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Lady of the Labyrinth

Seems like I’ve mostly just been writing book reviews on here recently. I have another one pretty much ready to go, minus pictures and links, but I wanted to break it up a bit. So here’s something mythology-related I’ve been … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Families, Feminism, Greek Mythology, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Roman | Tagged achilles, aeetes, aphrodite, ares, argonauts, ariadne, artemis, circe, crete, dionysus, dioscuri, europa, gorgons, harmonia, helen of troy, helios, hephaestus, heracles, hercules, iphicles, karl kerenyi, king minos of crete, labyrinth, medea, minotaur, oceanus, oenopion, orphic mysteries, perse, persephone, perseus, phanos, proserpina, rhadmanthus, robert graves, semele, staphylos, tethys, theseus, titans, zeus |

These Judges Are Such Cretans

When the world of the dead is presented as a place of reward or punishment, as has become pretty standard, that generally means that someone has to decide who goes where. The Underworld of Greek mythology came to have three … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Greek Mythology, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Roman, Video Games | Tagged achilles, aegina, aeneid, alcmene, androgeos, ants, apollo, apollodorus, arabian nights, aristophanes, bulls, cadmus, cerberus, cyclopes, daedalus, dante alighieri, divine comedy, eleusinian mysteries, elysian fields, europa, fortunate isles, hades, helios, hell, hera, hercules, inferno, king aeacus of aegina, king aeetes of colchis, king asterion of crete, king minos of crete, kronos, law, minotaur, myrmidons, nymphs, odysseus, odyssey, pasiphae, patroclus, peleus, plato, polyphemus, poseidon, rhadamanthus, sarpedon, sinbad the sailor, the frogs, theseus, triptolemus, trojan war, underworld, virgil, zeus, zork |

You Can’t Sit at Our Table

Today, I wanted to look at the Table of Nations from Genesis 10. The Hebrew word that’s usually translated “nations” is goyim, which became gentilis in the Latin Vulgate. Both words have come to mean non-Jewish people in general, and … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Christianity, Egyptian, Ethnicity, Etymology, Families, Greek Mythology, History, Judaism, Language, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged abraham, aegyptus, agenor, andromeda, atlas, babylon, belus, bible, bosporus, canaan, carthage, cetus, crete, danaus, eber, egypt, esau, ethiopia, euripides, europa, flavius josephus, flood, genesis, good news bible, ham, hellen, hera, herodotus, heth, hittites, iapetus, inachus, incest, Iran, ishmael, isis, israel, jacob, japheth, jonah, king cepheus, king solomon, king xerxes i, libya, lydia, magog, mesopotamia, mizraim, moab, mycenae, nimrod, noah, ophir, paul of tarsus, perses, perseus, phoenicia, poseidon, prometheus, racism, scythia, sea monsters, shem, table of nations, tarshish, tartessos, the rose and the ring, titans, tros, troy, william makepeace thackeray, zeus |

Disney Does Dali

Mickey and Donald: The Persistence of Mickey – The lead story in this volume is based on the real-life collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali. They worked on an animated short called Destino, but due to cost issues, all … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged 2061 odyssey three, andrea castellan, argus mcswine, arthur c. clarke, donald duck, europa, giorgio cavazzano, goofy, gyro gearloose, halley's comet, joe torcivia, jupiter, mickey mouse, pete, robert gagnor, salvador dali, surrealism, the persistence of mickey, walt disney |

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 |

Attention Britomart Shoppers

I sometimes note down myths or mythical figures I think might make for interesting posts, and one I’ve had as a possibility for a while is Britomartis. The name sounds like the United Kingdom’s equivalent of Walmart, but it’s actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Mythology | Tagged artemis, britomart, britomartis, crete, diktynna, edmund spenser, europa, faerie queene, king minos of crete, nymphs, zeus |

Merely a Man

I wrote about demonization last week, but there’s another way people dealt with gods they didn’t believe in, which is claiming that they’re simply people who came to be worshipped. Of course this kind of thing actually happened, both with … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Mormonism, Mythology, Norse, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged aeneid, crete, euhemerism, euhemerus, europa, hercules, jesus, joseph smith, minos, nimrod, odin, priam, samson, snorri sturluson, troy, virgil, zeus |

Para-Dogs

As we are now living through the dog days of summer, this week’s mythology post will be about dogs. More specifically, it’s about Laelaps, a magical hunting dog given by Zeus to Europa when he seduced her and carried her … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Mythology | Tagged canis major, canis minor, dogs, dryptosaurus, europa, hera, hunting dog, kephalos, laelaps, minos, parasitic mite, prokris of athens, sirius, teumessian fox, zeus |