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Follow the Improbable Road

Thistlefoot, by GennaRose Nethercott – This is a retelling of the Baba Yaga legend specifically linking it to the pogroms against Russian Jews. In New Orleans in the present, the witch’s descendants, a shapeshifting street performer and a woodworker who can … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology, up-and-under, Video Games | Tagged a. deborah baker, airships, angels, baba yaga, bahamut, bible, bikke, dan frey, dawn of souls, demons, dr. unne, dreambound, dwarves, elves, esther j. hamori, flitz stewart, flying fortress, four fiends, gennarose nethercott, giants, god's monsters, green man, impossible city, improbable road, kaimeiji yuu, kraken, leviathan, lufenia, manga, marilith, matoya, nephilim, noah's ark, princess sara, puffy tolte, robots, satan, seraphim, thistlefoot, tiamat, under the smokestrewn sky, unicorns, witches |

The Secret Lives of Stars

It’s kind of an odd inspiration, I suppose, but I got an idea to write a post about star mythology from this tweet, for which I’m honestly not sure how serious the original posters were. There is some basis in … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Babylonian, Christianity, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Mythology, Religion, Science, Semitic | Tagged angels, antiochus epiphanes, archangel michael, baal, bible, book of daniel, book of enoch, bootes, constellations, demeter, enoch, ezekiel, firmament, genesis, gospel of luke, heaven, isaiah, ishtar, jesus, job, lucifer, nephilim, persephone, pleiades, revelation, satan, scorpio, stars, underworld, ursa major, ursa minor, venus |

The Bible Says a Lot of Things

One thing I’ve found is that, when someone discusses the Bible from a secular perspective, there will be devout believers who get angry about it, even though no one is actually attacking their faith. I guess part of the problem … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Fundamentalism, Greek Mythology, History, Judaism, Middle East, Mythology, Norse, Religion | Tagged adam and eve, archaeology, ark of the covenant, bible, biblical inerrancy, divine inspiration, enoch, exodus, hittites, israel, jason, judah, judas iscariot, king cepheus, king david, medea, nephilim, nimrod, queen cassiopeia, queen of sheba, tel dan stele, theseus, trojan war |

Please Don’t Feed the Ghosts

Hungry ghosts are a Buddhist concept, but they’ve spread into other East Asian religious traditions as well. The Sanskrit term for this kind of spirit is preta, which basically means “departed.” The Chinese name for them, èguǐ, means “hungry ghost,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Chinese, Greek Mythology, Halloween, Holidays, Japanese, Judaism, Monsters, Mythology, Pac-Man, Religion, Video Games | Tagged bible, book of enoch, egui, gaki, genesis, ghostbusters, ghosts, grigori, hidarugami, hungry ghost festival, hungry ghosts, jikininki, nephilim, preta, slimer, tantalus, watchers |

Tesser Action

Many Waters, by Madeleine L’Engle – I’d read L’Engle’s original Time Trilogy back in my younger days, definitely in elementary school for at least the first two and probably the third. I remember A Wrinkle in Time pretty well, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Language, madeleine l'engle, Mythology, Religion, Science | Tagged a wrinkle in time, an acceptable time, angels, bible, camazotz, genesis, his dark materials, many waters, mitochondria, nephilim, noah, philip pullman, seraphim, tesseract, time quintet, time travel |

Your Noose Is Gonna Break When I Am There

Frank Black and the Catholics is the first release to use this name for the backing band, although the performers are actually the same as on the previous record. I’ve heard that the name was sort of a joke on … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Frank Black, Music, Pixies | Tagged angels, antichrist, bible, dick dale, eraserhead, frank black and the catholics, genesis, interstate 405, jonathan richman, larry norman, nephilim, nigel buxton, north hollywood shootout, peter ivers, trobriand islands |

Splitting the Adam

There are quite a few things I don’t really get about the Adam and Eve story, but one that I thought of recently involves the notion of being fruitful and multiplying. Actually, this isn’t part of the same story, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Etymology, Gnosticism, Judaism, Language, Relationships, Religion | Tagged adam and eve, angels, authority, bible, creationism, death, garden of eden, genesis, marriage, mortality, nephilim, omnipotence, reproduction, sex, tower of babel, tree of knowledge, tree of life |

The Virgin and the Houri

It’s a popular notion these days that Islamic terrorists believe they’ll be rewarded with seventy-two virgins in Paradise. Why seventy-two? There’s somewhat of a justification for this, but as usual the meme only tells part of the story. The Quran … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Discworld, Islam, Religion, Terry Pratchett | Tagged hadith, heaven, houri, muhammad, nephilim, paradise, quran, rincewind, terrorism, the light fantastic |