This son's name was Sinfiotli, because apparently these folks really liked names that start with "Si." 739 votes Strange myth? Photo: Patrick Gray Flickr 5 Loki Fathers A Lot of Little Monsters - Literally Just in general, Loki sleeps around and fathers a lot of babies. You already ...
We moderns like to congratulate ourselves for being so much more sophisticated than the ancients, but in fact our modern world is organized exactly the same way, we only call its elements by different names. Our commercial world works the same way as the ancient Greek world of polytheism, wi...
Hercules takes his name from the hero of Greek mythology and believes the gods of Olympus live on in our modern world, albeit filtered through a technological haze that we call UFOs and aliens. Over the past few years, Hercules has contributed chapters to books like “Incredible Alien Encounter...
Sarah was the name of Abraham's wife,the matriarch of the Jewish people. She had no children until she became pregnant with Isaac at age 90. Sarah was one of the most popular names in the 1970s and '80s. Famous people with the name include actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Sarah ...
Here,the evil entity Tak fromDesperationuses a young boy’s reality-warping powers to create a nightmarish caricature of a Wild West town.The Regulatorsacts as an alternate reality toDesperation,featuring familiar names living different lives. The multiverse that these two novels share would make fo...
Glen or Glenda(1953)– Ed Wood’s pro-transvestite documentary, with Bela Lugosi as an omniscient one-man Greek chorus and a dream sequence featuring bondage The Godmonster of Indian Flats(1973)– A mutant sheep embryo develops into a monster that threatens an old-West themed town involved in...
The Judenhat ("Jewish hat") can be traced back to medieval Europe. You can even find it in the Bird’s Head Haggadah and some other Jewish books of the time. Originally a marker of eastern learning, antiquity and authority, and even fashionable with 12th century aristocracy, things took ...
These communities often had their own names for this phenomenon, ranging from the Mapuche term kalkutun through to the Zande word mangu. In large part due to British colonialism and American cultural influence, at the start of the 21st century the English words witchcraft and witch are ...
by NAL/Penguin/Roc, under three pen names. I've also been published in the U.K., Italy, China, and Israel. My novels are Shade, Larissa, Scorpianne, EggHeads, The Kronos Condition, GodHeads, Broken Time (which was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award), Belarus, and Enemies. I ...
Quote: I'm a priest, not a priestess. ''Priestess'' implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible. ...