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Today I had reason to tell one of the myths as an explanation of something. I don't tell them the same way twice when I tell them; the rhythm of the language when I'm storytelling is something that has its own demands, its own life, its own soul, and constraining it to pinned-down language seems wrong to me.
I can tell stories in different registers, in different levels of detail; storytelling is one component of my calling as a writer.
As I was talking to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
teinedreugan while we were out doing some errands (getting fabric for the thing my hands want to do, kibble for the cats, and a feeesheeee for the lily tank), I realised that this is something that matters to me: that the stories, the storytelling, the rhythm of the language and the tales, this is one of the things that gives me a resonance of having a living faith, a living religious system.
There are only a couple of myths I can do this with easily, just drop into storytelling mode and tell the story as it flows out of me, making the rhythm of the language sing. I need to learn more stories, more stories so that I can tell them, make my breath the breath of the living Kemetic faith.
Kheperu!
Addendum: And since I told the world, I also told the Real Live Preacher. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
preachermanfeed, I believe.)
I can tell stories in different registers, in different levels of detail; storytelling is one component of my calling as a writer.
As I was talking to
teinedreugan while we were out doing some errands (getting fabric for the thing my hands want to do, kibble for the cats, and a feeesheeee for the lily tank), I realised that this is something that matters to me: that the stories, the storytelling, the rhythm of the language and the tales, this is one of the things that gives me a resonance of having a living faith, a living religious system.There are only a couple of myths I can do this with easily, just drop into storytelling mode and tell the story as it flows out of me, making the rhythm of the language sing. I need to learn more stories, more stories so that I can tell them, make my breath the breath of the living Kemetic faith.
Kheperu!
Addendum: And since I told the world, I also told the Real Live Preacher. (
preachermanfeed, I believe.)
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Beautifully said, O Hawk o' Darkness. I would like to hear/read some of those stories from you, I would.
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Oh my yes.
I wish I had a better sense of telling my own trad's stories. I can do storytelling in general and Irish folktales in specific, even, but the actual myth cycles...I know the literary versions but it's hard to feel how it must have sounded the way it was told.
Someday I'll get off my butt and start comparing the living Hindi oral tradition that's come down from the Vedas to my stuff and see what the rhythms and choices are like, because there're already several signs that much was kept from east to west.