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A Floating Island Was His Home

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Nathan

When I read a book about Sumerian mythology earlier this year, I found it interesting that there was a floating city. This was Eridu, sometimes considered the oldest city of the world and the first seat of the kingship, created … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Chrono Trigger, Conspiracy Theories, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Humor, Jonathan Swift, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Mythology, Oz, Places, Star Wars, Sumerian, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aeolus, agobard of lyon, airships, apollo, aristophanes, artemis, bespin, castle in the sky, cloud city, cloudcuckooland, delos, edward brooke-hitching, enki, eridu, final fantasy iii, gulliver's travels, hera, kingdom of zeal, laputa, leto, magonia, maria dahvana headley, odysseus, odyssey, perelandra, saddam hussein, sky island, space trilogy, the birds, the empire strikes back, the sky atlas, venus | 4 Comments

Jumping Through Hoopoes

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Nathan

Here’s the book review post I mentioned before, which is partially about Greek mythology, and includes a lot of tangents. I always wonder whether people like those, or just want me to stick to the media I’m discussing. The Bird … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Comics, Games, Greek Mythology, History, Islam, Judaism, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Uncategorized | Tagged antillia, aristophanes, bible, birds, clash of the titans, cloudcuckooland, doctor who, dungeons and dragons, farid ud-din attar, g. willow wilson, hercules, hercules the legendary journeys, hoopoes, iris, jinn, joseph, kamala khan, kevin sorbo, king solomon, koh-e-qaf, lamia, liz gloyn, marvel comics, medusa, ms. marvel, nephelokokkygia, nimrod, poseidon, prometheus, puns, quran, ray harryhausen, sheikh sam'an, simurgh, sufism, sultan mahmoud, tereus, the bird king, the birds, the conference of the birds, tracking classical monsters in popular culture, triballus, xena warrior princess | 4 Comments

The Zozo Show

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Nathan

I’ve been meaning for a while now to write a post about the town of Zozo in Final Fantasy VI, as it’s just such a weird place. It has elements of a Cloudcuckooland, but is also a den of thieves, … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Video Games | Tagged cloudcuckooland, dadaluma, demons, espers, final fantasy vi, jidoor, ouija board, ramuh, terra branford | Leave a comment

Absolutely Cuckoo

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Nathan

I think the first time I came across the word “Cloudcuckooland” might have been in The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, but I’ve come across the term occasionally since then. Apparently it’s actually used as the name of a place in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Cartoons, Etymology, Fairy Tales, Food, L. Frank Baum, Language, Lewis Carroll, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Television | Tagged acme acres, alice's adventures in wonderland, aristophanes, arthur schopenhauer, big rock candy mountain, borat, burl ives, cloudcuckooland, cockaigne, cuckoo, david hulan, dodo, harry mcclintock, looney tunes, mo, nephelokokkygia, pepperland, perfect strangers, peter bruegel, porky in wackyland, porky pig, that 70s show, the birds, the dictionary of imaginary places, the glass cat of oz, tiny toon adventures, toontown, wackyland, who framed roger rabbit, wolkenkuckucksheim, yellow submarine | 3 Comments

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