03 Apr 2019 Eve was Created from Adam’s Rib, but What About the Other Women? Where did the First Women of Ancient Creation Come From? By MartiniF 0 In the Bible, Genesis 2:7 is the first verse that tells us about the first man. It tells how God formed a man from the dust and blew the breath of life into him. The man was then placed in Eden where he had to tend the garden and animals. In the ... Read More
02 Jan 2018 The Legend of Shikhandi, the Transgendered Warrior Who Paid the Price of Opposing Powerful Men By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 Chauvinism existed even in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The ancient text depicts the legendary eighteen-day bloodbath, dubbed the Kurukshetra War, where the hero/heroine’s greatest feat was not defeating the enemy, but overcoming stereotyped... Read More
11 Sep 2017 Eve was Created from Adam’s Rib, but What About the Other Women? Where did the First Women of Ancient Creation Come From? By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 1 In the Bible, Genesis 2:7 is the first verse that tells us about the first man. It tells how God formed a man from the dust and blew the breath of life into him. The man was then placed in Eden where he had to tend the garden and animals. In the... Read More
04 Mar 2017 Not Just an Urban Legend: The Terrifying Ghostly Tales of the Lady in White By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 There is a famous “ghost” of a long-haired woman in a white dress in Quezon City, Philippines. According to legends, she died in a car accident while driving along Balete Drive. Her stories usually involve a taxi driver who was driving late at... Read More
21 Nov 2016 Seers, Women of Action: The Sibyls of the Ancient World By MartiniF History & Tradition 0 Virgil, in his Aeneid, describes Deiphobe, better known as the Sibyl of Cumae, as coming from “a hundred perforations in the rock, a hundred mouths from which the many utterances rush” (43-5, 163). He further describes “her terrifying... Read More
22 Jul 2016 The Bird and the Serpent: From the Neolithic Goddesses to Ancient Chinese Symbols of Nobility and Benevolence By MartiniF Mythology & Mystery 0 Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, in his book Proserpina, calls himself “the gentle and happy scholar of flowers”. A large part of his work is an attempt to connect nature, art and society. To prove this, he attempted to show that species can... Read More