This is a Basque tale that echoes the tale of Dante and Beatrice somewhat, albeit with a much happier ending… http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/basque/lbp/lbp11.htm
Category: myth
La Loteria…
I’ve just randomly discovered that those eerie images one sees on Downtown area folkart matchbooks and wooden ladder games does indeed have a history…You know, the images of “The Mermaid” and “El Diablo” and “El Corazon?” The official name is Loteria and it’s yet another example of wild and uncultivated mythology echoing Appalachian English Folk… Continue reading La Loteria…
The Picts
The Picts were the early inhabitants of Scotland, so called “barbarian” tribes who often skirmished with the Celtic Britons living to the south of them, sometimes living on the spoils of their attacks. Little historic documentation is available regarding them, as Scotland gradually became Celticized itself. The only text left to us by the Picts… Continue reading The Picts
Dangerous Needlework
A tale of Mary Queen Of Scots…
Happy Celtic New Year
may the wheel of the year spin brightly this time around.
Even Japanese mythology is bizarre…
Once upon a time there was a monk who was in service to a high priest. He was married and had children. One summer day, this man accompanied his master to Mii temple. It was a hot day and he was sleepy so he took a nap in a hidden corner in the hall of… Continue reading Even Japanese mythology is bizarre…
Slave House
When I was ten, visiting the ancestral familial stomping grounds of the Southern Illinois-Kentucky border, I was taking to visit the following “tourist attraction.” I don’t know if it’s haunted or not. I just know the horror of it is absolutely chilling. The absolute worst of what mankind can inflict on mankind. The stalls where… Continue reading Slave House
In honor of “Little Phil”
Lizzie. please print this or pass on this link to your lovely niece. The price of which is that she promise to read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. In fact, if the rest of you would read the frigging thing, I wouldn’t have to explain this shite to you all the time, you’d just understand… Mythology isn’t… Continue reading In honor of “Little Phil”
King Wenceslas
From Royaltu.NU: “Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel, When a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel.” You’re probably familiar with this old Christmas carol. But did you… Continue reading King Wenceslas
Thetis, Mother of Achilles
Thetis by James Hunter ——————————————————————————– Thetis was one of the Nereids. Zeus desired her, but she rejected his advances. The goddess Themis then revealed that Thetis was fated to bear a son who was mightier than his father; fearing for his dominion, Zeus gave Thetis as bride to a mortal, Peleus, and all the gods… Continue reading Thetis, Mother of Achilles