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Research on Arrernte society has been preoccupied with the mythology and traditions dealing with the ancestral beings and associated ceremonies.
Joseph Campbell, the well-known writer on mythology and comparative religion, identified twelve stages in the archetypal hero's journey.
He has published many articles in the areas of archetypal and Jungian psychology, mythology and the arts.
Nothing in our commonly purveyed literacy mythology suggests this is the State with the largest number of literates in India.
Armor reflected the Renaissance idealization of the antique, with decorative motifs taken from classical mythology and ancient history.
It's been carried over the centuries and millennia by mythology, religion, metaphysics and history.
In mythology, the steep climb up the mountain is the seeking of the masculine spirit in ourselves.
Gilgamesh, hero of Babylonian mythology, went on a journey to find Utnapishtin, who had survived the flood.
For instance, the Erewhonians' birth mythology accounts for unconscious memories lingering within a person.
Greek mythology contains theogonies, which are stories of the birth of the gods.
The mythology of a religion tends to reflect the covenant between the followers of a religion and the Divine.
The creation of Oz recast this ancient belief into intellect vs. emotions, the core tension of the Oz mythology.
I used to read a lot of Norse mythology when I was a lad, and I always was into their vision of the endtimes of the gods, Ragnarok.
Her original choreographies based on Indian mythology and contemporary issues earned her encomiums from around the world.
Their traditional role in mythology was to wreck the sacred sacrifice, the yagna, and wreak havoc on figures of power and authority.
It's a pleasure to see the 'zombie movie' recreated with some good reinventions of the classic mythology.
The fable of King Midas is one of the prettiest admonitions in classical mythology against the dangerous allure of gold.
Circe was a legendary enchantress in Greek mythology whose charms few could resist.
Shakespeare, to many, is almost like Indian mythology with its larger-than-life characters and grandiloquent plots and dialogues.
The roots of Japanese mythology are in the Shinto religion, in Taoism and in Zen Buddhism alike.
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Each is an epic journey of passion, honour and dishonour, rooted in the pages of Greek mythology, with strong language and violence.
In the Renaissance, the renewal of interest in Greek and Roman mythology opened the way for political subversion as well as propaganda.
Eduardo was born in Tangiers to Andalusian parents in 1955 and is the seventh son of a seventh son, regarded in mythology as a magical son.
Everybody has their mythic story, whatever it is, their own personal mythology that is exclusive to themselves and how they relate to the world.
They presently have a wide variety of books, including a section on mythology and the legend of King Arthur.
Though he refuses to deracinate himself he does valorize pioneer mythology over racial realities in the West.
I've never had any affinity for the overhyped mythology of the bad boy, which I think is basically phony.
Tobosaku is the bad guy in the Japanese mythology who stole not only one but three peaches out of Seibo's garden.
The novel's subject matter, the mythology of Jack the Ripper, the 'psychogeography' of east London, would resurface frequently in his work.
The paintings depict scenes from Hindu mythology and the colours would never fade.
But the genuine power of such stories is ultimately devalued by this tendency to press gang any old tale into the mythology of a particular city.
I integrate diverse elements from pre-Columbian mythology, Western religious iconography, and American popular culture.
As many as a dozen freeze-frames portray leading artistes poised at different moments of unique genres of storytelling from mythology.
Conflict is then almost endemic to a good story, and literature, mythology, folk tales, and even religious texts are full of violent narratives.
There may be some valid info but it's more about cosmology, cosmogony, and mythology than on magic.
There were at least three separate cosmogenies in Egyptian mythology, corresponding to at least three separate groups of worshippers.
Common mythology insists that the modern European tattoo was adopted as a variant of Polynesian custom.
The Io moth, named for a character in Greek mythology, has a very obvious black eyespot on each hindwing.
That may not be the most compelling reason to stop the war, but it should certainly temper her teary-eyed invocation of soldier mythology.
He seduces us easily with the mythology of their marriage, its collaborative fictional invention.
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Tolkien was more preoccupied with his invention of an artificial mythology than with character development.
In liberal mythology it's conservatives and reactionaries who take the simplistic view.
I had spent most of my life convinced that she was no different than the finicky gods of Greek and Roman mythology and other ancient mythologies.
I didn't know all planets and planetoids were officially supposed to be named after gods of mythology.
This is a subway stop that just doesn't figure in the mythology of New York.
This mythology of Appalachian mountaineers as feudists and moonshiners was fostered through local color literature and fiction about the region.
His articles on mythology, folklore, fantasy, and science fiction have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals.
Using the same evolutionist principles of cognateness and continuity, he attempted to reconstruct a common Ur-Germanic mythology.
The friar called them Amazons, after the fabled female warriors of Greek mythology, and the Amazon River was named for them.
He teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, along with courses in classical mythology and Greek literature and culture.
Gavin Turk, in particular, among contemporary artists, delights in parodying some of this mythology about painters and their suppers.
In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing monster that combined the parts of a goat, a lion and a serpent.
With its mix of traditionalism, inventiveness, and healthy respect for the mythology, this is a Superman for all seasons.
This is the truth missing from mythology, the truth that subverts the violent system of this world.
Crowned with the ruins of a Bronze Age hill fort and a mobile-phone mast, The Wrekin is the subject of much local mythology.
In Greek mythology, Chaos is the goddess of emptiness and confusion who gave birth to the Universe.
The season debuts with Usha Gupta's new piece, Asht Nayika, based on eight female heroines of Indian mythology.
Indeed, the extent to which the campfire story meets the spirit of the heroic tale of mythology is nothing short of amazing.
In keeping with the theme of the game, many are drawn from mythology, such as harpies, Minotaurs, skeletal centaurs, satyrs et al.
The Twelve Olympians, in Greek mythology, were the principal gods of the Greek pantheon, residing atop Mount Olympus.
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According to mythology, the first sign of life Prometheus's artificial man gave was by sternutation.
The hall has highly polished, lathe-turned stone pillars, with capitals supporting brackets intricately carved with figures from Hindu mythology.
No theory can be taken as forever canonic and the case of Greek mythology is long overdue for a new paradigm.
This peculiar state of affairs led to the suggestion of a cannibal mythology as a feature of Western cosmology.
Marrying above one's station has been the source of fairy tales, mythology, and Hollywood movies.
Its roots are in the heavens and its branches permeate the cosmos, paralleled in occidental mythology by the Norse Yggdrasill.
From what I've always been told these names come from Norse, Greek, and Egyptian mythology.
The need for expression and the right to an individual voice link these two plays, each rooted in Greek mythology.
Their vision, imagination, intuition, dream mythology and capacity to play, are all fully formed.
The artist has remained non-emotional since the beginning in describing this mythology.
Latin and Greek were long coupled together, because of the contiguous history, mythology and culture from which they descended.
From the Vaishnavas come the legends and mythology of Krishna, to whom are ascribed the popular Ras and Garba folk dances.
A body of thought and mythology developed by reactionary German nationalists in the nineteenth century.
I'd never been to Beverly Hills before, and the boulevards and streets had names that were mythology to me.
According to Greek mythology, the God of Eros supposedly would strike a person in the eyes and make them smitten with their beloved.
This extraordinary and unique piece is the first in a series of new work focusing on mythology.
I think this same analogy applies very accurately not only to the study of mythology, but to a variety of other fields of thought.
His articles on folklore, art, mythology and short stories for children have been widely published.
He devoted much attention to comparative mythology and the comparative study of religions.
Under his influence her interest in Irish folklore revived, and she began to study Irish mythology, taking her research into the field.
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For the past eight years, she has been teaching comparative mythology, a subject in which she has earned a doctorate.
The walkers will enjoy their trek through landscapes filled with history, archaeology and mythology.
Baird who has studied mythology since she was a child equips every card with a musing short story on its back cover.
History and mythology have a symbiotic relationship and they reinforce each other to a large extent.
I'm not a specialist in ancient mythology but like most lovers of history I enjoy seeing the vast and great tales of the past brought to life.
These stories reflect the children's ideas and interests and influences range from ancient mythology to television.
In general, he offers no support for the plausibility of his theory beyond an ingenious argument from comparative mythology.
They study mythology, gardening, cooking, foreign languages, history, botany and physics.
Schools replaced mythology and history with the more amorphous social studies.
In the intervening time Rothko stopped painting, devoting himself instead to the study of philosophy and mythology.
The popular mythology that the most crowded countries cremate the most is not born out by the facts.
It was, popular mythology tells us, one of the contributing factors to the American Revolution, and it might just lead to a revolution here.
Others will assign stories based on them and the false mythology will continue.
Next week, another bit of popular mythology comes under our close examination.
British trade union mythology is full of wonderfully stirring stories of doughty workers banding together to take on the government.
There is one other consideration that has led me to expose anti-nuclear mythology.
Contrary to today's popular mythology about our past, slavery and exploitation were not taboo subjects then.
In the popular liberal mythology, the ad disgustingly questioned Cleland's patriotism.
Contrary to popular mythology, not every graduate of the Air Force Academy has a chance to become chief of staff of the Air Force.
Thanks, Betty, for your stunning and original contribution to American popular mythology.
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A beach, in the popular mythology, was a place of dissolution and wreckage and danger, a place only for the desperate and the scavanging poor.
They provided indispensable services and became the subject of popular folklore and mythology.
The history of ancient Greece and Greek mythology that I studied in high school and college all came alive for me on this trip.
Pilgrims are treated to plays enacted from stories of Hindu mythology, featuring the well known adventures of gods and heroes.
Such views stem from the fact that some famous characters from Ancient Greek mythology have their origins in Thrace.
These books are the primary source for our knowledge of the most ancient Indian mythology, forming the basis for the development of Hinduism.
In ancient Greek mythology, images of snakes are generally evil and scary, like the Hydra, a large snake with nine heads.
The world they frequent is loosely based on Greek mythology, with gods, demigods, and mythic creatures in abundance.
There are ancient myths of creation and heroes that resemble those in Chinese mythology.
In ancient Greek mythology, Muses were goddesses of science and art who inspired creative endeavors.
The scorpion holds an infamous place in Greek mythology as the slayer of Orion.
This variation in the supposed identity of principal characters is typical of mythology.
How great a comedian he was remains a moot point, inevitably subjective, and increasingly difficult to separate from the mythology.
The piece is layered with narrative, some implied, others drawing from Tsonga mythology central to his discourse.
According to Norse mythology, the triskelion was a symbol of the movement of the sun through the heavens.
In Greek mythology, Poseidon wielded his mighty trident to rule over all the world's water.
Although popular mythology credits Alexander Fleming, it was Florey and his team who gave the world the miracle drug, penicillin.
In mythology, the treacherousness of water is personified as alluring and irresistible women without souls who lure unwary men to a watery death.
As an aficionado of Mercury is its Neptunian guise, she enjoys exploring mythology and symbol as well as various meditations.
Most of the miniatures deal with the epics and highlight religious mythology and common folklore.
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It is intended to publish a series of similar novels based on Irish history and mythology.
In Greek mythology, he had been torn apart by Titans but was always regenerated, like the vines in spring.
He portrayed visions of animal menageries, fairies, and devils, derived from fables and mythology.
Misconceptions about such things as the moon's effect on tides have contributed to lunar mythology.
His range has expanded into tackling corners of history and mythology through long narrative stanzas and monologues.
They have been studied extensively and figure prominently in human culture and mythology.
Feed them a complete and self-consistent background mythology to make the big lie sound plausible when it comes.
Despite the mythology, sedulously disseminated by the complicit Scottish media, there never was a pro-devolution consensus.
The mythology and folklore of the Kutenai consist chiefly of cosmic and ethnic myths, animal tales, etc.
In his mythology, those who use the Ring will become disembodied wraiths, but will still have physical as well as spiritual powers.
The legendary ash tree of Scandinavia, Yggdrasil, forms the basis of Norse mythology.
This outcrop must remind him of his present surroundings, a place redolent of mythology and ancient magic, I suggest.
He read widely and drew inspiration from everywhere, freely adapting ideas he liked into his personal mythology.
This applies not only in the field of linguistics but in law and social custom, in mythology, in folk custom and in traditional musical form.
I admit it, I'm always a sucker for these tongue-in-cheek uses of Indian mythology for product advertising.
They presented a guide to the movement of the planets, the phases of the Moon and even the mythology of some famous constellations.
There was little in Georgian or Abkhaz national mythology to explain the depth of hatred that arose during the conflict there.
Actually, mythology was only set up by ancient sages to help explain the very complicated Hindu philosophy in an unphilosophical way.
Through mythology, one is able to violate the taboos of society without the guilt.
A mythology of looming threats has created an insatiable appetite for security, which then has to be assuaged through totemic gestures.
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Rich in mythology and character development, and tantalizingly complex, Lost is not something to be watched passively.
There is a popular mythology that he discovered the cause of the disease by himself.
In Greek mythology, Icarus was a young lad being held in prison with his father by an evil King.
This book is a collaboration focused on Thessalian mythology.
Jenkins manages to humanize Manning while simultaneously explaining and elevating his mythology.
There is an appealing mythology surrounding the coureurs de bois, according to which they enjoyed great freedom and flourished in a harsh wilderness.
In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory.
It is this kind of abstraction that leads to more mythology, more heroic narratives, more undertones of patriotic martyrdom.
Both the Big and Little Dippers are inextricably linked in mythology.
Likely, it has to do with history of genealogy or mythology or all of the above.
Children are being turned off chemistry and physics by the mad professors and pointy-headed boffins of popular mythology, according to a new study of attitudes to science.
The film plays pretty fast and loose with the Atlantean mythology.
Serb religious mythology, then, was robust both in the interweaving of its literary themes and in the interrelated and thorough ideology of sacral architecture.
Hinduism developed from the Vedic tradition in India and Zoroastrianism out of the early Aryan religion and mythology expressed eventually in the Avesta in Iran.
She was able to incorporate elements of pop culture, Indian, Aztec mythology, surrealism, a whole variety of things in which many people can identify.
This era, artistically speaking, harped on Greco-Roman mythology, with masculinity steeped in classical heroism.
She speaks to Doug Stanton about her love of very fast cars, mythology, and the Bulgarian bagpipes.
In writing my debut novel, The Home Place, I had to bust some Western mythology to tell the truth.
The lyrics mixed Joycean wordplay with private teen mythology.
But from the land of endless sheep and dwindling bird life a new imagery has arrived, a modern mythology placed there with the help of Hollywood, or should I say, Wellywood.
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They in turn are associated with a mythology of liberation from oppression, an age of reason and democracy, the French Revolution and the start of the Enlightenment.
And this is how he explains that the mythology surrounding General Custer is largely false.
Does that increasing skill set make up for the diminishment of a rags-to-riches mythology?
Issues of race, gender, freedom, desire, language, mythology, sexuality, semiotics, signs, slavery, psychology, and power persisted in his fictions.
His execution in 1725 was to ensure his place in popular mythology.
In Norse mythology, Loki is a shape-shifting god who enjoys the occasional turn as a woman.
Greek mythology as we have it developed during the Greek Dark Ages, between the fall of the Minoan civilisation and the rise of classical Hellenism.
I really rejoiced in the absurdity of the story, of the mythology, the mythological structure in its absurdity.
Rafael painted dirty episodes from classical mythology in a bathroom at the Vatican Palace.
Ten years before I was born, following the birth of the twins, she was very very ill, and as the family mythology goes the doctors told her not to have any more children.
But it is not the reality of history, it is the mythology that is being promoted under Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In Norse mythology, Valhalla represents the majestic palace where dead heroes consort with Valkyries and the Gods.
They're figures of Greek mythology, three goddesses who control the destinies of man, likened to skeins of thread that they spin, measure out and finally cut.
A common culture, calendar, and mythology held the civilisation together and astronomy played an important part in the religion which underlay the whole life of the people.
This type of reality is in fact undistinguishable from a verbal mythology, of network of signs underpinned by commonly shared ideas about verisimilitude.
According to Japanese mythology, the oarfish is a messenger from the dragon god of the sea.
We can see its beginnings in Greek mythology with the story of Prometheus.
After breakfast he strolls through deserted lanes before retiring to his drawing room to read about archaeology, Greek mythology, and biographies.
In popular mythology, kids used to run away from home to do just that.
According to popular mythology, Mexicans don't do breakfast.
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He had studied his mythology and knew how to construct an argument.
The student of mythology may find some of this story interesting.
It drew upon history, mythology and living memory of the Second World War.
We hedonists have a mythology of our own, symbolized by a mythopoetic demi-god who loves a good drink and frowns on those who would keep him from it.
Thus, the nagas, who in Buddhist mythology protected Buddha before his enlightenment by shooting down lightning bolts aimed at him, guard the sacred temple.
In Egyptian mythology, Osiris, the god of the underworld, is praised for introducing beer to humans.
By that time I had begun to preserve the unshorn and unclipped long hair but I could never believe in the mythology and doctrines of Sikhism or, any other religion.
Long before she set out for the Ganga, Katrin Simon knew that to steer a course down the great river would be to navigate, not only a geography, but also a mythology.
Conquering the great monster with patience, courage, skill and intellect hearkens back to their ancient mythology, providing a link to the past and a way for the future.
However, cartoons and comic strips have been straitjacketed into either mythology, fables or other books brought out only for popular consumption.
Other etchings are derived from ancient mythology, or obscure incidents such as the discovering of the bodies of S. Peter and S. Paul in the Roman catacombs.
The novel sets out to over-write the bawdy, lusty Chaucerian England of popular mythology with a landscape that is sinister, threatening, and politically unstable.
So we were a literate people, therefore most of our mythology has been codified and has been written down, either in Cherokee or in Cherokee and then translated to English.
Some tattoos are of course more obvious in their meaning, but a good number of others draw on mythology, pagan runes, organizational logos and acronyms.
She notes that in Greek mythology, that third was known as a chimera.
He was inspired by her beauty and German heritage to create several designs for the mirror panels with images derived from Germanic folk art and mythology.
It is a philosophy informed by alchemy, hermetica, kabbalah, mythology, gnosticism, taoism, the yoga sutras, I-ching, and many other world systems.
In this way, Beatrice serves as Achebe's device to look back at his own earlier novels, as well as the narrativization of Igbo mythology undertaken in those earlier novels.
Rather than developing a complex but coherent mythology that expounds upon specific ideas, Tarantino has simply created a collage of exploitation cinema.
It is insistently masculinist, extending to nationalist war mythology.
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This view had since congealed into an irrefutable mythology.
But the time is long past for such absurd mythology, which has provided a perennial alibi for those who connived in the destruction of the mining industry.
Chinese mythology holds that disasters always strike in intercalary Augusts and Cheng was aware of the power of this superstition when he wrote his book.
In art and literature, in folk tales and mythology, the mother, as the personification of love and compassion, has been glorified and put up on a pedestal.
Even the original Vulcan, as connoisseurs of Roman mythology will remember, was a clumsy bore, which is one reason his wife Venus cuckolded him with the more mobile Mars.
In Hegel's day, the abundant evidence of cynanthropy and lycanthopy in folk-lore and mythology was usually treated as subject-matter for the pathologist.
He cared deeply about Greek and Latin history and mythology and possessed a comprehensive knowledge of the prose, poetry and prosody of the eighteenth century.
It is from the North, and Norse mythology that demonology develops.
Maybe it's the juxtaposition of gobby punk attitude alongside such a slavishly swotty excavation of rock'n'roll mythology that attracted attention.
The Puranas are encyclopaedias of Vedic mythology and spirituality.
I suspect few readers of these elegies will come sufficiently prepared in Greek mythology and Roman legend not to make heavy use of Mr. Katz's 31 pages of notes.
In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
The Heroes of Olympus, by Rick Riordan, is based entirely off of Greek mythology and includes many aspects and characters from the Odyssey.
Critical studies have been clouded by Thomas's personality and mythology, especially his drunken persona and death in New York.
In addition to using Welsh history and settings, Powys also uses the mythology of The Mabinogion.
In September 2016 Neil Gaiman announced that he had for some years been working on a book of retellings of Norse mythology.
Some of these encounters were based on episodes from Roman or Greek mythology.
India has a long tradition of fantastical stories and characters, dating back to Vedic mythology.
Irish mythology identifies the Great Cairn as being the tomb or abode of mythical figures, and an entrance to the Otherworld.
The fourth style, which began in the 1st century AD, depicted scenes from mythology, while retaining architectural details and abstract patterns.
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The hadal zone is the name given to the deepest depths of the ocean, named after hades as the underworld god of Greek mythology.
In mythology, which beast was half lion, half eagle and is sometimes shown with a serpent's tail?
The Irish have their own customs, language, music, dance, sports, cuisine, and mythology.
In Greek mythology the stars represent Pleione and her daughters with Atlas.
An alternative theory is that Blake is referring to a mystical concept within his own mythology related to the ancient history of England.
In 1999, entomologist Lauri Kaila described 48 new species of Elachista moths and named 37 of them after Tolkien mythology.
Lost Tales represented Tolkien's attempt to create a mythology for England, a project he would abandon without ever completing.
He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty about our old Irish mythology.
Unlike in Greek mythology, the gods were not personified, but were vaguely defined sacred spirits called numina.
From boyhood, Lewis had immersed himself in Norse and Greek mythology, and later in Irish mythology and literature.
Blake designed his own mythology, which appears largely in his prophetic books.
During the Hellenistic period, mythology took on the prestige of elite knowledge that marks its possessors as belonging to a certain class.
In Ancient Roman times, a new Roman mythology was born through syncretization of numerous Greek and other foreign gods.
The traditional literary mythology was increasingly dissociated from actual religious practice.
In reality, these poems were probably composed by several different poets, and contain a rich set of clues about prehistoric European mythology.
In Germany, by about 1795, there was a growing interest in Homer and Greek mythology.
In Northern Europe, Greek mythology never took the same hold of the visual arts, but its effect was very obvious on literature.
By the end of the 18th century, Romanticism initiated a surge of enthusiasm for all things Greek, including Greek mythology.
Scholars have seen strong influences from Near Eastern mythology and literature in the Odyssey.
According to Mandaeans mythology, one of the fallen lights, which created the known world, called Ruha Qadishta resembles a personified evil.
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Hindu mythology also tells about an Avatar of the God Vishnu in the form of a fish who warned Manu of a terrible flood.
The environment in which the Inuit lived inspired a mythology filled with adventure tales of whale and walrus hunts.
Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or traditional knowledge, such as storytelling, mythology, music and dancing remain important parts of the culture.
Canaanite religious mythology does not appear as elaborated compared with existent literature of their cousin Semites in Mesopotamia.
The legend of a sunken kingdom appears in both Cornish and Breton mythology.
Mammals have been depicted in art since Palaeolithic times, and appear in literature, film, mythology, and religion.
Mammals further play a wide variety of roles in literature, film, mythology, and religion.
The Titan in the Greek mythology of Prometheus parallels Victor Frankenstein.
The name of the Suebi also appears in Norse mythology and in early Scandinavian sources.
This theory became prevalent in the 19th century, and formed an integral part of the mythology of German nationalism.
This notion became especially prevalent in the 19th century, when it formed an integral part of the mythology of German nationalism.
Irish mythology has a number of female druids as well, often sharing similar prominent cultural and religious roles with their male counterparts.
In Komi mythology, the Northern Chudes represent the mythic ancestors of the Komi people.
Some of those contain allusions to Norse mythology and even short poems in alliterative verse.
Robert Graves used Frazer's work in The Greek Myths and made it one of the foundations of his own personal mythology in The White Goddess.
Another of the most important source mythologies for comparative research is Roman mythology.
They appear in English mythology as the Wyrdes, who were later adapted to become the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Hephaestus, the Greek god of blacksmiths, and Wayland the Smith, a nefarious blacksmith from Germanic mythology, are both described as lame.
In Hittite mythology, in which the storm god Tarhunt slays the giant serpent Illuyanka.
In Zoroastrianism and Persian mythology, Fereydun, and later Garshasp, slays Zahhak.
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Romulus and Remus are twin brothers from Roman mythology who both have stories in which they are killed.
In Celtic mythology, a well belonging to the god Nechtain is said to blind all those who gaze into it.
In Norse mythology, the world ash tree Yggdrasil is tended by the three Norns while the dragon Nidhogg gnaws at its roots.
At this time, enough knowledge of Norse mythology remained to be preserved in sources such as the Eddas in Iceland.
Numerous Old Norse works dated to the 13th century record Norse mythology, a component of North Germanic religion.
Norse mythology, stories of the Norse deities, is preserved in Eddic poetry and in Snorri Sturluson's guide for skalds, the Poetic Edda.
Interest in Norse mythology was revived in the eighteenth century, and scholars turned their attention to it in the early nineteenth century.
The books are the main sources of medieval skaldic tradition in Iceland and Norse mythology.
Along with the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most expansive source on Norse mythology.
The German composer Richard Wagner is said to have strong influences of the Nordic mythology in his musical pieces.
Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples.
Both ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian mythology suggest the usage of incense by goddesses and nymphs.
According to Hindu mythology, a land bridge existed between the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka.
Philippine mythology has been handed down primarily through the traditional oral folk literature of the Filipino people.
Kalighat painting originated in 19th century Kolkata as a local style that reflected a variety of themes including mythology and quotidian life.
In some Puranic mythology, each kalpa consists of fourteen Manvantaras, and each Manvantara is headed by a different Manu.
The current universe, in this mythology, is asserted to be ruled by the 7th Manu named Vaivasvata.
Jain mythology mentions the 14th patriarch named Nabhiraja, mentioning him also as Manu.
It also allowed the king to dismiss many of his opponents who adhered to the old mythology.
Hellhounds are also famous for appearing in Northern European mythology and folklore as a part of the Wild Hunt.
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In Greek mythology the hellhound Cerberus belonged to Hades, the Greek god of the underworld.
In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal.
Greek mythology culminates in the Trojan War, fought between Greece and Troy, and its aftermath.
The gods of Greek mythology are described as having essentially corporeal but ideal bodies.
Thus Greek mythology unfolds as a phase in the development of the world and of humans.
For example, Zeus Greek mythology is dominated by Kronos Marduk in Babylon mythology.
Eventually, these vague spirits assumed human forms and entered the local mythology as gods.
Nearly extinct in the wild, the Chinese alligator has for centuries had a prominent place in Chinese culture and mythology.
In Buddhist mythology, Gautama Buddha was assailed by the demon Mara when meditating under the sacred Bo tree.
Divided into five sections, tropes of extended metaphor, allusions to mythology, and internal rhyme thread the individual parts into one work.
In Greek mythology, the species became associated with numerous gods.
He was deeply affected by Irish faerie mythology, which he knew from his home at Kilcolman and possibly from his Irish wife Elizabeth Boyle.
In Babylonian mythology, Inanna had to pass seven gates to find Tammuz so that he could play the magical flute.
The Yayoi are believed to be of Tungid stock and it is possible that northern mythology percolated to them in the regions of their origin.
The elves of Norse mythology have survived into folklore mainly as females, living in hills and mounds of stones.
The tokoloshe in African mythology is a humanoid creature about 1 m tall, with a large head, big eyes and a slender torso.
They promoted the use of Norse mythology as the subject of high art and other ethnological and moral aims.
Known in Greek mythology as the herb of hospitality, one of mint's first known uses in Europe was as a room deodorizer.
Atalanta, also of Greek mythology, raced all her suitors in an attempt to avoid marriage.
Scholars of Old Norse mythology now focus on references to elves in Old Norse poetry, particularly the Elder Edda.

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