Tag Archives: underworld

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Into the Canyon We Go

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, The World Is to Dig – It’s been about five years since the release of my favorite band’s last regular studio album, BOOK, which felt like a big production. After that, this one comes across as … Continue reading →

Posted in Frank Black/Black Francis, Greek Mythology, Humor, Language, Magic, Music, Mythology, Relationships, They Might Be Giants | Tagged aging, charon, death, hypnos, john flansburgh, john linnell, night of the living dead, nostalgia, puns, raspberries, thanatos, the world is to dig, underworld, wu-tang clan, zombies | Leave a comment

The Academic Abyss

Posted on April 16, 2026 by Nathan

Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang – The title is an ancient Greek term for a journey to the underworld, and that is what happens in this book. It’s set in a world where magic is a respected academic discipline, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Chinese, Christianity, Education, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Religion, Roman, Technology | Tagged a closed and common orbit, artificial intelligence, bards, becky chambers, brigands and breadknives, carson lowmiller, computers, dante alighieri, divine comedy, dwarves, elves, goblins, hell, inferno, katabasis, meng po, orcs, r.f. kuang, rattkins, s.e. davidson, swords, the long way to a small angry planet, travis baldree, underworld, wayfarers, weapons, yama | 1 Comment

Too Many Books

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Nathan

I seem to be finishing a lot of books as of late, which means this post is going to be pretty long, even if the individual reviews aren’t. Bear with me, I guess. The Way Home, by Peter S. Beagle … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Brentford Trilogy, Comics, Crusades, edgar rice burroughs, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Mario, Middle East, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Percy Jackson, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Robert Rankin, Roman, Video Games | Tagged a fate worse than dragons, abraham, adam and eve, alexander the great, amazons, animal crossing new horizons, babylon, barry the time sprout, bible, blathers, boos, caleb cook, camp jupiter, cats, daniel, dejah thoris, demons, deserted island diary, dionysus, django wexler, dogs, dragons, esther, fairies, frogs, genesis, geoffrey de bouillon, gertrude landa, ghosts, giants, griffins, gulliver, how to become the dark lord and die trying, idols, jerusalem, jewish fairy tales and legends, john carter, john moore, king alexander's adventures, king david, king for three days, king hiram of tyre, kokonasu rumba, laverna, manga, mark oshiro, mars, minotaur, moses, nico di angelo, nimrod, noah, noah's ark, normanghast, og of bashan, orcs, paradise, peter s. beagle, phobos, pirithous, queen mary tudor, rape, rashi, sambation river, schmendrick, semele, sinbad of the talmud, sinbad the sailor, sol aronson, sooz, super mario adventures, swords of mars, talmud, tantalus, the court of the dead, the fairy frog, the giant of the flood, the higgedly-piggedly palace, the last unicorn, the paradise in the sea, the princess bride, the quarrel of the cat and dog, the sleep of one hundred years, the star-child, the story of bostanai, the water-babe, the way home, theseus, time loops, timmy and tommy nookling, tom nook, two hearts, underworld, will solace, wisp, ziz | 1 Comment

Just Jesting

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Nathan

The Legend of Kyranida, Book Three – Malcolm’s Revenge – The final game in this series has you play as the jester Malcolm, the villain of the first game, who’s been turned back from stone by a lightning strike. It gives … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Food, Games, Humor, Magic, Music, Video Games | Tagged cats, dogs, eels, fables and fiends, fish, fish cream sandwiches, kyrandia, limbo, malcolm the jester, malcom's revenge, the legend of kyrandia, the legend of kyrandia book three, tic-tac-toe, underworld | Leave a comment

Who Are the Fairies in Your Neighborhood?

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Nathan

Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees – I’ll admit that this 1926 novel didn’t really grab me. I did like the way the author played with words, but the long-winded style was somewhat difficult for me to follow. It’s very English, taking … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Celtic, Fairy Tales, History, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Relationships, Sumerian | Tagged anunnaki, arthur rackham, arthur spiderwick, brownies, dwarves, elves, emily h. wilson, enkidu, epic of gilgamesh, ereshkigal, fairies, gilgamesh, goblins, griffins, h. rider haggard, holly black, hope mirrlees, horace holly, inanna, kallikrates, leo vincey, lucinda's secret, lud-in-the-mist, misogyny, mulgarath, ninshubar, ogres, oz-story magazine, pookas, racism, sam steele's adventures on land and sea, she, the field guide, the ironwood tree, the seeing stone, the spiderwick chronicles, the wrath of mulgarath, tony diterlizzi, trolls, underworld | 3 Comments

Scullery, Skulls, and Skulduggery

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Nathan

Grim Fandango – This was originally released in 1998 by LucasArts, one of the last of their point-and-click adventure games, but I played the 2014 remastered version. It takes place in the world of the dead, with many of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Dragon Quest, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, lucasarts, Magic, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged angels, baramos, beavers, bees, circle of twelve, day of the dead, death, deja vu, demons, department of death, dragon quest iii, dragon's lair, dragons, dread pumpkin, druids, glottis, goblins, grim fandango, grim reaper, hector lemans, it's the great pumpkin charlie brown, lakmar, manuel calavera, mercedes colomar, nintendo entertainment system, nintendo switch, peanuts, rubacava, shadowgate, skeletons, skulls, snoopy, talimar, underworld, willy wonka, wizards, wyverns, yorick | 2 Comments

Sympathy for Sympathetic Magic

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Nathan

Into the Windwracked Wilds, by A. Deborah Baker – The third book in the Up-and-Under series sees Avery, Ziv, the Crow Girl, and the Drowned Girl Niamh continuing their journey. This includes their getting swallowed by a mosasaur, who is … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animism, Authors, Christianity, Fundamentalism, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, seanan mcguire, up-and-under | Tagged a. deborah baker, aeneas, aeneid, anthropology, apocalypse, armageddon, baldur, bart ehrman, bible, gospels, human sacrifice, into the windwracked wilds, jesus, joseph campbell, mistletoe, patrick maund, revelation, ritual, robert graves, robert pattrick, sacrifice, seasonal fears, sibyl, sir james george frazer, the golden bough, underworld, unexplored territory in oz, virgil | Leave a comment

The Lady’s in Hades

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve written a bit about Battle of Olympus before. My family rented it a few times in my childhood but could never get too far in it, maybe as far as the first Cyclops. In terms of gameplay, it was … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Castlevania, Comics, Dragon Quest, Egyptian, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Kid Icarus, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Metroid, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged achilles, angel land, anubis, atari, battle of olympus, bears, broderbund, castlevania ii: simon's quest, cerberus, chocobos, clash of the titans, cyclopes, dragon quest vi, dragons, eurydice, hades, helen of troy, hydra, isis, kid icarus uprising, lamia, medusa, minotaur, monkeys, mount olympus, ocarina, orpheus, pegasus, persephone, ray harryhausen, riddle of the sphinx, satyrs, snakes, talos, underworld | Leave a comment

Cities of the Damned

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Nathan

The idea of the world of the dead as a physical place is fascinating to me, probably at least partially because I love maps. Whether people in ancient times who wrote about such things genuinely believed that the Underworld had … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Etymology, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Language, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Roman, Video Games | Tagged aeneas, aeneid, afterlife, angels, bible, dante alighieri, demons, dis, divine comedy, emperor mateus, erinyes, final fantasy ii, final fantasy ix, final fantasy xiv, furies, garland, gorgons, hades, hell, hephaestus, inferno, john milton, lucifer, mammon, medusa, mulciber, mysidia, pandemonium, paradise lost, revelation, river styx, satan, stygian council, ultima, underworld, virgil | Leave a comment

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

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