Folklore & Mythology
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:David Stuttard

The battle between the Centaurs and Lapiths formed the subject matter for metopes on the south side of the fifth-century BC Parthenon at Athens. The apple bore an inscription: ‘for ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Kaplan

The Nightmare, by Johann Heinrich Füssli. Oil on canvas, 1781. Detroit Institute of Fine Arts/Marc Charmet. This is very different from the way things once were. The origin of the ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology April 10,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-17 | Author:Don, Lari [Don, Lari]

Visiting Baba Yaga Russian folktale Once upon a time a little girl lived happily with her father, in a cottage on the edge of the forest. But when her father ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology April 3,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-04-02 | Author:David Rockwell

Tlingit bear hunter’s decorative face painting. Smithsonian Institution. He left and got down there and told his brothers, “This is my sister up there. She wants the head and tail.” ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Giambattista Basile

9 ROSELLA* Ninth Entertainment of the Third Day The Grand Turk has a prince captured so that he can bathe in a lord’s blood. His daughter falls in love with ...
( Category: Folklore March 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2009-03-26 | Author:Sitchin, Zecharia [Sitchin, Zecharia]

Ish.kur (= ‘He of the Mountains’): See Adad. Ishmael (= ‘El will hear’): Abraham’s son by Hagar, the handmaiden of his wife Sarah, conceived at Sarah’s own suggestion so that ...
( Category: Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer March 4,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-14 | Author:Murielle Szac [Murielle Szac]

To be continued… EPISODE 50 DURING WHICH HERMES MEETS THE MYSTERIOUS CHARON Previously: Hermes has been punished for having stolen Hera’s chariot and Poseidon’s trident. He must go and spend ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Laird Scranton [Scranton, Laird]

With those points in mind, we now are ready to consider the nummo fish drawing and how it might represent processes related to the perception of waves. Beginning at the ...
( Category: Mystery January 20,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Laird Scranton [Laird Scranton]

As mentioned above, the Egyptian name for the goddess Neith is Net, which can be written hieroglyphically in many different forms. We can only assume that if Neith in one ...
( Category: Christianity January 20,2016 )
epub, mobi | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lyall Watson [Watson, Lyall]

It was during that night that Hinchliffe and his co-pilot died in a crash. This experience is typical of many in which the need is clear. The information is important ...
( Category: Natural History January 20,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

MARCH OF THE VEDIC HYMNS All Hindus accept the Veda as the foundation of Hinduism. The Veda is made up of four collections of chants known as mantras. These chants ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Lang, Andrew [Lang, Andrew]

The Water of Life Cuentos Populars Catalans, Per Lo Dr. D. Francisco De S. Maspous Y Labros. Barcelona, 1885. Three brothers and one sister lived together in a small cottage, ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

The Pomegranate Seeds Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. But, just at the time when my story begins, ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-07 | Author:Segal, Robert A. [Segal, Robert A.]

Chapter 5 Myth and literature The relationship between myth and literature has taken varying forms. The most obvious form has been the use of myth in works of literature. A ...
( Category: General January 5,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-18 | Author:Scott Cunningham [Cunningham, Scott]

The Shortening Method Gently heat four parts shortening over low heat until liquified. Watch that it doesn’t burn. Add one part dried herbal mixture, blend with a wooden spoon until ...
( Category: Witchcraft December 27,2015 )