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All Zamonian Stories End Tragically

Have I been reading too much recently? I checked three books out from the library last week, and have already finished all of them. Then again, none of them were that long. I have a bad habit of often looking … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Alchemy, Art, Astronomy, Authors, Book Reviews, Dragon Quest, Egyptian, Humor, Jainism, janelle monae, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Philosophy, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Sexuality, Technology, Video Games | Tagged alaya dawn johnson, athanasius kircher, cats, danny lore, dirty computer, dragon quest viii, dragons, echo the crat, edward brooke-hitching, eve l. ewing, i'm afraid you've got dragons, john herschel, magonia, mars, moon, nevermind, percival lowell, peter s. beagle, planets, prince charmles, save changes, seshet, sheree renee thomas, succubus ghoolion, sun, the alchemaster's apprentice, the last unicorn, the memory librarian, the memory librarian and other stories of dirty computer, the sky atlas, time travel, timebox, timebox altar(ed), walter moers, wizards, yohanca delgado, zamonia |

Being Jovial Is the Best Medicine

I remember learning in fifth grade health class that the Rx symbol for prescriptions came from the symbol for the planet Jupiter, only with an extra line added. I thought that was really cool, and it did check out. As … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Astronomy, Biology, chemistry, Education, Gender, Greek Mythology, Language, Magic, Medicine, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Roman, Science | Tagged aphrodite, astrology, caduceus, carl linnaeus, ellen m. regis, hermaphroditos, hermes, herms, jupiter, kronos, mars, mercury, metal, moon, neptune, planets, rexall, saturn, sun, symbols, trident, uranus, venus, zeus |

The Secret Lives of Stars

It’s kind of an odd inspiration, I suppose, but I got an idea to write a post about star mythology from this tweet, for which I’m honestly not sure how serious the original posters were. There is some basis in … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Babylonian, Christianity, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Mythology, Religion, Science, Semitic | Tagged angels, antiochus epiphanes, archangel michael, baal, bible, book of daniel, book of enoch, bootes, constellations, demeter, enoch, ezekiel, firmament, genesis, gospel of luke, heaven, isaiah, ishtar, jesus, job, lucifer, nephilim, persephone, pleiades, revelation, satan, scorpio, stars, underworld, ursa major, ursa minor, venus |

As the Hours and the Days and the Weeks and the Months and the Years Go By

With this year soon coming to an end, I was thinking about whether there’s any connection between the number of days in a year and degrees in a circle, and apparently there is. Of course, a modern year doesn’t have … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Astronomy, Babylonian, Christmas, Easter, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Islam, Judaism, Mathematics, Mesopotamia, Mythology, New Year's Day, Norse, Religion, Roman, Science | Tagged astrology, baby new year, bible, calendar, dionysus, egyptian calendar, enoch, father time, genesis, geometry, jewish calendar, khonsu, kronos, measurement, moon, nostradamus, planets, sabbath, saturn, saturnalia, sun, thoth, time, yule |

I’m on Top of the World

I saw a link on Twitter to this article on Ancient Origins, a site that presumably isn’t always reliable. What it says here seems to have all been verified elsewhere, however, with nothing about aliens building the pyramids or anything. … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Babylonian, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Douglas Adams, Greek Mythology, Hellenistic Greece, History, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, Islam, Judaism, Maps, Mesopotamia, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science | Tagged cartography, delphi, ethnocentrism, europe, flat earth, geography, golgafrinchans, imago mundi, jerusalem, kaaba, london, mecca, milky way galaxy, prime meridian, river euphrates, sin, zeus |

Morbid and Marvelous

The Chickens of Atlantis and Other Foul and Filthy Fiends, by Robert Rankin – This is the fourth, and presumably the last, book in Rankin’s series of novels taking place in a steampunk Victorian England where War of the Worlds … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Education, Evolution, Fairy Tales, Humor, Jonathan Swift, Monsters, Philosophy, Poetry, Prejudice, Religion, Robert Rankin, Science | Tagged 2010 odyssey two, aleister crowley, arthur c. clarke, bible, charles kingsley, europa, fairies, gulliver's travels, h.g. wells, h.p. lovecraft, jupiter, morality, richard harris barham, satire, the chickens of atlantis and other foul and filthy fiends, the house on the borderland, the ingoldsby legends, the water-babies, thomas ingoldsby, war of the worlds, william hope hodgson, winston churchill |

I Want to Ragnarok All Night

I just recently finished reading the Eternals Saga from Marvel’s The Mighty Thor, which originally ran from 1979 through 1980. Comics Recommended gives a good overview of the saga in three parts, but I’m going to say a bit about … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Jeff Rester, Magnus Chase, Marcus Mebes, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Science | Tagged as the rainbow follows the rain, asgard, astrology, athena, axial precession, baldur, bible, brunhilda, celestials, doctor strange, eternals, eternals saga, hela, hermes, jesus, joe bongiorno, krishna, loki, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, midgard, mjolnir, odin, oziana, ragnarok, revelation, richard wanger, ring cycle, royal timeline of oz, shiva, siegfried, siegmund, sif, the mighty thor, the sword of summer, thor, valkyries, zeus, zodiac |

A Long Walk Off a Short Pyramid

Dr. Ben Carson has been the subject of much mockery for a lot of reasons, but one of the most prominent is that he thought Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. Apparently he didn’t even make this up; it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Cartoons, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Current Events, Futurama, History, Judaism, Middle East, Religion, Science, Television | Tagged antiquities of the jews, charles piazzi smith, dr. ben carson, egypt, exodus, flavius josephus, flood, genesis, great pyramid, james taylor, jesus, joseph, karel drbal, new age, noah, pharaoh, pi, pyramids, ramesses ii of egypt, seth, the ten commandments, thuban |

Sorry, I Was Creating the Milky Way

The name “Milky Way” comes from the appearance of a band of stars and other celestial objects visible in the sky at certain times. It’s actually a view of the galactic plane from the outer spiral arm on which Earth … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Chinese, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Native American, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, Science | Tagged altair, armenia, birds, cherokee, galaxies, hera, hercules, kronos, milky way, pawnee, percy jackson's greek heroes, rhea, silver river, vahagn vishapkagh, vega, zeus |

An Auspicious Night for Stars

NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe, by Terence Dickinson – Stargazing is always something I thought I should get into, but never really did. I developed some interest in it around the same time I started reading Greek … Continue reading →