JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
on 25 Sep 12:34
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Thanks for sharing!
I haven’t read any prose short stories for a while, foolish me. (I’m obsessed with BD these days) These look great for tablet, etc…
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Sep 12:43
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Enjoy! There’s a lotta good stuff there
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
on 25 Sep 13:13
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Oh, btw–
Dunno if it’s been posted on here much, but some years back on my old tablet, I was enjoying the heck out of various sites devoted to regional and national folk tales / fairy tales / myths / legends, and so forth.
At first I sort of just thought to myself: “these are cute, fun, silly stories” (completely forgetting my Joseph Campbell). But later, I started to realise how truly interesting they were across the metaphorical sense, and also in terms of revealing the cultural thinking of the regions they originated from. They were almost like glimpses in to the human soul, really.
And….. then various shit happened in my life at the time, and I completely forgot about them. 😢
Bah, sorry to unload all that! But… I do wonder how much such olden short-story tales get mentioned here?
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Sep 13:30
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Havent seen or posted much of these but I love noticing story tropes in mythologies and seeing the similarities across them, funnily the opposite to your way of seeing the localised identities.
I dont think ive posted or seen posted any mythology texts, mostly bc they are not formal short stories and often gave no authors. More oral tales jotted down.
Having said that they are completely welcome here. Infact I’ll try and post some myself.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
on 25 Sep 13:43
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…funnily the opposite to your way of seeing the localised identities.
Oh… I think I understand. Do you mean the (rather amazing) ability for mythic tales around the world to share so many surprising commonalities?
For example, I believe “The Great Flood” story appears not just in Japan, the Near-East, Rome, Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc… but in fact across almost every early culture one can think of. A global commonality, I guess… each with their own unique ways of dating it, describing it, fitting it in to their conscious collective, etc..?
Almost like something built right in to the collective human archetype..? (remember that old Star Trek TNG episode? haha)
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Sep 13:48
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Yep precisely that. Theres so many stories of a baby being carted away in a river only to return and become king for example. Many other such tropes across the world.
Unfortunately despite being in Lemmy I’m not a star trek guy so don’t know much about that.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
on 25 Sep 14:58
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Well then, it’s perfectly clear!– it’s good to be Flandereses, mais non?
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Thanks for sharing!
I haven’t read any prose short stories for a while, foolish me. (I’m obsessed with BD these days) These look great for tablet, etc…
Enjoy! There’s a lotta good stuff there
Oh, btw–
Dunno if it’s been posted on here much, but some years back on my old tablet, I was enjoying the heck out of various sites devoted to regional and national folk tales / fairy tales / myths / legends, and so forth.
At first I sort of just thought to myself: “these are cute, fun, silly stories” (completely forgetting my Joseph Campbell). But later, I started to realise how truly interesting they were across the metaphorical sense, and also in terms of revealing the cultural thinking of the regions they originated from. They were almost like glimpses in to the human soul, really.
And….. then various shit happened in my life at the time, and I completely forgot about them. 😢
Bah, sorry to unload all that! But… I do wonder how much such olden short-story tales get mentioned here?
Havent seen or posted much of these but I love noticing story tropes in mythologies and seeing the similarities across them, funnily the opposite to your way of seeing the localised identities.
I dont think ive posted or seen posted any mythology texts, mostly bc they are not formal short stories and often gave no authors. More oral tales jotted down.
Having said that they are completely welcome here. Infact I’ll try and post some myself.
Oh… I think I understand. Do you mean the (rather amazing) ability for mythic tales around the world to share so many surprising commonalities?
For example, I believe “The Great Flood” story appears not just in Japan, the Near-East, Rome, Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc… but in fact across almost every early culture one can think of. A global commonality, I guess… each with their own unique ways of dating it, describing it, fitting it in to their conscious collective, etc..?
Almost like something built right in to the collective human archetype..? (remember that old Star Trek TNG episode? haha)
Yep precisely that. Theres so many stories of a baby being carted away in a river only to return and become king for example. Many other such tropes across the world.
Unfortunately despite being in Lemmy I’m not a star trek guy so don’t know much about that.
Well then, it’s perfectly clear!– it’s good to be Flandereses, mais non?
https://skipcut.com/watch/xwHVYJnVw-k
Haha thats good.