Rambling Words

Feb 14, 2006 16:31

The sun is shining, sending a creamy, rich yellow bar of light through my back door, a bar which comes as close as the welcome mat and then stops abrubtly like a stranger, unsure of the welcome he will receive, stops at an open door. It is nice to stand in that bar, to feel the heat surround me like a halo. The grass is a mix of green and brown ( Read more... )

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Why the Youngest? muses_tower February 23 2006, 21:42:26 UTC
Hey,

I have been gone for a while and have just read your post....

Well, I think that it is the youngest with all the glory because fairy tales are emulating the parables of the bible. Cain & Able and some of the others. I think it is so because these tales were based on folk lore and folk lore was created to explain all the things in life (i.e. birth, life, love, death.) So when flok lore was rewritten and made into fairy tales the church had a strong hold on socity. So that is MHO.

Hope it answered some questions you have. But I would be all for the older daughter being the hero of a story.

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