i'm starting a collection of pagan related myths and stories for my son to read as he grows. if you have any ones that you like i would appreciate them. Also if any one has some Huron or Wendat tribal tales please let me know. thanks blessed be
2006-09-02 12:18:23 · 10 answers · asked by paganrosemama 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please no chirstian bull. I've heard enough growing up.
2006-09-02 12:19:31 · update #1
i know it's not a myth, i'm looking for stories and traditions.
2006-09-02 12:22:14 · update #2
Holde was a young girl who worked at the pottery kiln. She spent all day shoveling coal into the fire under the pottery oven. Because of this, half of her face was black, covered in soot and ashes. The amount of coal in the fire changed how hot the fire was, so she learned how to change it's heat for certain potteries. She was a very hard worker and would work long after other people would have quit. She loved helping to make the beautiful pottery and knew that you have to work hard for the things you love. After many years, she grew up and the King of Winter noticed her. He saw what a hard and steady worker she was. He saw that, in all the land, Holde was the only one who could understand the discipline and hard work that was neccesary to help Him with His goals. The King of Winter began to send her gifts, hoping that she would like Him as much too. Eventually the King sent her a summons to come to His court and be married to Him. But He had a test for her, to test her wit. He said that she should not show up at the wedding naked, nor should she be clothed. She should not walk to the wedding, nor should she ride. She should not come to the wedding alone, nor should she arrive with any company. She thought about how she could go to the wedding, under the circumstances. That day, while she worked tending to the kilns, she thought up a way that she could go to the wedding. She wore only a fisherman's net, sat upon a donkey with one toe dragging the ground and brought her wolves, that she had raised from puppies, with her. When she arrived at the wedding, the King of Winter was very pleased with her. They became married and lived happily ever after.
2006-09-02 12:56:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My favorite stories are in the Mabinogion. I like Patrick Ford's translation the best. This is a wonderful site to learn about Celtic mythology:
http://www.maryjones.us/
Here are a few Celtic titles:
The O'Brien Book of Irish Fairy Tales and Legends - Retold
by Una Leavy / O'Brien Press, Limited, The
Silver Cow: A Welsh Tale - Susan Cooper / Simon & Schuster
Children's Publishing / August 1991
Little Celtic Activity Book by Winky Adam (Paperback -
October 27, 2000)
Shape-Shifter, The Naming of Pangur Ban: Book One (The
Pangur Ban Celtic Fantasies) by Fay Sampson (Paperback -
October 2002)
A Child's Book of Celtic Prayers by Joyce Denham
(Illustrator), Helen Cann (Illustrator) (Hardcover - April
1998)
Finnglas of the Horses: Book Three (The Pangur Ban Celtic
Fantasies) by Fay Sampson (Paperback - April 2002)
Pangur Ban the White Cat: Book Two (The Pangur Ban Celtic
Fantasies) by Fay Sampson (Paperback - November 2002)
Life in Celtic Times by A. G. Smith (Paperback - November
14, 1997)
The Cool Maccool: Heroic Deeds of Finn Maccool Legendary
Celtic Hero by Gordon Snell (Paperback - November 1989)
Celtic Gods and Heroes (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by
John Green (Paperback - July 22, 2003)
The Tain: The Great Celtic Epic by Liam MacUistin
Celtic Memories - Caitlin Matthews / Barefoot Books /
August 2003
Lucy Dove - Janice Del ***** / DK Publishing, Inc. /
October 2001
More Celtic Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs (Editor) / Dover
Publications / May 1976
2006-09-03 06:22:44 · answer #2 · answered by Witchy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book "Circle Round" has a wealth Pagan stories and activities that I am sure you both would enjoy. I believe it is by Star-hawk and The Reclaiming Tradition...I have probably botched that but I know it is close.
Blessings )O(
2006-09-02 19:27:30 · answer #3 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tell him a few of the Japanese stories, such as with the Crane Woman who made cloth from her feathers, and said she'd keep doing it for the man she married so long as he never watched her do it.
- 16 yo Pagan
2006-09-02 19:26:18 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Myrkr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should get him Greek Myths and Heroes retold by Roger Lancelyn Green. I used to have it on audiobook, it was excellent. I think he also did one of Celtic myths or King Arthur.
2006-09-02 19:23:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
OK, but this one is a true story.
Once upon a time, a masochist and Crowley disciple named Gerald Gardner started a cult so he could be beaten by strong willed women. Since it had nudity and S & M, the cult qucikly grew. It's followers were believed they had magical powers (but they didn't). It was supposedly a religion as old as the Stoneage (it wasn't). Wiccans claimed the evil, hate filled "xtians" killed 9,000,000 of them in the "Burning Times" (they didn't, it didn't exist until 1950) Silver Ravenwolf and all her friends made thousands of dollars off gullible people. And they all lived happily self deluded.
2006-09-03 00:10:49 · answer #6 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Given that Yule is coming up, why not the story of the Holly King and the Oak King?
2006-09-02 19:20:03 · answer #7 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
http://paganwiccan.about.com/cs/aboutyule/a/paganxmas.htm
here is one. I am a christian but I believe you can be whatever you want to be. some change and some do not. prayer to you. good luck in your search. use the yahoo or goggle searches.
2006-09-02 19:28:06 · answer #8 · answered by Ginnykitty 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
pagan and wiccan isn't a myth, it's real
2006-09-02 19:20:54 · answer #9 · answered by You may be right 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
"...because they receved not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And FOR THIS CAUSE God shall send them strong delusion in order that they might believe a lie...so that all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness...." (2Thess. 2:11)
2006-09-02 19:22:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 10⤋