Mythago Wood: 1 (Mythago Cycle)

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When both brothers fall in love with a nature goddess mythago that strays from the wood, things get even weirder (and more nasty! By mining the rich vein of British myth and tying it to both the Jungian subconscious and the magical influence of an acient living forest he managed to create a fantasy work that was both epic in scope and personal in its resonance. It is revealed in The Hollowing and The Bone Forest that George was a tall lean man, a psychologist who studied with Carl Jung. U središtu radnje je kompleks motiva koji su sjajno kombinovani iz Frojdovog i Jungovog učenja, tako da se može reći da je sve zasnovano na pojmu kolektivnog nesvesnog (plus anima), ali i da su lične priče glavnih likova određene vrlo frojdovskim razvojem psihe ;) Ali, takođe, nijedan ljubitelj visoke fantastike neće ostati gladan i žedan, može mu eventualno zasmetati izvesna (vrlo namerna i brižljivo sprovedena) snolika nedorečenost i nezaokruženost pojedinih momenata.

I had wanted to read it but for one reason or another it would just remain on the reading list, waiting. These elements of culture include Morris dances, the Green Man, shamanism, Neolithic tribespeople and pre-Roman Celtic traditions. The story is told from Steven's viewpoint (first person, with diary entries and letters from a couple of other characters), so the reader feels emotionally involved.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. We can tell which one is the good guy because he on one occasion suggests she might have a choice, but there is no choice in the book because The Girl has no personality and no role that doesn't include being there for men to fight over who gets to fuck. George Huxley, επιστρέφει μετά τον πόλεμο στο σπίτι του, εκεί που μεγάλωσε, δίπλα στο δάσος του Ryhope. They are the manifestation of our collective memories of heroes that have been encoded into our unconscious mind by the memories and experiences of our ancestors. By cavorting with nymphs the narrator begins to transgress, blaspheme and in the weakness of human nature, sins and enters into a complicated existence, fraught with danger that reaches beyond his ken.

The Fenlander and the Hawks serve as Christian's personal bodyguards as he travels to the heart of Ryhope Wood. Also, the parts of the story taken from a diary are in a handwriting style that I found difficult to decipher. The setting of a myth-rich magical Celtic wood itself, along with its existence side by side with the modern everyday world, are characteristics of particular interest to critics. All of these battles are undertaken in the name of Gwyneth, an alluring mythago whose charms manage to enamour all of the Huxley men. The mythagos embody Jungian archetypes since they are dependent on the subconscious, not on distinct memory.And they ignored all of the things that I found intiguing: ancient languages, lost peoples, a potential way back to the Ice Age. Will the real world have distorted tales of Steven and myself, and our quest to avenge the Outsider's abduction? It would sit better on the shelves about psychology, philosophy, religion, and history, than it would next to Hobbits, elves, dragons, and sorcerers. The setting is convincing, though there were distracting missteps and aggravations that had me rolling my eyes. This gloomy, compelling stand of forest butts up against the family home, and had also been the obsession of their father.

He falls in love with a projection of his lust: a teenaged wisp of a nubile (blarf) girl-child, all alone in the big woods. As the story unfolds we discover that the father, though he had died, has merged with a large angry mythical creature from ancient times. Il finale è contemporaneamente pregio e difetto del libro: da una parte esplodono tutte le pulsanti idee (potenzialmente infinite) circa i Mitago e il ruolo che ricoprono nel preservare questo magico luogo; dall'altra parte, e questo era anche preventivabile, si osserva una certa difficoltà nel tirare le fila della storia e definire con maggior chiarezza il contesto. You could argue that mythagos are created out of the minds of men, but that also makes it more difficult to sympathize with them.

The creatures that live in these pages are magnificent - inspired by myths, but mutated into something threatening and grotesque.

I loved it when Stephen went running into the woods after his mad brother to save the woman, the mythago he loved.He soon discovers his brother has been drawn into the mystery of the wood, and its not long before he is disappearing for weeks at a time while Steven keeps house and waits. Christian in an attempt to explain what IS going on to Steven has him read their father's diary which is filled with stories and observations that barely make sense.