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The Unreal World

I’d seen this map, created by Dan Meth, a few times before. It just showed up on Tumblr, and I love all the commentary it’s generated. I appreciate that Meth included places from television, movies, and video games (well, one … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Castlevania, Chronicles of Narnia, Dick Martin, Discworld, Dr. Seuss, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jonathan Swift, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Mega Man, Metroid, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Once Upon a Time, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Punch-Out, Television, Terry Pratchett, Ursula K. LeGuin, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, avalon, bill willingham, blefuscu, bridge to terabithia, camelot, crossovers, dan meth, dinosaurs, dinotopia, dreamlands, earthsea, emerald city, fables, fritz leiber, game of thrones, george macdonald, gulliver's travels, h.p. lovecraft, heaven, hesperides, horton hatches the egg, horton hears a who, hyrule, jaro hess, jonathan swift, jungle of nool, king arthur, king hippo, king midas, kingdom of dreams, krull, land of the lost, lankhmar, lilliput, michael ende, middle-earth, narnia, nehwon, neverland, once-ler, peter and wendy, peter pan, phantastes, rip van winkle, sir lancelot du lac, sodor, spirit tracks, the dark crystal, the fantasy world map, the land of make-believe, the last battle, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, the lorax, the neverending story, the pied piper of hamelin, the princess bride, the wonderful world of oz, thomas and friends, thra, timelines, tol eressea, tom thumb, videoland, washington irving, westeros, where the wild things are, whoville, wonderland |

Eat Fruit, Live Forever

The idea of fruit bestowing immortality, or at least longevity, is a common one in mythology and folklore. In Norse mythology, the gods are said to eat apples that restore their youth. The fruit can’t entirely prevent them from dying, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, British, Chinese, Christianity, Food, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Language, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Religion | Tagged aesir, apples, avalon, baldur, bible, bragi, dwarves, elves, eris, fruit, gaea, genesis, giants, golden apples, hera, hercules, hesperides, idun, ivaldi, ladon, loki, odin, peaches, ragnarok, revelation, skadi, thiazi, tree of life, zeus |

Grazin’ in the Glass

An Oz story I’m working on was inspired partially by a hypothetical beginning of an Oz book that Ruth Plumly Thompson described in an interview reproduced in a Baum Bugle from the 1990s. It refers to a daughter of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged andrew lang, brothers grimm, brunhilda, hesperides, old rinkrank, siegfried, the baum bugle, the glass mountain, wicked witch of the east |

Fortune Smiles Upon Thee

The idea of the world of the dead as a physical location was quite common in ancient cultures, and more or less still persists today. It’s still common to think of Heaven as being up in the sky and Hell … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Celtic, Etymology, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Language, Maps, Mythology, Norse, Urban Legends | Tagged afterlife, atlantic ocean, avalon, claudius ptolemy, elysian fields, fortunate isles, heaven, helgafjell, hell, herodotus, hesperides, isles of the blest, king arthur, kronos, longitude, macaronesia, macaroni, makaron nesoi, oceanus, pliny the elder, plutarch, prime meridian, quintus sertorius, river styx |

Devils and Dragons

I’ve seen several references to the Bible containing dragons, which some Creationists have tried to link to dinosaurs. Never mind that dinosaurs and dragons don’t have a whole lot in common, other than being at least somewhat reptilian. Source Dragons, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Christianity, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Monsters, Mythology, Religion | Tagged adam and eve, bible, chimera, creationism, devil, dinosaurs, draco, dragons, epic of gilgamesh, genesis, hesperides, humbaba, ladon, revelation, satan, serpents, snakes, tanninim, wisdom of solomon |

Valynn Time

If there’s a modern Oz author and illustrator who should be awarded semi-official status, I’d say it’s Eric Shanower. Since Dick Martin’s The Ozmapolitan of Oz often gets lumped in with the Quasi-Famous books, presumably because he illustrated books by … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Edward Einhorn, Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged billina, bortag, dorothy gale, hera, hesperides, lurline and the white ravens of oz, ozma, paradox in oz, scarecrow, the enchanted apples of oz, valynn, wicked witch of the south |

Bored in Hyperborea

In Greek mythology, it was said that the land of Hyperborea lay far to the north of the lands the myth-makers knew. The name means “beyond the north wind,” and it was regarded as being to the north of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Christmas, Greek Mythology, Holidays, Mythology, Science | Tagged apollo, arctic circle, arimaspoi, artemis, at the back of the north wind, atlas, boreades, boreas, bugs bunny, carpathian mountains, conan the barbarian, constellations, cygnus, danube river, delos, draco, eridanos, eridanus, george macdonald, giants, griffins, heliades, herakles, hercules, herodotus, hesperides, hyperborea, kyknos, ladon, leto, north pole, north wind, odin, olympic games, phaethon, pliny the elder, po river, rhipaion mountains, santa claus, star of eridu, wolves, zeus |