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In Greek mythology, Mnemosyne was the titan goddess of memory and mother of the nine muses, fathered by Zeus. It is from her name we get the word mnemonic, which is a memory aid.

Art: Mnemosyne or Lamp of Memory - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ca. 1880.

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2020-07-13

Half human, half animal but definitley a legendary creature of Persian the Manticore. The name means "man-eater". According to the Roman author Claudius Aelianus it's "a wild beast, powerful, daring, as big as the largest lion".

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2020-07-07

The first sighting of a terrifying Mothman was Nov.12,1966. Five men digging a grave at a cemetery near Clendenin, West Virginia, claimed to have seen a man-like figure fly low over the trees. The harbinger of doom is often described as having red eyes.#cryptid

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2020-07-07


Bram Stoker's Dracula has been inspired by Strigoi — linked with vampirism — troubled spirits that are said to have risen from the grave, with the ability to to transform into an animal, become invisible, and to gain vitality from the blood of their victims.

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2020-07-06

TYPHON A monstrous being of Ancient Greek mythology, first referred to in Homer's Iliad; human head & intertwined snake tails for legs; terrible, outrageous & lawless, the 'father of the HARPIES' shares with 'typhoon' an association of ill winds

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Richard the Lionheart is said to have brought the first swans to England after the Crusade, and for centuries swans have been royal property. A person’s ‘swan song’ - his final work - derives from the belief that a swan will sing only once - just before they die

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2020-07-06

Among the fiends and giants, the beasts and serpents, the Cerberus rose supreme. Now, it prepares to face Typhon. The father of all monsters. And I do mean all of them. For you see...the Cerberus is his son!

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2020-06-30

As the final round of the creature clash comes to an end, I'd like to let you know that this week's theme is African mythology. Stories, deities, creatures, and anything else interesting I can find. This should be fun!

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2020-06-30

'Queering Satan: The Politics of Sex, Gender, Visibility, and Fear in Paradise Lost' by Jennifer Kaplan https://t.co/G5G6IcFubl

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2020-06-29

Joining rainbow snake from aboriginal Dreamtime is the rainbow fish from Hindu legend - but this one isn't a myth it's Melanotaenia boesemani from Indonesia. 🇮🇩

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2020-06-23


After a misunderstanding Geraint & his wife Enid embark on a series of adventures which eventually prove his bravery & chivalry, her faithfulness to him .... and their enduring love for each other

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2020-06-23

The builders of Stonehenge certainly showed great perseverance; the sarsten stones were believed to have been brought from Marlborough Downs, 20 miles away, and the bluestones from the Preseli Hills in Wales. They weigh between 2 and 5 tonnes each!

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2020-06-23

Chumash myth: the Great Spirit punished the quarreling animals by darkening Earth with a blanket. The brave hummingbird pierced it over & over with her beak; her perseverance created the stars. Great Spirit's reward was to remove the blanket for half of each day

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2020-06-22

Hǫgni and Heðinn both have a ton of perseverence because they battle eternally in the Hjaðningavíg, a dispute resulting from a difference in opinion about Heðinn’s right to date/marry Hǫgni’s daughter, Hildr.

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2020-06-22

Odysseus took 10 years to reach home after the 10-year Trojan war, suffering shipwrecks and such monsters as the man-eating Cyclops. Meantime, his wife Penelope held off suitors by refusing to remarry till she‘d woven a shroud, which she partly undid each night.

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2020-06-22

Thanks for another great round of I hope you all enjoyed the "journeys" theme. This is signing off. Join next week for a new theme!

Art by Arthur Hughes

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2020-06-16

HERNE Spectral Huntsman of English lore; leader of the wild hunt, nocturnal procession of the dead, & haunter of Windsor Forest; As an antlered & horned God he's linked to Pan. Image Symbaroum, RPG, Sweden; Franz Von Stuck, The Wild Hunt, 1889

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2020-06-16

The god of protection & one of the four sons of Horus in Egyptian mythology joins the questing beast from Arthurian legend for the letter Q in the

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2020-06-16

The are the central deities of They the offspring of also known as All-father, who watches over all the worlds from his throne in Hlidskialf.

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2020-06-15