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- Do NOT point! At stars, that is. According to legend stars might be gods looking down on you, and to point would anger them and bad luck was sure to ensue. Below is a 1660 celestial map. Just so you know where not to point!

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"The most powerful magicians, too, as Simon Magus, Apollonius of Tyana, Pasetes, Iamblichus, and Odo de Stellis, can force them to...build castles in the air."

Entry on "demon" in The New American Cyclopædia (1868)

Image: The Chernabog in Disney's Fantasia

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Excited to announce my paper, 'Analysing the monstrous mermaid revived to ward off coronavirus' at CORONAGOTHIC: Cultures of the Pandemic’: an online conference by , 10am BST Tues 30 June. Free to register https://t.co/goM3qst4VI

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Yey, it's done! The pontianak, MY & ID's folklore monster, in form

完全に終わりました！マレーシアとインドネシアの伝統な化け物「ポンティアナク」といます

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FENRIR the most infamous of the many in Norse mythology. He’s the son of the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda. It is ultimately Fenrir who, in addition to killing Odin and destroying much of the world, will eat the sun and the moon during Ragnarok

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The constellation Ophiuchus represents Asclepius, the healer of Greek myth & son of Apollo. Ophiuchus is called the Serpent Bearer as Asclepius healed a snake, earning the gratitude of Athena. She gave him the means to resurrect the dead (image: Sidney Hall)

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is one of the twelve visible in the Northern Hemisphere and known as the 'dark constellation' due to its few stars.

In Hera placed the crab there after it was slain by Hercules.

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Globus Aerostaticus and Promethius Constellation the folklore and mythology of the stars.

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Without the Sun, where would we be? In the Sun rules the sign of Leo, which falls between ~July 23 and August 23, and governs matters of ego, independence, joy, creativity, the Father, men in general, confidence, how and where we seek achievement.

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and in opposite seasons, so that both of them can never be seen in the sky at the same time. 2/2

Johann Bayer's Uranometria (courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory Library)

Scorpius as depicted in Urania's Mirror (1825)

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The Xian were humans before they achieved enlightenment and ascended as immortals. This gave them the ability to fly to the sky and reside far away from the human world &material conflicts
Throughout the centuries that became the ultimate purpose of Daoism

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Nyx is the primordial Goddess of the night. She is represented by the darkness of the night and the night sky. Even Zeus was afraid of her power. Although she had no temple of her own, a single statue of her was found in a temple dedicated to Artemis. 👇

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An old saying goes like this:

If the finds you in bed on the 1st of the month, no wealth will enter your home that month.

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Edward Robert Hughes was a modestly regarded assistant to Holman Hunt and portraitist. Now his paintings of women as heavenly bodies are loved around the world on thousands of posters and greeting cards.

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ASTROLOGER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1825) warns of dire consequences for those who ignore celestial omens... the ones prefiguring the death of Lord Byron don't seem too difficult to decipher!

of the skies for

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(constellation)

Has captured the imagination of many culture's.

In Greek Mythology there are a few stories, it carried Zeus his thunderbolts, it represents Aphrodite disguised as an eagle to seduce Zeus and it guard's the arrow of Eros.

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Back in February, folktales workshop with yr 3 based on my ‘stealing the moon’ story. Retelling of ‘raking the moon’ as a Trickster Jack tale from collection Lovely illustration response from the children!

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Round 3-

The hybrid beast that ravaged the cities above vs 3 headed hound that guarded the underworld below. Both capable of breathing flames. Who would win?

Like for Chimera (Left) RT for Cerberus (Right)

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My tributes to two India teams that are part of Indian cricketing folklore. Made history today, one 88 years ago and the the other 37 years ago. Salutes!

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Script + notes, roughs, and final. This one's gotta be my fav note from thus far.

Read it at https://t.co/xE3xGhjGz1, with today's page release all of volume one and two are available to read for free :)

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