils; and their most treasured objects become magical items, gifts from the gods. It feels like there's some sort of mythological analog for everything in our world, and that interacting with this person's myths helps some of that might and magic rub off on you. Just stepping out the door to go to work in the morning can be the stuff of legend. A weekend trip might make up the beginnings of a quest.
And what did all that make me? At that point, just a minor character. One of the slaves working on a pyramid, perhaps, or someone lost in the labyrinth and left to the dark ways of the minotaur.
But as I grew closer to Marja, I felt like my mythos and hers combined to become something new; a fresh story that hadn't been told yet. And when we married, I felt sure that this story was important and would continue for the rest of our lives.
Who are the heroes in your life? The gods and goddesses? Who helps you along on your quest and who stands in the way?
Comments:
kga245 (February 7, 2007. 04:36pm)
Excellent thoughts to ponder.
edunn (February 15, 2007. 01:05am)
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