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Daughter of Disease, Maker of Snakes

Posted on June 27, 2020 by Nathan

Picture by Tero Porthan In my ongoing search for topics from mythology and folklore, and specifically in terms of ogres and witches, I saw a mention of the Syojatar (properly spelled with marks above the letters, but that’s a hassle) … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Fairy Tales, Finnish, Health, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian | Tagged baba yaga, cinderella, diseases, dogs, harpies, john martin crawford, kalevala, lizards, louhi, loviatar, ogres, pigs, snakes, syojatar, tuoni, witches, wolves | 1 Comment

Last Exit from Reality

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Nathan

The Tyrant’s Tomb, by Rick Riordan – In the fourth book in the Trials of Apollo series, Apollo and Meg McCaffrey reach Camp Jupiter in California, which has recently been the site of a deadly battle, and another one is … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Authors, Book Reviews, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Rick Riordan, Roman, Tom Holt, Trials of Apollo | Tagged an orc on the wild side, apollo, brexit, caligula, camp jupiter, cumaean sibyl, cyclops, dwarves, ella, frank zhang, goblins, harpies, harpocrates, lavinia asimov, lucius aurelius commodus, lucius tarquinius superbus, meg mccaffrey, nymphs, sibylline prophecies, the tyrant's tomb, theo bernstein, tyson, youspace | 2 Comments

The Taming of the Scrooge

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Nathan

The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck, Volume 2, by Don Rosa – You may remember I read the first volume almost two years ago, but the collection is out of print and the library didn’t have the second. Now … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Greek Mythology, Humor, Mythology, Television | Tagged beagle boys, carl barks, christmas on bear mountain, don rosa, donald duck, duckburg, ducktales, golden fleece, harpies, huey dewey and louie, indiana jones, lost ship of the desert, philosopher's stone, raiders of the lost ark, robert peary, scrooge mcduck, the fabulous philosopher's stone, the life and times of scrooge mcduck, the seven cities of cibola, the seven cities of gold, voodoo hoodoo, zombies | 3 Comments

Fantasian Studies

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Nathan

Disney’s third full-length animated feature is a departure from the two full-length fairy tale adaptations that preceded it. Fantasia is, as I’m sure you all know, a series of cartoons set to classical music, played by an in-house orchestra. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Greek Mythology, Music, Mythology, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged amilcare ponchielli, ave maria, bacchus, centaurs, chernabog, clio, cupid, dance of the hours, deems taylor, der zauberlerhrling, dinosaurs, dionysus, dr. seuss, epic mickey, fantasia, franz schubert, harpies, igor stravinsky, johann sebastian bach, johann wolfgang von goethe, jupiter, kingdom hearts, ludwig van beethoven, mickey mouse, modest mussorgsky, night on bald mountain, nutcracker suite, paul dukas, pegasus, piotyr ilyich tchaikovsky, racism, satan, sunflower, the pastoral symphony, the rite of spring, the sorcerer's apprentice, toccata and fugue in d minor, unicorns, walt disney, yen sid, zeus | 5 Comments

Who Has Seen the Wind?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Nathan

In classical mythology, most natural phenomena were either personified themselves or seen as the tools of a deity, if not both. The winds were no exception, and in Greco-Roman mythology, there were four of them. I’m no meteorologist, but can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, Heroes of Olympus, Mythology, Oz, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged aeolus, anemoi, apollo, astraeos, astraeus, bible, boreas, calais, chloris, cleopatra, east wind, eos, euros, eurus, four winds, frank joslyn baum, gigantes, gospels, harpies, helios, horses, hyacinthus, hyperborea, icetown, irenaeus, iris, khione, north wind, notos, notus, odysseus, odyssey, old man winter, oreithyia of athens, pausanias, podarge, rachel cosgrove payes, rosine, snowmen, south wind, swift v. breezy, the hidden valley of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the lost hero, thrace, titans, venti, winds, zephyros, zephyrus, zetes | 15 Comments

The Flying Avengers of the Greco-Roman World

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Nathan

Greco-Roman mythology is full of trios of scary women. I’m not sure how that meme got started, but you have the Gorgons, the Graeae, and the Fates. Another three dangerous females are the Furies, the Latin name for the Erinyes … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Mythology, Roman | Tagged alcmaeon, amazons, argonauts, boreads, boreas, clytemnestra, electo, erinyes, fairies, furies, gorgons, harpies, hippolyte, iris, kronos, megaera, oedipus, orestes, ouranos, penthesileia, phineas, tisiphone, zeus | 9 Comments

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