On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_Durq9-41QdFBQ8Q_iHAhz-SeAzEPQ7T26nUXBuqvy9rulZ1S24c5t20Ysc71bD11bTlTyuDxmsGa0NFiDAM.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> It struck me this morning that I don't know any myths about smoke. Putting
> on a God Learner's hat (which I would think is pretty funny looking), I
> would think that smoke is descended from Fire (of the fire variety, not the
> light variety) and either wood or Earth (of rht surface variety). So, I
> could believe that there would be a myth about the time that some fire god
> came to love the forest, but the forest died giving birth to his child,
> smoke. (I suppose that could be an Oakfed story, but we actually know that
> he eats forests.)
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> It also strikes me that smoke looks an awful lot like a cloud, which is a
> storm thing, and storm things are also notionally descended from a sky -
> earth combination. Maybe smoke is the storm descended from the lowfires? (In
> GL terminology, of course.)
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> Anyone know of any myths?
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> Chris Lemens
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