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The FLDS Took My Baby Away

I understand Netflix is going to give up their DVD distribution later this year. I think we’re just about the only people who still use it, so I’m not surprised, but I don’t know the best way to watch movies … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Drugs, Health, Magic, Monsters, Mormonism, Music, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, Relationships, Religion, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abuse, behind the music, blood moon, dee dee ramone, end of the century the story of the ramones, fundamentalist latter-day saints, go-go's, joey ramone, johnny ramone, keep sweet pray and obey, netflix, pedophilia, polygamy, ramones, rape, rulon jeffs, skinwalkers, warren jeffs |

Get Off Your Ass

This might well be my last book review post of the year. I got an overview of the books I read in 2021 on Goodreads a few weeks ago, but I have no idea why they didn’t save it until … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Celtic, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Egyptian, Hinduism, Korean, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mayan, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Voodoo, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, aliens, anunnaki, apsaras, apuleius, aru shah, beware the grove of true love, bruto and the freaky flower, calamity juice, carlo collodi, carlos hernandez, chupacabra, cupid and psyche, dalgyal gwisin, demons, don quixote, donkeys, dushyanti, ellen d. finkelpearl, erzulie, fairies, fionn mac cumhaill, ghosts, gilgamesh, graci kim, gum baby, isis, j.c. cervantes, kwame mbalia, miguel de cervantes, my life as a child outlaw, my night at the gifted carnival, nymphs, pandavas, paola santiago, paola santiago and the forest of nightmares, peter singer, pinocchio, rebecca roanhorse, rick riordan presents, roshani chokshi, sal and gabi, sarwat chadda, shaggy man, shakuntala, sikander aziz, tehlor kay mejia, the adventures of pinocchio, the cave of doom, the cursed carnival and other calamities, the demon drum, the golden ass, the gum baby files, the initiation, the last fallen star, the loneliest demon, the road to oz, the winter long, tristan strong, urvashi, witches, yoon ha lee, zane obispo |

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Picture by Susan Seddon Boulet One of the mythical Navajo beings who plays a part in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Race to the Sun is Spider Woman, and there is a mention of Peter Parker in this context. Spider-Woman in Marvel Comics is … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Aztec, Comics, hopi, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Navajo | Tagged changing woman, creation, hero twins, jessica drew, kokyangwuit, kokyangwuti, marvel comics, peter parker, race to the sun, rebecca roanhorse, rick riordan presents, snake clan, snakes, spider grandmother, spider man, spider rock, spider woman, spider-man, spider-woman, spiders, sun, tawa, tiyo |

The Navajo Know

The Chronicles of Banarnia, by Robert Rankin – The follow-up to The Lord of the Ring Roads continues the tale of fairies who had been driven underground by humans taking over Brentford. In this book, Jim Pooley and John Omally journey … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Brentford Trilogy, Humor, Magic, Mayan, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, Prejudice, Rick Riordan, Robert Rankin | Tagged a disagreement with death, changing woman, craig shaw gardner, death, dragons, ebenezum, fairies, hero twins, j.c. cervantes, jim pooley, john omally, professor slocombe, rebecca roanhorse, rick riordan presents, squid, the ballad of wuntvor, the chronicles of banarnia, the lord of the ring roads, the storm runner, wuntvor |

This God Plays Dice

One of the blogs I subscribe to recently had a post on Indian casinos, and it makes reference to how some Navajo in 1997 were against casinos on the reservation due to the myth of the Gambler. This was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Games, Mythology, Native American, Navajo | Tagged casinos, chaco canyon, gambling, nohoilpi, noqoilpi, pueblo alto, qastcealyci, tklehanoai, tsohanoai |

Little Orphan Anaye

While not related to the winter holidays, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the Anaye, monstrous beings from Navajo mythology born through the use of sex toys. Admittedly, that’s not the only origin story. Some … Continue reading →

Posted in Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, Uncategorized | Tagged anaye, binaye ahani, naste estsan, nayanezgani, serpents, teelget, theelgeth, thobadzistshini, tsenahale, tsetahotsiltali, tsohanoai, yeitso |