What the Thunder Said
T. S. Eliot, Ancient Myth and a World Waiting for Rain
Myth and Mystery
A place where ancient myths and religions live in a new light. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." A. Einstein
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The Mythic Odyssey
The Odyssey Was Always Reinvented
Reanimating the Bones: New Wolf Folklore
La Loba sings the wolf into a new era of legends, myths, and rituals
The Vedic Tarot and Mythology
A Mythic Tarot by Dwina Murphy-Gibb
The Mystery of Bees from the Dead Bull
Can a Damaged World Be Restored?
Magnificent Humanities?
THE LOTUS-EATERS
Song of Stone
On the Hard Nature of the Human
Why Mythic Creatures are more Real than Creatures of Science?
The Captured Butterfly Is the One That Has Escaped
Heroes and Monsters: The Dark Side of Heroism
Usually, monsters and heroes are imagined to be complete opposites. One is the good and the glorious, the other evil, repulsive and ugly. The world may be full of monsters but heroes are there to protect us. This is the standard idea that pervades so many narratives from some ancient accounts to modern cinema.
The Paradox of an Atheist God
“My God, My God, Why Have You Abandoned Me?”
Monsters and the Cosmic Order
Ancient mythologies are full of monsters, strange creatures that provoke fear and amazement.