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Big Birds

I don’t think I’ve ever written a post about the Simurgh, the giant bird from Persian mythology that I actually first came across in the Xanth series. Pretty much always identified as female, this peacock-like bird is often shown as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Babylonian, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Judaism, Monsters, Mythology, Persian, Piers Anthony, Religion, Semitic, Video Games, Xanth | Tagged anzu, arabian nights, birds, chamrosh, demons, enlil, farid ud-din attar, garuda, griffins, inanna, kamak, kerasp, leviathan, lugalbanda, marduk, ninurta, roc, rostam, rudaba, saam, simurgh, talmud, the conference of the birds, tree of life, zal, ziz, zu, zuh |

Just Another Long Black Letter Day

The first Frank Black albums I bought when they were new were Black Letter Days and Devil’s Workshop, which actually came out on the same day in 2002. It was also the day the Neko Case album Blacklisted was released, … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Frank Black, Frank Black/Black Francis, History, Music, Mythology | Tagged black letter days, California, frank black and the catholics, fredonian rebellion, garuda, leo carrillo, tom waits |

Guys and Gulls

For today’s Oz post, how about a look at a few very minor characters whom I nevertheless found quite intriguing? Both are birds, are both appear briefly in Ruth Plumly Thompson’s Oz books to solve a problem, and then promptly … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Magic Items, Oz | Tagged birds, deus ex machina, fred otto, garuda, grand mo-gull, gulls, jack pumpkinhead of oz, l. frank baum, mombi, ojo, ojo in oz, opodock, ozure isles, prince philador, realbad, red jinn, ruth plumly thompson, silver whistle, snufferbux, the giant horse of oz, the lost emeralds of oz, the lost king of oz |

The Tengu Tango

If you study classic mythology and fairy tales, you soon come to realize that a lot of the mystical beings of folklore aren’t really all good or all evil. Many of them are just out for their own interests, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Japanese, Mythology | Tagged buddhism, china, demons, garuda, hinduism, japan, march laumer, monsters, shinto, tengu, the vegetable man of oz, tiangou, yamabushi |