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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 |

Do You Want to Kill a Snowman?

I had been wanting to write something about snowman characters in video games, with one that immediately came to mind being Rusty the Snowman in Earthworm Jim, who breathes fireballs. Sounds like he’s as self-destructive as the They Might Be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Art, Donkey Kong, Humor, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Prejudice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, They Might Be Giants, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, antisemitism, bad mr. frosty, banjo-kazooie, battletoads, bleak the snowman, book of hours, chilly, clayfighter, cool cool mountain, donkey kong country 3, dr. freezegood, earthworm jim, evil the cat, frosty the hit man, michelangelo buonarroti, mr. blizzard, mr. frosty, penguins, robots, rusty the snowman, sir slush, snowman's land, snowmen, super mario 64, teenage mutant ninja turtles ii: the arcade game, weather, winter, yoshi's island |

You Bring the Winter

The Cailleach is a name for a Celtic goddess generally associated with winter, but as with a lot of deities, there’s more to her than that. She has several names, duties, and forms depending on the locality. One commonly used … Continue reading →

Posted in Celtic, Holidays, Mythology | Tagged beira, cailleach, cailleach bheara, deer, groundhog's day, imbolc, weather, winter, witches, wolves |

Fairy Tales from the Final Frontier

I haven’t been doing a lot of book reviews recently, have I? Well, maybe I have and just can’t remember. Regardless, I just finished one book and had a few others I didn’t think I could say enough about to … Continue reading →

Posted in A. Lee Martinez, Arabian, Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Humor, Mythology, Tom Holt | Tagged brothers grimm, carswell thorne, cinderella, cress, djinn rummy, emperor mollusk versus the sinister brain, hansel and gretel, jinn, little red riding hood, lunar chronicles, maria tatar, marissa meyer, princess winter, queen levana, rapunzel, scarlet, snow white, the hard facts of the grimms' fairy tales, winter |

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 |