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When Are They Going to Get to Canterbury?

The Spirit Glass, by Roshani Chokshi – The author of the Aru Shah series now turns to Philippine mythology, and she has that kind of ancestry as well as Indian. Corazon Lopez is from a family of babaylans, basically the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Gender, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, incryptid, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Philippine, Piers Anthony, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Xanth | Tagged alice price-healy, aru shah, babaylans, backpacking through bedlam, binidbuds, chanticleer, chaos, cryptozoology, demons, dragons, eugene j. crook, genghis khan, geoffrey chaucer, heaven cent, mercury, patient griselda, persephone, philosopher's stone, pluto, prosperpina, puns, reynard the fox, ronald l. ecker, roshani chokshi, sarah zellaby, shamans, skeleton key, the canterbury tales, the mysteries of the stolen god and where his waffles went, the spirit glass, theseus, thomas healy, verity price |

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 |

Lady of the Labyrinth

Seems like I’ve mostly just been writing book reviews on here recently. I have another one pretty much ready to go, minus pictures and links, but I wanted to break it up a bit. So here’s something mythology-related I’ve been … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Families, Feminism, Greek Mythology, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Roman | Tagged achilles, aeetes, aphrodite, ares, argonauts, ariadne, artemis, circe, crete, dionysus, dioscuri, europa, gorgons, harmonia, helen of troy, helios, hephaestus, heracles, hercules, iphicles, karl kerenyi, king minos of crete, labyrinth, medea, minotaur, oceanus, oenopion, orphic mysteries, perse, persephone, perseus, phanos, proserpina, rhadmanthus, robert graves, semele, staphylos, tethys, theseus, titans, zeus |

Mistletoe the Line

As a kid, I was introduced to the idea of mistletoe being the plant people kiss under at Christmastime. Then, when I was a little older, I started looking into Norse mythology, and found the story about how mistletoe had … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Christmas, Chronicles of Narnia, Etymology, Greek Mythology, Holidays, Language, Magic, Mythology, Names, Norse, Religion, Roman | Tagged aeneas, aeneid, asclepius, baldur, brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable, crucifixion, death, deiphobe, druids, father christmas, frigg, hodur, jesus, loki, mistletoe, odin, persephone, plants, pliny the elder, proserpina, resurrection, santa claus, sir james george frazer, the golden bough, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, underworld, virgil, yule |

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 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 |

So I Says to Mabon, I Says

This past Wednesday was the Autumnal Equinox, so I guess you should keep an eye out for pumpkin Piranha Plants and Koopas in Mario masks. I believe I was first aware of the season change in Super Mario World from … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, British, Celtic, Greek Mythology, Halloween, Holidays, Mario, Mystery Cults, Mythology, Religion, Video Games, Welsh | Tagged aidan kelly, apollo, autumn, avalon, birds, blackbirds, bullet bills, culhwch, custennen, deer, demeter, dogs, eagles, eleusinian mysteries, fish, giants, goreu, gwyn ap nudd, king arthur, king urien, koopa troopas, mabon, mabon ap modron, maponos, modron, morgan le fay, olwen, owls, paganism, persephone, pidgits, pigs, piranha plants, salmon, seasons, sir kay, sir owain, super mario world, taliesin, twrch trwyth, ysbaddaden |

Huluppu to Hell

Alice K. Turner’s The History of Hell gave glimpses into a lot of different myths associated with the world of the dead, some of which I don’t think I’d really explored before. Two of them were Mesopotamian stories, that of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Babylonian, Mythology | Tagged alice k. turner, demons, enki, enkidu, epic of gilgamesh, ereshkigal, gilgamesh, huluppu tree, inanna, irkalla, ishtar, lilith, namtar, nergal, persephone, serpents, tammuz, the history of hell, underworld |

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 |

You’ve Been the Subject of So Many Dreams Since I Climbed Your Torso

I climbed the Statue of Liberty once, when I was probably around nine or so. This must not have been that long after it was reopened to the public in 1986, and it was one of the last trips I … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, History, Mythology, Roman, Roman Empire | Tagged ariadne, artemis, bacchus, cicero, columbia, eleutheria, feronia, ghostbusters ii, jupiter, liber, libera, libertas, marcus terentius varro, marianne, minerva, persephone, phrygian cap, pileus, proserpina, smurfs, statue of liberty, zeus |