rock art images of the Rainbow Serpent have their origins in prehistory. They were perhaps first created during times of substantial changes in the environment.
Jack o’lanternsoriginated in the fens (marshes) of rural Ireland. In the early 1600’s, the legend began of Stingy Jack (aka, Jack the Smith, Drunk Jack, Flakey Jack, and other names, used interchangeably). Themost popular version of the taleinvolves Jack first tricking the Devil into c...
Returning to the site in 2023, I explored the site with a great deal more knowledge of what I was looking at, but also with an awareness of the poignant reason for the creation of the site and the Nemean Games, one of the four Crown Games of Ancient Greece, which were held here. Fi...
The Charles J. Muth Museum, which was built as part of the Hinchliffe Stadium renovation in Paterson, N.J., opened last year. The stadium which it is attached to is part of the Great Falls National Historical Park. Built in 1932, it is one of the few remaining stadiums that hosted Ne...
Tapuaenuku – the footsteps of the rainbow god. Te Puka-A-Maui – the anchor stone of Maui (Stewart Island). Ruataniwha – literally, the two taniwha (see earlier article on taniwha for more information) – in this case that there were two great taniwha who lived in a lake and fought...
After all, if archeologists [sic] are letting their sexist assumptions affect the way they collect and classify data about the past, that has some pretty troubling implications. For instance, when people argue in favor of “traditional” gender roles, they often cite history, saying that since ...
the few adults who want to help them turn out either to be scheming against them or not entirely trustworthy. In the family town of Prince, not a single Mr. Miller takes them in. On a farm, the family offers to let them stay in exchange for back-breaking work for Mick. The disappoin...
They were coiled when in repose, and “looked as if they were covered with jewels of all sorts. Some of them had crests sparkling with all the colours of the rainbow.” When disturbed they glided swiftly, “sparkling all over,” to their hiding places. When angry, they “flew over ...
This is the coiling, beguiling serpent at the commencement of time, and the seven-headed beast re-emerging at its end. This is the Hell of Bosch, which offered a vision of the apocalypse all-too-imminent to his contemporaries. This, in Gothic art, is the Angels' trumpet blast, the ...
Odin can channel the Odinpower through his weapons, honing the energies for combat. His chief weapon is Gungnir, AKA “The Spear of Heaven,” a three-pronged spear that only he can wield. The spear is enchanted to generate a guardian serpent if anyone other than Odin lays hands upon it....