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None of these things are in our power, and when the Westilian families ruled the world as gods of the Phrygians, the Hittites, the Greeks, the Celts, the Persians, the Hindi, the Slavs, and of course the Norse, the lives of common people were nasty, brutish, and short—nastier, sho...
In Norse mythology, a blood-spattered dog, Garmr, keeps watch over the house of the dead and will fight against the gods when hell's wolves devour the moon and sun. Some give this dog four eyes; the dogs of Yama, the Brahman god of death, also have four eyes. Both Brahmanism and B...
Some may say that love holds the world together, but those people certainly aren't Norse. To them,t he world is held together by one of Loki's monster children. The giant serpent,Jörmungandr, was taken from his mother and father because there was no way the gods were going to allow...
Some may say that love holds the world together, but those people certainly aren't Norse. To them,t he world is held together by one of Loki's monster children. The giant serpent,Jörmungandr, was taken from his mother and father because there was no way the gods were going to allow...
What is the definition of a hero today? How do we use stories to explain the world around us? How did the ancient Greeks use stories to explain things they didn't understand? What lessons can we learn from Greek mythology? Who are the 12 gods and goddesses of Olympus and what are ...
尼尔·盖曼(Neil Gaiman)在欧美文坛非常有名,他的创作领域包括奇幻小说、科幻小说、恐怖小说、儿童小说和漫画等领域,作品包括《美国众神》(American Gods),《北欧神话》(Norse mythology)以及《星尘》(Stardust)等,同时他还是电视剧Doctor Who的编剧之一。除了写小说之外,尼尔·盖曼还是一名出色的有声书朗读者,他的很...
Classical Mythology; Greek & Roman Myths: Click on the images above for portraits & introductions to the legendary gods of Olympus, The Titans, The Greek Heroes, as well as realistic illustrations of Homer's The Iliad & the Odyssey, Helen of Troy & The Trojan Horse, Jason & the Argonauts...
在中世纪初期开始信仰基督教之前,英语文化和其它日耳曼民族一样,一直信奉Norse mythology古代北欧神话中的神灵。 今天英语中从星期二到星期五各天的名称,都是以北欧神话中的各位gods神灵来命名的。 Tuesday 星期二 英语中的“Tuesday 星期二”,在一千多...
of a danger in taking such magic, for it inflicts strangecurses, geasesand the like on those who take it by force;specifics of this are left to the DM, but such options as polymorphing the new user into a sylvan being, striking that being blind or dumb, or changing the user's sex...