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Old 11-10-2000, 11:24 PM   #1
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gods and heroes



I see the general opinion, and agree (in general), still why begin the line with gods and not otherwise - are you sure that the gods were diminished into mere folklore personnages, and not the other way round?

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that would seem to be truth almost upside down

JRRT, On Fairy-stories
I mean, not that God of witches is dwindled into Robin Goodfellow, and not that God is derived from above named Robin, but the process begins on the both ends of the line. There may have been some God of Witches, and there may have been someone Robin, and they are boiled toghether in the Pot Of Fairy Story (quote from JRRT again), coming out boiled into one lump of mythology

That concerns mainly creatures of 'human origin', as gods may be, still, there are lot of them wich are not - all of those dragons, monsters etc. why not make distinction between those?


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