Help! anyone good with myths or stories?

[Acid]

Hey,
i need to find out about some sort of myth or cult, it has to be sort of arctic if possible....something maybe a bit ghostly or something

i dont even know if one exists but i need something to research for my portfolio!

 

[tiffany]

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but are you talking about Nordic mythology?

 

[Acid]

^^ yes if that exists......
i just need some cute stories and pictures

 

[Heroin_Chic]

How about the norwegian Troll-Stories by Theodor Kittelsen? They`re cute & dark at the same - but rather woods than "arctic".

Or else? Some research on Eskimos???

(I didn`t really get what you`re looking for either...)

 

[secondly]

Hmm... the Inuit have tons of legends.

The Norse have a lot too, my favourite is probably the one about mistletoe. Something about the Queen of the Gods hearing that her son would die one day, bringing around the apocalypse. So she went around telling all the plants and animals to promise not to kill him. They all agreed, but she forgot to ask the mistletoe, and eventually Loki (or something) found out and used the mistletoe and trickery to kill the guy... I think it was Thor. I'd look up the names and particulars but I'm lazy. Hope this helps.

 

[tiffany]

I did a paper on celtic mythology this term, and ended up looking up a bit about Nordic mythology as well - so here are some sites with info and stories (explanations, etc)

General info & explanation:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~cherryne/mythology.html

Stories:
http://www.geocities.com/lintan77/

Pictures:
http://home.earthlink.net/~norsemyths/norsemyths.html

List of mythical figures:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197623.html

Other links:
http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/gods/Old_norse_myth.html
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa081799.htm


And here are some pics which I've saved on my computer for some reason hope this helps

 

[Hanne]

Hmm... the Inuit have tons of legends.

The Norse have a lot too, my favourite is probably the one about mistletoe. Something about the Queen of the Gods hearing that her son would die one day, bringing around the apocalypse. So she went around telling all the plants and animals to promise not to kill him. They all agreed, but she forgot to ask the mistletoe, and eventually Loki (or something) found out and used the mistletoe and trickery to kill the guy... I think it was Thor. I'd look up the names and particulars but I'm lazy. Hope this helps.

It wasn't Thor that died, it was Balder, the most beautiful male God of Light)..I was soo hooked on Norse mythology when I was younger..

 

[Hanne]

The King of the Norse Gods Odin, became the wisest of them all by drinking from the giant Mimers Well (the source of wisdom ran from that well), but a sip from that well cost him one of his eyes, which he threw in Mimers well as a token.
The eye fell to the bottom of the well and from then on Odin could see all that had went on so far in the world.


The Gods killed a Tjasse because he had kidnapped Idun and stolen the apples of life. Tjasses daughter Skade came to Asgård (where the Gods lived) to get revenge, but the Gods tried to apeace her by offering her a settlement. She wouldn't accept so they offered her a God to marry, but she was only allowed to choose her furture husband based on his feet (she weren't allowed to see the rest of him), and promised they would make her laught (she was really pissy so that was quiet a promise).
Skade chose the man with the most beautiful feet (hoping it would be Balder the most beautiful one).But instead they belonged to Njord God of the sea.
Loki made her laught by putting a string of ribbon around a goat's goatee and the other end around his erhm balls and then the goat and Loki started a tug-of-war.
The marriage was an unhappy one because Skade loved the mountains and hated the sounds of seagulls while Njord loved the sea and hated the sound of mountain wolfs.

 

[Lena]

what a super idea my adorable acid very well thought.. sad to be unable to provide you with myths..

try to also research eskimo stories i think they are much easier to convert into your esthetics
also think of
*steppas
*mongolian warriors
*turndras

i assure you, you are on the VERY right path... on that portfolio
special good luck vibes all the way to London

 

[Hanne]

Absolut Vodka in co-operation w. Gaultier (I think) made some really fantastic nordic mythology adds..there was a thread on it..I search but didn't locate it unfortunately.

 

[Hanne]

Okay I found em..here ya go Sean.

 

[Hanne]

If you want a lot of blood feuding/sheading islandic mythology (saga) is definately the way to go.

 

[Lena]

wow, amazing images, thanks for posting them Hanne

 

[Hanne]

You're welcome Lena

 

[Hanne]

I was walking in Copenhagen and it being Hans Christian Andersons 200 years jubilee..I got thinking..before all his stories got disneyfied they were other rather brutal, gruesome and to be understood not just on a childrens level but with a story more tuned towards adults..The little Mermaid ( http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheLittleMermaid_e.html? ) killed her prince and his new princess at the end of the real story, or a relatively unknown H.C.Anderson story "The Red Shoes" where a pair of red shoes become the end of a vain and improper girl e.g. she begs to get her feet cut off. http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheRedShoes_e.html

 

[Acid]

thanks everyone perfection

 

[Hanne]

Sean will you post the result of this nordic inspired portfolio ?

 

[HepburnDivine]

IThe little Mermaid ( http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheLittleMermaid_e.html? ) killed her prince and his new princess at the end of the real story

No, didn't she kill herself instead?

 

[Hanne]

No, didn't she kill herself instead?

Funny..either there are two versions..(3 incl the disneyfied one)..(the one I had read to me was published in the 100th jubilee of H.C.Andersen)..or my memory serves me badly..the version in the link does say she changes her mind in the last moment..

 

[Lena]

acid, if you are still looking/working on this theme, do have a look here..
seems that michiko koshino is too fast on following the trend forecasting agencies
the whole fw 06 collection is based on arctic myths ( not done too well, lacks feeling and elegance imho)

hmmm check the whole collection here http://www.vogue.co.uk/shows/photos/Default.aspx?showID=2231&type=show&pageNo=1