The Marriage Myth
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Once upon a time long, long ago, well, actually it was in the very beginning of MANTIME, and in a place called EVERYLAND, a man and a woman stood facing one another, or maybe they were even sitting down. But they were surely facing one another. And the man said, or maybe it was the woman who spoke first. 'Why are you made so different from me?'
And then the other said 'I was just wondering the same thing about you, and was just about to ask.'
Then,'Oh, I know you are like me too. In fact, you are more like me than any other creature I have ever seen...But you are so different too. Why?'
'Yes, I know. And yet I feel strangely attracted to you too. I just don't feel complete without you. It's almost as if something is missing from me when you are not around. Almost as if you are a part of myself.'
'I feel that too. But then... You are a trial to me too. What I mean is that I just don't understand you. You don't think the way I do. And you are always wanting things that don't make any sense to me.''
'Well, you make me terribly uncomfortable too at times. I mean, about myself. And in a way that none of the other animals can do. It's as if you just get under my skin.'
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From the beginning of recorded time Man's big question has been: How can I live with this Woman the gods have given me? And Woman's question matches his: How to live with this Man? Finding no suitable answer they turned to the gods and said, 'Explain this difficult, sometimes rewarding, sometimes punishing relationship, this...this...this marriage.
So the Marriage Myth was born, for when the gods and goddesses were brought into the question it became a three-way discussion.
Man and Woman lived together under this ever-present cloud of gods and goddesses who were always active, sometimes enabling, sometimes interfering in the marriage.
The Marriage Myth is not a manual on how to succeed at marriage. It is not a compendium of all the mythological tales in the world. It is a re-telling of twenty-four of the best myths from the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Teutonic, Hebraic and Christian traditions, all of them Man's attempts to understand and solve the Man/Woman/God puzzle: Marriage.
From the Trojan War for love of Helen to the battle of Christ for His Bride, the Church, the story is told here in language the modern reader will understand. Now let the Myth begin!
About the Author
Henry Buchanan, the Georgia-born story teller, marriage counselor, theologian and mythologist, brings all his skills together in The Marriage Myth. He says, 'Mythology is what people believed about God and Man long ago and far away; theology is what we believe here and now. At the heart of the matter, it all comes to about the same thing.'
Buchanan's first published book, And the Goat Cried, is a collection of Southern tales of daily life, love and death, and a twist of humor to redeem the tragedy of it all.
The Moonshiners, an adventure story introducing the family whose life runs through his stories, is scheduled for publication early in 2000.
In the Tobacco Patch will follow, with the story of an old Kentucky tobacco farmer caught on the horns of a dilemma: his only son is dying of lung cancer caused by smoking.
Henry Buchanan lives in rural Calloway County Kentucky, surrounded by fields of corn, and near the small university town of Murray, 'where radio and my first book were born.'