Growing up with no father was not easy, especially when he had left your mother with the idea that you would grow up to be a great warrior. This would leave her with extremely high expectations of you. She, herself, would run off to live with—and even marry—another king. This after your father had died …
I was alone—so very alone. Cast out of Olympus, feared by both gods and men, would I ever find a place where I could find peace or even a person who would dare to speak my name let alone stand beside me? My life was so encumbered with work and sorrow that I knew no …
Konnichiwa! I know it’s been a while since I last wrote, I finally took this weekend off and finished the digging I was doing into Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto also known as Tsukuyomi. There’s a lot to this deity and I have to admit, despite being very brief in the mythology of Shinto and Japanese mythology, Tsukuyomi is …
Brahma, the Hindu creator god—a god of antiquity. Like the creator god of Egyptian mythology, Brahma was born from a golden egg and, like Ra, he created the earth and all things in it. The three main gods/goddesses found in Hindu mythology are Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma with Brahma being the main creator god. Some …
We all love a good story and what story could be better than that of Bellerophon? Bellerophon has been considered one of the great heroes of Greek mythology and that distinction is well earned. Like Hercules, Bellerophon also found himself completing a set of nearly impossible and deadly tasks—the quests of Bellerophon. Bellerophon was born …
In the very beginning before there was anything, there was a great darkness and in this darkness was a vast watery wasteland in which existed no life. This wasteland was called “Nun” and it was out of Nun that there arose a great, shining egg who would come to be known as Re (Ra). He …
Daughter of the god Zeus and the Titaness Leto as well as twin sister to the god Apollo, Artemis is the goddess of the hunt, vegetation, chastity and childbirth. She is also well-known as the goddess of the moon and the hunt. This fair, young goddess was born in secret against the will of Zeus’ …
Today, I thought, why not look at a myth or legend as opposed to a deity? We’ve already covered two deities, why not change things up a bit? So, today’s story is on Aeneas, a Trojan warrior, the son of a prince of Troy and the goddess Aphrodite. So, let’s look at Aeneas, the Trojan. …
There are many interpretations of the god Cernunnos. He has even been cast as the very devil himself, but how true is this? How much do we really know about the Horned God? Well, truth be told, what I did gleam was very thin. It seems there is very little known about this mysterious god. …
The goddess Kali has many forms. She is worshipped for many varying reasons, but mostly she is known as the goddess of time, death and doomsday. She is also referred to as the “black goddess”. Kali in Sanskrit means “She Who is Black” or “She Who is Death”, so it isn’t really surprising to find …