Oh, if only it were that easy. To know our true identities, our destinies, or our life’s purpose by simply pulling out a sword from a stone. Any way you slice it, you can’t deny that the Arthurian legends are resoundingly entrenched in Western culture, predominately to the British Empire, which at one point, the sun… Read More Mighty Myth Month: Round table pizza.
In honor of my husband’s birthday, this post is dedicated to a cryptozoological creature of the southwest/central Americas: the Chupacabra. It’s not that I question their existence, (though I do), or that I am skeptical (which I am), but the deeper question to me is, “Why do people in these current times, attribute acts of… Read More Myth-of-the-Month Club: Billy Goat G-ROUGH
Talk about your bad hair day. Once again, some goofy mortal chick is just hanging out, being beautiful, and some god takes an interest in her, and she pays the price: Medusa, one of the three Gorgons, daughter of Phorcys and Ceto. She was the only one of the Gorgons who was subject to mortality.… Read More Snake charmer.
Baba Yaga. Even the name sounds retching. She is the Crone: all bone-crushing, baby-killing nastiness. That object that she’s flying around in is a mortar and pestle, which is a little bowl, made of hard, dense ceramic material or rock/granite, and a stubby club-like instrument made to grind spices and concoct potions/herbs in. Cooks still use them, I guess because grinding spices in… Read More Myth-of-the-Month Club: Lady Gaga Baba Yaga
Pan – the little goat-man, lover of beautiful girls, and chaser of dreams. His presence creates panic in men because of his wild nature, the forces that cannot be controlled, when we lose ourselves to crazy behavior, mob rule, or “herd” mentality. When we act like sheep, Pan is the deity to blame. PAN was… Read More Myth-of-the-Month Club: No need to PANic.
This is a story with some bite to it: The King of Sharks retold by S. E. Schlosser One day, the King of Sharks saw a beautiful girl swimming near the shore. He immediately fell in love with the girl. Transforming himself into a handsome man, he dressed himself in the feathered cape of… Read More Myth-of-the-Month Club: Gone fishin' (King of Sharks – Hawaiian)
There are many stories of love-gone-wrong. And when women especially get their hearts broken, well, brother, you had better watch out. They change. They destroy. They…get…really…upset. Today’s legend is the Japanese story of Anchin and Kiyohime. Just a couple of crazy kids, in love, planning a life. Until Anchin becomes bored, restless, and is ready… Read More Myth-of-the-Month Club: Kiyohime
I have a hemispheric bias. I understand my northern hemisphere, its traditions, and its quirks. We northerners personify the dark days.When I see an image of Chronos/Saturn using one of his children as a midnight snack, it’s a metaphoric munchie , and innately I understand its cultural roots and the darkness of December–it’s time eating our lives.… Read More Fire good. (Or Saturn, Snow White, and Baby New Year share a Yule Log.)
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear”–Mark Twain On Wednesday, while we were reviewing the final Journey of the Hero project, I shared a personal story with some of you about when I was a little girl. My parents were renting a house, and I had a room somewhat… Read More Monster spray.
From The Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of the comic-book author Bob Kane, (books by this author) born in the Bronx (1916), who was working at DC Comics in 1939 when his editors began asking for more superhero characters to follow up on the success of Superman. Kane thought about it over the weekend,… Read More Holy da Vinci, Batman!
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