Modern myth

[beccaelizabeth]

This morning I dreamed most (at least) of Neil Gaiman's Endless.
Dream and Death were only there by implication. I was asleep, and in the dream people died.
You only meet Death again that one time, so I am content with that.
The others though turned up one at a time, slightly different from the comics but all the more real for that.
And I've realised, this Worries me. I find myself ever less convinced of the existence of most gods and goddesses. They're interesting, but they're stories. Probably. And yet I dream about these characters who a comic book writer almost certainly made up, and here I am feeling like I should be Very Very Quiet until the beings too large for a mortal life shift their attention elsewhere.

Stories have power.


(Destiny was on a key fob, burnt onto a piece of wood shaped like a tombstone or a large arched door. Desire led me along until I saw Immortals, beautiful and eternal, escorting one of their number to a play he had written. I sat one row away, and rubbed my Watcher tattoo, and wanted.)
(Of Delirium and Despair I try not to talk. But they were there.)


(I looked up the Endless and remembered Destiny is chained to the book, and if one of the Endless dies a new aspect of them takes over. Suddenly a key shaped like a tombstone is a Story of itself.)

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

"Stories have power" sounds like the motto of the entire Gaiman world-view.

I think what we're getting at here isn't deities but archetypes and the way archetypes, myth, the subconscious and symbols interact.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I really love this.