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Rings and Things

A lot of jewelry appears in the Oz books, but I can only think of a few magic rings. I believe the first one mentioned in the expanded Oz universe, albeit not in an official Oz book, is the one … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged beach blanket babyloz, boolooroo of the blues, christopher wayne buckley, circlets of halidom, david hulan, dorothy gale, fairies, glinda, glinda of oz, halidom, hind horn, jeremy steadman, jewelry, lurline, magic rings, mermaids, merry go round in oz, mood rings, mustafa of mudge, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, puns, queen aquareine, rash rubies, realbad, rings, ruby of naught, sky island, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the glass cat of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost princess of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the sea fairies, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wizard of oz, time travel, tippetarius in oz, tir na nog, trot griffiths, wishing rings, wizard of oz, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz |

Crazy Celtic Cruises

A common theme in mythology and related fiction is that of the sea voyage that includes a visit to a bunch of weird islands with bizarre people and creatures. This sort of thing can also happen in stories of overland … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Celtic, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Conspiracy Theories, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Video Games | Tagged ailill ochar aghra, aslan's country, bran mac feabhail, echtrae, espers, final fantasy vi, griffins, heaven, immram brain, immrama, isle of joy, jasconius, judas iscariot, land of women, maduin, mael duin, manannan mac leir, odysseus, odyssey, oisin, otherworld, paradise, reepicheep, sinbad, st. brendan the navigator, terra branford, tir na nog, voyage of bran, voyage of mael duin |

Reaching Across the Aisle

The Acts of Simon Magus in the First Century AD: A Search in Secret Egypt, by Glendenning Cram – I read a review copy of this after the author commented on my blog post on Simon Magus, and announced that … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Celtic, Christianity, Comics, Gnosticism, Humor, Judaism, Mythology, Politics, Religion, Snobbery | Tagged a search in secret egypt, aengus og, america you sexy bitch, dagda, fairies, glendenning cram, gunnerkrigg court, guns, hermeticism, john mccain, kate thompson, meghan mccain, michael ian black, philo of alexandria, simon magus, stereotypes, the acts of simon magus in the first century ad, the new policeman, tir na nog, tom siddell, whole foods |

Calendar Clues

We don’t know a whole lot about how the Ozian calendar works, but it does appear that the months are the same as ours, as indicated with Jack Pumpkinhead’s tombstones in The Road to Oz. Ruth Plumly Thompson was particularly … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged henry blossom, jack pumpkinhead, jeremy steadman, lurline, narnia, nome king, ozzy digest, peter brown, pirates in oz, prince bobo, rinkitink in oz, robert pattrick, robin hess, the blue emperor of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic mirror of oz, the road to oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tir na nog, toto and the cats of oz, travelers' trees, tyler jones, unexplored territory in oz, wam, zim greenleaf |

A Brief Visit to Tir na n’Og

Before the exploration of the world made it necessary for fairylands to be located in alternate universes, dimensional pockets, or far-off planets, it was pretty common for the writers of legends to set them in unexplored or barely explored regions … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Lewis, Celtic, Chronicles of Narnia, Japanese, Mythology, Oz | Tagged aurea, embarr, fairies, fionn mac cumhaill, melody grandy, niamh of the golden hair, oisin, oscar, st. patrick, the lost king of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tir na nog, tuatha de danann, urashima taro, wizard of oz, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz |