Dragonfly
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FairyTails
Golden Kitsune
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Energy: 50/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Arcane.
Male Wildclaw
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Personal Style
Apparel
Skin
Scene
Measurements
Length
3.81 m
Wingspan
6.66 m
Weight
597.57 kg
Genetics
Orchid
Metallic
Metallic
Magenta
Shimmer
Shimmer
Banana
Circuit
Circuit
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 7 Wildclaw
EXP: 567 / 11881
STR
8
AGI
9
DEF
6
QCK
5
INT
5
VIT
6
MND
6
Biography
D R A G O N F L Y
Brambly Hedge Grandson
Veilspun: Shell/Hawkmoth/Runes
L I B R A R Y
O W L C A F E B A D G E S
Starfall 2022
Q U O T E S
On the Topic of Fairytales
The marvel of fairy tales is a divine revelation; they are the popular, and therefore the most sincere form of epic and mythology, both of which lead to transcendent realities. The myths express the essence of a people and continue to live on in the tales; they are therefore, at heart, of a religious nature.
- Wilhelm Grimm
Certainly, every fairy tale contains, at its core, a teaching; however their content is not bourgeois morality, “their content is”, as Coomaraswamy remarks, “metaphysical.”
Here we are getting to the heart of the matter. For fairy tales are neither “moral lessons” nor a sort of product of a people’s collective imagination, but “relics of an ancient wisdom, as valid now as it ever was.”
The people preserve, without understanding them, the relics of former traditions which go back sometimes to a past too remote to be dated, so that it has to be relegated to the obscure domain of the “prehistoric”; they thereby fulfill the function of a more or less subconscious collective memory, the contents of which have clearly come from elsewhere.
For many of our popular tales we have predecessors reaching back to ancient persia and greece, and these stories go back to times more ancient still and cultures long forgotten...
When atheists dismiss religious texts as “mere fairy tales”, they might indeed be saying something more profound than they themselves could imagine. Consider only the tale of Rapunzel; is not this story of a primal love lost, of wandering the earth in exile and blindless and the eventual reunion of bride and bridegroom of a deeply biblical nature?
The modern world cannot comprehend or even tolerate fairy tales, for they are relics of a culture where everything pointed to the divine. All fairy tales are, in essence, stories of realization, stories of the Self and the psychomachy of the soul and the spirit; they are initiations, presenting themselves under the innocent guise of a riddle, that, not unlike a kōan, works on the mind subconsciously, untangeling our mental “knots”.
- Wilhelm Grimm
Certainly, every fairy tale contains, at its core, a teaching; however their content is not bourgeois morality, “their content is”, as Coomaraswamy remarks, “metaphysical.”
Here we are getting to the heart of the matter. For fairy tales are neither “moral lessons” nor a sort of product of a people’s collective imagination, but “relics of an ancient wisdom, as valid now as it ever was.”
The people preserve, without understanding them, the relics of former traditions which go back sometimes to a past too remote to be dated, so that it has to be relegated to the obscure domain of the “prehistoric”; they thereby fulfill the function of a more or less subconscious collective memory, the contents of which have clearly come from elsewhere.
For many of our popular tales we have predecessors reaching back to ancient persia and greece, and these stories go back to times more ancient still and cultures long forgotten...
When atheists dismiss religious texts as “mere fairy tales”, they might indeed be saying something more profound than they themselves could imagine. Consider only the tale of Rapunzel; is not this story of a primal love lost, of wandering the earth in exile and blindless and the eventual reunion of bride and bridegroom of a deeply biblical nature?
The modern world cannot comprehend or even tolerate fairy tales, for they are relics of a culture where everything pointed to the divine. All fairy tales are, in essence, stories of realization, stories of the Self and the psychomachy of the soul and the spirit; they are initiations, presenting themselves under the innocent guise of a riddle, that, not unlike a kōan, works on the mind subconsciously, untangeling our mental “knots”.
The Complete Philosophy of The Lord of the Rings
Mythology and Fairytales
Mythology and Fairytales
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73GXN_pb7g
"They open a door on Other Time, and if we pass through, though only for a moment, we stand outside our own time, outside Time itself, maybe." JRR Tolkien
"There is indeed no better medium for moral teaching than the good fairy-story." JRR Tolkien
"They open a door on Other Time, and if we pass through, though only for a moment, we stand outside our own time, outside Time itself, maybe." JRR Tolkien
"There is indeed no better medium for moral teaching than the good fairy-story." JRR Tolkien
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