(前排提醒:是学术缝合垃圾的搬运)1 IntroductionDirected by Tomm Moore and produced by Irish studio Cartoon Saloon,Song of the Seais an animated fantasy film based on Celtic mythology. It premiered in September 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was described by critics as "...
Down another even narrower road I eventually came to a car park at the start of The Cunnigar Spit, a spit of land sticking out into Dungarvan Bay. The Cunnigar comes from the Irish word An Coinigéar, meaning rabbit warren. Rabbits must like the seaside. The dunes at Tramore beach –...
Scientific experts also believe that the silt left behind from the flooding had left the town with a higher concentration of radioactivity, over ten times the governmental safety limits, most likely originating from the nuclear processing plant at Sellafield which had been dispersed into the Irish S...
The disappearance of King Sebastian led to the formation of the “Myth of Sebastianism,” which has endured in the memory of the people, being perpetuated in Portuguese literature and philosophy until the 20th century. The people refused to accept the king’s tragic and fatal destiny and believ...
“a unique monster” inhabiting the seas of Norway. He does, however, include a disclaimer that he has never seen the animal himself. In the mid-1800s, the kraken took an authentic biological form as the giant squidArchiteuthis, passing from myth to science. Japetus Steenstrup, a lecturer ...
or Serpents of Wisdom (Blavatsky).Nabu, god of wisdom, is a son of Marduk. This I may also make you think of King David and his wise son, King Solomon. Another symbol that stood for Marduk was the spade. Hence, the Ace of Spades and in popular myth and folklore, it is also known...
What’s more, every protagonist across the board is a straight white male, several of them eitherexplicitly or implicitly Irish American, at that. Boys like me wereverywell represented in popular media back then—still are—as there are precious few actors of color to be found in any these...