Category Archives: Buddhism

Outlaws Against Empires

Posted on March 24, 2026 by Nathan

All of Us Villains, by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman – In the city of Ilvernath, there’s an annual tournament between members of the seven rival magician families. There’s sort of a Hunger Games feel to it, but with … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Buddhism, Celtic, China, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Politics, Relationships, Religion, Roman, Video Games | Tagged all of us villains, amanda foody, celtic mythology, christine lynn herman, dragon on trial, dragons, eugenides, geese, helen of troy, j.h. jackson, julius caesar, kari sutherland, lu zhishen, mabinogion, medes, outlaws of the marsh, philip freeman, shi naian, shuihu zhuan, song jiang, st. brendan the navigator, st. brigid, st. patrick, suikoden, tain bo cuailnge, the menagerie, the queen of attolia, the queen's thief, the water margin, tigers, tui t. sutherland, wu song | 1 Comment

Snow Time Like the Past

Posted on January 30, 2026 by Nathan

Beth suggested writing about the history of snowmen, and a little bit of searching on the Internet brought up a few mentions of a book that sounded interesting, The Illustrated History of the Snowman, by Bob Eckstein. I’ve since bought and … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Buddhism, Cartoons, Comics, Discworld, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, Jared Davis, Magic, Music, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sexuality, Television, Terry Pratchett, Toys, Video Games | Tagged antisemitism, bob eckstein, bodhidharma, boogg, book of hours, citizen kane, daruma, effigy, frost giants, frosty the snowman, frozen, giants, grampa in oz, hans christian andersen, icetown, isa poso, jotun, marvel comics, michelangelo buonarroti, ozcon international, paul coker jr., piero di medici, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, ruth burman, snowmen, snowy the traveling snowman, sourcery, ted eshbaugh, the hidden valley of oz, the illustrated history of the snowman, ymir, yukidaruma | Leave a comment

Baffled by Baphomet

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Nathan

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – Another point-and-click adventure game, this one was developed by Revolution Games and originally released in 1996, although I played the recent Reforged version. It deals with an international conspiracy based on a mysterious … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Crusades, Final Fantasy, France, History, Humor, Language, lucasarts, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Prejudice, Religion, Video Games | Tagged armor, baphomet, broken sword, carmen sandiego, clowns, demons, dwarves, elves, gate rune war, george stobbart, hashashim, knights templar, kobolds, kuromi, kuromimi, milich oppenheimer, nicole collard, revolution games, sanrio, scarlet moon empire, shadow of the templars, space quest, suikoden, teo mcdohl, tir mcdohl, weapons | Leave a comment

We Need to Talk about Yevon

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Nathan

I have now finished with Final Fantasy X, and looked into the story a bit, as it is somewhat confusing. It’s an enjoyable game with some changes from earlier entries in the series, most notably that you can’t move around … Continue reading →

Posted in Breath of Fire, Buddhism, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, Games, Japanese, Language, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Religion, Sports, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aeons, afterlife, airships, al bhed, amitabha buddha, auron, blitzball, breath of fire ii, death, dragon quest ii, farplane, fayth, final fantasy ix, final fantasy legend iii, final fantasy vii, final fantasy X, grand maester yo mika, guado, jecht, kimhari ronso, maester seymour guado, pureland, rikku, ronso, secret of mana, shoopuf, sin, spira, summoned monsters, tidus, wakka, yu yevon, yuna, yurei, zanarkand | 1 Comment

You’ve Got a Fiend in Me

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Nathan

I wrote a bit about the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy before, but I’ve since thought of more to say. Four of the main bosses in the first games, they’re associated with the four classical elements, and are causing the destruction … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Buddhism, Comics, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Gender, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 8-bit theater, ahriman, archfiends, bahamut, baramos, barbariccia, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cerberus, chaos, classical elements, dante alighieri, demons, dhuran, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragons, dualhead hydra, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, echidna, elemental fiends, enuma elish, excalibur, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy stranger of paradise, final fantasy vi, flamerus rex, four fiends, four heavenly kings, game boy advance, gardner fox, garland, gary gygax, general beatrix, golbez, golems, guardians of terra, gutsco, hans christian andersen, hydra, ice golem, inferno, kaimeiji yuu, kain highwind, kali, kary, kingdom of baron, kraken, kuja, land turtle, lich, light warriors, lilith, lufenia, malebranche, mara, marduk, marilith, mermaids, mortamor, mount ordeals, nagas, orthros, pazuzu, phylactery, quena quen, ramayana, robots, rubicante, salamanders, scarmiglione, siddhartha gautama, skullrus rex, stone golem, tataka, the little mermaid, the sword of the sorcerer, tiamat, time loops, titans, twinhead wyvern, two-headed dragon, ultros, vile four, wyverns, yang fang leiden, zidane tribal, zoma, zuh | 4 Comments

No Brain, No Heart, He’s Much Too Shy

Posted on March 14, 2024 by Nathan

While I’d read books by Mark Evan Swartz and Ryan Bunch that discussed the 1902 stage play of The Wizard of Oz, it occurred to me that I’d never actually read a script for it. The one that I easily … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Atticus Gannaway, Buddhism, Characters, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Theosophy | Tagged bardo, bert lahr, bungle the glass cat, cats, cowardly lion, cynthia cynch, dorothy gale, eureka the pink kitten, glinda, good witch of the north, jane lahr, john hay, mark evan swartz, mark hanna, omby amby, oz and the musical, oz before the rainbow, pastoria, ryan bunch, sarah crotzer, scarecrow, sir dashemoff daily, sir wiley gyle, the baum bugle, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, timothy alfalfa, tin woodman, tryxie tryfle, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

Must Be the Season of the Alchemist

Posted on November 23, 2023 by Nathan

Hospital, by Han Song, translated by Michael Berry – This is a pretty bizarre book, partially a satire on the medical industry, with the hospital system essentially taking over the world, then branching out from there into increasingly surreal territory. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animals, Art, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Buddhism, carl barks, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Health, Humor, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology | Tagged city of the plague god, corn jenny, daffy-o, daisy duck, demons, donald duck, duck luck, dumuzi, franz kafka, fury of the dragon goddess, gulliver's travels, gyro gearloose, han song, hollow earth, hospital, huey dewey and louie, ishtar, jack frost, jack in the green, jonathan swift, junior woodchucks, lucian of samosata, ludvig holberg, lugal, magica de spell, michael berry, middlegame, monkeys, niels klim, niels klim's underground travels, rabisu, rick riordan presents, sarwat chadda, satire, scrooge mcduck, seasonal fears, seasons, sikander aziz, stingy jack, stranger than fiction, tammuz, the madcap mariner, the terrible tourist, true history | 1 Comment

The Lion Shall Lay Down with the Lamassu

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Nathan

With the appearance of Lamassu on the latest Futurama episode (although I haven’t been able to find a picture of them online as of yet), I thought they might be an interesting concept to look into, although I’m not really sure there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Babylonian, Buddhism, Cartoons, Etymology, Futurama, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, Judaism, Magic, Mesopotamia, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Persian, Religion, Television | Tagged abenaki, achaemenid empire, angels, anu, apsu, cherubim, demons, donkeys, enki, enuma elish, glooscap, gopathas, griffins, lahamu, lahmu, lamashtu, lamassu, lamia, lilith, mercury, pamola, pazuzu, shedu, sphinx, tiamat, yalis | 2 Comments

The Appearance of Time

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Nathan

When I heard of the concept of Chronos in Orphism from a Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby episode, I thought it would be something worth looking into. The association of Kronos, the father of the most prominent Olympian gods, with time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Buddhism, Christianity, Final Fantasy, Gender, Gnosticism, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, History, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mystery Cults, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Religion, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged aether, aion, ananke, chaos, chronos, death, dionysus, erebos, father time, final fantasy iii, gaia, hera, herakles, hercules, hesiod, jesus, kronos, mysticism, orphic mysteries, ouranos, phanes, theogony, time, time loops, zeus | 3 Comments

A Washed-Up Atlantis

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve started listening to the Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby podcast, which I found on Twitter. I have a lot to catch up on, but I did listen to some of the most recent installments about Atlantis. As the host … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Buddhism, Conspiracy Theories, Ethnicity, Frank Black/Black Francis, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Prejudice, Religion, Technology, Theosophy, William Shakespeare | Tagged al franken, archaeology, aryans, athens, atlantis, atlantis: the antediluvian world, baal-seepa, bible, critias, david m. parry, demons, devadatta, donovan, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragons, edgar cayce, euhemerism, flood, francis bacon, genesis, glinda of oz, green dragon of atlantis, helena blavatsky, hyperborea, ignatius donnelly, iron age, king midas, let's talk about myths baby, liv albert, lord of the dark face, nazis, neolithic era, numenor, plato, pseudoscience, racism, robert e. howard, sauron, siddharta gautama, silenus, sir arthur conan doyle, sir thomas more, slavery, table of nations, the maracot deep, the scarlet empire, thevetat, timaeus, utopia | 5 Comments

Category Archives: Buddhism

Outlaws Against Empires

Snow Time Like the Past

Baffled by Baphomet

We Need to Talk about Yevon

You’ve Got a Fiend in Me

No Brain, No Heart, He’s Much Too Shy

Must Be the Season of the Alchemist

The Lion Shall Lay Down with the Lamassu

The Appearance of Time

A Washed-Up Atlantis

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