🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧さんのイラストまとめ

In Hindu myth, celestial beings called Gandharvas steal a sacred elixir from the gods. The goddess Saraswati gets it back by playing her musical instrument, a veena. The Gandharvas beg her to teach them to play, & she does in exchange for the elixir. #MythologyMonday

Uttu, the Mesopotamian goddess of weaving, taught mortal women to weave, ushering in a new era in which humans less often froze to death or burned in the sun. Her name means woven in Sumerian & resembles the Akkadian word for spider, ettūtu. #MythologyMonday

In Aesop's fable "The City Mouse & the Country Mouse," a city mouse convinces his cousin, a country mouse, that city life is better than country life. After they narrowly escape a cat while in the city, the city mouse admits country life is safer & easier. #FolkloreSunday

The manticore of Persian myth has a human head, a lion body, & either a scorpion tail or a tail of venomous spines that can be shot like arrows. It also has three rows of sharp teeth on both its upper & lower jaws, enabling them to devour prey whole. #MythologyMonday

The Axehandle Hound is a creature of lumberjack folklore in Minnesota & Wisconsin. These forest-dwelling dogs have heads like axe blades & bodies like wooden handles. They feed exclusively on discarded axe handles left in forests. #FolkloreSunday

In Welsh lore, corgis are considered fairy dogs, as fairies ride them like horses & use them to pull coaches. In one legend, a farmer's children bring home two corgi puppies they found in a hollow, & the farmer declares them gifts from the fairy folk. #FolkloreSunday

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In the Syrian tale "Sheikh of the Lamps," an Ifrit—a djinn associated with fire—magically impregnates a young woman with a beautiful daughter. Fifteen years later, the daughter loses her anklet in a river. A prince finds it, tracks her down, & marries her. #FairyTaleTuesday

In the Tunisian tale "The Fair Foster Child of the Ghoul," seven sisters living alone are attacked by a ghoul, who devours six of them. The youngest escapes to the home of another ghoul, who becomes her loving foster father & gets her married to a prince. #FairyTaleTuesday

Shahmaran is a cave-dwelling woman/snake hybrid found in the mythologies of Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, the Armenian Highlands, & Kurdistan. When a man gets lost in her cave & discovers her garden, she falls in love with him & teaches him about medicinal herbs. #MythologyMonday