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Dazhbog Through the Snow

I didn’t really have the chance to write about any holiday-related mythology this month. I did notice that Talia Lavin wrote about some winter traditions in a post ostensibly about a sandwich. It’s interesting to note that for the Yakuts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Christmas, Holidays, Mythology, Names, Russian, Slavic | Tagged bulls, chyskhaan, dazbog, ded moroz, effigy, frost bull, jyl oghuha, khors, morana, perun, santa claus, seasons, sun, svarog, talia lavin, veles, winter, zorya, zorya utrennyaya, zorya vechernyaya |

Must Be the Season of the Alchemist

Hospital, by Han Song, translated by Michael Berry – This is a pretty bizarre book, partially a satire on the medical industry, with the hospital system essentially taking over the world, then branching out from there into increasingly surreal territory. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animals, Art, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Buddhism, carl barks, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Health, Humor, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology | Tagged city of the plague god, corn jenny, daffy-o, daisy duck, demons, donald duck, duck luck, dumuzi, franz kafka, fury of the dragon goddess, gulliver's travels, gyro gearloose, han song, hollow earth, hospital, huey dewey and louie, ishtar, jack frost, jack in the green, jonathan swift, junior woodchucks, lucian of samosata, ludvig holberg, lugal, magica de spell, michael berry, middlegame, monkeys, niels klim, niels klim's underground travels, rabisu, rick riordan presents, sarwat chadda, satire, scrooge mcduck, seasonal fears, seasons, sikander aziz, stingy jack, stranger than fiction, tammuz, the madcap mariner, the terrible tourist, true history |

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 |

Drove My Chevy to the Nuckelavee

Since St. Patrick’s Day was two days ago, it might make sense to feature Irish mythology this weekend, but instead I’m going with Scottish. Hey, I’m part Scots-Irish, after all. The particular focus of this post is local to the … Continue reading →

Seasons Change and So Does Vertumnus

It’s common knowledge that most of the Roman gods were basically the same as Greek ones, sometimes with a few differences to reflect the culture. The Romans did have some of their own deities without Greek counterparts, however. One of … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Etymology, Holidays, Language, Mythology, Roman | Tagged autumnus, metamorphoses, nymphs, ovid, phaethon, phoebus, pomona, priapus, procas, seasons, silvanus, tumnus, ver, vertumnalia, vertumnus, voltumna, vortumnus |

Post of the Hours

One common feature of mythology is an explanation of the procession of the seasons, often linking them to particular deities or to the death and rebirth of a god. In Greek mythology, it’s explained that the winter is when Demeter‘s … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Etymology, Greek Mythology, Language, Mythology, Science | Tagged aphrodite, autumn, auxo, constellations, demeter, dike, eirene, eunomia, euporie, fates, fortuna, hades, horae, hours, justice, karpo, orthosa, persephone, pherusa, seasons, spring, summer, thallo, themis, titans, tyche, virgo, winter, zeus, zodiac |

Season Cycle Moving Round and Round

Yesterday was the vernal equinox, and hence the official start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, at least according to a lot of calendars. Mind you, since temperatures have been fluctuating wildly in these parts as of late, it’s hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, Global Warming, Holidays, Science | Tagged calendar, julian calendar, lent, seasons, spring, summer solstice, vernal equinox, winter solstice |

Make Way for the Demetric System

Considering the importance of agriculture in ancient society, it is not at all surprising that ancient pantheons pretty much always had at least one fertility deity. In fact, a lot of the earliest known gods fit into this category, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Metroid, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged asteroid belt, ceres, demeter, demophon, dwarf planets, eleusinian mysteries, eleusis, fertility deities, hades, hera, horses, iaison, kronos, persephone, poseidon, rhea, seasons, super metroid, underworld, zeus |