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Just this idea that I had for how Norse mythology might play out in a different setting.
"They say yew can't kill that one-eyed man. That they hung him fer nine days, daown in Abilene, once, and it didn't kill him none. They say he rides into town on a big eight-wheeled Union Pacific locomotive, an' sometimes he travels with a railroad worker and a little Navajo magic-worker, an' sometimes he travels alone, jus' him an' two carrion crows constantly circlin' his head.
"They say that wherever he goes, trouble follows."
"They say yew can't kill that one-eyed man. That they hung him fer nine days, daown in Abilene, once, and it didn't kill him none. They say he rides into town on a big eight-wheeled Union Pacific locomotive, an' sometimes he travels with a railroad worker and a little Navajo magic-worker, an' sometimes he travels alone, jus' him an' two carrion crows constantly circlin' his head.
"They say that wherever he goes, trouble follows."
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I'd figured that the western equivalent to Yggdrassil would probably be a saguaro - they're huge and they've been there for half of forever. And of course, to go with the Norse thing, the world-cactus would have to have an eagle at the top and a snake at the bottom, which is someone else's mythology altogether. Joseph Campbell was right about this stuff.
The myths don't map exactly. But you could translate the Hopi/Navajo emergence with the Dvergar, stuff like that.
The myths don't map exactly. But you could translate the Hopi/Navajo emergence with the Dvergar, stuff like that.
I'm a big fan of traditional westerns, too, and it kinda makes me sad that actual westerns aren't especially viable anymore... but I am very fond of the mixing, especially if it's something original, and I think using myths to create archetypes and new story ideas is a fantastic way to do that without completely leaving behind the traditional western motif.
Traditional stuff seems to do well as fairly compact packaged stories. X is happening in Y town, Z characters resolve the thing. Trying to run that one much longer (as comics but, and you knew this was going to show up coming from me, role-playing games) gets weird. Delves into monster-of-the-week type scenarios I think. I kinda feel like mixing genres in gives the whole deal a little more depth, but maybe I'm wrong (and if I'm wrong, I want to apply anything I learn to running a game darnit).
I've been feeling lately that horror goes really well with western stuff in particular, just because the actual period was so utterly horrific - it's got all this apocalyptic background you can mine.
I've been feeling lately that horror goes really well with western stuff in particular, just because the actual period was so utterly horrific - it's got all this apocalyptic background you can mine.
Yeah! I figured that "shapechanging magic user from another culture" would cast Loki in the stereotypical role of "faithful Indian companion" -- especially because Loki's been compared to some figures in Native American folklore, and I've always wondered whether any Amerindian actually stuck in the role of "faithful Indian companion" would get heartily sick of it after a while.
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