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The three Gorgons – Euryale, Stheno, and Medusa – were hideous female creatures with golden wings and tusks like boars; their glances could turn men to stone…
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The sun god took three main forms: Khepri, the scarab beetle, who was the rising sun; Ra, the sun’s disc, who was the midday sun; and Atum, an old man leaning on a stick, who was the setting sun. Each evening, as the sun reached the west, the sky goddess…
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Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify his right to eat him…
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In ancient Egyption mythology, before time began the creator, the lord without limit, rested in the form of a serpent with its tail in its mouth in the primal ocean Nun…
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At the center of the Viking cosmos was Yggdrasil, the world Tree, a giant ash that held up the sky and sustained the world…
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Midas was the king of Phrygia. Recognizing an old drunk as the satyr (nature spirit) Silenus, companion of Dionysos (God of wine and ecstasy)…
Giuseppe Gillespie Writing 