Four Nature Myths
Pantheist Legends by Roy Lisker 1959; revised 1994
These legends are adaptations of mythological materials from Greece, India, England and the US. If any theme unites them, diverse as they are in tone and message, it is in the vision of an Immanent Presence in Nature, a theme as ancient as mankind itself, and of eternal validity.
- Viswakarman: The mythologies of Greece, India and most of Europe come from a common source. The supreme architect Viswakarman can be identified with the Greek Hephaestus and Roman Vulcan. As builder of the universe, he incoporates features as well of the Jehovah of the 1st Book of Genesis.
- Persephone: A retelling of the ancient Greek legend of Persephone, Demeter and Pluto.The genre is a form of heightened poetic-prose inspired by the theme.
- The Woman in the Forest: An original folk tale with acknowledgement to European and American sources. Enraged at the miscarriage of her child, a woman flees to a dense forest where, through tapping into natural and magical forces she reigns as queen over all vegetation and animal life. Discovered many years later by a hunter lost in the woods, she suceeds in escaping from him but is shorn of her powers.
- Primavera:Adventures of merry woodland animals,wanderers and elfin creatures, a light-hearted fantasy embellished with touches of macaronic Elizabethan verse.
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