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| Myceneaen Mysteries: A Quick Introduction by Joseph Teller |
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Copyright © 1989 by Joseph W. Teller
Free to distribute & copy in its entirety for non-commercial use
Myceneaen Mysteries are an ongoing project to introduce a new path of passage and religious belief to the present Neo-Pagan community.
Like anything within the Neo-Pagan Community, we do not exist in a vacuum. I have been trained in several traditions and paths of the present community, and have learned much from them, but have found that a personal lack of hereditary connection to some of the pantheons and belief systems involved have often made my practice of Celtic or Shamanistic systems to become clumsy and sometimes ineffective for me personally. Thus, to find my own way, I went forth on a combination research project and personal path searching for what path would be best for myself.
The Myceneaen Mysteries are based upon a personal interface between myself and the aspects of the Early religious system and belief of the area now known as Greece, a personal comfortable status with many of the gods and goddesses of the pantheon therein which I could not find in the Celtic, Norse or American Indian belief systems. Many hours of painstaking research into the true culture, beliefs, gods and means of worship practiced by the early Myceneaens have resulted in this ongoing system of belief. It is not for all, but if you feel a true connection between yourself, the mythologies, the social structure and the beliefs involved then perhaps this path is for you.
The Myceneaen belief system is not a total recreationist idea, nor the structuring of a system out of whole cloth, but like any belief system stemming from another time and blossoming into a Neo-Pagan tradition it comes from a combination of both. The land of Myceneae has gone thru not one but two dark ages in its time, and much of the original material was lost or destroyed or very badly distorted by the people that would pass thru it as their conquerors, and so I have had to take some liberty to the myths, sorting them according to the values and theology they present as to wether they were of these people and if so trying to prune out the changes made by centuries of conquest. This is an ongoing project, and the belief structure will be added to as new material is encountered and adapted, but the basic structure outlined in the pages of work already completed will for the most part remain stable, with each person who takes up the system adding their own touch to the system.
Thus, if you choose this path, you will be forming and helping to form the belief system for yourself and for others, making your actions and writings just as important as those that have now been finished. Few religions or belief paths truly allow the many members within it to shape the system to their own needs and to bring about change. Myceneaen Mysteries does.
If you are reading this file online a BBS or from a printout of such, or on a distributed disk, there should be several other text files here for you to read over, so please do so and feel free to distribute it at will among your fellow Neo-Pagans and all open minded non-pagan friends. Only thru the greatest number of people getting involved can we do the greatest amount of improvement and gain personal enlightenment on this path.
Love, Trust & Community: The key of Myceneae