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What’s the Story, Wishbone?

Beth asked me last night if I knew how the tradition of breaking the wishbone started, and I had to admit I didn’t know. As with most superstitions, it’s difficult to get an exact answer, but there’s a lot of … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Holidays, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Thanksgiving | Tagged chickens, dinosaurs, divination, etruscans, furcula, king kojo, merrythought bone, the disenchanted princess of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tippetarius, wishbird, wishbones |

All Gods Are Our Gods

The ancient Greeks had a tendency of associating the gods of foreign pantheons with their own. This was something I noticed when I read Herodotus back in college, and came across a reference to Ahura Mazda as “the Persian Zeus.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Roman, Zoroastrianism | Tagged ahura mazda, demeter, etruscans, hermes, herodotus, interpetatio graeca, isis, mercury, mithra, odin, phrygians, set, tacitus, thoth, troy, typhon, zeus |