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2025-05-19 11:51:54 UTC

A nithing pole (Old Norse: níðstang), sometimes normalized as nithstang or nidstang, was a pole used for cursing an enemy in Germanic pagan tradition (nīþ, nith).
A nithing pole consisted of a long, wooden pole with a recently cut horse head at the end, and at times with the skin of the horse laid over the pole. The nithing pole was directed towards the enemy and target of the curse. The curse could be carved in runes on the pole.
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2025-05-19 11:29:42 UTC

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However, there is no evidence that Tolkien had anything to do with the ring or that it influenced his work. The National Trust website on the ring states "In the past it has been wrongly identified as the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy."

2025-05-19 11:29:15 UTC

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In 1929, during excavations of the site of the Roman temple of Nodens at Lydney Park, the archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler discovered details of the curse. As Wheeler consulted with J. R. R. Tolkien on the name of the god invoked in the curse, the ring and curse may have inspired the One Ring in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

2025-05-19 11:28:48 UTC

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After its discovery in the 18th century, the ring became the property of the Chute family, whose country house was The Vyne, also in Hampshire, now a National Trust property. The ring went on display there in April 2013.

2025-05-19 11:26:59 UTC

The Vyne Ring or the Ring of Silvianus is a gold ring, dating probably from the 4th century AD, discovered in a ploughed field near Silchester, in Hampshire, England, in 1785. Originally the property of a British Roman called Silvianus, it was apparently stolen by a person named Senicianus, upon whom Silvianus called down a curse.
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2025-05-19 11:05:37 UTC

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At least four chroniclers of the Hope Diamond’s history write that it once served as the middle eye of a South Indian deity of Lord Shiva. This deity belonged to the Chola dynasty, who ruled in South India from about A.D. 850, and revered Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of Dance. The Chola’s sculptor was trained in the workshop of a master, where he’d learned the ancient scriptural formulas for making a deity.

2025-05-19 11:05:20 UTC

The Hope Diamond's curse is a well-known legend, often linked to its origins in India and a supposed theft from a Hindu goddess's statue. The story suggests that devotees placed a curse on anyone possessing the stolen gem, believing it would bring bad luck and death. The curse is said to have followed the diamond throughout its history, with various owners facing misfortune or even death.
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2025-05-12 13:51:46 UTC

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The feet instead belonged to the sea god Njord.
Skadi’s own condition for not seeking revenge was that the gods should make her laugh. Loki tied one end of a rope around the beard of a nanny goat and the other around his testicles. Every time the goat jumped,
Loki squealed and squealed before finally dropping into Skadi’s lap. This made her laugh!
Odin then threw Thiazi’s eyes into the sky, where they became stars, and that pleased Skadi.

2025-05-12 13:51:04 UTC

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The gods offered Skadi compensation instead of revenge – she was invited to choose a husband from among the gods, but only by looking at their feet. Skadi wanted to marry Balder and thought that the most attractive feet must be his. But she was wrong!

2025-05-12 13:50:36 UTC

Skadi went to Asgard, the realm of the gods, to avenge her father, the giant Thiazi, who was killed by the Aesir gods. She went in full battle dress – helmet, coat of mail and all the weapons of war.
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2025-05-05 13:28:11 UTC

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Souls are forced to stand in front of it and see their true selves, namely the events of their previous existences. The Yama King then makes his judgment.
It stands in the Court of the First Yama King and faces to the east, on a raised stand eleven feet in height. The mirror has a circumference of six feet.

2025-05-05 13:27:54 UTC

In Chinese mythology, Nieh-ching-t'ai (simplified Chinese: 孽镜台; traditional Chinese: 孽鏡臺; pinyin: niè jìngtái; lit. 'evil mirror platform') is a mirror in Diyu, the Chinese underworld. It is also known as the Mirror of the Wicked,[a] the Mirror of Retribution, and the Mirror of Past Existences.
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2025-05-05 12:33:25 UTC

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They were given to Amaterasu's grandson, Ninigi-no-Mikoto, when he went to pacify Japan along with the sword Kusanagi. From there, the treasures passed into the hands of the Imperial House of Japan.
The researcher Shinsuke Takenaka said according to the legends, Amaterasu told Ninigi: "Serve this mirror as my soul, just as you would serve me, with clean mind and body.

2025-05-05 12:32:50 UTC

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It is considered to be housed today in Ise Grand Shrine, in Mie Prefecture, Japan, although a lack of public access makes this difficult to verify. Concurrently, a replica is enshrined in Three Palace Sanctuaries of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
In Shinto, the mirror was forged by the deity Ishikoridome; both it and the Yasakani no magatama were hung from a tree to lure out Amaterasu from a cave.

2025-05-05 12:31:59 UTC

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and were objects of mystique and reverence (being uncommon items).
According to Shinsuke Takenaka at the Institute of Moralogy, Yata no Kagami is considered the most precious of the three sacred treasures.
In the year 1040 (Chōkyū 1, 9th month), the compartment which contained the Sacred Mirror was burned in a fire. The mirror was not damaged and managed to survive the incident.

2025-05-05 12:30:42 UTC

Yata no Kagami (八咫鏡) is a sacred bronze mirror that is part of the Imperial Regalia of Japan.
The Yata no Kagami represents "wisdom" or "honesty," depending on the source. Its name literally means "The Eight Ata Mirror," a reference to its size.Mirrors in ancient Japan represented truth because they merely reflected what was shown,
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2025-04-14 12:19:06 UTC

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Hera also placed in the garden a never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon named Ladon as an additional safeguard. In the myth of the Judgement of Paris, it was from the Garden that Eris, Goddess of Discord, obtained the Apple of Discord, which led to the Trojan War.

2025-04-14 12:18:47 UTC

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Hera's Orchard; (:"also" known as the "Garden of the Hesperides":) is Hera's orchard in the west, where either a single apple tree or a grove grows, producing golden apples that grant immortality when eaten. The trees were planted from the fruited branches that Gaia gave to Hera as a wedding gift when Hera accepted Zeus. The Hesperides were given the task of tending to the grove, but occasionally picked apples from it themselves. Not trusting them,

2025-04-14 12:18:15 UTC

The Garden of the Hesperides, also known as Domain of the Hesperides and Hera's Orchad is a world featured in Greek Mythology. It first appears in around 700 BCE and ends around 9th Century.
The Garden of the Hesperides is based on the location of the same name from Greek Mythology.
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2025-04-14 11:33:10 UTC

The Gardens of Alcinous, immortalized in Homer's Odyssey, are portrayed as the epitome of ancient Greek garden beauty and cunning. This garden design, unmatched in its elegance, is a paradise for fruit trees blooming alongside various bright flowers. Its design embodies the core idea of harmony between the developed and the natural, with every detail, from walkway arrangement to plant selection, reflecting a deep awareness of beauty and balance.
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2025-04-07 09:12:30 UTC

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sprung from the earth over Miach's body, and Airmed collected and organized them all, spreading them on her cloak. Once again, their father lashed out, and scattered the herbs. For this reason, no living human knows all the secrets of herbalism. Only Airmed remembers.
Along with Dian Cecht, Ochtriullach, and Miach, Airmed was one of the enchanters whose incantation sung over the well of Sláine and was able to resurrect the dead.

2025-04-07 09:12:12 UTC

In Irish mythology, the goddess Airmed (also given as Airmid) was one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. With her father Dian Cecht and brother Miach, she healed those injured in the Second Battle of Magh Tuiredh.
After her jealous father slew her brother, Miach, Airmed wept over her brother's grave. Watered by her tears, all the healing herbs of the world (365 in number - according to the number of Miach's joints and veins)
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2025-03-31 16:44:27 UTC

Java is the home of several mask theatre and dance traditions, which are commonly referred to as wayang topeng (wayang: shadow or puppet; topeng: mask). They are believed to have evolved from early shamanistic burial and initiation rites. Mask traditions universally contain shamanistic features, for when an actor puts on a mask he gives up his own identity and embodies the character of the mask, usually a mythical being such as a demon, a supernatural hero, or a god.
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2025-03-24 11:26:34 UTC

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Recent research criticize invention of a Slavic female goddess, and indicate as possible both Slavic and old-Balkan influences. In Albanian ritual songs are invoked Dielli (the Sun), Perëndi (the Sky, or deity of weather), and Ilia (Elijah, who in Christianized Albanian and South Slavic folklore has replaced the Sun god and the thunder or weather god, Drangue and Perun).

2025-03-24 11:25:56 UTC

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when drought endangers crops and pastures, even human life itself.
According to one interpretation, the custom could have Slavic origin and be related to Slavic god Perun, and Perperuna could have been a Slavic goddess of rain, and the wife of the supreme deity Perun (god of thunder and weather in the Slavic pantheon).

2025-03-24 11:25:25 UTC

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It is still practiced in remote Albanian ethnographic regions, but only in rare events, when the summer is dry and without atmospheric precipitation.
The ceremonial ritual is an analogical-imitative magic rite that consists of singing and dancing done by young girls or boys in processions following a main performer who is dressed with fresh branches, leaves and herbs, with the purpose of invoking rain, usually practiced in times of droughts, especially in the summer season,

2025-03-24 11:24:14 UTC

Dodola (also spelled Dodole, Dodoli, Dudola, Dudula etc.) and Perperuna (also spelled Peperuda, Preperuda, Preperuša, Prporuša, Papaluga etc.) are rainmaking pagan customs widespread among different peoples in Southeast Europe until the 20th century, found in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, and Serbia.
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2025-03-10 18:53:24 UTC

King Arthur's messianic return is a mythological motif in the legend of King Arthur,which claims that he will one day return in the role of a messiah to save his people. It is an example of the king asleep in mountain motif.King Arthur was a legendary 6th-century Welsh king. Few historical records of Arthur remain, and there are doubts that he ever existed,but he achieved a mythological status by High Middle Ages that gave rise to a growing literature about his life and deeds.
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2025-03-03 09:27:54 UTC

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"Never, youths, however wretched,
Nor in future, upgrown heroes,
Whether you have large possessions,
Or are poor in your possessions,
In the course of all your lifetime,
While the golden moon is shining,
May you woo a golden woman,
Or distress yourselves for silver,
For the gleam of gold is freezing,
Only frost is breathed by silver."

2025-03-03 09:27:40 UTC

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saying that the golden wife ought to be cast back into the furnace and tells Ilmarinen to "forge from her a thousand trinkets". Speaking to all of his people, he further adds:

2025-03-03 09:27:14 UTC

In the Finnish and Karelian national epic Kalevala after the loss of his first wife to Kullervo's curse, the disheartened Ilmarinen attempts to craft a new one from gold and silver, but finds the golden wife hard and cold. Dismayed, he attempts to wed her to his brother Väinämöinen instead, but the old sage rejects her,
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2025-02-24 09:29:49 UTC

Metsänpeitto is the land of the forest elves in Finnish mythology. A person who enters there becomes invisible for the others. There are many spells used to escape from Mestänpeitto. Some people also escaped by turning their clothes inside out.
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2025-02-24 09:13:12 UTC

Lovi is a supernatural state or a place in Finnish mythology. Lovi was apparently an underwater or an underground hole between the reality and the netherworld. Lovi could have been located in a lake which could been accessed via a pit in the bottom of another lake.
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2025-02-17 12:40:21 UTC

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz[) is a legendary zoophyte of Central Asia, once believed to grow sheep as its fruit. It was believed the sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all accessible foliage was gone, both the plant and sheep died.
Underlying the legend is the cotton plant, which was unknown in Northern Europe before the Norman conquest of Sicily.
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2025-02-17 11:45:15 UTC

According to Greek mythology, Zeus was responsible for the creation of the artichoke when he took a beautiful girl named Cynara back to Olympus to make her a goddess. When she escaped to go and visit her family, Zeus was enraged and turned her into an artichoke.
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2025-02-10 12:09:38 UTC

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When Eglė with children came back to the sea, she saw the water darkening, with blood-red foam. She heard her husband voice: “It was your twelve brothers that slashed me to death with their scythes, and it was Little Aspen, who betrayed me”
Eglė was filled with grief and horror. She turned her children to the trees: Oak, Ash and Birch grew up to be tall, but Aspen trembles at the touch of the lightest breeze. Finally, Eglė herself turns into a spruce.

2025-02-10 12:08:52 UTC

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9 years passed and Eglė had four children - three sons,Oak,Ash,Birch,and a daughter Little Aspen. One day Oak asked his mother where her parents live, but the grass snake didn’t want to hear of visiting them. But Eglė did it and the days flew very quickly visiting parents.
In the meantime,her twelve brothers were questioning the children about the secret password for calling the grass snake near the sea in order to kill him. Little Aspen was so threatened that she blurted out the secret.

2025-02-10 12:07:12 UTC

“Eglė, Queen of the Grass Snakes” is a Lithuanian folk tale, the story of girl Eglė who found a grass snake in her shirt and had to promise marry him for making him leave her clothes. Her family were angered but Eglė - has given her word.
When Eglė with a wedding escort came to the shore of the sea, there a handsome youth met them and told he is the same grass snake. For many years they happily lived in rich palace in the bottom of the sea.
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2025-02-10 12:04:01 UTC

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Even today, when winds whip up raging storms in the Baltic Sea, one can hear Jūratė's mournful cries for her beloved Kastytis and, afterwards, one can still find small pieces of Jūratė's amber palace among the seaweeds washed out on the sandy shores.

2025-02-10 12:03:31 UTC

According to an ancient Lithuanian legend, Jūratė, the beautiful sea-goddess, who lived in a palace built of amber at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, fell in love with a fisherman Kastytis.
When thunder-god Perkūnas, the most powerful of the Lithuanian gods, found out about it, he became very angry at Jūratė for her love of a mere mortal and in a jealous rage with lightning bolts killed Kastytis and shattered Jūratė's undersea palace. 🧵
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2025-02-03 17:16:20 UTC

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The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff similar to the caduceus, remains a symbol of medicine today. Those physicians and attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius.

2025-02-03 17:16:04 UTC

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are: Hygieia ("Health, Healthiness"), Iaso (from ἴασις "healing, recovering, recuperation", the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (from ἄκεσις "healing", the goddess of the healing process), Aegle (the goddess of good health) and Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy). He has several sons as well. He was associated with the Roman/Etruscan god Vediovis and the Egyptian Imhotep.

2025-02-03 17:15:15 UTC

Asclepius (/æsˈkliːpiəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós [asklɛːpiós]; Latin: Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. He is the son of Apollo and Coronis, or Arsinoe, or of Apollo alone. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters, the "Asclepiades",
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2025-02-03 16:52:33 UTC

In Finnish and Karelian mythology the mother of the hero Lemminkäinen drags all his son's body parts from the river of death and puts them back together. She manages to bring her son back to life when a bee brings her the balm of life sent by the gods.
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2025-01-27 13:00:11 UTC

Gromoviti znaci or thunder marks such as these are ancient symbols of Perun, which are often engraved upon roof beams of village houses, particularly among East Slavic populations, to protect them from lightning bolts.
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2025-01-27 12:52:19 UTC

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such as Thoth. Horus subsequently offered the eye to his deceased father Osiris, and its revitalizing power sustained Osiris in the afterlife. The Eye of Horus was thus equated with funerary offerings, as well as with all the offerings given to deities in temple ritual.

2025-01-27 12:52:07 UTC

The Eye of Horus, also known as left wedjat eye or udjat eye, specular to the Eye of Ra (right wedjat eye), is a concept and symbol in ancient Egyptian religion that represents well-being, healing, and protection. It derives from the mythical conflict between the god Horus with his rival Set, in which Set tore out or destroyed one or both of Horus's eyes and the eye was subsequently healed or returned to Horus with the assistance of another deity,
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2025-01-27 12:33:55 UTC

The caduceus is the traditional symbol of Hermes and features two snakes winding around an often winged staff. Ancient sources associate Hermes with a variety of attributes, including wisdom, trade, deception, thievery, eloquence, negotiation, and alchemy.
Nevertheless it is often used as a symbol of medicine, especially in the United States.
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2025-01-20 13:46:04 UTC

In Finnish and Karelian mythology Ilmarinen successfully performs the three impossible tasks set before him: he plows a field full of vipers, hunts down the bear of Tuonela and the wolf of Manala and finally fishes the Great Pike out of the Tuonela River. Louhi promises her daughter to Ilmarinen.
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2025-01-20 12:39:42 UTC

In Greek mythology, Hymen (Ancient Greek: Ὑμήν, romanized: Humḗn), Hymenaios or Hymenaeus, is a god of marriage ceremonies who inspires feasts and song. Related to the god's name, a hymenaios is a genre of Greek lyric poetry that was sung during the procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the Epithalamium, which is sung at the nuptial threshold.
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2025-01-13 20:51:04 UTC

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Thank you. My bad.

2025-01-13 17:19:39 UTC

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Did you see this? @npub1hv7…vedn

2025-01-13 06:41:55 UTC

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2025-01-13 06:41:20 UTC

Legend has it in ancient China in 2737 B.C. the Emperor Shen Nong, a skilled ruler and scientist accidently discovered tea. While boiling water in his garden, a leaf fell from a nearby tree drifting into his pot. The emperor enjoyed drinking the infused water so much he compelled further research into the plant. It is suggested the Emperor also discovered teas medical properties during his research.
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2025-01-13 06:25:22 UTC

According to the Indian legend, a Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma, fell asleep during meditation. Thereafter, he cut off his eyelids. Ten tea plants then grew out of his eyelids, which when added to boiling water, drove away any traces of sleep. Thus, tea was discovered.
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2024-12-09 07:35:30 UTC

Kóoshdaa káa or Kushtaka (lit. "land otter man") are mythical shape-shifting creatures found in the folklore of the Tlingit peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America.
Physically, Kóoshdaa káa are shape-shifters capable of assuming human form, the form of an otter and potentially other forms. In some accounts, a Kóoshdaa káa is able to assume the form of any species of otter; in others, only one.
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2024-12-09 07:27:44 UTC

The crocotta or corocotta, crocuta, leucrocotta, or leucrotta is a mythical dog-wolf of India or Aethiopia, linked to the hyena and said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs.
Strabo, who uses the word "crocuttas", describes the beast as the mixed progeny of a wolf and a dog (Geographica, XVI.4.16]).
Pliny in his work Natural History (VIII.72 and 107) variously described the crocotta as a combination between dog and wolf or between hyena and lion. 🧵
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2024-12-09 07:06:35 UTC

Bahamut, or Bahamoot (/bəˈhɑːmuːt/ bə-HAH-moot; Arabic: بهموت), according to Zakariya al-Qazwini, is a monster that lies deep below, underpinning the support structure that holds up the earth.
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2024-12-02 10:34:52 UTC

While talking about Mahabharata, you cannot miss the great villain of all time – Shakuni Mama. He was the brother-in-law of Dhritrashtra who loved his sister Gandhari very dearly. He was so infuriated by the fact that his beautiful sister Gandhari was married off to a blind prince that he dedicated his entire life to plotting against the entire family of his brother-in-law.
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2024-12-02 10:24:41 UTC

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Source:
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2024-12-02 10:23:14 UTC

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he had to face some humiliation at the hands of some members of society. But, he ultimately gained the position of Brahmrishi (the highest position for a sage) with his intelligence and knowledge. He was the official Guru of king Janaka, father of goddess Sita. He has written Ashtavakra Samhita to pass on his acquired knowledge to the world.

2024-12-02 10:23:00 UTC

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The egoist father could not bear this and cursed the unborn child with eight deformities for pointing out eight mistakes. Hence, Ashtavakra was born with eight deformities in his body.
But, this person despite being born with physical deformities went on to become a respected sage in society. Of course,

2024-12-02 10:22:18 UTC

The legend says that when Ashtavakra was a developing fetus in his mother’s womb, he heard and learned the correct pronunciation of the Vedic Mantras being taught by his maternal grandfather and guru of his parents. So, one day when his father was practicing chanting those mantras he made eight mistakes in pronunciation and intonation of the mantras. The fetus from his mother’s womb asked his father to correct those mistakes.
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2024-12-02 10:08:58 UTC

In Greek mythology, Tiresias (/taɪˈriːsiəs/; Ancient Greek: Τειρεσίας, romanized: Teiresías) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo.Tiresias participated fully in seven generations in Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself.
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2024-11-25 10:41:51 UTC

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According to the Táin Bó Fraích [ga] ("The Cattle-Raid of Fraech"), Úaithne, the Dagda's harper, had three sons by the Bóand of the síthe, and the three sons became harpers themselves, each being named after Úaithne's musical strain, i.e., Goltraige ("weeping-strain"), Gentraige ("laughing-strain") and Súantraige ("sleeping-strain").

2024-11-25 10:41:16 UTC

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The harp had two names, Daur Dá Bláo ("Oak of Two Meadows") and Cóir Cetharchair ("Four-Angled Music"or perhaps rather "Four-sided Rectitude"). On this harp, the Dagda bound the music so that it would not sound until he would call to it by its names. After he called to it, it sprang from the wall of its own accord, came to the Dagda, and killed nine men on its way.

2024-11-25 10:40:44 UTC

In Irish mythology, Uaithne (Old Irish: Úaithne, pronounced [ˈuənʲə]) is Dagda's harp, or rather the Dagda's harper, according to a number of modern translators.
Úaithne figures as the name of Dagda's harper captured by the Fomorians according to the narrative Cath Maige Tuired ("Second Battle of Mag Tuired"). After this battle, Dagda discovered his harp hanging on a wall, in a feasting-house wherein Bres and his father Elathan were also.
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2024-11-25 10:26:43 UTC

In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse:[ˈɡjɑlːɑrˌhorn];"hollering horn" or "the loud sounding horn"])is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir. The sound of Heimdallr's horn will herald the beginning of Ragnarök, the sound of which will be heard in all corners of the world. Gjallarhorn is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material,and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
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2024-11-25 09:31:55 UTC

Pike parts were believed to have many magical qualities, especially jaws and teeth, which were believed to be a part of the creation of music. In Kalevala,the Finnish epic, the hero Väinämöinen makes a kantele (a type of string instrument) from a giant pike’s jaw. It was said that the music Väinämöinen played with his kantele was so beautiful that it made even him tear up as he was playing. All the people,animals and even gods came to hear him play.
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2024-11-18 15:07:22 UTC

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Many research teams are still searching for Alexander the Great's cemetery and mummy, and many archaeologists are hoping they will be the first to find the mummy of the great Macedonian conqueror.
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2024-11-18 15:07:04 UTC

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Some scholars believe Alexander the Great is buried in Siwa Oasis in Egypt. According to the historian Pausanias, Ptolemy initially buried Alexander's body in Memphis. With the end of the fourth century B.C. or the beginning of the third century B.C., at the beginning of the Ptolemaic era, Alexander's body was moved from Memphis to Alexandria where he was reburied. Until this day, his exact burial location remains unknown.

2024-11-18 15:05:53 UTC

Alexander III of Macedon, is one of the legends of ancient history, and one of the greatest kings and leaders of the world throughout the ages. His tomb is one of the biggest mysteries to date. Many have conflicting opinions on the burial site that contains the remains of the founder of Alexandria. There are those who believe that he is outside Egypt, particularly in Aegean, Greece.
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2024-11-18 12:50:30 UTC

In 1941,Joseph Stalin sent a team of archaeologists to open Timur's tomb Upon opening Timur's coffin,the team discovered an inscription:"Whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I." Within a matter of hours,Hitler's troops invaded Russia.
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2024-11-11 12:44:05 UTC

The Goose Wife is a mythical female character that appears in tales from the Inuit and other ethnic groups that dwell across the circumpolar Arctic region. The usual story is that the geese alight on land, become women by taking off their goose-skins and bathe in a lake. However, they are unaware that a human hunter is spying on them, and he steals the goose-skin of one of them, forcing her to be his wife. Due to the great similarities between both characters, 🧵
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2024-11-04 18:08:16 UTC

Mbombo, also called Bumba, is the creator god in the religion and mythology of the Kuba people of Central Africa in the area that is now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the Mbombo creation myth, Mbombo was a giant in form and white in color. The myth describes the creation of the universe from nothing.
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2024-11-04 18:02:12 UTC

Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack and folk hero in American and Canadian folklore. His tall tales revolve around his superhuman labors, and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox, his pet and working animal. The character originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers,and was later popularized by freelance writer William B. Laughead (1882–1958) in a 1916 promotional pamphlet for the Red River Lumber Company.
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2024-11-04 17:55:41 UTC

The jentil (or jentilak with the Basque plural), are a race of giants in Basque mythology. This word meaning gentile, from Latin gentilis, was used to refer to pre-Christian civilizations and in particular to the builders of megalithic monuments, to which the other Basque mythical legend the Mairuak are involved too.
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2024-11-04 17:46:15 UTC

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The Vindelfjällen Nature Reserve contains the remains of ancient, large building foundations, considered by the Sami to be the remains of Stallo dwellings. There is also a huge stone placed on some small pebbles on top near Lake Giengeljaure named stalostenen, which literally means "the Stallo stone." Legend dictates that a Stallo would have placed a stone here to prove his strength.

2024-11-04 17:45:42 UTC

In the folklore of the Sámi, a Stállo (also Staaloe, Stalo or Northern Sami Stállu) is a large, human-like creature who likes to eat people and who therefore is usually in some form of hostilities with a human. Stallos are clumsy and stupid, and thus humans often gain the upper hand over them.
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2024-11-04 17:40:02 UTC

Druon Antigoon or Druon Antigonus is a Belgian folkloric character. He was a mythical giant who lived in Antwerp.
The statue of the Brabo throwing the severed hand of Antigoon
The Brabo fountain, in Antwerp. Brabo throws the severed hand of Antigoon into the Scheldt. Sculpture by Jef Lambeaux (in 1887)
Guarding a bridge on the river Scheldt, he exacted a toll from those crossing the river. For those who refused, he severed one of their hands and threw it into the river.
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2024-11-04 17:33:16 UTC

Brân the Blessed (Welsh: Bendigeidfran or Brân Fendigaidd, literally "Blessed Crow") is a giant and king of Britain in Welsh mythology. He appears in several of the Welsh Triads, but his most significant role is in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, Branwen ferch Llŷr. He is a son of Llŷr] and Penarddun, and the brother of Brânwen, Manawydan, Nisien and Efnysien. The name "Brân" in Welsh is usually translated as crow or raven.
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2024-10-28 20:05:45 UTC

Princess Aubergine (Baingan Bádsháhzádí) is an Indian folktale collected by Flora Annie Steel and sourced from the Punjab region. It concerns a princess whose lifeforce is tied to a necklace, and, as soon as it falls in the hand of a rival, the princess falls into a death-like sleep - comparable to heroines of European fairy tales Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. Variants exist in India, both with a heroine and a hero whose life is attached to a magical necklace.
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2024-10-21 23:24:28 UTC

In Iroquois mythology, Dagwanoenyent was the daughter of the Wind who often took the form of a whirlwind. The Seneca Tribe considered her a dangerous witch who could not be killed.
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2024-10-14 13:59:30 UTC

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Metaphorically, it represents "a source of misfortune from which there is no escape; a fatal present; anything that wounds the susceptibilities" or a "destructive or expiatory force or influence".

2024-10-14 13:59:16 UTC

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She had been tricked by the dying Nessus into believing it would serve as a potion to ensure her husband's faithfulness. In fact, it contained the venom of the Lernaean Hydra with which Heracles had poisoned the arrow he used to kill Nessus. When Heracles puts it on, the Hydra's venom begins to cook him alive, and to escape this unbearable pain he builds a funeral pyre and throws himself on it.

2024-10-14 13:58:45 UTC

In Greek mythology, the Shirt of Nessus, Tunic of Nessus, Nessus-robe, or Nessus' shirt (Ancient Greek: Χιτών τοῦ Νέσσου, romanized: Chitṓn toû Néssou) was the poisoned shirt (chiton) that killed Heracles.
Fearing that Heracles had taken a new lover in Iole, his wife Deianeira gives him the garment, which was stained with the blood of the centaur Nessus.
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2024-09-09 10:11:11 UTC

Osmotar is the Finnish goddess of beer and a female beer brewer. She was responsible for creating the first beer with the help of foxes, squirrels and martens.
Osmotar appears in the various stories of the origin of beer.
She also gives advice to one of the Daughters of Pohjola in Kalevala poem number 23.
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2024-09-09 10:07:28 UTC

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She could also be paired with Siraš, a goddess of similar character, who sometimes was regarded as her sister. A possible association between her and the underworld deities Nungal and Laṣ is also attested ,possibly in reference to the possible negative effects of alcohol consumption.
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2024-09-09 10:06:57 UTC

Ninkasi was the Mesopotamian goddess of beer and brewing. It is possible that in the first millennium BC she was known under the variant name Kurunnītu, derived from a term referring to a type of high quality beer.
She was associated with both positive and negative consequences of the consumption of beer. In god lists, such as the An = Anum list and the Weidner god list, she usually appears among the courtiers of the god Enlil, alongside deities such as Ninimma and Ninmada.
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2024-09-02 19:31:09 UTC

When Ægir had got possession of the huge kettle borrowed by Thor
from Hymir, he prepared a great banquet for the Æsir. Odin was one of the
guests; others were Frigg, Sif, Bragi, Idun, Tyr, Njord, Skadi, Frey, Freyja,
Vidar, Frey’s serving men, Byggvir and Beyla, with a host
of other Æsir and Elves besides. Loki also
made one of the number, but Thor was absent on an expedition to the east.
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2024-08-26 15:11:09 UTC

Bulgae or pulgae (Korean: 불개; lit. fire dog) refers to the mythical fire dogs in Korean mythology. They come from the kingdom of darkness and always chase the Sun and Moon, causing eclipses when they bite both the celestial bodies.[1] Bulgae are strong and fierce dogs or hairy dogs which are likely to be the indigenous Korean dog breed sapsari, which means "ghost chasing dog"
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2024-08-26 14:57:29 UTC

In the legends of the Canton of Jura in Switzerland, Augenbrand is a black dog with fire eyes that prowls near the old Soyhières bridge over the Birs (now destroyed), where he searches for his master, Count Rodolphe de Sogren, who was murdered in 1233. He is reputed to pursue wayward travelers.
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2024-08-26 14:52:47 UTC

Aralez (Old Armenian: արալէզ, արալեզ; plural: արալէզք, aralēzkʿ), also called arlez (առլեզ) or yaralez (յարալէզ, Modern Armenian haralez), are winged dog-like creatures or spirits in Armenian mythology that descend to lick the wounds of dead heroes in order to resurrect them.
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2024-04-08 14:51:47 UTC

Brasil, also known as Hy-Brasil and several other variants, is a phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. Irish myths described it as cloaked in mist except for one day every seven years, when it becomes visible but still cannot be reached.
The etymology of the names Brasil and Hy-Brasil is unknown, but in Irish tradition it is thought to come from the Irish Uí Breasail (meaning "descendants (i.e., clan) of Bresail"),
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