Writing project idea...

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so I've had this idea kicking around for a few days and am thinking more and more of details of how to approach it and I think I'm starting to zero in a bit more on what to do.

Basically, I've been considering my fascination with random, usually fairly obscure deities who have little to no mythology and sometimes not more than a few cursory mentioned in ancient texts. I see a name, a few lines of information, and I want to know more but...there is no more, so I sometimes ponder what their mythology may be like and what stories there might be.

So...that's the project. Writing about what their stories might have been. Speculative Mythology is the term that's formulated in my brain.

For this and a couple of other things, I think I'm going to start a second blog, to keep Pain and Light a devotional blog for Apollo.

Watch this space for details.

Speaking of which, I have a new post over at http://painandlight.wordpress.com

Comments

[rin-x-x.livejournal.com]

I love things like this too. Egyptian mythology is rife with it, since there were so many local tribe deities that rarely have anything surviving to them.

I'm actually trying to write some sort of prose-like hymn about the Nemean Lion, after reading a passage that he was raised by Selene and then Hera demanded that the Lion be brought to her.

[gallows-queen.livejournal.com]

I've done that, to at least some extent thus far, with a couple of the Northern Deities who are barely mentioned in the Eddas, chiefly Bestla and Gunnlod, about whom I will doubtless write more in the future.

[heartofmoon.livejournal.com]

Sounds fascinating. I'm trying to do it with Sjofn.

I think it's a great idea. Our modern interpretation of paganism is so pared down by the fact that people really can only worship the major gods about whom much survives. A re-imagining of all the nearly-forgotten deities would add a new liveliness and complexity, I think.