Myths and Ancient Stories: Narrative, Meaning and Influence in the West by Kevin Mills
An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pre-modern culture, taking a comparative look at how they have shaped the West and modern storytelling as we have come to understand it today.
Greetings, myth lovers! To see out #BlackHistoryMonth, our theme this week is: Drums!
Which #myths involve drums or drum music? Tell us the #myth and tag us with #MythologyMonday for boosts!
Fairy tales and myths, anyone? I am enjoying Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World by Yoshi Yoshitani. I am finding that I know some of these stories, but not all. And some of them I know different versions of. This book would be fun to share with the kiddos before bed.
Greetings, myth lovers! In the wake of #ValentinesDay our theme this week is: Sweets and sweet things 🍬 Which #myths talk about a sweet treat or other sweet things? Tell us the #myth and tag us with #MythologyMonday for boosts!
Three blind men touch an elephant in three different places, such as a leg, trunk, or tusk. Each therefore reaches a very different conclusion (e.g., it's a tree) as to what the phenomenon is.
Interpretation: We cannot very well see things or people as a whole. Even the perspectives in #academia come from different disciplines. Different people looking at a multifaceted individual can each draw a very different image of the person.
Three animals cross a river, and each reaches the other shore. The rabbit swims along the surface, the horse occasionally hits bottom, but the elephant touches bottom all the way.
Interpretation: This is a parable of enlightenment or individual differences in wisdom. People can only understand things to their own depth. They might therefore avoid a person who is too heavy like the elephant. Just sayin"!
Hello, Myth Lovers! Since #Valentinesday2024 is coming up, our weekly theme is: Love, Lust, Desire. 🏹Which #myths talk about lust or desire? Write out a story and tag us with #MythologyMonday for boosts.
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A thought I've been chewing on after a particularly vivid dream: I wonder if the minotaur in the maze was a symbol of the internal human struggle between our needs in both a wild and a built world and how those structures, like cities, are overwhelming and oppressive while simultaneously being isolating and entrapping. Or perhaps a symbol of domesticates being trapped between two worlds...
Greetings, myth lovers! 2023 is coming to a close. In celebration of the #NewYear our theme for the first #MythologyMonday of 2024 is #Hope.
Which #myths are about hope and optimism? Tell us a myth and tag us with your hopeful stories. See you next year 🍀 🕛 🎆
This classic study, translated from the original French, deals primarily with societies around the world in which myth is--or was until very recently-- "living," in the sense that it supplies models for human behavior and, by that very fact, gives meaning and value to life.
In Women Who Run with the Wolves , Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature.
Greetings, myth lovers! Join @AimeeMaroux for today's theme: redheads. Which #myths feature redheads, gingers, or otherwise red-haired characters? Tell us a the myth & tag #MythologyMonday with your #redhead lore. See you #Monday! 👩🦰
Tales of adventure & magic from East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland), and South Slavs (the countries of former Yugoslavia plus Bulgaria).
Hello, everyone! Join us for #Monday's theme: The Heavens. Which #myths feature a #story about the heavens, the sky, or celestial bodies? Write out a story and tag us with #MythologyMonday. See you tomorrow!