Mythology

So, I'm home from Ireland and Scotland.  Yes, it is a rough life - certainly in St. Louis where it is 55 degrees hotter than it was across the pond!  Anyway - so my new path is mythology.  I am in love.  Currently, I am reading Karen Armstrong's "A Short Story of Myth" and it is the coolest.

Oh - did I tell you that Pacifica invited me for an interview??  That means they are 90% sure they want me...and with my present level of excitement about mythology, I think they are going to want me.  Besides the fact that I want them:)  So yes, I got in the application, references and all, and they liked it!  So Jules and I go out to Santa Barbara again, for my August 6 interview.  We are also going to meet with the esteemed Stuart Jenkins to see how he might help Jules with the employment process, and with my cousin Meriam...b/c she also knows bunches of business sorts AND has a ranch in Paso Robles.  In fact, Stuart and Meriam have offered to let us stay as often as we want!  How awesome is that?

Anyway - back to myth.  I am amazed and astounded how understanding a tiny portion of myth, gives me a completely different reading of the Bible!  You know that line about coming from dust?  It has always bothered me.  I mean, comments like "you are no more than the dust under my feet"...or "she made me feel like dirt"...these are all sort of demeaning, wouldn't you say?  but that "dust of the ground" line in Genesis is very different if read from the mythological meaning.

Ea was an original earth god in Mesopotamia and understand that the gods were inseperable from the landscape, from existence.  They were not seperate entities.  Well, Ea had a son, Marduk, and of course, there was a horrible battle and divine blood was spilled. Now you also have to know, that the gods were originally created from sacred, tho primordial "ooze"...so even the dust is sacred.  Then Marduk takes the blood of the fallen gods, mixes it with dirt and "poof"!  humans! So dirt isn't so bad!  Divine actually:)