The celebration of Nature in books today has diminished since the days of Thoreau and Wordsworth. But I have decided to make the natural world one of the central themes in all my novels. From the beginning I decided that fantasy needed to be reborn within the grandeur of Nature, much as Tolkien had tried […]
August, 2020
In Search of the Earth Mother : Norse Gods Frigga and Baldur
Of all the articles I have written on Modern American culture and its hidden connections to the past, this article continues to grow in my mind as something having the most weight in proving my theories about the hidden and lasting presence of the Earth Mother and our worship of the Sun in Modern Western […]
The Trickster in Modern Culture
The Joker, the Fool, the King’s Court Jester, Bugs Bunny, Loki in Viking Myth, the Native American Coyote, the Greek’s Prometheus, Forest Gump, and Sherlock Holmes are all Tricksters. But what is the Trickster, and why do Modern authors and filmmakers continue to blindly fill our entertainment with versions of the Trickster, while not knowing […]
