The Shaggy Mythos

What does this mean, Shaggy Mythos?

I chose 'shaggy' because it implied a pagan wildness, like a shaggy pelt or shaggy locks or beard.

I chose 'mythos', which is a Greek word, instead of a germanic equivalent, because 'mythos' is fairly familiar. Mythos in the sense of 'a body of mythology' I could express as 'sagenverden' (a realm(literally 'world') of myth). But as 'a culture's lore or learning', I use 'froedhi' (knowledge, learning, lore), and thus Lodhin-Froedhi (Shaggy Mythos). As cosmology or Weltanschauung (worldview), I would use 'Wereld-bysen' (model of the world). Anthony F. C. Wallace's concept of 'mazeway', which I've just learned of, means about the same, and it is germanic, besides. The problem with coining germanic equivalents is that you can usually think of different ways to express different senses of the original, or even of one sense. Then, I go with what feels best. I don't want to invent a new language or write a dictionary for it, but I try to come up with germanic terminology, and otherwise I'm pretty obsessive about using good Anglo-Saxon words in my 'sacred' utterings, instead of French/Greco-Latin ones. This form of English-plus I call Eormennish, 'eormen' meaning 'awesome-great'; it's an Old English cognate of 'irmin' as in Irminsul, the Saxon tree-idol that Charlemagne destroyed to open the way for mass Christian conversion, and of 'jormun' as in Jormungand, the Norse world-girdling sea-wyrm.

But as to the Mythos itself? Well, there's a great deal of it now after years of working on it. As I said, it isn't in story form, like with mythology. It's more like a sacred cosmology, and you could say it's my attempt at 'mazeway resynthesis'-- creating a new, ecological culture-civilization, the Edhli-menning (Nature civilization) to replace our current exterminist one, the Searuvel (evil machine), but in mythic terms, and according to my personal sensibilities, because that's what an artist does. The material is either described or expressed as an evocation in Eormennish, and it's meant to work like a spell to inspire consciousness-transformation ('to wodhen wotness-wending'), or, the Conversion (the Cherrenge).

But the Froedhi can best be exposed a little at a time, can't be hurried. And there's no end to it, as long as I'm around, because it's a wyrdhing (an evolving thing).