Author Archives: Carolyn McVickar Edwards
Artemis
“…careful to preserve the young…protectress of youth….Nevertheless with one of those startling contradictions so common in mythology, she kept the Greek fleet from sailing to Troy until they sacrificed a maiden to her…” p. 31
Narcissus
Hera, raging wife of philandering Zeus, finds in the lovely nymph Echo yet another target for her jealousy and punishes her by taking away her capacity to speak except to copy the last words of others. Echo falls in love … Continue reading
Tantalus
Religion means that which ties back to the source — for me the psycho-spiritual root system of human life. Religious historian Karen Armstrong says that the word myth, unfortunately used often to mean fabrication or lie, is rather a religious … Continue reading
Exceptionalism-Perfectionism
The instruction of my childhood was: be exceptional. It was the 11th commandment. The 12th was be perfect. The evangelical Christian church said: we have the one and only way. We, like the Hebrews of the Old Testament, are the … Continue reading
“And Mary took all these things and pondered them in her heart.”
In the Julie and Julia blog, Julie cooked everyone of Julia Child’s recipes and gave us the report. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (first published 1942; Back Bay Books, 1998) is going to be my spirit cookbook. In one swoosh of a … Continue reading