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The November 2009 issue of National Geographic has a cover article on animal mummies of Egypt. I think anyone who’s even a little familiar with Egypt knows that cats were often mummified, getting the same reverential treatment as humans because of their importance to the goddess Bast. The diversity of animals preserved as mummies, though, [...]
Having had pagan friends for most of my life, I’ve been familiar with the holiday Samhain, but it wasn’t until I looked it up that I realized it was not, at least to modern pagans, October 31st, but the day after, November 1st. I’m not sure why this is, although maybe the answer lies in [...]
In contemporary society we often take a very lighthearted look at folk beliefs, particularly spirits and “little people”, even though at one time people believed in and took mythical creatures very seriously. The evolution of the term pixie is an excellent example of this. The Oxford English Dictionary is fuzzy on the term’s origins. Like [...]
One of the qualities of paganism is that everything–stone, tree, house, sometimes even a room–has its own resident spirit that doesn’t just watch over it. The spirit inhabits the space. The Russian ovinnik, for instance, is a mischievous, even destructive, creature that, according to Russian pagan belief, inhabited the barn (the threshing barn where grain [...]
One morning when I was supposed to be writing a paper I was watching cartoons instead, and I had an epiphany. The roadrunner and coyote cartoons of Chuck Jones were miniature summations of the existentialist philosophy of Sartre and Camus. In addition they were like miniature versions of the plays of Samuel Beckett. In fact [...]
It seems strange that there’s never been a stage adaptation, that I know of, of the epic of Gilgamesh. I’ve written about Gilgamesh before and included a list of all the versions I knew of as well as various cultural references. The real Gilgamesh was a Sumerian, and the Sumerians began the legends which were [...]
When I first saw Bertel Thorvaldsen’s statue Ganymede And The Eagle, it reminded me that, even though I’ve heard the story of Ganymede referred to repeatedly throughout the years, even though I think about it every time I see the planet Jupiter in the night sky or look at it through a telescope and see [...] |
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