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Post by adolphuscrowfeather on Mar 3, 2015 15:54:30 GMT -6
Honestly, thus is more coming from my mental handicap, so I hope this idea is okay to think on.
Of course, we know that as Gaelic Polytheists, we don't have sources that directly come from (at least the ancient ) that came in the Gaelic Polytheistic point of view. I suffered from heat from this on tumblr, but I hope as I explain more it will make more sense.
My my main point is, I can not mentally comprehend the texts in the Gaelic Christian to convert them to the Gaelic Polytheism. I've been given tips, but based on my Aspergers that slows my processing speeds, I can not process or convert the texts easily. I can't tell editory from the actual story, don't know how to convert things correctly, and such on.
Mainly, my proposal is, for those who can't easily comprehend, or are new to the path (I'm both sadly) and even to all already in the path, that we can collaborate on possibly reconstructing the texts to the Gaelic Polytheists view and store it on online documents for public domain. I know our community here is small on the site, but if this idea gets well out or we all try our bests to, me included to the best of my limitations, we can really do a great servivce to the Gaelic Polytheists community.
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Post by Allec on Mar 3, 2015 20:02:04 GMT -6
Though the texts aren't from a Gaelic Polytheist view, they are still from an Gaelic perspective. It's just the polytheism might be downplayed, if not outright taken away. But you can still get a lot from reading them But I understand the problem! Even though the texts are still a Gaelic perspective, the Christian and/or monotheist perspective needs to still be taken into account and that can be a lot to juggle. Especially when starting out. There are some texts already online that I think are rather polytheist in nature, or at least try to be. One suggestion I have is to read Ella Young's works. (A warning being placed that the creation myth she has isn't historical, but it's nonetheless a very wonderful tale and I personally like it.) Another book I'm reading that tries to capture the polytheist nature of the myths is Celtic Myths edited by Jake Jackson. The Táin by Ciaran Carson is also really good (though can be a lot to try to take in.) Those last two are sadly not online, but they are still options! Overall, I'd love to strive to retell the myths online from a polytheist perspective--as well as allowing them to be free, since these stories are wonderful! There's a lot of legal stuff to consider, but I know that it's something we can definitely work towards
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Post by saintfelicity on Mar 7, 2015 11:20:14 GMT -6
Adolphus, this might be something you'd be interested in - over the next few months I'm going to work on a visual storytelling of some of the key myths, very minimal word-wise, that I'll be offering online as an interactive piece. It's going to take a long time since I plan to do all the art myself and want to combine papercut, sculpture, and a few other things, but I'd love to have some people test it for clarity before I officially launch it! If you'd like to I can definitely keep you posted. I think I'm going to do The Second Battle of Mag Tuired as my first piece and if it's successful I'll do more. Basically one of my goals with my work in the polytheist space is to create materials for multiple learning styles.
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Post by adolphuscrowfeather on Mar 7, 2015 19:18:11 GMT -6
Adolphus, this might be something you'd be interested in - over the next few months I'm going to work on a visual storytelling of some of the key myths, very minimal word-wise, that I'll be offering online as an interactive piece. It's going to take a long time since I plan to do all the art myself and want to combine papercut, sculpture, and a few other things, but I'd love to have some people test it for clarity before I officially launch it! If you'd like to I can definitely keep you posted. I think I'm going to do The Second Battle of Mag Tuired as my first piece and if it's successful I'll do more. Basically one of my goals with my work in the polytheist space is to create materials for multiple learning styles. That sounds awesome! I think that's a great idea! I'd love to be kept posted on it. I am actually kind of a visual learner, and on the plus side, it really helps in the conversion part since it shows it Gaelic Polytheisticly. It definitely sounds great. It also kind of converts, for example, and this is exaggerated, 500 pages to a decent amount of art, which makes it a much simple but informational read!!! +Edit: It also helps my processing.
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Post by saintfelicity on Mar 7, 2015 23:54:51 GMT -6
Adolphus, this might be something you'd be interested in - over the next few months I'm going to work on a visual storytelling of some of the key myths, very minimal word-wise, that I'll be offering online as an interactive piece. It's going to take a long time since I plan to do all the art myself and want to combine papercut, sculpture, and a few other things, but I'd love to have some people test it for clarity before I officially launch it! If you'd like to I can definitely keep you posted. I think I'm going to do The Second Battle of Mag Tuired as my first piece and if it's successful I'll do more. Basically one of my goals with my work in the polytheist space is to create materials for multiple learning styles. That sounds awesome! I think that's a great idea! I'd love to be kept posted on it. I am actually kind of a visual learner, and on the plus side, it really helps in the conversion part since it shows it Gaelic Polytheisticly. It definitely sounds great. It also kind of converts, for example, and this is exaggerated, 500 pages to a decent amount of art, which makes it a much simple but informational read!!! +Edit: It also helps my processing. Awesome! It's probably going to take me qUITE an amount of time but I'll definitely let you know how things are going! I'd like to release the first sometime late summer I'm thinking is most realistic - aside from making the art I'd like to write the story in chronological order, since it does jump back and forth quite a bit, so I'll be spending a lot of time making sure I break it out alright. I'm stoked to hear you're interested!
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Post by leithincluan on Mar 19, 2015 14:54:08 GMT -6
Adolphus, this might be something you'd be interested in - over the next few months I'm going to work on a visual storytelling of some of the key myths, very minimal word-wise, that I'll be offering online as an interactive piece. It's going to take a long time since I plan to do all the art myself and want to combine papercut, sculpture, and a few other things, but I'd love to have some people test it for clarity before I officially launch it! If you'd like to I can definitely keep you posted. I think I'm going to do The Second Battle of Mag Tuired as my first piece and if it's successful I'll do more. Basically one of my goals with my work in the polytheist space is to create materials for multiple learning styles. Just wanted to say that I think this is a fantastic idea I have Asperger's and dyspraxia/dyslexia, and although I can handle complex information, I am oddly stuck when it comes to reading myths from some cultures. Honestly, if it weren't for the Celtic Myth Podcast, I'd have found the Irish source material hard to deal with - I still do, with the tales that haven't been done in audio versions somewhere. (I finally made it through the Tain by reading a children's version first!) Which I always feel deeply guilty about admitting... but there it is. Illustrated or graphic novel versions of the myths sound amazing. I'd be happy to help test drive them. - Leithin
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Post by Allec on Mar 19, 2015 22:48:46 GMT -6
...There's a child version of The Táin? I want to read that!
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Post by leithincluan on Mar 20, 2015 1:22:47 GMT -6
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Post by wickedlittlecritta on Mar 20, 2015 4:50:28 GMT -6
Oh my gosh I need to own this. *Clutches face*
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Post by leithincluan on Mar 20, 2015 9:04:27 GMT -6
Oh my gosh I need to own this. *Clutches face* *grin* It's great!
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Post by Allec on Mar 20, 2015 18:13:40 GMT -6
Eee! This will very likely be my next book buy
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Post by cass on Mar 20, 2015 23:32:45 GMT -6
Adolphus, this might be something you'd be interested in - over the next few months I'm going to work on a visual storytelling of some of the key myths, very minimal word-wise, that I'll be offering online as an interactive piece. It's going to take a long time since I plan to do all the art myself and want to combine papercut, sculpture, and a few other things, but I'd love to have some people test it for clarity before I officially launch it! If you'd like to I can definitely keep you posted. I think I'm going to do The Second Battle of Mag Tuired as my first piece and if it's successful I'll do more. Basically one of my goals with my work in the polytheist space is to create materials for multiple learning styles. Just wanted to say that I think this is a fantastic idea I have Asperger's and dyspraxia/dyslexia, and although I can handle complex information, I am oddly stuck when it comes to reading myths from some cultures. Honestly, if it weren't for the Celtic Myth Podcast, I'd have found the Irish source material hard to deal with - I still do, with the tales that haven't been done in audio versions somewhere. (I finally made it through the Tain by reading a children's version first!) Which I always feel deeply guilty about admitting... but there it is. Illustrated or graphic novel versions of the myths sound amazing. I'd be happy to help test drive them. - Leithin i have very similar problems with reading the mythology, and CMP is how i started feeling more comfortable with the lore as well. have you ever listened to the story archaeology podcast? i haven't listened to much of it yet, but so far it's fantastic! they don't seem to cover full myths like CMP, which is a bummer, but i really love their format. audiobooks of irish mythology really needs to be a thing.
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Post by leithincluan on Mar 21, 2015 2:36:38 GMT -6
Ooh, that sounds good. I'll look it up. Thanks!
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Post by wickedlittlecritta on Mar 21, 2015 8:00:23 GMT -6
OH I totally forgot but there's this site called bettermyths where a whole bunch of myths and stories are retold in like, conversational tumblr style The "Celtic" section is pretty much all Irish and it's by no means a thorough source but it's a good way to get a grasp on the stories and also laugh a lot. His version of the Tain is my favorite. so cuchulainn is literally the ONLY DUDE IN THE WHOLE KINGDOM who can do anything about this incoming invasion but whoops he kind of forgets and starts having a bunch of sex but then he remembers because SUDDENLY HERE COMES AN ARMY and he is like it’s cool guys i got this and just goes ahead and challenges EVERYONE IN THE ARMY TO SINGLE COMBAT ONE AT A TIME AT A RIVER BECAUSE HE IS CUCHULAINN AND FUCK EVERYBODY oh man i don’t think i ever told you guys Cuchulainn has FOURTEEN FINGERS AND FOURTEEN TOES ALSO FOURTEEN PUPILS WHY FOURTEEN PUPILS? BECAUSE TWO PUPILS IS NOT ENOUGH TO WITNESS THE SHEER QUANTITY OF HOMICIDE HE COMMITS
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Post by aondeug on Mar 21, 2015 13:19:25 GMT -6
That is one of the many ways I tell people stories or explain religious points, honestly. Conversational casual shit. It works very well with certain kinds of people. I've also done much less casual write ups for roleplay purposes. Wherein the purpose was to attempt to make it a story? There are tangents in said write ups because the character is just really bad at staying on point at times. If I can manage to find any of those I can them. For the moment they seem to be lost to the aether though.
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