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Impossible Quest to Have the ‘Perfect Man’? The 5 Imperfect Brothers of the Mahabharata — 30 Jan 2017

Impossible Quest to Have the ‘Perfect Man’? The 5 Imperfect Brothers of the Mahabharata

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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The two major Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, still appear widely in popular folk drama, tales and art all over Southeast Asia with slight adaptations in all the myriad cultures of the region. Scenes from the epics are illustrated in...
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Impossible Quest to Have the ‘Perfect Man’? The 5 Imperfect Brothers of the Mahabharata — 30 Jan 2017

Impossible Quest to Have the ‘Perfect Man’? The 5 Imperfect Brothers of the Mahabharata

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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The two major Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, still appear widely in popular folk drama, tales and art all over Southeast Asia with slight adaptations in all the myriad cultures of the region. Scenes from the epics are illustrated in...
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The Fool with Two Demons / Master of the Ingeborg Psalter — 27 Jan 2017

Fantasies from Evil Spirits? Faeries in the Medieval Imagination

By nrushton

Mythology & Mystery

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“There are also others who say that they see women and girls dancing by night whom they call elvish folk, or faeries, and they believe that these can transform both men and women or, by leaving others in their place, carry them to elf-land; all...
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The Fool with Two Demons / Master of the Ingeborg Psalter — 27 Jan 2017

Fantasies from Evil Spirits? Faeries in the Medieval Imagination

By nrushton

Mythology & Mystery

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“There are also others who say that they see women and girls dancing by night whom they call elvish folk, or faeries, and they believe that these can transform both men and women or, by leaving others in their place, carry them to elf-land; all...
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The Sky, the Sun & the King: Mischievous and Divine Monkeys in Asian Myth — 11 Jan 2017

The Sky, the Sun & the King: Mischievous and Divine Monkeys in Asian Myth

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery, Sustainability & The Environment

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For the past few thousand years, the Indian Epic Ramayana has been among the most important literary and oral texts of South and Southeast Asia. Every autumn, Lord Rama's victory over the demon king Ravana is celebrated through plays and dances in...
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The Sky, the Sun & the King: Mischievous and Divine Monkeys in Asian Myth — 11 Jan 2017

The Sky, the Sun & the King: Mischievous and Divine Monkeys in Asian Myth

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery, Sustainability & The Environment

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For the past few thousand years, the Indian Epic Ramayana has been among the most important literary and oral texts of South and Southeast Asia. Every autumn, Lord Rama's victory over the demon king Ravana is celebrated through plays and dances in...
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Swapping Babies: The Disturbing Faerie Changeling Phenomenon — 26 Dec 2016

Swapping Babies: The Disturbing Faerie Changeling Phenomenon

By nrushton

Mythology & Mystery

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The worldwide stories of faerie changelings come under a group of motifs recorded in the Aarne-Thompson folklore index as F321: ‘Faerie steals child from cradle and leaves faerie substitute.’ The basic premise of these motifs is that the...
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Swapping Babies: The Disturbing Faerie Changeling Phenomenon — 26 Dec 2016

Swapping Babies: The Disturbing Faerie Changeling Phenomenon

By nrushton

Mythology & Mystery

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The worldwide stories of faerie changelings come under a group of motifs recorded in the Aarne-Thompson folklore index as F321: ‘Faerie steals child from cradle and leaves faerie substitute.’ The basic premise of these motifs is that the...
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Deriv; Painting of a meteor, 1860 and an illuminated man — 19 Dec 2016

The Wold Newton Meteorite: An Extraordinary Stone and the Birth of a Superhero

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

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In a remote part of North-East England called the Yorkshire Wolds, an incident took place on Sunday 13th December 1795 that not only became talking point of late 18th century London society but also gave birth to a modern literary legend. However,...
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Deriv; Painting of a meteor, 1860 and an illuminated man — 19 Dec 2016

The Wold Newton Meteorite: An Extraordinary Stone and the Birth of a Superhero

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

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In a remote part of North-East England called the Yorkshire Wolds, an incident took place on Sunday 13th December 1795 that not only became talking point of late 18th century London society but also gave birth to a modern literary legend. However,...
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