MYCENEAEN MYSTERIES : A QUICK INTRODUCTION              

   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 vaccume. 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 heriditary connection to some
of the pantheons and belief systems involved have often made my
practice of Celtic or Shamannistic systems to become clumbsy 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 ebst 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 destorted 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 amoung 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 *

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    * Copyright (C) 1989 By Joseph W. Teller                *