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Glindaness Is Next to Godliness

I appreciate that The Baum Bugle has recently been putting out some issues that largely focus on a particular book. I don’t know if there are plans for this to continue, but I’ve found some information there that I hadn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Art, Characters, Egyptian, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Spiritualism | Tagged birds, dorothy gale, glinda, glinda of oz, great book of records, immortality, ira and william davenport, isis, margaret berg, matilda joslyn gage, michael patrick hearn, neith, osiris, robert b. luehrs, snoods, spirit cabinet, supreme dictator of the flatheads, the baum bugle, the magic of oz, the reading tree of oz, tik-tok of oz, wizard of oz |

Give Me Resurrection or Give Me Death!

I’ve looked at the concept of gods dying and being resurrected before, and it really seems like there’s a tendency to ascribe more similarities to the various myths of the sort than there really are. It’s a common theme, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Judaism, Mythology, Norse, Religion | Tagged baldur, death, dionysus, ganesh, gerald massey, hades, horus, isis, jesus, krishna, loki, messiah, osiris, persephone, ragnarok, resurrection, zeus |

Laughing at Legends

Three more Tom Holt books this time: Grailblazers – I think this one is a clear improvement over the last few Holt books, showing the author honing his style. As usual, it focuses on one element of folklore, in this … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Tom Holt, Uncategorized | Tagged atlantis, faust, faust among equals, freyr, grailblazers, helen of troy, holy grail, jesus, king arthur, last supper, odds and gods, odin, osiris, pan, santa claus, simon magus, thor, unicorns |

Bari-ed Alive

Picture source: Jack Lee’s Art Seeing as how it’s Easter weekend, I thought it might be appropriate to write about a deity who dies and is reborn, as Jesus was said to have done nearly 2000 years ago. It’s been … Continue reading →

Posted in Korean, Mythology, Religion | Tagged baridegi, dionysus, dongsuja, jesus, king ogu, korea, moses, osiris, princess bari, psychopomps, resurrection, shamanism, underworld |

Mixed Mythology Makes Mischief

It’s no secret that I enjoy fiction based on classical mythology, or that I put a little too much energy into pondering how crossovers work. And when something includes elements from the mythology of various cultures, it can often become … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Christianity, Christopher Moore, Comics, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Judaism, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Percy Jackson, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged anubis, apollo, chiron, coyote, coyote blue, crossovers, hades, heidi klum, hel, hermes, indra, jesus, jonathan stroud, jupiter, kali, marvel comics, mercury, odin, osiris, ra, shiva, sol, sun, the lightning thief, the ring of solomon, thor, ymir, zeus |

Song of Serapis

I just finished reading The Staff of Serapis, by Rick Riordan, a follow-up to his The Son of Sobek. Like its predecessor, it’s a crossover between his Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus and Kane Chronicles series, featuring characters from both and … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Heroes of Olympus, History, Kane Chronicles, Middle East, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, Roman Empire | Tagged alexander the great, alexandria, amun, annabeth chase, apis, carter kane, cerberus, egypt, hades, osiris, ptolemy i, sadie kane, serapis, the lost hero, the son of sobek, the staff of serapis |

Incest and Peppermints

One thing you’ll note if looking at a genealogy of the Greco-Roman gods is that there’s a lot of incest going on in that family. Kronos married his sister Rhea, and their children included Zeus and Hera, who also married … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Christianity, Egyptian, Families, Genetics, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Kane Chronicles, Mythology, Norse, Percy Jackson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Science | Tagged abraham, adam and eve, aesir, annabeth chase, athena, bible, cain, freyja, freyr, gaea, genesis, giants, hades, hebe, hera, herakles, horus, incest, isis, kronos, monarchy, njord, osiris, ouranos, persephone, rhea, sarah, taboo, vanir, zeus |

Jesus Christ, Copycat

Merry Christmas! I’ve never really understood why (at least in the United States) this is the one holiday when we’re supposed to be merry instead of merely happy, but there you go. And as we all know, the true meaning … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Christmas, Egyptian, Hinduism, Holidays, Mythology, Oz, Religion, Roman | Tagged egyptian calendar, horus, isis, janmashtami, jesus, krishna, nephthys, nile river, nut, osiris, ra, set, sirius, sol invictus, winter solstice |

Will the Real Horus Please Stand Up?

One of the major gods of the Olympian pantheon is Horus, perhaps more accurately rendered as Heru. The fact that most of what we know about ancient Egypt was filtered through Greek first gives us a lot of extra S’s, … Continue reading →

Posted in Egyptian, Kane Chronicles, Mythology, Rick Riordan | Tagged falcon, geb, heru, horus, isis, nut, osiris, pharaoh, ra, set |

Tammuz Talk

Since summer has officially begun, the deity to whom we turn today is one closely associated with the summer, the Babylonian Tammuz. The god was originally known as Dumuzi in Sumeria, but is much better known by his Semitic name, … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Christianity, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Mythology, Religion | Tagged adonis, agriculture, asimov's guide to the bible, attis, dumuzi, ereshkigal, inanna, isaac asmiov, ishtar, jephthah, jerusalem, jesus, jewish calendar, life cycle, osiris, persephone, resurrection, sumeria, summer, tammuz, underworld |