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All the world will be your enemy…But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

The Black Rabbit of Inlé
Watership Down, R. Adams

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2023-01-23


Ancient Egyptians of all classes used cosmetic paint on their faces and bodies. Most popular was a black pigment called Kohl, and powdered green malachite. These were applied to the eyes to ward against evil and to honour the goddess Hathor, mother of the world.

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2023-01-17


In Greek myth, Amethystos rejected Dionysus, and prayed to the Gods to preserve her chastity, so they turned her into a pure white stone. Distraught, Dionysus, poured wine on the stone, turning it purple, and Amethyst became the symbol of romance, lust and love.

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2023-01-09

KAPPA - Thread. Vampiric Japanese river imp & Trickster Likes human blood & entrails. A kind of humanoid turtle with a carapace, webbed feet & knee claws. The only thing Kappas enjoy more than a tasty child is a cucumber!

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2023-01-09

Amber was thought to be congealed sunlight. In Greek myth, it was formed from the tears of Phaeton's sisters who mourned his death once he had crashed the chariot of the sun...


🎨 Fall of Phaeton - Gustave Moreau

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2023-01-09

In kappa are small reptilian child-sized that live in lakes and rivers waiting to attack unsuspecting passers-by and drag them to a watery death. However, what they really want is your shirikodama, a mysterious jewel that resides...

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2023-01-09

Freyja loves the Brisingamen so much, and the things she’ll do to get her hands on it are quite astonishing. 🖼️ Greg Hildebrandt

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2023-01-09

I wrote "At the Dream's door" as a song about the last thought we have just right before sleeping. Will we remember it in the morning? Will it shape into what it should become? Will it cease to exist? Here my drawing and the song
https://t.co/e1nO3O5dVb

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2023-01-03

In long-lived bats are said to transform into yamachichi. This pointy-faced visits people when they are sleeping and sucks the life force from their mouth before tapping them on the chest, causing them to die the very next day.

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2023-01-02

The Celtic land of the dead is called Moonland (or Emania), and probably looks somthing like this (and it makes sense that owls live there, because they are very hard to find...)


by Amelia Leonards

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2023-01-02


In Greek myth, Tantalus, a rich, tyrannical king, of Sipylus, was exiled to Hades by Zeus for plotting to serve his own son at a great feast with the gods. He was sentenced to be thirsty and hungry for eternity despite standing in water and close to fruit trees.

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2022-12-27

If you're going to be involved in a Stag situation, best it be a jam session than the Hunt - because in every version of that myth, the result is doom.


by Pauhami

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2022-12-20

Draw the magic dolphins of Queen Amphitrite. The Ancient Greek Activity Book

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2022-12-20

Melinoë was probably an Orphic title for the goddess Hekate who was also a leader of ghosts and sometimes described as the daughter of Persephone.

It makes sense Hekate is Melinoe's mentor in

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2022-12-20

In some endings to the King Arthur legend, after the battle of Camlann/Salisbury Plain, nine fairy queens appear to take Arthur to Avalon where he will sleep until his homeland needs him again.

🖼️Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone
📔Lancelot of the Lake, 1966

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2022-12-12

In the private cabin of his flagship, Llefelys, Prince Consort of Gaul, considers the problem brought to him by his brother, Lludd, High King of Britain.

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2022-12-06

Looks like dear scores high in the Butter and Pretty Dresses department..

https://t.co/7ZoP52iXfC

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2022-12-06


As people of 4 counties in could not agree with their limits, an old woman appeared, pointed to a place with her stick and proposed to put a cross there as a boundary stone. It is called "Cruz do Pau da Vella", and she is believed to be buried under it.

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2022-12-05


Fusang désigne dans l’ancienne mythologie chinoise un arbre situé au-delà de la mer orientale. Les dix « corbeaux d’or » , fils de la déesse Xihe y résident. Chaque jour un soleil s’élève, traverse le ciel et va se reposer sur un autre arbre situé à l’ouest.

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2022-11-22