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Going to the Temple and We’re Gonna Kill Chaos

I recently played through the original Final Fantasy on Game Boy Advance. That game was important to me growing up; I received the NES cartridge for my thirteenth birthday, and eventually made it through the whole thing, underleveled throughout most of it … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Names, Technology, Video Games | Tagged airships, beavers, cagnazzo, chaos, chaos shrine, chupon, dawn of souls, dragons, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elemental fiends, elves, fairies, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, flying fortress, four fiends, game boy advance, garland, gilgamesh, koppe, lufenia, mermaids, nintendo entertainment system, nintendo power, onrac, orthros, piscodemons, robots, typhon, ultros |

Did It Hurt When You Fell from Heaven?

I first learned about Genesis B through Alice K. Turner’s The History of Hell. It’s an Old English poem included in a longer one called, not surprisingly, Genesis A. Of course, that wasn’t what people called them at the time. They … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, History, Islam, Judaism, Language, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Semitic, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 1 corinthians, 1 enoch, 2 corinthians, 2 enoch, aaron hostetter, abraham, adam and eve, alice k. turner, angels, bellerophon, bible, crucifixion, demons, ephesians, exodus, garden of eden, genesis, genesis a, genesis b, gigantes, heaven, hell, hera, immortality, jesus, job, jubilees, junius manuscript, kronos, lucifer, mastema, monotheism, moses, olympus, omnipotence, omniscience, pegasus, polytheism, quran, satan, sataniel, the history of hell, tower of babel, typhon, zeus |

Amnesiac Achaeans Anonymous

I finished Glory of Heracles for the DS this past weekend. I’ve written about the game before, but there are a lot of revelations toward the end. The last boss is Typhon, who isn’t really that hard, although he’s annoying … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Humor, Kid Icarus, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged daedalus, erinyes, eris, furies, glory of heracles, hephaestus, heracles, hercules, icarus, iphicles, oceanus, prometheus, titans, typhon, undead, zeus |

The Fish-Woman Who Got Away

I had enjoyed watching the Coney Island Mermaid Parade last year, and had been considering going again, but didn’t think to look up when it was. As it turns out, it was last weekend, and I missed it. Oh, well. … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Mythology, Roman, Semitic | Tagged aphrodite, ashkelon, atargatis, cupid, dagon, derketo, doves, fish, hadad, hyginus, mermaids, ovid, pisces, semiramis, typhon, venus |

Good Gods and Bad Gods

I don’t think people typically worship gods they think of as evil. That’s not to say it doesn’t happen, just that it doesn’t seem to be the basis of any major religion. What does happen is that societies will demonize … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Christianity, Egyptian, Gender, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Persian, Religion, Roman, Satanism, Semitic, Zoroastrianism | Tagged ahriman, ahura mazda, angra mainyu, apsu, astaroth, astarte, beelzebub, demons, devil worship, h.p. lovecraft, kronos, lilith, loki, mother goddesses, ouranos, satan, saturn, set, tiamat, titans, typhon, ymir, zeus |

Sea Monster Mania

Although Poseidon is the best known of the Greek sea deities, there were plenty of others lurking under the water. Two who put in an appearance in Rick Riordan’s The Mark of Athena are Phorcys and Keto, children of Oceanus … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Monsters, Mythology | Tagged echidna, gorgons, graeae, keto, oceanus, phorcys, polyphemus, poseidon, scylla, tethys, thoosa, typhon |

All Gods Are Our Gods

The ancient Greeks had a tendency of associating the gods of foreign pantheons with their own. This was something I noticed when I read Herodotus back in college, and came across a reference to Ahura Mazda as “the Persian Zeus.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Roman, Zoroastrianism | Tagged ahura mazda, demeter, etruscans, hermes, herodotus, interpetatio graeca, isis, mercury, mithra, odin, phrygians, set, tacitus, thoth, troy, typhon, zeus |