Are you worldbuilding for a new story? I loved the myth! The writing is so good and you managed to create the myth in such a short story. It’s beautiful 💖
It’s a great idea exploring a secondary world through myths. Building a new religious movement or something similar… you can create your little version of the bible or a holy scripture. I’d love to read more myths but also looking forward to the short stories.
This is a beautiful myth. Love the way the story developed.
Thanks! 😊
Are you worldbuilding for a new story? I loved the myth! The writing is so good and you managed to create the myth in such a short story. It’s beautiful 💖
Thank you!
You know, I haven’t decided yet. Right now I’m exploring the larger society as an offshoot of Ithaka. Upcoming pieces will be short fiction.
It’s a great idea exploring a secondary world through myths. Building a new religious movement or something similar… you can create your little version of the bible or a holy scripture. I’d love to read more myths but also looking forward to the short stories.
There’s always room for more myths. 😉
this is a myth i wrote for my city san antonio and the springs that gave birth to it since there are no myths that still exist from those anciet times
a myth for our time
before the spanish marched in
straggled in more likely thirsty and dusty
before the payaya 500 strong showed up
oh lord this enchanted spring
long before any human being dwelt here
around the mouth of god the womb of mother nature
the cradle of humanity the water nymphs the frogs and the
tall cypress resided here occasionally visited by
the mastodons a saber toothed tiger or two and the snake people
oclonoclith and sawana tati
also known as brother tree and sister brook
tended the garden
they have always been here
it was their voice calling back and forth
‘oah tak a nea’ ‘oah tah nea kah’
‘where are you?’ ‘i am here’
that sounded in the water in
the splashing on the rocks in the
call of the ducks coming down
thru the trees in the silence
at twilight when everything changes
when the first people
stood here at the edge of this pool
and saw these things
10,000 years ago
they saw more than we see now
they felt more than we feel now
they knew more than we know now
but they could not imagine us
heaven is forever and stories are about the past
we can imagine them though
look back and make a myth
train your tired eyes to see
train your weary heart to feel
find your inner voice and listen
🤩
Thank you so much for sharing this! Great work!
“they saw more than we see now
they felt more than we feel now
they knew more than we know now
but they could not imagine us
heaven is forever and stories are about the past”
Such a heavy feeling to imagine what they might have seen and perceived, how they connected with nature, drew from it, and gave back.
yes / i think about it often / your essay was beautiful