Recently i asked some person i meet from time to time what she thought of the possibility that i link my story work with a few tales which connect it all into a mythos.
Surprisingly to me she replied that it was already connected. Part of the mythos is that i forgot why i did not ask her what she meant
(well, i trust it happened due to mundane reasons, such as someone walking into the discussion).
Apart from the Dunsanian and Cthulhu Mythos, and of course the ancient Greek mythology, i have come into little which, on the surface, can be termed a personal mythology.
One could stretch the meaning of it to include just every bit of consistent work ever produced, but i think that this happens unconsciously anyway, whereas i am looking for organized and deliberate mythopoiesis (myth-making).
Up to now i have some recurring elements in a lot of the stories. Most take place at either Thessalonike, London, both, and the rest at some unnamed metropolis. Also there are streets which appear again and again in my work, or places, such as Hyde Park.
Other than that there is a name, "Ioannes" (the apostle of the apocalypse; John) which is found on at least four surviving stories, including my biggest ever published work (35 pages). Ioannes can be said to be one person, but in reality i plan to make it more evident that he is not really a separate person, but a projection of the narrators of those stories. He is elusive, passionate (something on the surface i am not, and hence neither are the narrators) and mostly runs in danger of various kind and degree, or brings danger onto other people.
So, tl dr: what is your view of personal mythologies? Do you find them potentially interesting, or are they something you are not fond of?
Worth to note that if i decide to create one it will be a loose connection of dots, and not an overarching mythos with canonic elements of the manner (for example) of a necronomicon. But i am thinking of providing some stories where the split between narrator and Ioannes happened for the first time, thus redifining in a sense the other interconnected stories.
Surprisingly to me she replied that it was already connected. Part of the mythos is that i forgot why i did not ask her what she meant
(well, i trust it happened due to mundane reasons, such as someone walking into the discussion). Apart from the Dunsanian and Cthulhu Mythos, and of course the ancient Greek mythology, i have come into little which, on the surface, can be termed a personal mythology.
One could stretch the meaning of it to include just every bit of consistent work ever produced, but i think that this happens unconsciously anyway, whereas i am looking for organized and deliberate mythopoiesis (myth-making).
Up to now i have some recurring elements in a lot of the stories. Most take place at either Thessalonike, London, both, and the rest at some unnamed metropolis. Also there are streets which appear again and again in my work, or places, such as Hyde Park.
Other than that there is a name, "Ioannes" (the apostle of the apocalypse; John) which is found on at least four surviving stories, including my biggest ever published work (35 pages). Ioannes can be said to be one person, but in reality i plan to make it more evident that he is not really a separate person, but a projection of the narrators of those stories. He is elusive, passionate (something on the surface i am not, and hence neither are the narrators) and mostly runs in danger of various kind and degree, or brings danger onto other people.
So, tl dr: what is your view of personal mythologies? Do you find them potentially interesting, or are they something you are not fond of?
Worth to note that if i decide to create one it will be a loose connection of dots, and not an overarching mythos with canonic elements of the manner (for example) of a necronomicon. But i am thinking of providing some stories where the split between narrator and Ioannes happened for the first time, thus redifining in a sense the other interconnected stories.
