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Re: Wyrd

Posted By: SiliconDream =PN= (mates.HIP.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: 3/24/2000 at 2:39 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Wyrd (Forrest)

: Wyrd is the good god in Myth. He created the world and
: most Light races worship him.

And (for Duffman's benefit) Wyrd is the Norse Fate. Sometimes it just means the concept; sometimes it means the goddesses who embodied it.

: Myth draws a LOT from Celtic mythology. I want to say Nyx
: was a Celtic goddess as well, but I remember her being
: the daughter of Chaos, who was Greek.

Though I know nothing about this, it *is* possible that there was a Celtic goddess of the same name. Not that there was a direct connection between the two pantheons, but all the words for "night" in European languages have the same Indo-European root. (Hence "night," from the Germanic branch, and "nocturnal," from the Greek branch.) So a Celtic goddess of the night would probably have a name that sounded something like Nyx.

--SiliconDream

Messages In This Thread

  • Wyrd
    Duffman (proxy1-external.srst1.fl.home.com) -- 3/24/2000 at 1:21 a.m.
    • Re: Wyrd
      Forrest (cache1.avtel.net) -- 3/24/2000 at 2:02 a.m.
      • Re: Wyrd
        SiliconDream =PN= (mates.HIP.Berkeley.EDU) -- 3/24/2000 at 2:39 a.m.
        • More Celtic Myth
          Obsidian the Prophet (port39.syracusenet.net) -- 3/24/2000 at 10:30 a.m.
          • Re: More Celtic Myth
            David Wellington (dialup-209.245.2.1.Denver1.Level3.net) -- 3/24/2000 at 12:42 p.m.

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