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This week Will O' the Wisp joins a werewolf in the moonlight for the

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She then flies away in a chariot pulled by dragons.
Gives king Aegeus a child.
Is banished from Athens because of Theseus
Flies back home and finds her father was overthrown by Perseis
Fights Perseis and gives her father his Kingdom back
Never mentioned again
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2020-07-27

"Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life."

-Joseph Campbell

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✨#MythologyMonday
La Tarasque: un redoutable hybride mythologique aux allures de dragon légendaire de Provence,dans le sud de la France🇫🇷, apprivoisé dans une histoire sur Sainte Marthe. Dans la légende: Sainte Marthe l'apprivoise; elle est célébrée chaque année, le 29 juillet!

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Thank you, myth lovers, for posting fantastic myths about competitions this
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(The Drinking Contest of Dionysos and Herakles, 100 CE, Antioch)

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Going double Gothic with vampires and Valravn for a half-wolf half-raven creature from Danish folklore

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I always think poor had a bit of a rough deal after challenging to a weaving contest .... because her weaving was flawless she incurred the goddess' wrath & took her own life, then being transformed into a spider.

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2020-07-21

One time, an apple caused a war. In Eris, goddess of discord, tossed an apple labelled "to the fairest" to a group of goddesses, causing a fight. They had a beauty competition, judged by Paris of Troy. Aphrodite won, leading to the Trojan War.

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2020-07-20

Heptu bidding farewell to the city of obb (1909) by John Duncan (Scotland, 1866-1945).

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In Norse mythology as part of the reparations owed to Skadi for the death of her father the Aesir had a contest to see if they could make her laugh. At last, Loki tied one end of a rope to a goat and the other around his testicles and began a game of tug of war

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Overthrow of the Old Order - - Prometheus the titan steals fire from the Gods and gives it to mankind - sparking them into civilisation, technology and creativity (gets punished by being tied to a rock getting pecked at by an eagle). Art by Jan Cossiers (1630s)

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2020-07-13

slithering alongside the unicorn this week for is unhcegila a serpent-like creature from Lakota mythology

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2020-07-14

50 Nereids, daughters of sea god Nereus, & his wife Doris, an Oceanid were sea nymphs said to help sailors & fishermen who were lost or in distress in stormy seas. Most fishing ports & harbours in Ancient Greece had a shrine dedicated to the Nereids.

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In Greek mythology, Drakania is a female serpent or dragon, sometimes with human-like features (Lamia, Campe & Echidna)

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The Aesir-Vanir War resulted in the creation of a new order among the Norse gods, uniting the ancient Aesir, gods who embodied might, power and action (Odin, Thor), with the Vanir, gods of prophecy, magic, and nature (Freyr, Freya, Njoror).

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Whilst Homer's 'Iliad' recounts the overthrow of King Priam of Troy by Agamemnon of Mycenae, his 'Odyssey' documents the latter's murder by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

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2020-07-13

This week's theme is overthrow of the old order, a theme that recurs in It all starts with Ouranos, the Sky, who first ruled he cosmos. Every night he came to Gaia, the Earth, to make love to her and they had many children, the titans.

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In the Titanomachy was the second time an older order of gods was overthrown by the younger. Zeus and his siblings (the Olympians) battled against their father Cronus and the titans, eventually overcoming them and gaining dominion.

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Norse legend says that when Christianity triumphed over paganism, the old gods retreated to the rivers. Aegir was once a kindly god who stilled storms and calmed rough seas, but after being forced to take refuge in the River Trent, he demanded three lives a year

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