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 Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:19 pm
CalledTheRaven What's the date on this book anyway? Copyright 1991, so info gathered is a bit over 20 years old.
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:20 pm
Sanguina Cruenta Yay more reading! heart edit: lol I love all his vaguely snarky comments in this chapter. "Damn those tomb builders for making this so complicated." I liked the idea of ancient tomb "doodles". xd
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:02 am
I've still been reading, but it's been a bit slow going - probably because even though I find the history interesting, the book itself is a bit on the boring side. So I find that I can only read it for a short periods of time, before my brain starts to shut down. sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:23 pm
Yeah, I have trouble reading more than half a chapter at a time for the longer chapters.
Is anyone else reading along?
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:12 pm
I don't have a copy. Wish I did.
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:48 pm
It sucks more people couldn't find a copy... it's rather good.
I'm trying to get back to it after slacking off for a couple of weeks, because I think my novel for NaNo is going to draw on some of these ideas.
Some of the actual art from Catal Huyuck sounds really cool & interesting: female figures giving birth to horned beasts, boobs with beak-nipples, etc. The take that this indicates women were feared is one you don't see often - unfortunately.
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:56 pm
I still want to read this dammit. Must hunt down the local library and get a card!
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:00 am
I am still in the first chapter. The information about the female figurines was both new and old to me. I always wondered why people automatically assumed that the "Venus" figurines were deities. I believe Hutton mentioned an anthropologist who stated that there was nothing to suggest that they were divine at all.
It seems that the more we find the more we realize we don't know about these cultures.
Does any one else find the varriance in the positions of the dead fascinating? I wonder why some people were found with items and others not. It seems that the more I read this book the more I realize that there could not actually be a universal pre-historic religion that all of the cultures followed.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:58 pm
Ok... I skipped a few chapters (5 and 6), because my copy is due back tomorrow and there are no more renewals on it. gonk
In Chapter 7 they talk about early English Gods in particular Woden, which he (and I think most others) tend to associate with Woten (German) and Odin (Norse). That I don't have an issue with, however he then goes on to state that there are associations with Mercury (Roman) - though I take it that has more to do with Tacitus, than anything else, and the one that really made me go "huh?" was that "Woden is the exact equivalent of the Celtic Lugh" (page 265).
As someone who has felt somewhat of an affinity for Lugh, I can honestly say I never got an Odin vibe from him, or really see all that many similarities between the two. So I'm curious how that association came about.
There does seem to be a lot of intertwining of the Norse, German and Anglo-Saxon deities. Which takes me back to that one post on A&J about how that one guy said to study Frey and Freyja if we wanted to know more about the "Lord" and "Lady". Certainly makes you wonder. xd
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:31 pm
The thing about Frey and Freyja is that their names may actually be titles.They mean Lord and Lady. I don't think that makes then "The" Lord and Lady.
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