The world has become enchanted with a three-legged mermaid called Amabie, said to help fight plague. Last...
Mythology
Mermaids are not real, but they are meaningful to people around the world. Introduction Mermaids – underwater...
Indirect communication is a central feature of the lying tales Odysseus tells. In book 13 of the...
Kratos is characterized as brutal and merciless, advocating for the use of unnecessary violence. Introduction In Greek...
As a punishment for his trickery, Hades made King Sisyphus roll a huge boulder endlessly up a...
The Book of Enoch brings Azazel as a fallen angel onto Mount Hermon, a gathering-place of demons...
Ahriman was the “Evil spirit, … whose religion is evil [and] who ever ridiculed and mocked the...
Despite the scientific rigor of archaeology today, archaeological exploration is still an art and an adventure of...
Greek myths were initially propagated in an oral-poetic tradition by Minoan and Mycenaean singers starting in the...
Originally, the Cybelean cult was brought to Rome during the time of the Second Punic War (218...
In Athens, the cult of Athena Polias was the most important religious faction. Much like the Vestal...
The neat labels of Greek text that accompany and identify many of the characters on the vase...
What we know about this figure discovered in Neferibresaneith’s tomb. What’s an Ushtabi? Ushabtis are figurines that...
The term is often used in a generic sense to refer to any end of the world...
The earliest account of demon sex in Jewish and Christian traditions comes from the Book of Genesis....
In its broadest academic sense, the word “myth” simply means a traditional story. However, many restrict the...
Exploring believed what and the effect literal belief in myths had on given social orders. Introduction Anthropologists...
The name of the new god in ordinary everyday parlance was pa Aton, “the Aton.” By Dr....
Goddesses have traditionally protected against sickness and cured the ill, according to Hindu belief. But there’s a...
Achilles was too proud and bad-tempered for his own good, and his reckless rage would cost both...
Ships known as Barques of the Gods are associated with a number of different Egyptian deities. Introduction...
Gilgamesh was a brutal tyrant who foolishly tried to defeat death. The Epic of Gilgamesh has been read in...
Yggdrasil stands at the absolute center of the Norse cosmos. This article, Yggdrasil: The Sacred Ash Tree...
The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of...
As warlike nomadic herdsmen began to dominate in Mesopotamian culture, they imposed their mythologies on preexisting legends....
If you dig deep enough, you can find some truth to legends and creation stories. Introduction Myths...
Mesopotamian myths appear to have had a more practical purpose and were used to cure and prevent...
Meet one of the greatest of all the characters in ancient Greek drama. Elektra’s Story To understand...
A 2,700-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Iraq depicts the demon that the ancient Assyrians thought caused epilepsy....
It contains so many incredible violations of the laws of nature that it cannot possibly be accepted...