: I posted this quite a while ago but got no response,
: however I feel it is important information about the
: general story when everyone (well many people) is
: thinking about Myth 3 and how great it will be (btw it
: will be great, just saw the new screenshots...wow!).
: Anyway, I've also added some new information from
: Celtic Mythology that tie into this and other topics.
: The new stuff is - indented. Since I got no reply from
: the first one, I'm back with a vengeance and hope some
: of this will spark your imaginations into developing
: these ideas...PLEEASE?!
: NOTE: Do not attempt to read this in one sitting unless
: you have immense stamina as it will require a little
: more than a skim-read to fully understand all my
: speculations.
: I have found out some very interesting facts on the
: origins of the Trow names and their background form
: our own mythology.
: For a start the name Rhi'anon comes I believe from the
: name Rhea - an ancient greek Titan (huge like Trow)
: who was also closely related to Ge - the mother of
: Titans and earth god who sprung out of Chaos - the
: same sort of thing that happenend with the Trow who
: came out of Wyrd's shattered one dream.
: - There is a welsh goddess called Rhiannon (no
: apostroph') whose name derives from the word Rigantona
: meaning 'Great/Divine Queen. Only the name bears any
: resemblance to Myth.
: Also Rhea is connected to the Asiatic goddess Cybele who
: was worshipped as a block of stone (much like damaged
: Trow.
: Rhea was the wife of Cronus (or Kronos) who, because he
: was told one of his sons would kill him ate his
: children as soon as they were born- similar to the
: Trow wiping out any race as soon as they came into
: conflict with them.
: He overthrew his father Uranus to summon in a Golden Age
: - like the Trow's Golden Age although they hadn't
: overthrown Nyx, their creator. He also had problems in
: his golden age from his children (like ther myrkridia
: for the Trow).
: One child caused especial, Zeus who managed to defeat
: Cronus and imprison his Titans on Tartarus, a part of
: the underworld where you suffered for atrocities
: comitted on Earth in this case against his own
: relatives.
: This is extremely similar to the Trow being imprisoned by
: Connacht (one of the humans, their younger brother
: race - not quite children I know but the rest is good)
: under Rhi'anon for their atrocities against their
: other brother races. Then Zeus later freed the Titans
: like alor freed the Trow.
: - Connacht, incidentally is the name of an Irish
: Province.
: Cronus is also associated with volcanoes. Now look at
: Tharsis which is called the forge of the Trow. Tharsis
: is also the name of a very high volcano on Mars and is
: the connecting link between East and West like it is
: in Mythworld. It takes its name from the ancient
: Spanish town 'Tartessus' or 'Tharsus' of Cilicia. Also
: in the bible it says: "And Jonas rose up to flee
: into Tharsis from the face of the Lord, and he went
: down to Joppe, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and
: he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go
: with them to Tharsis from the face of the Lord"
: This is similar to Soulblighter fleeing into the Eye of
: Tharsis to hide from the face of Alric.
: - Other names I found were: Fir B(h)olg: from the god
: 'Builg' who were the fourth group of invaders into
: Ireland who were subsequently defeated by the next lot
: the Tuatha Dé Danaan and were given the province of
: Connacht.
: Balor: The king of the Fomorians, a group of pirates
: essentially. He was known as "The Baleful
: Eye" because a glance from his single enormous
: eye meant instant death to anyone watching. He also
: could not be killed with any weapon. He was killed by
: his grandson Lugh who fired a slingshot into his eye
: and drove it into the back of his head so his army
: behind him were massacred as well. He represents the
: negative forces of evil and the evil eye, the
: oppposite of his grandson the sun-god of the positive
: forces of light. This leads on to two points: a) Did
: any hero or leveller have descendents in the opposite
: side or was it all reincarnation?
: and b) Were the two sides' leaders related i.e. Alric was
: the reincarnated brother of the reincarnated leveller?
: Were they created at the same time by whoever set the
: cycle in motion?
: These points are for a much more lengthy discussion in a
: separate post.
: Plain of Mu(i)rtheimne (mur-THEV-nuh): Where the hero
: CúChulainn (koo-HULL-in) was raised and met his death
: during a battle there.
: Cú Roi: 'The Hound of Roi', a sorceror and shape-shifter
: who could stop anyone from fiding the gate of his
: stronghold but himself presumably. Similar to the way
: in which Cu Roi can find the gate of the Tain.
: This is complex but there is a lot of useful information
: in it: Táin (Bó Cuailnge): The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
: Táin is pronounced 'toyne'. Irish Mythology is made up
: of four cycles: Mythological, Ulster, Fenian and
: Historicall. The Cattle Raid of Cooley is the
: principal story of the Ulster Cycle. It recounts the
: tale of Queen Medb (METH-iv) of Connacht's attack on
: CúChulainn and the men of Ulster where the Connachtmen
: are held off by CúChulainn alone. The Queen wanted the
: Brown Bull of Cooley in Ulster who is the seventh
: reincarnation of an extremely powerful sorceror (note
: the number) in the end the Brown Bull kills her White
: Bull who is also a seventh incarnation of an equally
: powerful sorceror. The Queen then returns to finish
: off CúChulainn and tricks him into throwing his spear
: at her warriors until they can pick it up and kill him
: with it. Every time he kills a soldier with it, nine
: others surrounding him die. Eventually they manage to
: kill him with the spear and cut off his head after he
: wraps his mantle around him binds himself to a
: standing stone so he can die standing up.
: Basically, I think Bungie took this story and turned it
: into: Alric (Medb) and the Light (the Connachtmen -
: men of Connacht, a light hero of the Wolf Age) attack
: Balor (CúChulainn), Balor easily holds them off. Then
: they return and trick him into giving them a chance to
: kill him. Then he is immobilised and wraps the mantle
: of the leveller around him before he dies and they
: chop off his head.
: They then took the name of the tale, anglicised it and
: used it elsewhere in their story. The story of the
: bulls is similar to the Watcher and the Deceiver (two
: sorcerors of equal power) battling it out until one of
: them is dead. I thought the fact that nine more people
: were killed had some reference to the fact that Balor
: killed off the Nine (bar Alric of course).
: Another name worth little consideration other than as a
: name: Crunniuc
: I think that's extensive enough to grant at least a
: couple of responses. HEHE
: Gholsbane
OmFg...u b genious mb?
