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All Holiday Roads Lead to Rome

Pretty major SPOILERS for all three of these movies. It’s a Wonderful Knife – This is a riff on a certain movie of the same name you’ve probably heard of, with some slasher elements, although not as many as you … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Christmas, Cracker, Games, History, Holidays, Humor, Language, Magic, Music, Names, Roman Empire, Sports, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged caligula, colosseum, emperor caracalla, emperor geta, emperor marcus aurelius, emperor marcus opellius macrinus, gladiator ii, it's a wonderful knife, justin long, monkeys, nightmare on elm street, rhinoceros, the coffee table |

23 and Me

When I wrote about recurring numbers in the works of certain authors eleven years ago, I received a comment about how twenty-three was significant in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. I hadn’t yet read the … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Games, History, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Mathematics, Music, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Roman Empire, Sports | Tagged 23, 23 skidoo, a tale of two cities, aleister crowley, bishop james ussher, charles dickens, creation, dear 23, discordianism, george m. cohan, jon auer, julius caesar, ken stringfellow, knights templar, little johnny jones, michael jordan, numbers, numerology, posies, principia discordia, psalms, psalsm, robert anton wilson, robert shea, the big lebowski, the illuminatus trilogy, the only way |

Sympathy for Sympathetic Magic

Into the Windwracked Wilds, by A. Deborah Baker – The third book in the Up-and-Under series sees Avery, Ziv, the Crow Girl, and the Drowned Girl Niamh continuing their journey. This includes their getting swallowed by a mosasaur, who is … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animism, Authors, Christianity, Fundamentalism, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, seanan mcguire, up-and-under | Tagged a. deborah baker, aeneas, aeneid, anthropology, apocalypse, armageddon, baldur, bart ehrman, bible, gospels, human sacrifice, into the windwracked wilds, jesus, joseph campbell, mistletoe, patrick maund, revelation, ritual, robert graves, robert pattrick, sacrifice, seasonal fears, sibyl, sir james george frazer, the golden bough, underworld, unexplored territory in oz, virgil |

The St. Lucy Show

We watched a Morbid Anatomy lecture by Eric Huang from Saint Podcast about St. Nicholas, and how he developed into the modern Santa Claus, something I’ve written about before. I knew that it isn’t agreed upon that Nicholas was even … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Chronicles of Narnia, Food, History, Holidays, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Poetry, Religion, Roman Empire | Tagged a visit from st nicholas, arthur j. stansbury, befana, cats, clement moore, council of nicaea, donkeys, emperor diocletian, epiphany, eric huang, father christmas, freyja, julian calendar, king herod the great, lucy pevensie, lussekatter, lussi, morbid anatomy, nisser, paschasius, perchta, podcasts, reindeer, saint podcast, santa claus, st. lucy of syracuse, st. lucy's day, st. nicholas, star boys, the children's friend, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, trolls, winter solstice, witches |

It’s a Celtic Thing

I recently finished reading the Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh mythological prose, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest in the nineteenth century. I understand there have been better English translations since then, but this is what I could easily find online, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Board Games, British, Celtic, Characters, Christianity, Games, History, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Religion, Roman Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Welsh | Tagged affalach, arianrhod, avalon, bible, blodeuwedd, cassivellaunus, cayke the cookie cook, chronicles of prydain, delilah, dylan ail don, eagles, emperor magnus maximus, fidchell, fisher king, flowers, gilfathwy, goewin, grampa in oz, gronw pebr, gwydion fab don, holy grail, judges, julius caesar, king arthur, lady charlotte guest, lleu llaw gyffes, lloyd alexander, mabinogion, magic dishpan, math ap mathonwy, owls, pair dadeni, rape, sir perceval, the black cauldron, the lost princess of oz, urtha |

Tell Me About the Dragons, George

I had a few other things I wanted to write about, but since I found out Saturday was St. George’s Day, I thought he might be worth looking into. As someone who didn’t attend a church where saints were really … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Authors, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Crusades, Diana Wynne Jones, Eastern Orthodox, England, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, Stan Freberg, Tom Holt | Tagged dragons, edith nesbit, emperor diocletian, gordon r. dickson, hercules, kenneth grahame, king edward iii of england, medusa, order of the garter, ovid, paint your dragon, perseus, prince marvel, smaug, st. dragon and the george, st. george, st. george's day, st. patrick, st. theodore tiron, the deliverers of their country, the enchanted island of yew, the hobbit, the reluctant dragon, unicorns, witch week |

Angling for the Saxons

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idea for an America First Caucus based on Anglo-Saxon values sounds kind of bizarre to those of us who don’t run in white supremacist circles. Like, why Anglo-Saxon in particular, and why would a group focusing on … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, Celtic, Colonization of America, England, Ethnicity, Etymology, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Lewis Carroll, Monarchy, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Politics, Prejudice, Roman Empire, United Kingdom | Tagged america first, angles, anglo-saxon attitudes, britons, dragons, english, geoffrey of monmouth, hengest, historia regum britanniae, horsa, jutes, king alfred the great, king arthur, king vortigern, marjorie taylor greene, mary rambaran-olm, merlin, nationalism, normans, odin, picts, racism, robin hood, rowena, saxons, through the looking-glass, time magazine, vikings |

Whether Nero to Me or Far

An Excess of Enchantments, by Craig Shaw Gardner – The second book in the Ballad of Wuntvor trilogy, there just wasn’t as much to this one as to earlier volumes. Pretty much the whole thing was based around Mother Duck’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, craig shaw gardner, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Rick Riordan, Roman, Roman Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson, seanan mcguire, Trials of Apollo, Video Games, Wayward Children | Tagged a difficulty with dwarves, an excess of enchantment, apollo, art of mana, cats, curious cottabus, down among the sticks and bones, dragons, dwarves, every heart a doorway, falkor, final fantasy adventure, flammie, giants, kabumpo in oz, meg mccaffrey, neko, nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus, niccolo, puss in boots, python, secret of mana, the ballad of wuntvor, the neverending story, the tower of nero, troglodytes, vampires, wolves, wuntvor, zeus |

The Big Big Whoredom

There often seems to be an undercurrent of fear of female sexuality in religion and mythology. It isn’t always that direct, and sometimes male sexuality isn’t viewed that positively either, but it’s pretty blatant sometimes. The idea of the whore … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Focus on the Foes, Gender, Health, History, Judaism, Language, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Persian, Religion, Roman Empire, Sexuality, They Might Be Giants, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged adultery, ahura mazda, angra mainyu, babylon, bible, demons, gavaevodata, golem, jahi, jeh, jesus, john of patmos, mark of the beast, menstruation, prostitution, revelation, rome, shin megami tensei, snakes, whore of babylon |

Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child

Beth has mentioned to me that she really likes the Coventry Carol, which I can’t say I was particularly familiar with. It’s a very bleak sort of song, which makes sense considering what it’s about. But we both know it … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Christmas, Donkey Kong, History, Holidays, Mario, Middle East, Music, Mythology, Plays, Religion, Roman Empire, Tori Amos, United Kingdom, Video Games | Tagged benjamin, bethlehem, bible, coventry carol, epiphany, genesis, gospel of matthew, gospels, greensleeves, jeremiah, jesus, john henry hopkins jr., joseph campbell, king herod the great, massacre of the innocents, moses, nativity, rachel, thomas paine, three wise men, we three kings, what child is this?, william chatterton dix, world war ii |