Penanggalan are infamous mythological creatures known by different names throughout Southeast Asia. In Malay myth, a Penanggalan was once a mortal woman who performed witchcraft and black magic. A popular version of the myth states that one woman agreed to become vegetarian for 40 days in exchang...
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...
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 myths of many cultures, whether it be as goddesses, heroines, or monsters. Take a closer ...
but that hasn’t stopped Chinese people from inventing new and clever mythical animals. The internet has proved an extremely effective method for disseminating this new “mythology,” and the beasts invented by netizens—whose names are often based on puns—can become popular overnight. ...
How can a group of 10 architectsmaintain the conceptual integrity of a systemwhich 1000 men are building? A whole technology for doing this was worked out for the System/360 hardware design effort, and it is equally applicable to software projects. ...
The specific epithet comes from cameleopard, one of the early names for this animal thought to be part camel and part leopard. The Chinese named it ‘K'i-lin’ after a mythical animal resembling a unicorn. In the Koran it is the ‘serafe’ or lovely one. The paired structures on the...
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 ...
God created the vessels of wrath FOR DESTRUCTION. God created the wicked FOR THE DAY OF EVIL (JUDGMENT). Godless men of old were ordained unto condemnation. God hated Esau and loved Jacob before either were born or did good or bad. God has Mercy on the elect ...
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 ...
Eventually, Judah also accepted the storm god, as David and Jonathan both had sons with “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 ...