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The Dagda's harp could play itself but he loved do it himself: it set the seasons in order, could stop the sun in the sky, moved hearts to reason, and gave order to the world. It was the Dagda's most sacred treasure, and woe be the fool who took it from him. #MythologyMonday

To the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, Raven is both blessing and curse: he is the Creator, given of life and knowledge to humanity, but also a coy trickster, looking for food and comfort where hard work is required. #WyrdWednesday

🖼: G. Rabena

The divine Creators Izanagi and Izanami birthed tens of thousands of gods but were separated by tragedy. They reunited in Yomi, where Izanagi found his wife rotting. She vowed to kill life, and daily he vowed to create more life than she destroyed. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: genzoman

Queen of Winter, Skadi married into the gods as the price for her father's death. With snowshoes she comes down from her mountains to visit the sea, where Njord lives: theirs is a tragic but enduring love. Which side will she join at Ragnarok? #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: W. Dada

The Cailleach's reign has begun. Master of winter, she is stern and hard but she is a wisdom-giver. The weight of wisdom is a stone about the neck, but those willing to use winter to reflect and plan, and are generous, gain wisdom and bounty. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: M.T. Caya

Avoid the fourth toilet stall in Japan, especially at schools. You will discover it without toilet paper, and a voice will offer you red or blue paper. Both will lead to a gory end at the hands of Aka Manto, a murderous modern spirit in red #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: @matthewmeyerart

Japanese koi fish, also called Japanese carp, are by themselves unremarkable, lackadaisical fish. But every once in a while, one becomes ambitious: if they can jump to the top of a waterfall, they transform into a dragon! This inspired the famed Pokemon Magikarp #FairyTaleTuesday

Greek myth had several classes of water spirits: Naiads are fresh bodies of water, Oceanids represent saltwater, and Nereids represent the Mediterranean, to say nothing of sea and river gods. Despite this any nymph can appear in other waters #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: J.W. Waterhouse

Gohone is the Iroquois deity of winter, a wanderer spreading frost. Depicted as an old man with a walking stick, he brings winter as he wanders through the northern woods of North America. In spring the coming of Adekagagwaa, god of summer, will banish Gohone #FolkloreThursday

A child born to the Trojan royal house before nightfall would bring ruin to the whole of Troy: but King Priam and Queen Hecuba could not kill their son. So Priam left the boy with a shepherd, who abandoned him. Suckled by a she-bear, the child Paris survived. #FolkloreThursday