Popular mythologies from around the world have characters that range from Norse God Thor to Aztec God Quetzalcoatl - meet them on Mythlok.
In Classical Greek literature and art, there was therefore substantial variety in the details of the various stories and scenes we associate with the traditional mythology. This was at least partly due to the influences inherited from the Ancient Near East along with local traditions in the various...
Yet even so, we do not really know their story. We do not know the chronology of their kings, the major events of their history, or the affairs and issues of their elites. That is because, outside of Greek myth and unlike what scholars have been able to determine from the decipherment...
TheMonkey Kingis famed for hismultiple categories of immortalityinJourney to the West(Xiyouji,西遊記, 1592; “JTTW” hereafter). These are acquired throughspiritual cultivation, redacting heavenly paperwork, partaking in celestial foodstuffs, and (at the journey’s end)attaining Buddhahood. But “imm...
Indeed, his earliest writings — a mixture of plays, essays and short stories — were distinctly critical of science and technology. It was only the strict monitor of his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, that steered Verne toward what eventually made him famous: fast-paced adventure tales heavily...
His conflict with Erlang (ch. 6) can be traced to ancient Han-era funerary rituals, and their battle of magic transformations shares parallels with ancient Greek tales and can ultimately be traced to even older stories from the Near East. His time in Laozi‘s furnace (ch. 7) is based on...
Some myths are stories told since ancient times to explain the causes for natural happenings.The Greek myth that explains why there are changes of 1 is about Demeter, the goddess of the harvest.She had a daughter, Persephone, whom she loved very much.Hades, god of the underworld, fell in...
ancient times and recording them for posterity. All historical records and phenomena have a nucleus of fact that is authentic and verifiable. Any deviation from the prescribed historical approach would lead us away from the verity of the human condition and into the realm of anistoresy and myth...
List of the most popular authors from Spain, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries authors have been among the world's most ...
In the evenings, he wrote a western, and went on to write horror, science fiction, and detective stories. At his publisher’s urging, he wrote his first full-length crime novel, Murder is My Mistress, which came out in 1954. It was so successful that Alan was contracted to become a ...