The oldest love story in the world is a tragedy. It’s the familiar tale of young lovers whose union is thwarted by their opposing parents and whose lives end in double suicide based on a misunderstanding. Seguir leyendo »

Mesopotamia. The Land between the Rivers. The name still conjures up my schoolroom awe at this ancient civilisation, the forerunner of all civilisation, with its marvels and myths. From the fertile land between the Tigris and the Euphrates there grew Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian mythologies that are still strongly with us today. Seguir leyendo »

Mut was the Mother Goddess, her very name means mother and Mut was perhaps believed to be a sort of grandmother figure, as Isis was the mother figure for the world. Perhaps. Seguir leyendo »

Homage to You, the Cow of Gold,
The Beautiful, with numerous colours,
The Only One in the sky,
Naville, Edouard, The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir El-Baharil Seguir leyendo »

A well known story tells of a plague of frogs which overran Egypt (epidemiological reconstruction of the 10 plagues of Egypt) but the Egyptians knew the significance of the frog before that. She was Heket, with her life-giving powers, manifested on earth in frog form. Seguir leyendo »

Mithras, God of the Morning,
Our trumpets waken the Wall!
Rome is above the Nations,
but Thou art over all!
Rudyard Kipling Seguir leyendo »

Dragons, great wyrms and serpents are common elements in mythology from our earliest days and the earliest of all was the Chaldean dragon Tiamat. Seguir leyendo »