What is it you mortals don’t understand about the number nine ? I hear you summon it in your stumbling modern speech — with your nine lives, your cloud nine, the whole nine yards, dressed to the nines. .. yet you still fail to grasp the essential essence of nine. Seguir leyendo »

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Was there ever a horse like Bucephalos?

Bucephalos was as black as a crow’s wing at midnight in mid-winter. He was eighteen hands high, with a long powerful neck,  proud majestic head and was admired for his strength and beauty by all who saw him. What is less known, however, is that Bucephalos was a cantankerous nag. Seguir leyendo »

I remember having to learn this sentence at school, it demonstrated a rule in Latin, a very important rule, one which I have completely forgotten. Seguir leyendo »

The Chinese excel in fable, similar to the tales of Aesop, with an underlying moral. Fables have enriched the Chinese language and the morals of these tales are still deemed relevant. Seguir leyendo »

The tradition of playing games with a rubber ball existed throughout Mesoamerica well before the arrival of the Europeans. The Royal ball game of the Maya meant a lot more than bringing home a football trophy however, for the game often involved the blood of Kings. Seguir leyendo »

Kalevala is a collage of poems put together some 160 years ago by scholar Elias Lönnrot. It contains several mythical worldviews, ancient myths, ideas adopted from Viking-age adventurers, Christian legends, rustic tales, ideas expressed by female lyric poets, and tradition passed on by wise women, witches and shamans. Seguir leyendo »

The Egyptians called it Reu nu pert em hru meaning The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, for it is a book about coming forth, a book about the afterlife. It’s a set of spells, hymns, incantations, prayers and mummification techniques all designed to help the dead person resurrect into a glorious afterlife in the Hall of the Two Truths. Seguir leyendo »

Children raised in the wild, reared by some savage beast, appear in myths frequently. They appear in modern times as well, usually dealing with autistic or intellectually disabled children and not feral at all. Some of the folklore surrounding these children is based on truth but mainly it’s allegorical and safely in the realm of fiction. Seguir leyendo »