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Explore some sinister tales of vengeful in this perfect watch...

SIDEWORLD: TERRORS OF THE SEA is out now, available to rent or buy .

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2022-09-19

Giant sorcerers created a huge figure out of clay to help the giant Hrungnir battle Thor. Unfortunately, the only heart the sorcerers found big enough for their creation was a mare's. This made the clay figure so cowardly he peed himself when Thor approached.

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2022-09-19


Rejected by his mother Hera because he was lame & ugly, Hephaestus was cared for by the Sintians and became a skilled craftsman. He built automatons to help him in his forge on Mt Olympus. His creations included the Golden Tripods & Talos a giant cast in bronze.

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2022-09-19

When Merlin first appears in the 12th-century "History of the King of Britain," his only supernatural power is prophecy. The original story says Merlin instead built Stonehenge via advanced "machinery," though it is vague what exactly these machines were.

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2022-09-19

My latest are a contemporary take on traditional thangka art, the deities replaced by characters from folklore and mythology

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2022-09-19

According to Hesiod, a bronze anvil falling from the sky would fall nine days and nights and hit earth on the tenth day.

A bronze anvil falling down from earth would fall nine days and nights and reach misty, gloomy Tartaros on the tenth day.

🎨Felix J. Gardon

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2022-09-13

Would love to be Ankou, the soul collector, head can turn 180 degrees, with two skeleton helpers as we ride around in our creaky wooden cart seeking lost souls & leading them into to the afterlife.

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2022-09-13


I would like to be Luned in the tale of Owain & the Lady of the Fountain .... she gets to help Owain defeat the Black Knight & then play matchmaker between him and the Lady who rules the kingdom ❤️😀
[#Yvain]

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2022-09-13


I’ve an abiding affection & affinity to Áine, Irish deity of Love, possibly because my ancestral roots lie in Limerick, where her cult began. The Faery Queen of the Tuatha Dé Danann, bringer of light, love & magic. Gifts I seek to convey in the stories I tell.

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2022-09-12

I would love to travel with Iris on a rainbow, delivering messages from the Greek gods to humans, & then to help her as she collected water in a pitcher from the River Styx for the gods swear oaths by. If found to have lied, they lost their voices for 7 years.

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FREYA🐈🐈‍⬛
..of Norse Mythology, goddess, associated with love, beauty, fertility, riding her chariot, pulled by two cats, and wearing a coat of falcon feathers..yes..request of Freya, can I borrow your Cat chariot..and explore the universe please..👍

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2022-09-12

Among the people of North China and beyond, the Siberian tiger is a symbol of patriarchal power and monarchal power, said to have the character for king, 王 on its very body. In modern China the endangered animal's body parts are used for medicine.

🖼: R. Tan

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2022-09-05

I see is looking at endangered species today, so here's East of the Sun and West of the Moon again for the polar bear - a threatened species thanks to climate change.

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2022-09-05


In Inuit myth the polar bear is revered for his strength, spiritual power & wisdom. It is said that they taught humans their hunting skills. Legends tell of creatures half man/half bear shedding their bearskins, to become human upon entering their igloos.

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2022-09-05

I think it is the most realistic thing to think that harpies are related to owls.

by Pauliina Linjama

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2022-09-05

The Tlingit & Haida tribes have a creation myth of the orca whale. During a hunting trip, a young warrior, Natsilane, gets thrown overboard by his brothers & left for dead. He survives & carves a whale out of cedar wood, which comes to life & drowns his brothers.

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2022-09-05

In Slavic mythology Perun was the ruler of the living world, sky and earth, and was often symbolised by an eagle sitting on the top of the tallest branch of the sacred tree, from which he kept watch over the entire world.

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2022-08-30

and the news is out! This week we're staying in Nordic mythology for the beautiful and deadly Elves!

...toss me, don't tell the Elf - and join us this Thursday for these fabulous woodland beings!

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2022-08-29

Oisin (pronounced Ush-een, meaning 'fawn') was considered the greatest poet of Ireland. Son of warrior Finn MacCool and Sadhbh (who was cursed to live as a deer), he was a demigod who traveled to Tir na nÓg with Niamh of the Golden Hair and stayed for 300 years!

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