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Did It Hurt When You Fell from Heaven?

I first learned about Genesis B through Alice K. Turner’s The History of Hell. It’s an Old English poem included in a longer one called, not surprisingly, Genesis A. Of course, that wasn’t what people called them at the time. They … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, History, Islam, Judaism, Language, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Semitic, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 1 corinthians, 1 enoch, 2 corinthians, 2 enoch, aaron hostetter, abraham, adam and eve, alice k. turner, angels, bellerophon, bible, crucifixion, demons, ephesians, exodus, garden of eden, genesis, genesis a, genesis b, gigantes, heaven, hell, hera, immortality, jesus, job, jubilees, junius manuscript, kronos, lucifer, mastema, monotheism, moses, olympus, omnipotence, omniscience, pegasus, polytheism, quran, satan, sataniel, the history of hell, tower of babel, typhon, zeus |

Washing Your Sins Away

One recurring theme in Greek mythology is that of ritual purification for someone who’d committed a crime. There’s a pattern in some stories of a person doing a heinous act, being exiled from their home, and going to someone in … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Mythology, Religion | Tagged adrestus of phrygia, animal sacrifice, apollonius of rhodes, argonautica, atys of lydia, bellerophon, circe, copreus, crime, croesus, eurystheus, exile, hammurabi, hera, hercules, herodotus, homer, iliad, jason, laius of thebes, law, medea, murder, oedipus, oracle of delphi, proteus of argos, purification, ritual, sacrifice, thespius, zeus |

Amazon Primer

While warfare has traditionally been considered a masculine pursuit, Greek legend contains accounts of the Amazons, an all-female tribe of powerful warriors. While they were often said to live in Asia Minor, they were sometimes located in Africa or modern-day … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Exploration, Authors, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Gender, Greek Mythology, Heroes of Olympus, History, Mythology, Oz, Rick Riordan, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged achilles, alexander the great, amazons, bellerophon, dc comics, dragon quest iv, femiscyra, final fantasy iv, francisco de orellano, gargareans, gerudo, hercules, herodotus, hippolyte, penthesileia, priam, thalestris, themiscyra, theseus, troia, trojan war, troy, wonder woman |