Category Archives: Chronicles of Narnia

Mistletoe the Line

Posted on December 18, 2022 by Nathan

As a kid, I was introduced to the idea of mistletoe being the plant people kiss under at Christmastime. Then, when I was a little older, I started looking into Norse mythology, and found the story about how mistletoe had … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Christmas, Chronicles of Narnia, Etymology, Greek Mythology, Holidays, Language, Magic, Mythology, Names, Norse, Religion, Roman | Tagged aeneas, aeneid, asclepius, baldur, brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable, crucifixion, death, deiphobe, druids, father christmas, frigg, hodur, jesus, loki, mistletoe, odin, persephone, plants, pliny the elder, proserpina, resurrection, santa claus, sir james george frazer, the golden bough, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, underworld, virgil, yule | 1 Comment

The Enchanted Garden of Sedj

Posted on August 3, 2022 by Nathan

The 1994 Oziana has two stories that were written for the Oz Story Circle, run by Fred Meyer. I was a member back then, but it would take twenty more years for something I wrote around that time to appear … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Chronicles of Narnia, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged allison mcbain, benjamin fang, bill eubank, billy bumble of oz, buckethead in oz, bumble, cap'n bill, clowns, cory in oz, cowardly lion, dennis anfuso, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dot and tot of merryland, dragons, fred meyer, ghostbusters, ghosts, ghosts in oz, glinda, great book of records, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead, jane albright, jellia jamb, kimberly doyle, leprechauns in oz, lurline, magic belt, margaret berg, marie candler richardson, mark haas, merryland, nine tiny piglets, notta bit more, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor grunter swyne, puns, robin olderman, scarecrow, simon t. inphinium, squealina swyne, teenty-weent, the cowardly lion of oz, the last battle, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the silver jug, the tin woodman of oz, the winged monkeys of oz, the witch queen of oz, tin woodman, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Now You’re Speaking My Language

Posted on February 20, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve written before about the Tower of Babel, the weird story from Genesis that explains why people speak so many different languages. Exactly why this needed a mythical explanation isn’t entirely clear. People speak different languages because they developed in different … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Australian, Authors, Aztec, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Judaism, Language, Mythology, Native American, Religion, Semitic, South American | Tagged athena, atlantis: the antediluvian world, bible, brahma, cannibalism, enki, enmerkar, epimetheus, flood, genesis, gigantomachy, hermes, hesiod, hubris, ignatius donnelly, inachus, kronos, nymphs, olympus, ovid, pandora, phoroneus, pride, prometheus, the magician's nephew, titans, tower of babel, tricksters, works and days, wurruri, zeus | Leave a comment

Right City, Wrong World

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Nathan

One interesting aspect to Philip Jose Farmer’s A Barnstormer in Oz is his indication that the human inhabitants of Oz are descended from people who arrived there from our world, mostly Goths but also Celts and Native Americans. This sort … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Donkey Kong, L. Frank Baum, Language, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, brooklyn, corumbia, diana ross, dinohattan, gypsies, kiltoon, mario kart tour, mifkets, mount mern, mushroom kingdom, narnia, nes open tournament golf, new donk city, new york city, philip jose farmer, silver island, sir hokus of pokes, super mario odyssey, telmar, the koopas are coming! the koopas are coming!, the wiz, the wonderful wizard of oz, toto of oz, uptown, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

The Sin Cycle

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Nathan

We all know about the Seven Deadly Sins, generally given as pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. Is parting your hair in the middle a sin? I used to do that before I was informed that it’s unflattering. … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventism, Babylonian, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Catholicism, Chronicles of Narnia, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Fundamentalism, Monsters, Mystery Cults, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games | Tagged alice k. turner, astrology, avarith, booga, brothers grimm, disney, dr. paul ekman, dragon quest xi, gilligan's island, gyldygga, mithraism, mithras, mordegon, numerology, seven deadly sins, seven heavenly virtues, sin, sir jasper, smurfs, snow white and the seven dwarfs, the history of hell | Leave a comment

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Nathan

The Oz books have a lot of small royal courts with unusually-titled officials. This is something we see much more often in Ruth Plumly Thompson, but L. Frank Baum did have a few examples. In John Dough and the Cherub, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aladdin, alibabble, baffleburg, bamboula, blufferroo, captain salt in oz, chick the cherub, chief chow chow, chief dipper, chief scarer, chief scorner, chief scrapper, chinda, dwarves, giants, gilbert and sullivan, grampa in oz, grand advizier, grand bozzywoz, grand chew chew, grand counter of the imperial spoons, hah hoh, handy mandy in oz, head booleywag, high coco-lorum, high qui-questioner, hippolorum, imperial persuader, jack pumpkinhead of oz, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kabumpo in oz, kimbaloo, king cheeriobed, king rinkitink, king sizzeroo, lord high humpus, lord high this and that, lord high upper dupper, mogodore, nox the ox, octagon isle, ojo in oz, out keeper, ozma, pat the prime patter, patch, perhaps city, peter brown, pirates in oz, pokes, preservatory, prime moneyster, prime piecer, prime preserve, prime pumper, pumperdink, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, royal scribbler, samandra, sapphire city, sauce box, scare city, sevenanone, silver island, silver mountain, sky island, smerker, snorpus, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, supposyville, supposyville goes toboganning, swing city, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the horse and his boy, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the mikado, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the yellow knight of oz, thi, tighty, toddledy, town crier, town laugher, umbrella island, unicorners, unicorns, vizier | Leave a comment

Where the Worlds Have No Name

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Nathan

One night last week, I had a fitful sleep with a bunch of weird dreams. I remember one of them had me ranting about how J.R.R. Tolkien was never clear on whether Middle-Earth was his entire imaginary world or just … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Maps, March Laumer, Mario, Mythology, Names, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged alefgard, Arda, calormen, continent of imagination, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy vii, gaia, galaxies, hyrule, jupiter, mars, middle-earth, midgard, moon, mushroom world, narnia, nonestic ocean, planets, professor wogglebug, saturn, sun, super mario bros. 3, the royal book of oz, world tree, yggdrasil | Leave a comment

The Great Dust-Up

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Nathan

The Secret Commonwealth, by Philip Pullman – The second in the Book of Dust series, the prequel/sequels to His Dark Materials, it takes place some time after Lyra has saved the universe, and she’s now a twenty-year-old attending classes at … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Politics, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged anansi, atheism, ayn rand, br'er rabbit, daemons, dark matter, fairies, high john, his dark materials, john henry, kwame mbalia, lyra belacqua, maafa, magisterium, marisa coulter, nyame, pantalaimon, philip pullman, rick riordan presents, slavery, susan pevensie, the book of dust, the secret commonwealth, tristan strong, tristan strong punches a hole in the sky, uncle cotton | Leave a comment

Magical Arts and Sciences

Posted on June 23, 2019 by Nathan

I’ve been thinking a bit recently about magic and science in fiction. I’m not saying anything at all new when I point out that a lot of what’s considered science fiction contains very little science. Sometimes it just seems to … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Comics, Discworld, Fundamentalism, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, madeleine l'engle, Magic, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Star Trek, Technology, Terry Pratchett | Tagged a wrinkle in time, arthur c. clarke, dc comics, fantasy, granny weatherwax, headology, his dark materials, jinn, mermaids, middle-earth, naturalism, philip pullman, satan, science fantasy, science fiction, scientific method, shaggy man, superman, technobabble, the patchwork girl of oz, tik-tok of oz, witches | Leave a comment

Dragons Is the Craziest Peoples

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Nathan

It seems like dragons becoming human or humans becoming dragons is a pretty common theme. I guess it makes sense for a person who turns into animals to become a dragon, as they’re big, powerful, and often intelligent as well. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Breath of Fire, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Chronicles of Narnia, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, incryptid, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian, seanan mcguire, Slavic, Ursula K. LeGuin, Video Games | Tagged aladdin, breath of fire 2, breath of fire 3, demons, dr. agon, dragnier, dragon clan, dragon quest v, dragon quest viii, dragonlord, dragons, dragovians, earthsea, eustace clarence scrubb, fafnir, fairies, father ganer bateson, halia, jafar, maleficent, myria, ophigenees, ophiogeneikos, ryu, ryu bateson, sleeping beauty, snakes, the voyage of the dawn treader, transformation, valerie bateson, zenith dragon, zmey, zmey gorynych, zmey tugarin | 6 Comments

Category Archives: Chronicles of Narnia

Mistletoe the Line

The Enchanted Garden of Sedj

Now You’re Speaking My Language

Right City, Wrong World

The Sin Cycle

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

Where the Worlds Have No Name

The Great Dust-Up

Magical Arts and Sciences

Dragons Is the Craziest Peoples

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