Category Archives: Mythology

White-Skunk seeks medicine IV… Stuart France

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* … Skunk came to a longhouse, and recognised the people there as those who pushed his musk-sac back into the river in repulsion, he said to those people, “I am on my way from the camp of the Clever … Continue reading →

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White-Skunk seeks medicine II… Stuart France

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* ‘How you must have stopped and wondered How I must feel Out on the meadows While you roam the fields.’ – Shaman Blues * … So Skunk went on the land but before long he accidentally stood on and … Continue reading →

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White-Skunk seeks medicine… Stuart France

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* “There will never be another one, like you. There will never be another one who can, do the things you do.” Shaman Blues * …”My musk-sac… my power,” cried Skunk as he drifted along the river on his raft … Continue reading →

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Time Lines III… Stuart France

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* … “And everywhere literalism rears its convoluted head.” “I’m not sure I know what you mean.” “I mean, I don’t think these people regarded those so called entities as we do.” “Superstitiously?” “Just because one creates a form to … Continue reading →

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Distance….Stuart France

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* If we want a yardstick, for how far we have travelled from our Gods… We need only consider the once widespread custom of sacrificing a first-born child… It hardly seems credible from this vantage, irrespective of its counter productivity … Continue reading →

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Sacred Wisdom by Gretchen Del Rio.

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from artist Gretchen Del Rio, who shares her magical paintings and the tale of When Raven was Killed: This is just one of so many Native American tales about Raven as well as other animals. I love to read … Continue reading →

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Scribes… Stuart France

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* With the advent of cuneiform, the Oral Tradition continued to develop alongside ‘written literature’, but the primary purpose of recording stories in writing was not necessarily to supply individual readers with a coherent or connected account of ‘historical’ events. … Continue reading →

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Deluge!… Stuart France

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Various stories relating a catastrophic flood are told by classical authors. These flood stories may derive from a single Mesopotamian original used in travellers tales for over two thousand years along the great caravan routes of Western Asia. In … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of Solomon… Stuart France

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “So many questions.” “Chief amongst which, perhaps, is why would the Temple be built by a demon?” “By the Prince of Demons?” “It may just be that we are meant to ‘subjectivise’ this story?” “In which case, the ‘temple … Continue reading →

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An Imperious Impulse: Coyote Tales

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Sue Vincent

“Couldn’t you make me into a Bull?” asked Coyote. In a time before Man walked the Earth, the Great Spirit breathed life into the land. Coyote was the First. Playful, subversive, curious and sometimes comical, he and his fellow creatures … Continue reading →