Dear Baba Yaga,
Somehow these tales that are unfamiliar to me just don't prompt much insight or even interest w/in me. It makes me wonder if anyone has ever done a study to examine how much our perceived meaning(s) of the myths is influenced by our experience of and relationship to those who first told us the myth, and the micro-culture in which the myth-meaning was lived or refuted.
I know for myself that my memories of fairy tales is always linked to Mom reading them to me at bedtime. And I know a few American folk-tales that I associate w/ my Dad because he told them to us while traveling in the car on family vacations.
I'm not sure how a person would make an objective study of this. But I think I want to look at tales from this angle for myself.
Contrasted to this is my resonance w/ The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson. I don't recall ever having heard a story anything like this. And yet, it reverberates w/in me like an ancient truth.
I've ordered two books w/ fairy-tales and folk-tales that I believe will be more familiar to me. I'm going to see if I can find threads of meaning that are akin to what Estes talks about in WWRWW.
Love,
Lucy
Somehow these tales that are unfamiliar to me just don't prompt much insight or even interest w/in me. It makes me wonder if anyone has ever done a study to examine how much our perceived meaning(s) of the myths is influenced by our experience of and relationship to those who first told us the myth, and the micro-culture in which the myth-meaning was lived or refuted.
I know for myself that my memories of fairy tales is always linked to Mom reading them to me at bedtime. And I know a few American folk-tales that I associate w/ my Dad because he told them to us while traveling in the car on family vacations.
I'm not sure how a person would make an objective study of this. But I think I want to look at tales from this angle for myself.
Contrasted to this is my resonance w/ The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson. I don't recall ever having heard a story anything like this. And yet, it reverberates w/in me like an ancient truth.
I've ordered two books w/ fairy-tales and folk-tales that I believe will be more familiar to me. I'm going to see if I can find threads of meaning that are akin to what Estes talks about in WWRWW.
Love,
Lucy
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