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The Big Big Whoredom

There often seems to be an undercurrent of fear of female sexuality in religion and mythology. It isn’t always that direct, and sometimes male sexuality isn’t viewed that positively either, but it’s pretty blatant sometimes. The idea of the whore … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Focus on the Foes, Gender, Health, History, Judaism, Language, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Persian, Religion, Roman Empire, Sexuality, They Might Be Giants, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged adultery, ahura mazda, angra mainyu, babylon, bible, demons, gavaevodata, golem, jahi, jeh, jesus, john of patmos, mark of the beast, menstruation, prostitution, revelation, rome, shin megami tensei, snakes, whore of babylon |

Wario vs. Everybody

I think I’ll write a bit about some video games I’ve never played. I feel a little silly doing that, but I did do some research. That’s something, right? Anyway, I like to understand what these games do in terms … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Pokémon, Video Games | Tagged aliens, birdo, bulldog, cloud catching mountain, drago, dragons, dry dry desert, elves, fairies, golem, katsini, luigi mario, mario and wario, mario kart, mario vs wario, mermaids, mushroom kingdom, new super mario bros. u, nintendo power, pidgits, pleasant woods, princess peach toadstool, sprites, super mario land 2, tatanga, toad, wanda, wario, wario land, wario's woods, witches, yoshi, yoshis |

Monstrous Fun for the Whole Family

I’ve been writing about Dragon Quest a fair amount recently. I went back and finished Dragon Quest VI about a month ago, and last week I did the same with Dragon Quest V. I actually had even less of that … Continue reading →

Posted in Dragon Quest, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged bianca whitaker, bishop ladja, crocodilopolis, debora briscoletti, demons, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragons, golem, grandmaster nimzo, nera briscoletti, pankraz gotha, rodrigo briscoletti, sancho, zenithia, zenithian dragon |

A Tale of Supernatural Immigration

The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker – I actually first saw this book at Target, and was immediately drawn to the title. After checking out some reviews, I checked it out from the library. Wecker is Jewish and … Continue reading →

Music Hath Charms to Soothe the Savage Dragon

Since I’ve had magical flutes and whistles on my mind recently, I thought of how there were several in the Dragon Quest series. The very first game has the Fairy Flute, called the Pixie Flute in the Game Boy version, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dragon Quest, Magic, Monsters, Music, Video Games | Tagged baron's bugle, cantlin, echoing flute, fairy flute, flute of revelation, garin, golem, ishmari, kol, moonshadow harp, rosehill, rubiss, silver harp, staff of rain |

Bartimaeus Is Back

The Golem’s Eye, by Jonathan Stroud – The second volume in the Bartimaeus Trilogy continues with a story seen from multiple points of view. One of the main characters is again Nathaniel, better known as John Mandrake, a young magician … Continue reading →

Dalton Fink

Anyone else who reads Captain SNES will have noticed that Dalton from Chrono Trigger recently made an appearance, and I thought he might be an interesting enough character to use as the focus of a post. Dalton is the head … Continue reading →

Golem-A-Go-Go

Black Francis, The Golem – I’m not too keen on the “hardest-working person” title, but it definitely seems like Charles Thompson (AKA Black Francis, AKA Frank Black) is pretty far up there. He’s quite eclectic, too, with a project he … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Judaism, Music, Mythology, Religion, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged black francis, der golem, emperor rudolf ii, golem, holy roman empire, miriam, paul wegener, prague, rabbi judah loew ben bezalel, robots, the golem |