Tag Archives: ravens

Follow the Arrow

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Nathan

Sculpture by John Raimondi Abaris the Hyperborean is one of those mysterious magicians who shows up in multiple sources, and has led to additional speculation and apocryphal stories in more recent times. He was first mentioned in Archaic Greek texts, He is … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, British, Comics, Dragon Quest, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Neil Gaiman, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Video Games | Tagged abaris the hyperborean, abhras, anacharsis, apollo, arimaspea, arimaspoi, aristeas of proconnesus, asclepius, athens, belial, bladud, boreas, constellations, croesus, cyclopes, demons, divination, dragon quest ii, druids, geoffrey of monmouth, griffins, herodotus, hyperborea, iamblicus, john wood the elder, north wind, phalaris, pindar, plato, pythagoras, ravens, sagittarius, sandman, satan, scythia, solon of athens, thrace, zalmoxis, zarlox | Leave a comment

I Like Birds

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Nathan

When I linked to my last Oz post on Facebook, people gave a few more examples of birds I hadn’t mentioned, including some people turned into birds and other birds from authors outside the Famous Forty. I believe the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, David Tai, Edward Einhorn, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, Hugh Pendexter, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, beak the parrot, becky klein, benny the gander, birds, borderbirds, bordermoor, bush-birds, canaries, chickens, corina, crows, cuckoo clocks, cuckoos, cyrune, david hulan, diplomatic immunity, dorothy gale, doves, ducks, eagles, falcons, faleero, ganders, geese, glinda of oz, golden witch, goldfinches, good witch of the north, grampa, grampa in oz, great grey gillikin swamp, hawks, imps, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, magic belt, magpies, mimics, mogodore, mombi, mooj, nome king, ojo in oz, ostriches, owls, ozma, ozma and the little wizard, pajuka, paradox in oz, parrot island, parrots, patchwork girl, phanfasms, pirates, pirates in oz, pocotristi sostenuto, polychrome, prince bobo, queen coo-ee-oh, queen klurookuk, ravens, rinkitink in oz, seagulls, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, sky island, slyddwyn, snip, sparrows, swans, tempus the parrot-ox, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat in oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the glass cat of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep and the magpie, transformation, trot griffiths, ugu the shoemaker, vultures, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, yeksh | 2 Comments

Something to Crow About

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Nathan

I probably should start making a list of topics I’ve covered before. There are some broad topics I frequently return to, but when I end up with things like two separate but similar posts about the Egyptian scorpion goddess Serqet, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Dick Martin, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alexander volkov, bandit jim crow, corvids, crows, cryptid conversations in a cornfield, dorothy and old king crow, dorothy haas, faleero, grampa, grampa in oz, his majesty the scarecrow of oz, jim crow, kaggi-karr, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, magpies, margaret berg, old king crow, oziana, ozma, racism, ravens, scarecrow, septimius septentrion, the emerald city of oz, the magic of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scarecrow and the tin woodman, the wonderful wizard of oz, twinkle tales | 1 Comment

Stark Raven Mad

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Nathan

Ravens appear quite frequently in mythology, from the raven that Noah sent out from the Ark that didn’t bother to come back to Odin’s messengers to a trickster figure from the Pacific Northwest. The fact that they can mimic human … Continue reading →

Posted in Mythology, Native American, Russian, Slavic | Tagged kamchatka, kutkh, raven, ravens, tricksters | 1 Comment

The Crow and the Cup

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Nathan

Since I mentioned the constellation Corvus in a recent post, I might as well say a little more about the mythology surrounding this constellation. If you recall, Corvus is also the main villain of Dragon Quest IX, as the Celestrians … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Babylonian, Dragon Quest, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged apollo, coronis, corvus, crater, crows, eratosthenes of cyrene, herakles, hercules, hydra, noah, ravens, utnapishtim | 2 Comments

That’s So Raven

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Nathan

I’m sure you all know I’m a fan of both Oz and mythology, and I’ve noticed that some writers of apocryphal Oz stories like to combine the two. There’s a fair amount of objection whenever this sort of thing comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Discworld, Jeff Rester, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged cryptic conversations in a cornfield, geri and freki, hogfather, hugin and munin, loki, odin, oziana, pastoria, ravens, scarecrow, sleipnir, svadilfari, the lost king of oz | 3 Comments

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