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Too Low to Get Under

The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure, by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro – Set in Percy Jackson’s universe, it stars the recurring tragic character and son of Hades, along with his boyfriend Will Solace, son of … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Authors, Book Reviews, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Piers Anthony, Relationships, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Xanth | Tagged a. deborah baker, andromeda, apollo, athena, cats, centaurs, ceto, cetus, christina soontornvat, crows, demons, dragons, gigantomachy, gorgons, graeae, hades, harpies, hephaestus, hercules, iapetus, impossible city, improbable road, isis, isis orb, mark oshiro, medusa, middlegame, nagas, natalie haynes, nico di angelo, nyx, over the woodward wall, owls, perseus, poseidon, prometheus, stone blind, tarot cards, tartarus, the last mapmaker, the sun and the star, the wonderful wizard of oz, titans, up-and-under, will solace, zeus |

The Lady’s in Hades

I’ve written a bit about Battle of Olympus before. My family rented it a few times in my childhood but could never get too far in it, maybe as far as the first Cyclops. In terms of gameplay, it was … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Castlevania, Comics, Dragon Quest, Egyptian, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Kid Icarus, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Metroid, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged achilles, angel land, anubis, atari, battle of olympus, bears, broderbund, castlevania ii: simon's quest, cerberus, chocobos, clash of the titans, cyclopes, dragon quest vi, dragons, eurydice, hades, helen of troy, hydra, isis, kid icarus uprising, lamia, medusa, minotaur, monkeys, mount olympus, ocarina, orpheus, pegasus, persephone, ray harryhausen, riddle of the sphinx, satyrs, snakes, talos, underworld |

Cities of the Damned

The idea of the world of the dead as a physical place is fascinating to me, probably at least partially because I love maps. Whether people in ancient times who wrote about such things genuinely believed that the Underworld had … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Etymology, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Language, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Roman, Video Games | Tagged aeneas, aeneid, afterlife, angels, bible, dante alighieri, demons, dis, divine comedy, emperor mateus, erinyes, final fantasy ii, final fantasy ix, final fantasy xiv, furies, garland, gorgons, hades, hell, hephaestus, inferno, john milton, lucifer, mammon, medusa, mulciber, mysidia, pandemonium, paradise lost, revelation, river styx, satan, stygian council, ultima, underworld, virgil |

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 |

Put a Zork in It

I remember seeing magazine ads for Zork and other text-based adventure games when I was a kid, and thought they seemed pretty fascinating. I never actually got to play any of them at the time, though. I don’t think they … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Douglas Adams, Games, Greek Mythology, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bats, cassius, colossal cave adventure, cyclops, dante alighieri, divine comedy, don woods, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, flatheads, glinda of oz, great underground empire, grues, hades, hell, hunt the wumpus, inferno, infocom, jack vance, julius caesar, lucien kaine, odysseus, odyssey, polyphemus, swords, the dying earth, the zork anthology, weapons, will crowther, wizards, zork, zork i, zork ii |

The Changing of the Gods

Stories of gods having to fight other gods for dominance over the world are quite common in mythology, but there are a few different sorts. Some have the new gods overthrowing older, established ones. Others have gods going to war … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Celtic, Chinese, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Hittite, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Video Games | Tagged aesir, aesir-vanir war, alalu, anu, asuras, athena, baldur, devas, dionysus, fomorians, giants, gigantes, gigantomachy, golden age, hades, hera, hodur, jade emperor, jotun, jotuns, karuilies siunes, kronos, kumarbi, magni, marduk, metis, modi, odin, orphic mysteries, pangu, persephone, ragnarok, teshub, thor, tiamat, titanomachy, titans, tuatha de danann, ullikummi, underworld, vanir, zagreus, zeus |

The Fellowship of Hell Can’t Help You Now

The History of Hell, by Alice K. Turner – Erica Olivera recommended this book to me, and I quite liked it. In a casual style, it explores the concept of Hell throughout history, in both religion and popular culture. It … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Art, Babylonian, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Christianity, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Plays, Poetry, Religion | Tagged abraham, alice k. turner, angels, bible, dante alighieri, demons, dis, divine comedy, hades, heaven, hell, hellmouths, hours of catherine of cleves, inanna, inferno, jesuits, jesus, john milton, orpheus, pandemonium, parables, paradise lost, purgatory, satan, tartarus, the history of hell, titans, tobias swinden, virgin mary |

Hell No, We Won’t Go!

Picture by Brandon Geurts I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I can see the appeal of it, because I’m kind of afraid of no longer existing. I think it’s what’s going to happen, and I won’t care afterwards, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Comics, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Humor, Judaism, Mythology, Norse, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged afterlife, bible, charles gounod, dante alighieri, divine comedy, eternity, faust, folklore, gehenna, hades, heaven, hel, hell, henrik ibsen, inferno, jack o' lantern, jesus, john milton, lobo, mephistopheles, paradise lost, peer gynt, plains of asphodel, satan, sheol, stingy jack, tantalus, tartarus |

You Should Have Put a Ring on It

The Wizard of Oz has been said to be the ultimate chick flick, as it’s about two women fighting over shoes. But then, J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium is one where a lot of world conflicts arise from jewelry, so maybe that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Music, Mythology, Norse, Philosophy, Semitic, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aesir, aladdin, alberich, andvari, arabian nights, brothers grimm, candaules of lydia, demons, draupnir, dwarves, elves, fafnir, glaucon, gollum, gyges of lydia, hades, invisibility, isildur, jewelry, jinn, king solomon, link, lord of the rings, magic rings, middle-earth, one ring, plato, republic, richard wagner, ring cycle, ring of solomon, rings, rings of power, sauron, silmarils, socrates, tarnhelm, testament of solomon, the hobbit, the king of the golden mountain, the legend of zelda, the silmarillion, wishing rings |

Hell-thy, Wealthy, and Dead

The expression “you can’t take it with you” apparently dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century, but the idea is older than that. Not all cultures have believed this, however. We know that the tombs of wealthy … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Authors, Buddhism, Chinese, Christianity, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Taoism, Tom Holt | Tagged afterlife, bank of hell, bank of the dead, charon, eight immortals, hades, hell money, jade emperor, joss paper, obols, sarcophagi, yama, yanluo |