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  • From: starchild AT mutualaid.org (Agent Starchild)
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: my personal myth will do fine -- thank you
  • Date: 15 Jul 2004 14:25:54 -0700

Well I don't care about Epiglotamus and whoever wrote whatever in
ancient Greece. I like pronouncing chthonic kah-tah-nic 'cause it's
easier and cha-thong-nic sounds dorky like the Transformers or
something. And the word is as sacred to me as the incantation of the
Mayan creator god in the Popol Vuh that I recite at the beginning of
every show. And I like calling myself the son/lover/champion of the
goddess Hecate because I read in some obscure anthology somewhere deep
in the UVA library 4 years ago that she mothered Dionysus.

It's all about creating myths that satisfy you. That's what religion
is, isn't it? A bunch of people bastardizing texts that were
bastardized by people before them. There's no such thing as the
unmodified pure text. That's a modernist construct. Even the
original carries with it for us linguistic implications superimposed
by our subconscious life-experience-based associations with the words
used that were not intended by the original author.

So make your own myth. May it make you happy and productive. If it's
an I get to sit on my ass myth, it's bad. Nothing dangerous about
mythmaking unless you use your myth to justify genocide. Then you've
got a problem.

Love,
Starchild
www.chthonic-arts.com



  • my personal myth will do fine -- thank you, Agent Starchild, 07/15/2004

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