nasnas – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Jinn and Tonic

I’ve written about jinn before, but something I don’t think I’ve touched on is the different varieties among them. As with a lot of attempts to categorize mythical beings, there’s no real consensus on this. I just finished G. Willow … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Cartoons, Catherynne M. Valente, Celtic, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Hinduism, Islam, Kirby, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games | Tagged abu tha'labah al-khushani, aladdin, alawi, alif the unseen, angels, arabian nights, bahamut, druze, dungeons and dragons, efreeti, fairies, g. willow wilson, ghouls, gustave flaubert, hadith, hinn, iblis, ifrit, jinn, king solomon, king vikramaditya, kirby's dream land 2, marids, muhammad, nasnas, night of the living dead, queen of sheba, quran, shaitan, shiqq, sila, succubus, the fisherman and the jinni, the temptation of saint anthony, vampires, vetala, zombies |

Anthony’s Animals

I decided to read Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony due to the references to it in Lin Carter’s Kesrick. And it turns out that a lot of those references weren’t original with Flaubert either. They were both big … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Frank Black/Black Francis, Greek Mythology, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged a book of creatures, albertus magnus, aras, astomi, basilisk, bestiaries, blemmyae, catoblepas, chimera, cynocephali, digimon, griffins, gustave flaubert, halidom, heraldry, hoppers, kesrick, lin carter, manticores, monopods, musimon, nasnas, phoenix, pygmies, qaqnus, sadhuzag, sciapods, siranis, sirens, sphinx, st. anthony the great, the patchwork girl of oz, the temptation of saint anthony, the voyage of the dawn treader, unicorns |