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It’s a Grand Old Game

I finished with Grandia last weekend. It’s interesting how, not long after the part I had played the last time I wrote about this game, I lost one party member who had been there from the beginning (two, if you … Continue reading →

Posted in Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged alent, alqada, cafu, colonel mullen, feena, gaia, garlyle forces, general baal, grandia, guido, laine, liete, manta ray, milda, mogay, pakon, parm, puffy, rafane, rapp, zil padon |

The Appearance of Time

When I heard of the concept of Chronos in Orphism from a Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby episode, I thought it would be something worth looking into. The association of Kronos, the father of the most prominent Olympian gods, with time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Buddhism, Christianity, Final Fantasy, Gender, Gnosticism, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, History, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mystery Cults, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Religion, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged aether, aion, ananke, chaos, chronos, death, dionysus, erebos, father time, final fantasy iii, gaia, hera, herakles, hercules, hesiod, jesus, kronos, mysticism, orphic mysteries, ouranos, phanes, theogony, time, time loops, zeus |

Quidnunc Pro Quo

A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes – This book dives into the thoughts and actions of numerous women involved with the Trojan War, giving their perspective on the whole thing. It utilizes a lot of sources, and gives each one … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Catherynne M. Valente, Comics, Greek Mythology, Humor, Kirby, Mythology, Technology, Television, Toys, Video Games | Tagged a thousand ships, dream land, gaia, hirokazu hikawa, king dedede, kirby manga mania, kirby right back at ya, mushrooms, natalie haynes, nintendo, nintendo power, odysseus, osmo unknown and the eightpenny woods, pangirlin, pangolins, penelope, quidnunx, skadgebat, super mario manga mania, trojan war |

Where the Worlds Have No Name

One night last week, I had a fitful sleep with a bunch of weird dreams. I remember one of them had me ranting about how J.R.R. Tolkien was never clear on whether Middle-Earth was his entire imaginary world or just … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Maps, March Laumer, Mario, Mythology, Names, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged alefgard, Arda, calormen, continent of imagination, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy vii, gaia, galaxies, hyrule, jupiter, mars, middle-earth, midgard, moon, mushroom world, narnia, nonestic ocean, planets, professor wogglebug, saturn, sun, super mario bros. 3, the royal book of oz, world tree, yggdrasil |

Let’s Be Fair to Fairies

Fairies in the Zelda series are largely of the English variety of tiny people with wings and magical powers, but there are exceptions. The Great Fairies in Ocarina of Time can fly without wings and look kind of like drag … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Cartoons, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Magic, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, aesop, captain snes, elves, epheremelda, fairies, gaia, ganon, hylians, king hippo, light warriors, link, majora's mask, miff, na'vi, nintendo comics system, nintendo power, oberon, ocarina of time, oxyale, queen venus, seraphina the pabst fairy, spryte, tatl, the honest woodcutter, the legend of zelda, the wind waker, tinker bell |

Let Our Powers Combine

Ah, Captain Planet. I remember watching that show mostly because my brother would turn it on at, like, 7 AM on Saturday, before any of the other cartoons came on. A bit of well-meaning but obnoxious preachiness from Ted Turner, … Continue reading →

It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature

The concept of Mother Earth is an ancient one, appearing in many different cultures. One of the most famous is the Greek Gaia, mother to the Titans, the giants, and many others. Obviously the myth-makers realized that nature has both … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, History, Middle Ages, Mythology, Native American, Philosophy, Slavic | Tagged chiffon margarine, gaia, mati syra zemlya, mother earth, mother nature, pachamama, uranus, virgin mary |

For Great Justice

We’re all familiar with the depiction of Justice as a blindfolded woman holding scales. As with a lot of anthropomorphic personifications, this image largely derives from Greco-Roman mythology, but from a few different deities. The first relevant goddess is Themis, … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Mythology, Roman | Tagged adikia, apollo, astraea, bronze age, delphic oracle, dike, eirene, eunomia, fortuna, gaia, justice, justitia, ouranos, themis, virgo |