well, i guess the ice demons consorted with the storm deities?
i should have listened to the cosmic synchronicities telling me to leave town... turning on the radio to hear a story about a farm that had degus (even though it was actually a program about eggs), & reading Yoruba stories (through Harold Courlander) about Agemo, the Chameleon:
` ` In the creation myth of the Yoruba tradition, “The Descent from the Sky” (Courlander, p.189), Agemo the chameleon plays an integral part in the power struggle between Olorun, the supreme orisha, ruler over the sky and the earth beneath the sky, and Olokun, female deity of the sea and the marshes, in his quest to make earth where only water and marshes exist. The chameleon outwits Olokun in a match paralleling the Greek tale of Arachne challenging Athena to a weaving competition. ' ' - from Universal Myths and Symbols:Animal Creatures and Creation/Animals in diverse mythologies/by Pedro Mendia-Landa
it must have been in england... they were saying things in cockney accents like, "they're like little bunny rabbits with long tails" i couldn't fing a transcript on kut, npr, or bbc -- maybe it was some weird syndicated program?
i should have listened to the cosmic synchronicities telling me to leave town... turning on the radio to hear a story about a farm that had degus (even though it was actually a program about eggs), & reading Yoruba stories (through Harold Courlander) about Agemo, the Chameleon:
` ` In the creation myth of the Yoruba tradition, “The Descent from the Sky” (Courlander, p.189), Agemo the chameleon plays an integral part in the power struggle between Olorun, the supreme orisha, ruler over the sky and the earth beneath the sky, and Olokun, female deity of the sea and the marshes, in his quest to make earth where only water and marshes exist. The chameleon outwits Olokun in a match paralleling the Greek tale of Arachne challenging Athena to a weaving competition. ' '
- from Universal Myths and Symbols:Animal Creatures and Creation/Animals in diverse mythologies/by Pedro Mendia-Landa
and here's another abstract, which summarizes the whole tale: Flood Stories from Around the World/by Mark Isaak (the first story under the Yoruba section)
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Yes, you definitely should have come. Ah well, some other time.
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i couldn't fing a transcript on kut, npr, or bbc -- maybe it was some weird syndicated program?
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