Lewis and Mythology
Posted: Apr 02, 2014 12:01 am
If Lewis was such a devout Christian, why is it that he often used characters from pagan mythologies in his works? What was it about mythology that appealed to him?
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I can see how that could be a motivating factor. I wanted to put a faun in a skit for a class and without the CoN I won't have been so attached to fauns. The other group members must have thought I was nuts and we ended up with a centaur instead.coracle wrote:If you can get a copy of Surprised by Joy, it tells a bit about how he was reading the older sort of mythical/heroic story as a boy, and how it really moved him.
In one way, of course, God has given us the Morning Star already: you can go and enjoy the gift on many fine mornings if you get up early enough. What more, you may ask, do we want? Ah, but we want so much more—something the books on aesthetics take little notice of. But the poets and the mythologies know all about it. We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses and nymphs and elves—that, though we cannot, yet these projections can enjoy in themselves that beauty, grace, and power of which Nature is the image.
Twigs wrote:Many of the mythical creatures serve Aslan so in Narnia they are not "pagan."