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Ozma’s Road Tip

The Mysterious Chronicles of Oz, by Onyx Madden – I’ve written about this book before, but had never done a full review, and hadn’t read it all the way through in some years. I get the impression that it’s one … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Celtic, Characters, Chinese, Edward Einhorn, Gender, Greek Philosophy, J.R.R. Tolkien, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Mythology, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy | Tagged aristotle, bicycles, birds, cowardly lion, crows, cwn annwn, dcim wainwright, dogs, dragons, emerald city, fairies, fighting trees, glinda, goblins, hammer-heads, hobgoblins, hungry tiger, j. noel, lurline, magic picture, mockingbirds, nymphs, opaloz, ozma, ozma sees herself, puck, quox, red wagon, sawhorse, scarecrow, the hobbit, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius, witches |

When the World and I Were Young

Continuing on the theme of calendars from another recent post, I’ve done some investigation into different calculations of the age of the world. The Jewish calendar and the traditional Byzantine one both date from the Anno Mundi, or Year of … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Babylonian, Chinese, Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, Egyptian, Greek Philosophy, Hinduism, History, Judaism, Mathematics, Mayan, Mythology, Native American, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Semitic, Zoroastrianism | Tagged acts of the apostles, adam and eve, ahura mazda, anno mundi, apostolic council, aristotle, bede, bible, bishop james ussher, brahma, brahma years, chronology, creation, creationism, exodus, flood, genesis, gospel of nicodemus, jesus, john mcphee, king solomon, maccabees, martin luther, masoretic text, patriarchs, puranas, rabbi jose ben halafta, ramesses ii of egypt, rosh hashanah, septuagint, sumerian king list, time, turin king list, vishnu purana, zoroaster |

Falling for the Fairy Fellowship

I’ve mentioned the fairyland on the other side of the world from Oz a few times, but since I’m planning on writing some fiction that takes place there, I might as well detail what we know about it. It first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chinese, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Mythology, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Politics | Tagged ak, aristotle, astrology, constellations, dinosaurs, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragonettes, dragons, emerald city mirror, empyrean plane, fairies, flora, forbidden tube, four guardians, gilbert sprague, great gulf, great jinjin, green dragon of atlantis, hiergargo, immortal longings of oz, immortals, jinxland, king of animals, king of forests, kirin, lurline, monokeros, moon, original dragon, paul dana, phoenix, plato, queen erma, skanderbeg, sublunar realm, the gardener's boy of oz, the law of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, tortoises, tubekins, unicorns, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz |

War Between the States of Being

Erica Olivera’s presentation on Theosophy and its influence on L. Frank Baum at the latest OzCon included some information on the four kingdoms, those of mineral, vegetable, animal, and human. The animal-vegetable-mineral division is part of general knowledge, as well … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Animals, Biology, Characters, Christianity, Evolution, Greek Philosophy, History, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Snobbery, Theosophy | Tagged angels, aristotle, carl linnaeus, charles darwin, cowardly lion, creationism, dick tater, dorothy gale, elementals, erica olivera, great chain of being, helena blavatsky, hierarchy, immortals, kingdoms, mangaboos, march of progress, minerals, morality, nome king, nomes, orthogenesis, paracelsus, plants, prince bobo, racial evolution, racism, return to oz, rinkitink in oz, scarecrow, taxonomy, the scalawagons of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, tottenhots, transformation, twenty questions, vegetable kingdom, zoology |

I’m Ruler of This Moon, Boy

The second album credited to Frank Black and the Catholics, Pistolero from 1999, has never really been a favorite of mine. That said, it has some excellent songs. I tend to think of it as somewhat noisier and more chaotic … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Frank Black, Music | Tagged aristotle, captain beefheart, chubby checker, david bowie, desmond dekker, elvis presley, eric drew feldman, Freddy Fender, pistolero, question mark and the mysterians, rolling stones |

God in the Flesh

Are gods physical beings? It appears that, in general, earlier cultures considered them to be such, but religion has developed away from that idea toward that of their being pure spirit. Of course, gods can TAKE physical form if they … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Mythology, Norse, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged aether, aristotle, classical elements, danae, exodus, genesis, graven images, idols, monotheism, moses, odin, physical form, plato, polytheism, semele, spirit, spirituality, zeus |

A Dogma in the Fight

Do science and religion contradict each other? On the face of it, I’d say no. Science is a way of finding out about how the world operates through observation and experimentation, and religion is a belief that the universe is … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Evolution, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science | Tagged apollo, aristotle, bible, claudius ptolemy, creationism, dogma, galileo galilei, geocentrism, heliocentrism, helios, israel, jesus, lightning, mount olympus, science and religion, sun, zeus |

Aristotle, Aristotle Was a Beggar for the Bottle

One interesting concept that I hadn’t really thought about until seeing mentions of it on the Internet is that of how science differs from reason. The two work in tandem, of course, but reason is an internalized process, while science … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Philosophy, Philosophy, Religion, Science | Tagged adam and eve, aristotle, gospel of john, gravity, logos, plato, reason |

Homunculus Is By Your Side

One term I’ve come across in several places but haven’t been entirely sure what it means is “homunculus.” So I looked it up on Wikipedia, everyone’s favorite source for information that is probably at least partially true, and the indication … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Evolution, Genetics, Greek Philosophy, Philosophy, Science | Tagged aristotle, creationism, family guy, homunculus, intelligent design, preformationism, pythagoras |

Boots the Bishop and the Dumb Ox

Maimonides, whom I addressed last week, was a major influence on Christian thought as well as Jewish. This seems to have been largely through two famous Christian admirers of his work, Albertus Magnus and his student Thomas Aquinas. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Greek Philosophy, Historical Personages, History, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged albertus magnus, alchemy, aristotle, dominican order, first cause, moses maimonides, thomas aquinas, unmoved mover |