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Fantasy: March 23, 2016 Issue [#7546]

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Fantasy


 This week: Mythical Monsters Part 3
  Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating Author IconMail Icon
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“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth


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Mythical monsters, creatures, or beast can either be good or evil. I also suspect that some of them can be considered neutral. I am not going to focus on those creatures that are traditionally considered good or evil. Sometimes a creature can be considered evil in one part of the world while it is considered good in another.

Dragons are one of the mythical creatures that has two different reputations depending on whether it is from the East or the West. In Eastern cultures dragons are portrayed as good, but in Western cultures they are evil. When we use dragons in our stories, we have to decide whether the dragon will be the hero or villain, the protagonist or the antagonist. We do not have to have dragons that are completely good or evil, sometimes they can be like humans with both good and bad attributes.]

Ten Popular Mythical Creatures

*Note* The Phoenix
*NoteV* The centaur
*NoteO* Mermaids
*NoteBl* The Leviathan
*NoteG* Dragons
*NoteBr* Pegasus
*NoteR* Hydra
*NoteGr* Sphinx
*NoteR* Unicorns

April is notional poetry month. I challenge you to write a poem using any form about a mythical creatures. The line length should be no more then 40 lines. The deadline is April 15.


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Excerpt: The King and Queen of the Fey had heard stories of a young man named Taliesin, who lived in the Rhondda Valley. Throughout his time in school he was a merciless bully. He was cruel and spiteful to the boys and girls alike. Coming from such a small and tight-knit community, everybody knew him and what he had been like in school. Consequently, he was not very popular amongst his peers and every girl he had ever asked out had either turned him flat, or worse, laughed in his face and then turned him down flat.

 
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Excerpt: Grá pounded tiny fists against the crystal wall until they turned bright pink. The giant could rattle their impermeable prison again at any moment. The faeries would last a long time absent air, but that time would run out— even if they survived his torment. They needed to escape.

 
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Excerpt: Blog was a Zzippian from the planet Zzip.

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Where dark and light divide

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Jalia was on a hunt to find the Jersey Devil for her own reasons
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