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The First DEFINITE Female Viking Warrior Grave Burial
FEMALE BURIED AS A VIKING WARRIOR CONFIRMED BY GENETIC STUDIESI do a Facebook Page called Ancient European Swords (feel free to like it; we ban Nazis on sight so although it would be harder to be more...
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Viking Funerals - The coolest way to exit or not?
A Viking Funeral!Reenactment of a male farmers grave by Andrimners Hemtagare. Far fewer indications of wealth and prestige although there are several tools which indicate woodworking skills.What could...
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CLASSIC POETRY: "Bavarian Gentians" By D.H. Lawrence
Not every man has Bavarian gentians in his houseIn soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas..Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only darkdarkening the day-time, torch-like with the smoking blueness of...
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Just For Fun: HOW VIKING ARE YOU? Take the quiz and find out!
I had promised Viking Boat Burials would be my next diary, but I’m breaking that promise in hopes of providing a break from the seemingly unrelenting bad news everywhere recently. I wish I could keep...
View ArticlePutting the "ME" in Prometheus...
When Mein Kampf was published in 1939, Adolf Hitler left no doubt about his world view and his “struggle”. His was a philosophy of grievance. The fatherland was being screwed and now it was getting...
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Viking Ship Burials: Truly An Awesome Way To Go
Standard DisclaimerDisclaimer the first: My chosen subjects are definitely Eurocentric. That’s where my passion and my heart lie: in Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe. However, I reject any notion of...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Conservative Mythology: A Reply to S.E. Cupp
On November 21, CNN published an op-ed by conservative journalist S.E. Cupp called “Why conservatives lost faith in mainstream media,”[1] in which she opines over how the mainstream media has become—in...
View ArticlePeace and Prosperity be Upon Us
Carl Jung, long before Joseph Campbell, spoke of the power of Myth. Think then, as these words river through the paths of your least resistance, of mythology as a psychological bed not a literary...
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Republicans Can Not Govern Honorably
Who was the last honorable Republican president? Was it Bush Sr? Eisenhower?We are well aware that the current occupant of the White House regularly partakes in receiving emoluments, attacking federal...
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The Daily Bucket--How Female Birds Ended Their Sexual Assaults, But it Took...
Long ago, when time had barely began and the old Goddesses ruled, the Three Fates determined the time on earth for all beings. “The Golden Thread,” by John Strudwick. Clotho “The Spinner” - Maiden -...
View ArticleAnt
I didn’t step on the ant.I didn’t think about it all that much, just moved my foot a couple of inches over from where I would have been walking. So, I didn’t kill the ant.Ants are strong, industrious...
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LGBTQ Literature: Ancient Ambiguities (Musings On Ovid’s Metamorphoses and...
LGBTQ Literature is a Readers and Book Lovers series dedicated to discussing literature that has made an impact on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. From fiction to...
View ArticleWE'D BETTER GET GOING. TIME'S A'WASTIN'
So here we are, 100 years later, and it's happening. Again. Or is that "still?"We didn't understand what happened last time the world decided to blow itself up -- and we aren't seeing it now. Depending...
View ArticleAMERICAN MYTHOLOGY - Marilyn Armstrong
Every nation revises history. They leave out the bad bits -- slaughters of the innocent, unjust wars against minorities and civilians. They invent heroes, turn defeats into victories.American history...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Short Fiction: The revenge of Gilgamesh
The gods were so sure that they had won. Gilgamesh, great king of Uruk, had tried to defy them, and he had been crushed. His lover was dead and remained so, and he himself had trudged back to his...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Table-of-Contents to Date + Upcoming, for Your Free-Reading...
The Revenge of Gilgameshby sagesource■ CLICK THIS LINK■Simplicity; or Sometimes the Death-Trap Does Not Workby quarkstomper■ CLICK THIS LINK■The Crazy and Ridiculous and Wonderful ‘ A Christmas Carol’...
View ArticleMythology
Most religious traditions incorporate myths,stories, and legends into their belief systems. Within any particular culture,the people often do not make a distinction between these three things, but many...
View ArticleCreation Stories
Religion, in many traditions, helps to explain the unknown, that which has not been personally experienced. One these unknowns is how everything began, how humans first came into existence: in other...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Short Fiction: Motorcycle, Apples, Cave, Tales, Trees.
Lil pulled off her helmet, unzipped her leathers, scrubbed her knuckles through her silver-flecked dark hair, and grinned at the little girl coming running to the paddock fence. “Hiya, kid.” “Hiya,...
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Street Prophets: Some storytelling
<big> Street Prophets Coffee Hour is an Open Thread. Bring your favorite cuppa, and hang with us a while. What’s on your mind today? And feel welcome to put your community links in comments....
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⏹️⏹️ Original Fiction, Poetry & Memoir For Fun & Progress: Now...
<big>Now playing!!!Dark Redemption, an urban fantasy novel by writer/artist quarkstomper, chapters running Wednesdays mid-evening on all coasts and in-lands for the foreseeable future, if there...
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⏹️⏹️OFPMFP: Dark Redemption - Index & Cast of Characters
Night falls over the City of Redemption. Beneath the gleaming skyscrapers and picturesque facade of the City of Redemption lies another city; a community of dark and ancient magic populated by...
View ArticleIn Times of Crisis, People Fail to Understand the Importance of Artists
I just read this article:www.latimes.com/…regarding the struggles in the art community during this pandemic & it has motivated me to remind folks just how important the role of artist is to...
View ArticleTrump 'Humility'& 'The Chosen One' Narrative
By Ray CunneffJune 25, 2020While our minds are regularly boggled by the level of devotion and adoration accorded Donald Trump by his hardcore supplicants, sycophants and enablers, we only rarely get a...
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Hippie Life Skills 101: Crafting a Tree of Life Wall Ornament
(The weather here has been crappy and rainy all week, so I’ve been cooped up inside.)In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, was the source of everything, stretching through all of the Nine...
View ArticleInaccuracy in Genesis: why I mean never to visit the Creation Museum
Ever since I can remember, my fascination has been with the study of the social foundations of human intellectual life: namely, in antiquity, mythology, and the classical legends. Having completed...
View ArticleAbout religious (in)tolerance in modern India…
Western news media take only a token notice of Indian politics; but it would require a great ignorance not to notice an India torn into factions by the rabble-rousing of a nationalist party (mostly...
View ArticleOur National Spirit ... at the moment!
Would it seem contrived and unbelievable to you if I suggested that the United States has its own angel? Its own demon? Would it be significant or silly to suppose that as a nation we are attended by...
View ArticleReligion 102: Some pre-Christian Irish deities
Humans first began to settle in Ireland about 10,000 years ago. These Mesolithic hunters and gatherers brought with them animistic religious beliefs and practices. With the transition to a lifestyle...
View ArticleWoke as a definition of the inevitable: the alternative is simply intolerable...
Staying Woke They are really good at it. ”Woke”, a good term, has been given a whole other meaning by those who would rebrand it in an attempt to cover up centuries of injustice are not even. Many use...
View ArticleMeet the ancestors (sort of...)
Meet the Ancestors (sort of)…So to return to the question I asked at the beginning, and never answered, who or what was the first vampire? I didn’t answer because it’s pretty hard to say. Where does...
View ArticleWatching Sens. Hawley and Collin distance themselves from Ronald Reagan is...
One can mark the steep decline our country has been on with the advent of Ronald Reagan’s Morning in America presidency. But, like everything with the GOP, the myth-making around how great a president...
View ArticleElizabeth Koch and Roman Myth
This, obviously, is an artistic rendering of Medusa. I pulled it off of Creativecommon.org, an organization that makes certain images legal to feature. Apologies. Had I my druthers, the image I...
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Occult & Psychical Sciences on DK: Night Fall (poetry, personal & a...
Halloween--properly All Hallows Eve--is,like Christmas Eve, really just prologue. The daylight weakens, here in the northern hemisphere, for seven more long weeks. More hours of night, more time for...
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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Good Hare Day
Since it is now the Year of the Rabbit, let’s have a few bun-buns as our guests tonight.Rabbits or hares? Lepus species are typically precocial, born relatively mature and mobile with hair and good...
View ArticleNew report says there's another lie on top of George Santos' lie about his...
The list of lies told by newly sworn-in Rep. George Santos (aka Anthony Devolder) continues to grow. Every new revelation seems to expose the newest shining star of the Republican Party as somehow more...
View ArticleWatch anti-vaxxers get relentlessly mocked in #ThanksPfizer viral posts
The line between comedy and tragedy is paper-thin. One might argue it only exists in the eye of the beholder and, like a prism held to the light, depending on the time and place and angle with which...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: Trans Characters in Myth and Story
Last year I made up a short list of characters in myth and fiction who changed sex, and shared it online in support of the trans community. Now I have gone looking much more seriously for ammo against...
View ArticleThe demon-deity Maga and its relation to Donald Trump
In the article “The demon-deity Maga: geographical variations and chronological transformation in ancient Egyptian demonology,” John Rogers noted that, in these archaeological texts, the reciter uses...
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The Morrigan's Peace Prophecy.
Most people with at least a passing acquaintance with the Morrigan know her as a fearsome goddess of war. And so she is. But she is very much more; among her many attributes she is a goddess of...
View ArticleRepublican Virginia Foxx whines about lazy workers during hearing on overtime...
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce convened Wednesday to discuss the Biden administration’s proposed labor rule, which would reportedly make 3.6 million more Americans eligible for...
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Museum Pieces: The Canaanite God Baal
The Canaanite fertility god Baal is best-known in the West as a rival to the biblical god Yahweh."Museum Pieces" is a diary series that explores the history behind some of the most interesting museum...
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IAN: Trickster Gods
These videos are kind of cheesy, and aimed at people much younger than me. However, I think they’re fun, informative introductions to their various myths.Enjoy!Nahua (Aztec) Mythology and the Origins...
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IAN: Some Creation Myths
I stumbled on this YouTube channel, and found the videos both goofily charming and informative, at least as introductions to their subjects. Hope you’ll like them too. Aztec Creation MythThe story of...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 4/24/24: Beware of Gifts
Welcome, kibitzers, to the middle of the palindromic week.Today was supposedly the day the Trojan Horse was left by the Greeks as a “peace offering. Dunno how they could figure out the day when they...
View ArticleMarjorie Taylor Greene says Donald Trump is just like Jesus
Over the weekend, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was stumping for Donald Trump in Las Vegas, Nevada, when she compared the convicted felon to Jesus. "The Democrats and the fake news media want to...
View ArticleRNC speakers insist life was better 4 years ago. It wasn’t
The Republican National Convention was dedicated to make-believe. Tall tales about how magical and wondrous things were four years ago when Donald Trump was president ruled the entire slate of...
View ArticleThe Bible According to Mark Twain and a Tribute to his Humanity
Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, is often referred to as “the father of American literature.”He died in 1910 with many of his writings not yet published. These include numerous essays, stories, diaries,...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Book of the Christian Apocalypse - The Late Great Planet Earth
Religions have fads. Ideas go in and out of style like men’s ties go from wide to thin and then back to wide again. The rise of interest in millennial or “end of the world” prophesies are one example...
View ArticleA super problem
I came across the book again recently. And when I glanced at the cover, I felt my knees go weak. There, from 1977, was a description of the US in 2016 and later. No, not prophecy. Worse. It was a...
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