This is your chance to take on the role of a famous researcher with a knack for uncovering the truth behind myths and legends! When the head of a remote English village asks you to investigate a series of strange disappearances and even stranger stories from the locals, you quickly discover...
Thankfully, my best friends Lilian and Wen are here, and we train in secret with other clan sisters almost every day. Continue reading “Jie Yan (of Thorn of the Night Blossoms, by JC Kang)” → January 15, 2021 0 Loquacious McCarbre (of The Legends of Grimous Ironblood, by K. R...
The traditional account of the Inuit people is that the trickster in the form of Raven created the world. When the waters forced the ground up from the deep Raven stabbed it with his beak and fixed it into place. This first land was just big enough for a single house occupied by a sin...
Adrienne Mayor's The First Fossil Hunters and Fossil Legends of the First Americans promoted the hypothesis that flood stories were inspired by ancient observations of seashells and fish fossils inland and on mountains. The ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, and Chinese all wrote about finding such ...
I prefer a more cohesive plot with less wandering and more foreshadowing, but there are intriguing elements to the story—specifically some exploration of Arthurian legends, including Excalibur and the Lady of the Lake. I also enjoyed the human relationships, particularly between Elliot, his ex-wife...
and rais[es] her, as Leda or Pomona, Modesty or Vanity, to the seventh heaven of symbolical expression" (R, 123).3 As in his treatment of the Last Supper, Pater approaches the Mona Lisa more closely through the legends of its execution. Unlike Leonardo's paintings of the" sacred ...
This is your chance to take on the role of a famous researcher with a knack for uncovering the truth behind myths and legends! When the head of a remote English village asks you to investigate a series of strange disappearances and even stranger stories from the locals, you quickly discover...
Good people go west and become kachinas, but there is no absolute connection between the former soul and the kachina. Hopi Prophecies - Blue Star KachinaSpider Women Legends Hopi Myths Myths From Hopi Stone Tablets Myth 1: The Mission of Two Brothers...
(2780 - 2250 B.C.E) have given us most of our information regarding early Egyptian creation myths. These myths also form the earliest religious compilations in the world. The ancient Egyptians had many creator gods and associated legends. Thus the world or more specifically Egypt was created ...
This is your chance to take on the role of a famous researcher with a knack for uncovering the truth behind myths and legends! When the head of a remote English village asks you to investigate a series of strange disappearances and even stranger stories from the locals, you quickly discover...