Category Archives: Hinduism

When I Get to the Bottom, I Go Back to the Top of the Slide

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Nathan

I recently saw an update from Amanda Palmer where she mentioned playing Snakes and Ladders with her son, apparently what you do when your husband leaves you in the middle of a pandemic, or something. But what I actually wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Amanda Palmer, Animals, Board Games, Games, Hinduism, History, India, Islam, Jainism, Music, Pachisi, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged asuras, candy land, chutes and ladders, devas, fatalism, gyan chaupar, gyandev, karma, milton bradley, moksha patam, morality, snakes, snakes and ladders | Leave a comment

A Demon Spurned

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Nathan

I haven’t written a dedicated mythology post in a while, and I recently finished the second Aru Shah book, so I thought I might do something with one of its characters. One of the main villains in the story was … Continue reading →

Posted in Families, Hinduism, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Religion | Tagged aru shah, aru shah and the song of death, asuras, brahma, danavas, demons, devas, giants, indra, kaikesi, kumbhakarna, laxmana, meenakshi, pandava quartet, rakshasas, rama, ramayana, ravana, roshani chokshi, saraswati, sita, surpanakha, vibhishana, vidyutjihva, vishrava | Leave a comment

Winter Woes

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Nathan

Aru Shah and the Song of Death, by Roshani Chokshi – The second book in this foray into Hindu mythology sees Aru blamed for the theft of the love god’s Kamadeva’s bow and arrow, and are tasked with proving their … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Corporations, Dreams, Hinduism, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged aru shah, aru shah and the song of death, asuras, carmen miranda, durvasa, early riser, kamadeva, nagas, orson welles, pandava quartet, rick riordan presents, roshani chokshi, surpanakha, takshaka | 3 Comments

Dragon Divinity

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Nathan

I can think of a few different video games with dragon gods, or at least dragons with celestial powers. I suppose that fits in with the East Asian conception of dragons, where they tend to be heavenly beings rather than … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Babylonian, Breath of Fire, Cartoons, Chinese, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Games, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Japanese, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Shinto, Video Games | Tagged agni, akira toriyama, amaterasu, bahamut, breath of fire ii, breath of fire iii, chrono cross, chronopolis, czar dragon, demons, diabolos, dinopolis, divinegon, dragon ball, dragon god, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragonians, dragons, dungeons and dragons, fate, final fantasy vi, frozen flame, harle, hoderi, hoori, incest, infinity dragon, izanagi, izanami, kaiser dragon, ladon, lavos, magicite, otohime, pyrospheres, reptites, rudra, ryujin, shenlong, shinryu, st. eva, super mario rpg, tamayori-hime, tiamat, toyotama-hime, ugayafukeiazu no mikoto, urashima taro, watatsumi, xenlon, zenith, zenith dragon, zenithia | 2 Comments

Chitragupta’s Record Collection

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Nathan

I enjoy reading fiction based on classical mythology, and one bonus of such books is that they often give me new mythological figures or stories to further research. In this case, the first Aru Shah book introduced me to Chitragupta, … Continue reading →

Posted in Hinduism, Holidays, Mythology, Religion | Tagged akashic records, aru shah and the end of time, brahma, chitragupta, chitragupta puja, chitrigupta, dharma, dharma raja, forgiveness, kayastha, kayasthas, nandini aravati, roshani chokshi, saudas, scribes, shobhvati, shraddhadeva manu, writing, yama | Leave a comment

Mythology Today

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Nathan

A Local Habitation, by Seanan McGuire – The second of the October Daye novels has Toby, at the behest of her lord Duke Sylvester, investigating a fairy-run computer company in Fremont, which in Faerie is a buffer zone between two … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Hinduism, Mythology, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire | Tagged a local habitation, aru shah and the end of time, chitrigupta, demons, dharma raja, dryads, fairies, hanuman, indra, lady of the lake, luidaeg, mahabarata, nymphs, october daye, pandava quartet, roshani chokshi, shakuni, suyodhana, urvashi, witches | 1 Comment

Rakkhosh and Ruin

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Nathan

One type of being that’s quite significant in Sayantani DasGupta’s The Serpent’s Secret is the Rakkhosh, a sort of human-eating monster that usually speaks in rhyme. The book also associates them with black holes, presumably an invention of DasGupta’s, although … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Hinduism, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Video Games | Tagged asuras, bhima, brahma, demons, devas, dungeons and dragons, ghosts, ghouls, giants, jack and the beanstalk, kamsa, khokkosh, krishna, ogres, putana, rakkhosh, rakshasa, rakshasi, sayantani dasgupta, the serpent's secret, vampires, vishnu | 2 Comments

If Called by a Panther, Don’t Anther

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Nathan

Black Panther – I finally saw this yesterday, which is probably good as the theaters have to make room for the next Marvel movie. This was an important cultural landmark, as it had a black director and majority black cast, … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Comics, Egyptian, Hinduism, Mythology, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bast, black panther, bucky barnes, captain america civil war, erik killmonger, everett k. ross, ghekre, hanuman, jabari, m'baku, man-ape, Marvel Cinematic Universe, n'jobu, nakia, okoye, racism, rhinoceroses, shuri, t'chaka, t'challa, ulysses klaue, vibranium, wakanda | 2 Comments

Big Birds

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Nathan

I don’t think I’ve ever written a post about the Simurgh, the giant bird from Persian mythology that I actually first came across in the Xanth series. Pretty much always identified as female, this peacock-like bird is often shown as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Babylonian, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Judaism, Monsters, Mythology, Persian, Piers Anthony, Religion, Semitic, Video Games, Xanth | Tagged anzu, arabian nights, birds, chamrosh, demons, enlil, farid ud-din attar, garuda, griffins, inanna, kamak, kerasp, leviathan, lugalbanda, marduk, ninurta, roc, rostam, rudaba, saam, simurgh, talmud, the conference of the birds, tree of life, zal, ziz, zu, zuh | 1 Comment

Save Your Drama for the Yamas

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Nathan

Yama Yama Land: Where Everything Is Different, by Grace Duffie Boylan, illustrated by Edgar Keller – There were several books released in the early twentieth century that were largely imitative of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, both in story and … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Buddhism, Fairy Tales, Hinduism, L. Frank Baum, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ada jones, bessie mccoy, bogeyman, collin davis, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dot and tot of merryland, edgar keller, eva katherine gibson, grace duffie boylan, grampa in oz, hollow earth, karl hoschna, north pole, reilly and britton, the three twins, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yama yama man, w. w. denslow, yama, yama yama land | 3 Comments

Category Archives: Hinduism

When I Get to the Bottom, I Go Back to the Top of the Slide

A Demon Spurned

Winter Woes

Dragon Divinity

Chitragupta’s Record Collection

Mythology Today

Rakkhosh and Ruin

If Called by a Panther, Don’t Anther

Big Birds

Save Your Drama for the Yamas

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