| Before I go any further |
[Aug. 13th, 2004|07:17 pm] |
Before I go any further with posting chapters, since I've had several comments, I wanted to post a little list of historical facts related to the book. I don't mean to offend anyone with this novel, but in truth, Christianity (and as was stated in the book, a small corrupt sect of Christians) did destroy many of the belief systems native to the places I am writing about. Also, please keep in mind, that this is a FANTASY novel. I do not believe that there were, or ever will be cat and dog people, I only believe in their existance in mythology and the existance of animal worshipers in history. Furthermore, if people find it capable of liking elves and dragons in fantasy, why not cat and dog people? The point of this book is from a spiritual belief (used in countless religions) that if you worship something...like cats, for instance, once you die, you will become the animal, or in this case, something like it. The majority of these references will be printed in the novel anyway.
Ok, links:
King Arthur and the Cat and dog people
"After the above passage the poem develops into a list of Arthur's men and their exploits recounted by Arthur, including deeds by Arthur himself:
Though Arthur laughed [or ?played]
he caused the/her blood to flow
in Afarnach's hall,
fighting with a witch.
He pierced Cudgel(?) Head
in the dwellings of Disethach.
On the mountain of Edinburgh
he fought with dogheads.
By the hundred they fell;
they fell by the hundred
before Bedwyr the Perfect [or Perfect-Sinew].
(Lines 37-47: Sims-Williams, 1991, pp.41-2)
The final conflict mentioned by the poem (lines 81-90) is a battle against lleuon, ‘lions, wild-cats’ and the monstrous sea-cat Cath Paluc ('Clawing Cat', later 'Palug's Cat') attributed to Cai. In other sources this features Arthur rather than Cai and it seems probable that all the sources are recounting a generally Arthurian battle, with Cai simply made prominent in Pa gur?'s telling and Arthur elsewhere (see further 'Arthur's Death & Destiny' in 'Concepts of Arthur'). This might well apply to all the battles referred to in the poem and it is most interesting that the Arthurian battle against were-wolves at Traeth Tryfrwyd, mentioned in Pa gur? (lines 19-22, 48-51) as involving both Bedwyr and the sea-god Manawydan son of Llyr, is included in Historia Brittonum chapter 56 as Arthur's tenth battle.- All from the Welsh Mabinogion a Welsh Arthurian text"
http://www.maryjones.us/jce/cathpalug.html Cath Palu, Celtic cat goddess
http://www.caithness.org/ Caithness, Scotland, home of the main cat worshiping tribe and shrine to goddess Cath Palu
http://www.geocities.com/~tinkerbella/cat_people_page.html Caitti Tribe of cat worshipers
http://per-bast.org/bast/ Goddess Bast of Egypt
http://www.crystalinks.com/cat.html General site about cat worshipping
http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/com/pathology/sherman/vet_mdt/cats.htm Info on the Temple of Bast
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/1029/cat.html Lions
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/hello_kitty.htm A Christian perspective on Cat Cults/ cat worshipping
All just fyi, I hope you all find these interesting. There are tons more where those came from. |
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[Aug. 11th, 2004|04:07 pm] |
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