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99 Problems, But a Clone Force Ain’t One

Two television shows and one movie this time, all with SPOILERS. Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults – When we visited the Museum of Death in Hollywood, an employee there quite enthusiastically told Beth about Heaven’s Gate, and how they … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christianity, Cults, Gender, Gnosticism, Humor, Monsters, Music, Religion, Star Wars, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged apocalypse, bonnie nettles, ciddaran scaleback, clone force 99, clones, emerie karr, george romero, hale-bopp comet, heaven's gate, heaven's gate: the cult of cults, john russo, linnea quigley, marshall applewhite, night of the living dead, phee genoa, revelation, rhea perlman, the bad batch, the clone wars, the mandalorian, the return of the living dead, the sound of music, wanda sykes, zombies |

Unfinished Business

WARNING! SPOILERS! The Seventh Seal – I believe this is the first Ingmar Bergman movie I’ve seen, and I largely watched it because I know it’s a film that gets referenced a lot. I have to say it looks very … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Board Games, Cartoons, Chess, Christianity, Crusades, Games, History, Humor, Magic, Religion, Scandinavia, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aladdin, albertus pictor, antonius block, arabian knight, bible, black plague, death, ingmar bergman, max von sydow, revelation, richard williams, the princess and the cobbler, the seventh seal, the thief and the cobbler, vincent price |

Sympathy for Sympathetic Magic

Into the Windwracked Wilds, by A. Deborah Baker – The third book in the Up-and-Under series sees Avery, Ziv, the Crow Girl, and the Drowned Girl Niamh continuing their journey. This includes their getting swallowed by a mosasaur, who is … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animism, Authors, Christianity, Fundamentalism, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, seanan mcguire, up-and-under | Tagged a. deborah baker, aeneas, aeneid, anthropology, apocalypse, armageddon, baldur, bart ehrman, bible, gospels, human sacrifice, into the windwracked wilds, jesus, joseph campbell, mistletoe, patrick maund, revelation, ritual, robert graves, robert pattrick, sacrifice, seasonal fears, sibyl, sir james george frazer, the golden bough, underworld, unexplored territory in oz, virgil |

Mary-ly We Troll Along

Popular Tales from the Norse, compiled by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Engebretsen Moe, translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent – It includes the tale of the grinder that can produce anything. Many of them have a character called Askelad … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Art, Authors, Christianity, Fairy Tales, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Religion | Tagged arabian nights, beneath the moon, bible, big peter and little peter, bulls, cinderella, east of the sun and west of the moon, goats, jesus, jorgen engebretsen moe, kate crackernuts, katie woodencloak, megingjord, north wind, ogres, peter christen asbjornsen, popular tales from the norse, revelation, rocs, satan, sinbad the sailor, sir george webbe dasent, soria moria castle, tatterhood, the blue belt, the cock and hen a-nutting, the lad who went to the north wind, the lassie and her godmother, the master-smith, the three princesses of whiteland, thor, trolls, virgin mary, yoshi yoshitani |

Dividing Canaan

The current war between Israel and Palestine is obviously horrific, and I can’t say I really know enough about what’s going on there to properly write about it. I’ve certainly seen valid points for and against both populations, but also … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Current Events, Fundamentalism, History, Islam, Judaism, Middle East, Politics, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged 2 thessalonians, abraham, benjamin netanyahu, bible, british mandate for palestine, dispensationalism, donald trump, exodus, ezekiel, gog, hal lindsey, hamas, israel, jerusalem, jesus, joshua, judah, king david, king solomon, magog, palestine, prophecy, rapture, revelation, scofield reference bible, second coming, terrorism, zionism |

Cities of the Damned

The idea of the world of the dead as a physical place is fascinating to me, probably at least partially because I love maps. Whether people in ancient times who wrote about such things genuinely believed that the Underworld had … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Etymology, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Language, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Roman, Video Games | Tagged aeneas, aeneid, afterlife, angels, bible, dante alighieri, demons, dis, divine comedy, emperor mateus, erinyes, final fantasy ii, final fantasy ix, final fantasy xiv, furies, garland, gorgons, hades, hell, hephaestus, inferno, john milton, lucifer, mammon, medusa, mulciber, mysidia, pandemonium, paradise lost, revelation, river styx, satan, stygian council, ultima, underworld, virgil |

There Is No Such Thing as Subtle Cruelty

I haven’t been listening to a lot of music lately, as when I get the chance to listen to anything, there are two podcasts for which I’ve been working through the archives. Beth has been really getting into Sparks as … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Food, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, Humor, Music, Mythology, Religion, Tori Amos | Tagged 1 corinthians, alastair galbraith, bible, charlie chaplin, classical elements, elton john, ghana, heaven, hell, janelle monae, john darnielle, medusa, metamorphoses, metropolis the chase suite, morrissey, mountain goats, ocean to ocean, ovid, poseidon, revelation, robots, sparks |

The Gods Must Be Choosy

Paul Dana suggested a few weeks ago that I should look into the concept of chosen people in religion, and how common that was. Nowadays, it’s mostly used to refer to the Jewish people, or sometimes to other religions that … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Christianity, Comics, Discworld, Greek Mythology, History, Judaism, Mythology, Neil Gaiman, Religion, Semitic, Terry Pratchett | Tagged 2 kings, american gods, animal sacrifice, athena, bible, chemosh, chosen people, covenant, hogfather, human sacrifice, israel, jesus, john of patmos, judah, maasai, mesha of moab, mesha stele, moab, poseidon, revelation, sacrifice, small gods, spider-man, stan lee, supersessionism, twelve tribes of israel |

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 Big Big Whoredom

There often seems to be an undercurrent of fear of female sexuality in religion and mythology. It isn’t always that direct, and sometimes male sexuality isn’t viewed that positively either, but it’s pretty blatant sometimes. The idea of the whore … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Focus on the Foes, Gender, Health, History, Judaism, Language, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Persian, Religion, Roman Empire, Sexuality, They Might Be Giants, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged adultery, ahura mazda, angra mainyu, babylon, bible, demons, gavaevodata, golem, jahi, jeh, jesus, john of patmos, mark of the beast, menstruation, prostitution, revelation, rome, shin megami tensei, snakes, whore of babylon |