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Married to the Sea Goddess

Posted on February 15, 2026 by Nathan

Thetis is not a particularly major figure in Greek mythology as we’ve received it. She’s best known as the mother of Achilles, one of the heroes who was distinguished for being really good at war rather than the sort who … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Greek Mythology, Magic, Mythology, Names, Poetry, Relationships, Religion | Tagged achilles, amphitrite, argonauts, aristaeus, athena, briareus, clash of the titans, dionysus, eris, gaia, hekatonkheires, hephaestus, hera, homer, iliad, let's talk about myths baby, lycurgus of thrace, maggie smith, menelaus, nereids, nereus, nymphs, olympus, peleus, phylarcus, podcasts, pontus, poseidon, proteus, river styx, shape shifters, thetis, trojan war, zeus | Leave a comment

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

The Fairy with the Death-Dealing House

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Nathan

I just happened to have finished several books within the past two days, so here are some thoughts on them. There are SPOILERS for some of these. The Moon Pool, by A. Merritt – The botanist Walter Goodwin comes across … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Celtic, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Greek Mythology, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, seanan mcguire, Toys | Tagged a. merritt, alexander volkov, cinderella, dorothy gale, ellie smith, emily wilde, emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries, fairies, gaia, heather fawcett, hera, indexing, iron woodman, jennifer saint, leprechauns, magic land, olympus, pixies, scarecrow, sergei sukhinov, teddy bears, the fairy of the emerald city, the moon pool, the pied piper of hamelin, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, wendell bambleby, wicked witch of the east, witches, zeus | 1 Comment

Games and Goddesses

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Nathan

Gamemaster Classified: An Insider’s Guide to Nintendo’s Coming of Age, by Howard Phillips and Matthew Taranto – Back in the day, Howard was a very visible part of Nintendo’s marketing, especially in Nintendo Power, known for his signature bow tie. … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Art, Authors, Aztec, Book Reviews, Castlevania, Comics, Dragon Quest, Feminism, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Humor, Kid Icarus, Magic, Mario, Mayan, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Rick Riordan, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aidan moher, airships, artemis, athena, dawn of the jaguar, devil world, divine might, fight magic items, gamemaster classified, ghosts n goblins, hera, hestia, howard and nester, howard phillips, ixtab, j.c. cervantes, kings of the wyld, matthew taranto, natalie haynes, nicholas eames, nintendo, nintendo power, owlbears, rick riordan presents, shadow bruja, sky skipper, the adventures of bayou billy | 1 Comment

I’ve Had the Breath of Liars Blowing Me Off Course in My Sails

Posted on December 3, 2023 by Nathan

Jason and the Argonauts, by Apollonius of Rhodes, translated by Aaron Poochigan, notes by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes – Dating from the third century BCE, this epic poem, originally written in Latin, retells the classical myth in a style reminiscent of Homer’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Poetry, Relationships | Tagged aaron poochigan, amycus, aphrodite, apollonius of rhodes, apsyrtus, argo, argonautica, argonauts, ariadne, atlas, benjamin acosta-hughes, boreas, calais, circe, dioscuri, eridanus, hera, heracles, hercules, homer, hylas, jason, jason and the argonauts, north wind, odysseus, odyssey, phaethon, polydeuces, theseus, witches, zetes | 1 Comment

Did It Hurt When You Fell from Heaven?

Posted on October 29, 2023 by Nathan

I first learned about Genesis B through Alice K. Turner’s The History of Hell. It’s an Old English poem included in a longer one called, not surprisingly, Genesis A. Of course, that wasn’t what people called them at the time. They … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, History, Islam, Judaism, Language, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Semitic, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 1 corinthians, 1 enoch, 2 corinthians, 2 enoch, aaron hostetter, abraham, adam and eve, alice k. turner, angels, bellerophon, bible, crucifixion, demons, ephesians, exodus, garden of eden, genesis, genesis a, genesis b, gigantes, heaven, hell, hera, immortality, jesus, job, jubilees, junius manuscript, kronos, lucifer, mastema, monotheism, moses, olympus, omnipotence, omniscience, pegasus, polytheism, quran, satan, sataniel, the history of hell, tower of babel, typhon, zeus | Leave a comment

Some Say It’s True, and Some Say It’s a Fable

Posted on June 17, 2023 by Nathan

Breverton’s Phantasmagoria: A Compendium of Monsters, Myths and Legends, by Terry Breverton – This is a collection of myths and legends, some ancient and others pretty recent. They include people, places, artifacts, and both mythical animals and weird beliefs about … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Greek Mythology, Hellenistic Greece, Historical Personages, History, Humor, Jonathan Swift, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Roman, Sesame Street, Television, William Shakespeare | Tagged a link to the past, aesop, ants, bible, breverton's phantasmagoria, cats, chip zdarsky, cranes, demetrius of phalerum, dogs, donkeys, flash thompson, foxes, frogs, gods of pegana, gulliver's travels, hera, hermes, herodotus, in the land of time, in the land of time and other fantasy tales, iron man, jack of hearts, jen again, jeremiah, jorkens, juno, jupiter, lilliput, lions, lord dunsany, luca maresca, mark bagley, mars, mercury, mice, momus, monkeys, peter parker, pliny the elder, poseidon, rainbow rowell, roge antonio, she-hulk, sheep, spider-man, spider-man life story, superheroes, terry breverton, the complete fables, the farmer and the cranes, the frogs asking for a king, the mountain in labor, the tortoise and the hare, the wolf and the lamb, vietnam war, wolves, zeus | 1 Comment

Washing Your Sins Away

Posted on May 20, 2023 by Nathan

One recurring theme in Greek mythology is that of ritual purification for someone who’d committed a crime. There’s a pattern in some stories of a person doing a heinous act, being exiled from their home, and going to someone in … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Mythology, Religion | Tagged adrestus of phrygia, animal sacrifice, apollonius of rhodes, argonautica, atys of lydia, bellerophon, circe, copreus, crime, croesus, eurystheus, exile, hammurabi, hera, hercules, herodotus, homer, iliad, jason, laius of thebes, law, medea, murder, oedipus, oracle of delphi, proteus of argos, purification, ritual, sacrifice, thespius, zeus | 2 Comments

These Judges Are Such Cretans

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Nathan

When the world of the dead is presented as a place of reward or punishment, as has become pretty standard, that generally means that someone has to decide who goes where. The Underworld of Greek mythology came to have three … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Greek Mythology, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Roman, Video Games | Tagged achilles, aegina, aeneid, alcmene, androgeos, ants, apollo, apollodorus, arabian nights, aristophanes, bulls, cadmus, cerberus, cyclopes, daedalus, dante alighieri, divine comedy, eleusinian mysteries, elysian fields, europa, fortunate isles, hades, helios, hell, hera, hercules, inferno, king aeacus of aegina, king aeetes of colchis, king asterion of crete, king minos of crete, kronos, law, minotaur, myrmidons, nymphs, odysseus, odyssey, pasiphae, patroclus, peleus, plato, polyphemus, poseidon, rhadamanthus, sarpedon, sinbad the sailor, the frogs, theseus, triptolemus, trojan war, underworld, virgil, zeus, zork | 1 Comment

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

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Married to the Sea Goddess

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Games and Goddesses

I’ve Had the Breath of Liars Blowing Me Off Course in My Sails

Did It Hurt When You Fell from Heaven?

Some Say It’s True, and Some Say It’s a Fable

Washing Your Sins Away

These Judges Are Such Cretans

The Appearance of Time

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