NorseMythicalBaby Names FavoriteNorseGod Names Freyr – God of the rain, fertility, and harvest Heimdall – Guardian of theNorsegods; known as the “White God” for having the whitest skin inNorse mythology, but depicted as ablack guyin the Marvel movies Loki – God of chaos and mischief O...
Are there any female monsters? There are many female monsters throughout world mythologies. Medusa could turn men to stone with a glance. The wail of the Banshee was a signal of impending death.Female Monsters For thousands of years, females have played a central role in the stories and myth...
Grey Neighbours, the -One of the euphemistic names for the fairies given by the Shetlanders to the Trows, the small gray-clad goblins whom the Shetlanders used to propitiate and fear, using against them many of the means used all over the islands as protection against fairies. Guillyn Vegg...
The unity of System/360's Principles of Operation springs from the fact that only two pens wrote it: Gerry Blaauw's and Andris Padegs'. The ideas are those of about ten men, but the casting of those decisions into prose specificationsmust be done by only one or two, if the consistency...
This was all a long time ago and what we ‘know’ has been deduced and reconstructed from ancient documents, papers and legends, so sometimes there are two versions of an aspect, or ambivalence about names or occupations. Regardless, the overall story is pretty clear, and here’s a quick ...
“Ba’al” in their name who were later given new names by embarrassed redactors. Just as Yahweh slew Leviathan, Hezekiah and Josiah rode out and destroyed the local religious pole shrines dedicated to the Tree of Life that Dumuzi was hung or “crucified” on, called “Asherahs”, after ...
just as they lurk in the shadows of children’s minds all over the world. But in China, these beasts have names. They have stories. Some are scary, and some are just plain weird. The Chinese people have been imagining mythical creatures for thousands of years, and the tradition continues...
just as they lurk in the shadows of children’s minds all over the world. But in China, these beasts have names. They have stories. Some are scary, and some are just plain weird. The Chinese people have been imagining mythical creatures for thousands of years, and the tradition continues...
In South Africa and Zimbabwe, this creature is often known as Impundulu and is most commonly associated with medicine men and spiritual shamans. Hugin and Munin These two ravens are loyal spies for Odin, the most powerful god in Norse mythology. Their names mean "thought" and "memory," whi...
There’s a lot of big brand-names coming, some of which are gonna be competing directly with each other. Granted, summer 2015 was looking pretty mammoth as a movie year at the time, but as schedules are wont to do, things shifted. “Pirates of the Caribbean 5” was supposed to be ...