Mythical creatures

[CandleLite]

i'll probably be late on this too.
Chimera are i think an explanation myth. they belong to myths that explane things. why there is sea foam (said story) or what ever. they often symbloiaze great threats that come ontop of one another. fighting one battle is hard enough but to fight more then one at once... then try and boil it down into an intresting story to tell.
i love talking in metaphore so if i had sevral things going on in my life it would be very easy to conglomerate them together into one mythacal thing to fight, makeing my feeling of paril as great as it was apparent to my listeners

brady did you miss my expalnation of chimera?

[Rodri]

The earliest image of a chimera that I could find.



One thing I noted is that all the descriptions are of a female creature. Sorry I am not that familiar with Greek mythology. Funny how the images of creatures can change so much.

[CandleLite]

i like mine better. if i have to face down my [relative] and [firend] and [sig other] all in the same day. in the same fight even it could very well feel like fighting a three headed beast. made of difrent ... you get the pict my brain is shutting down

[Kalent]

Personally, I think Chimeras represented fear to the ancient Greeks.. There's no wrong opinion, but it's just that feeling I get when I think of a chimera. Prove me wrong, I welcome it But please don't flame me, it's an opinion.

[CandleLite]

can you genitly add those creatures in that way? in all the depictions i've seen they retain quite a bit of their organla forms. which is how i came up with my idea

[Lord Arumen]

Arumen: if someone went around tellin' the story for money, he'd still surely have to get the inspiration from somewhere. Turnin' a dragon into a winged fire-breather is one thing, but creatin' a multitude of creatures into one hybrid is another altogether. It's about the earliest hybrid I can think of too, so it's not as if there was a lot of hybdridisation stories goin' around to inspire him.

Tell me, are you saying there is no such thing as creativity? I created Heights, I didn't borrow the ideas.

[Darkbrady]

Tell me, are you saying there is no such thing as creativity? I created Heights, I didn't borrow the ideas.

You may not have stolen ideas; but you get inspired.

Nowadasy creativity comes easily because there's so many people and ideas are so easily shared; there are so many stories and legends. Inspiration comes easier.

Thousands of years ago when there were about 5 billion less people, no internet and no stories that stretched back more than a hundred and fifty years, jus' usin' your imagination was tricky; and still led onto the issue of everythin' bein' based on what you saw around you. Comin' up w/ somethin' totally original was hard to do. As I already said, back then these werenae jus' bedtime stories; these were real life. This was their history and facts. They actually lived this...or at least believed they did.

Even so, I'm not dismissin' any ideas, here...who am I to do that? I'm jus' bein' devil's advocate..no matter what you say I'm gunna debate it and pull out as many questions as I can. It's all in the name of interest, science and curiosity.

(edit@abra: that last line is pretty much my response to your post that I missed there)

[Kalent]

Also, I was wondering about this, what do you think, how all these creatures look so dangerous and so fierce.. Do you think it reflects on the inner nature of human beings? I know people have gone into this, but do you really think our inner nature, of the purest form, is like what the descriptions of the creatures tell you?

[CandleLite]

Also, I was wondering about this, what do you think, how all these creatures look so dangerous and so fierce.. Do you think it reflects on the inner nature of human beings? I know people have gone into this, but do you really think our inner nature, of the purest form, is like what the descriptions of the creatures tell you?

i'm positive we all have a jeckle and hyde thing going on. part of us wanting to be good and dutiful and do right by everyone. and the other part a selfish greedy jellous monster ready to distroy our lives if it ever got out of the controle of our 'good' half. i belive that life is a kind of test to see if we can master our baser emotions and rule over the bodies we have been given

[Lord Arumen]

Good points Dark. I am off of the forums for tonight. night