Giant (mythology) - Giant (mythology) Giants are humanoid creatures of prodigious size and strength, a type of legendary monster that appear in the tales of many different races and cultures. They are often stupid or violent and are frequently said to eat humans, especially children; others, like Oscar Wilde's giants, are intelligent and friendly. The Cyclopes of Homer's Odyssey were giants, as was Goliath who strove with King David in the Bible. The Bible also records a race of giants whose name is now usually translated "Nephilim;" these are the giants meant when the book Genesis observes that "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bore children to them,.
Kwakiutl mythology - Kwakiutl mythology The Kwakiutl are a tribe of Native Americans in the northwestern United States. Tsonoqwa (Tsonokwa) is a type of cannibal giant called Geekumhl and comes in both male and female forms. The female for is the most common; she eats children and cries "hu-hu!" to attract them, as well as offering candy and treasure. Children frequently outwit her and take her treasures without being eaten. The female form is also a Kewkwaxa'we is the raven spirit, who brought the Kawkiutl people the moon, fire, salmon, the sun and the tides. Of particular importance in Kwakiutl culture is the secret society called Hamatsa. During the winter, there is a four-day, complex dance that serves to iniate new members of Hamatsa. Some of the dancers represent various.
Iroquois mythology - Iroquois mythology The Iroquois are a tribe of Native America. The Iroquois are a confederation of variously 5 or 6 tribes. Hahgwehdiyu is the creator god; he planted a single maize plan in his mother's (Atahensic) body. This single plant grew and was a gift to mankind. Atahensic (also known as Ataensic) was a sky goddess who fell to Earth during the creation. She died in childbirth and was a goddess of fertility, pregnancy and feminine skills. Hahgwehdiyu has an evil twin brother named Hahgwehdaetgan. Gaol is the wind god. Gohone is the personification of the winter. Adekagagwaa is the personification of the summer. Onatha is a fertility god and patron of farmers, particularly farmers of wheat. Yosheka is another creator god. A giant named Tarhuhyiawahku held.
Gaia (mythology) - Gaia (mythology) Gaia ("land" or "earth", also spelled Ge or Gaea) in Greek mythology embodies the fertility of the Earth. Behind particular aspects of the three-fold goddess, stands the pre-Indo-European Great Mother, a nurturing goddess of death and birth, who was venerated from Neolithic times in the ancient Near East and the Aegean cultural sphere, as far as Malta and the Etruscan lands. Some anthropologists and members of certain religions believe the same divine spirit appeared under many names. These names are said to include Demeter (Roman Ceres) the "mother", Persephone the "daughter" or Hecate the "crone." She could be identified as Rhea. In Anatolia (modern Turkey) she was Cybele. The Greeks never forgot that her ancient home was Crete, where she had always been worshipped as.
Giant Salamander - Giant Salamander Giant Salamanders Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Lissamphibia Order: Caudata Family: Cryptobranchidae Genera Andrias Cryptobranchus The Giant Salamanders (Cryptobranchidae) are aquatic amphibians found in brooks and ponds in Japan, China and with a similar specimen in the United States. The Japanese Giant Salamander reaches 3 feet and feeds on fish and crustaceans. During mating season, these salamanders will travel upstream where, after the fertilization of the eggs, the male will guard them for at least 6 months. At this point, the offspring will live off their noticeable stored fat until ready to hunt. The giant salamander has been given a place in mythology. In one particular Asian myth, the salamander, although resembling a typical specimen, it makes its home in fires; the.
Thunderbird (mythology) - Thunderbird (mythology) For other uses of Thunderbird or Thunderbirds see Thunderbird The Thunderbird is a mythical creature common to Native American religion. Its name comes from that supposition that the beating of its enormous wings causes thunder and stirs the wind. The Lakota name for the Thunderbird is "Wakinyan", a word formed from "kinyan", meaning "winged", and "wakan", "sacred". The Kwakiutl called him "Hohoq," and the Nootka called him "Kw-Uhnx-Wa." It is described as being two canoe-lengths from wingtip to wingtip, and it creates storms as it flies- clouds are pulled together by its wingbeats, the sound of thunder is its wings clapping, sheet lightning is the light flashing from its eyes when it blinks, and individual lightning bolts are glowing snakes that it carries with it..
Chinese mythology - Chinese mythology Chinese mythology is the mythology of Chinese civilization. Many of the legends of Chinese mythology take place during the period of Sanhuangwudi. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Important mythologies and deities 2 Mythical creatures 3 Mythical places 4 See also: Important mythologies and deities 盘古开天辟地 Pangu cleaves open heaven and earth -- the traditional story of the Earth's creation in Chinese mythology. Three Pure Ones -- highest deities of Daoism. Jade Emperor -- ruler of Heaven and Earth. 女娲补天: Nüwa seals the broken sky using stones of seven different colours -- the patch becomes the rainbow. 女娲造人: Nüwa creates humanity -- the story has been retold through many Chinese cartoons. 仓颉造字: Cangjie creates the characterss 大禹治水: Great Yu regulates the courses of rivers (to control.
Titan (mythology) - Titan (mythology) Like the Giants, the Titans (Greek Tιταν, plural Tιτανες) are potencies belonging to an early pre-Olympian stage of Greek mythology. The Giants and the Titans tend to be confused with each other, but in origin they are distinct. The genealogy of the gods given in Hesiod's Theogony names twelve Titans as children of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the Earth: "afterwards she lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire." Oceanus Coeus Crius Hyperion Iapetus Theia Cronus Rhea Themis Mnemosyne Phoebe Tethys Dione (rarely, but occasionally, considered.
Tsimshian mythology - Tsimshian mythology The Tsmishian are a tribe of Native Americans located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and nearby areas. Tsmishian myth is known from orally-passed tales. An Adaox is a story concerning animal spirits in human guise and is usually linked to the origin of the Earth and the peoples on it. A Malesk, in contrast, is an adventure or history tale that purports to entertain rather than explain. The raven spirit is known as We-gyet or Txamsem. Txamsem is said to have a brother named Logobola who is responsible for the lack of fresh water as well as the existence of the frog into which Txamsem became lost. A woman named Sagapgia was taken from a canoe by sea-spirits who wanted to marry.
Romanian mythology - Romanian mythology A short description needed... Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Dacian mythology 1.1 Dacian and Thracian gods 1.2 Places/Concepts 2 Romanian Folklore 2.3 Personages 2.4 Myths 2.5 Places 2.6 Romanian myths part of international culture Dacian mythology Dacian and Thracian gods Zamolxis (Zalmoxe) - prophet, god - subterrenian Gebeleizis - ultimate god - heavenly Bendis - the goddess of moon, forests and magic Derzelas Kotys - mother goddess Heros - (Herous, Horus) the horseman god Vesta (Hestia) - god of flames and fireplace Places/Concepts Kogaion (holy mountain) Romanian Folklore Personages Balaur Baba Dochia Căpcăun Ileana Cosânzeana Fat-Frumos Luceafăr - possibly similar to Lucifer Muma Pădurii Somolonari Sânziana (or Drăgaică) Spiriduş Stafie - similar to Ghost Strigoi Uriaş - similar to Giant Ursitoare Vasilisc - similar to.
Pygmy mythology - Pygmy mythology In the African Pygmy mythology, the most important god of the Pygmy pantheon is Khonvoum (also Khonuum, Kmvoum, Chorum), a god of the hunt who wields a bow made from two snakes (it appears to humans as a rainbow). After sunset every day, Khonvoum gathers fragments of the stars and uses them to revitalize the sun for the next day. He occasionally contacts mortals through an elephant (named Gor) or a chameleon. Khonvoum created mankind from clay. Black people were made from black clay, white people came from white clay and the Pygmies themselves came from red clay. Arebati is a lunar deity and Sky Father. In some sources, he was said to have created humanity from clay, instead of Khonvoum. Tore is a god.
Orion (mythology) - Orion (mythology) In Greek mythology, Orion, one of the Titans was the archetype of the hunter. Orion ("mountain man" if the name is truly Greek) exists on three mythic planes. On the Neolithic level he is a shaman, the "master of the animals," an Aegean counterpart to Enkidu, the wild companion of Sumerian/Babylonian Gilgamesh. On the Minoan level, he has been dedicated to the Great Goddess of Crete. On the Classical level, he has become a threat to the reformed and Olympian Artemis and must be destroyed. His myth survives in fragmentary episodes and references, and its meanings were obscure to the patriarchal culture of classical Greece and need some explaining. Orion was born in Boeotia, the fertile heart of civilized Hellas, whose folk the Boeotian poet.
Zuni mythology - Zuni mythology The Zuni are a Pueblo people located in the southwest of the United States. Awonawilona is the creator god. He made the sun and ocean, which was covered with green algae that hardened, split and becae Awitelin Tsta and Apoyan Tachi. Apoyan Tachi and Awitelin Tsta are the sky father and earth mother and the parents of all life on Earth. Achiyalatopa is a monster with knives for feathers. Amitolane is a rainbow spirit. Yanauluha is a culture hero, who brought agriculture, medicine and all the customs of the Zuni people. Uhepono is a hairy giant that lived in the underworld; it has huge eyes and human limbs. Kokopelli is a god worshipped in many southwestern tribes. He was a humpbacked flautist. He was a.
Norse mythology - Norse mythology Norse mythology represents the early pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, also known as the religion of Ásatrú or Odinism. Most of this mythology was passed down orally, and much of it has been lost. Happily, some of it was captured and recorded by enlightened Christian scholars such as (particularly) Snorri Sturluson in the Eddas and Heimskringla, who rejected the idea that pre-Christian deities were devils. Similar mythologies were held by more southerly Germanic tribes. Exceptions to this shortfall in documented resources relating to the mythologies of early Germanic societies can be found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Beowulf sagas and the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus. Limited information exists in the Germania of Tacitus, but the Eddas remain our main source.
Vega - fifty times the power. Vega has a disk of dust and gas around it, discovered by the IRAS satellite in the mid 1980s. This either signifies planets or planets that may soon form. The protoplanetary disk is, as can be guessed from its name, believed to be a precursor to the formation of planets but it can persist long after planets have been formed if there are no gas giant planets such as Jupiter. In about 14,000 AD, Vega will take over from Polaris as the North Star, owing to the precession of the equinoxes. See Polaris for more information. Professional astronomers have used Vega for the calibration of absolute photometric brightness scales. When the magnitude scale was fixed, Vega happened to be close to zero magnitudes. Therefore the visual magnitude.
Kvasir - Kvasir In Norse mythology, Kvasir was created from the saliva of all the gods, making him the wisest of the Vanir. He was quickly murdered by Fjalar and Galar, two dwarven brothers, in their cavern. They mixed his blood and preserved it; the blood fermented into a magical mead that inspired poets. The giant Suttungr, enraged by Fjalar and Galarr's murder of his father Gillingr and his mother, took the dwarves out to sea, setting them on a reef which would be covered at high tide. The dwarves entreated Suttungr to spare them, offering him for reconciliation the precious mead they had obtained. Suttungr brought the mead to his home and concealed it in a place called Hnitbjorg, asking his daughter Gunnlod to guard it. Odin left his.
Jason & the Argonauts - Argonauts (1963) is a rousing fantasy adventure movie based upon the Greek mythology characters Jason and the Argonauts. Directed by Don Chaffee, with animation effects by Ray Harryhausen, this film is famous for its fantastic monsters including the harpies, the giant Talos, and the many-headed hydra that guards the Golden Fleece. For lovers of film music, this movie features a score composed by Bernard Herrmann, who is also notable for other fantasy films including Mysterious Island and The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad..
July 15 - Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space. 1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home. 2002 - So-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges. Births 1573 - Inigo Jones, architect 1606 - Rembrandt, artist (+ 1669) 1779 - Clement Moore, author, poet 1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist, author Bulfinch's Mythology (+ 1867) 1848 - Vilfredo Pareto, economist and sociologist (+ 1923) 1865 - Alfred Charles William Northcliffe, newspaper publisher (+ 1922) 1892 - Walter Benjamin, literary critic and writer (+ 1940) 1902 -.
Ikhthus - that Jesus and his apostles were "fishers of men." The constellation Pisces comprises a set of dim and scattered stars that trace the images of two widely separated fish joined by a knotted cord. One fish, swimming upward, faces east toward Aries, while the other fish swims westward toward Aquarius along the plane of the ecliptic. The directions of motion of the two fish form a cross, the symbol of the Christian religion -- the upright line of the cross representing spirit and the horizontal line signifying matter. Babylonian mythology tells of two fishes that pushed ashore a giant egg, from which emerged the fertility corn-goddess Atagratis and her lover-son Ichthys, who dies and is reborn annually. The myth of Ichthys and the sign Pisces later became connected with Christianity. Directly.
Irus - Irus In Greek mythology, Irus was one of the suitors of Penelope, a gigantic beggar that was killed by Odysseus with a giant club..
