Nostr notes by The Godyssey Podcast

Every beat of the Thunderbird's wings is a storm, a ...

2025-12-29T14:54:38Z

Every beat of the Thunderbird's wings is a storm, a thunderclap heard over hundreds of miles. Flying across the whole of North America, this legendary bird of indigenous lore survives in urban legend and folktale. #MythologyMonday

Thinking of going tomb robbing in Scandinavia? Think again: ...

2025-12-08T13:00:28Z

Thinking of going tomb robbing in Scandinavia? Think again: revenant draugr rise to defend their tombs, and cannot be slain by conventional means. Protecting the honor of their kin is of paramount importance, so to defeat them they must be appeased #MythologyMonday

🖼️: Aptrgang

Zagmuk is the earliest-known winter festival, a seven day ...

2025-12-07T15:33:45Z

Zagmuk is the earliest-known winter festival, a seven day Mesopotamian solstice festival highlighting the triumph of light over darkness despite being the darkest part of the year. Marduk is slain by Tiamat but is revived and takes up his weapon to do his duty. #FolkloreSunday

Red Riding Hood can be found all over the world: in Taiwan, Aunt ...

2025-05-27T12:35:53Z

Red Riding Hood can be found all over the world: in Taiwan, Aunt Tiger is a version where the tiger must eat three children to gain shape-shifting powers and hopes to do so by pretending to be their aunt. A clever girl sees through his disguise. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼 HodariNundu
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The Two-Mouthed Woman, the Futakuchi Onna, is a seemingly ...

2025-05-19T12:17:17Z

The Two-Mouthed Woman, the Futakuchi Onna, is a seemingly normal-looking woman who comes as a guest to a home in Japanese folklore, only for food to mysteriously disappear: hidden deep in her hair is a cursed second mouth, which must eat! #MythologyMonday

🖼️: M. Meyer
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In Wagner's Ring Cycle, the Ring of the Nebelung is ...

2025-05-19T12:15:26Z

In Wagner's Ring Cycle, the Ring of the Nebelung is Albrecht's Ring, a cursed ring from a hoard of gold who curses all who hold it, including the hero Siegfreid and the warrior-queen Brunhilde: its destruction destroys the gods of Asgard. #MythologyMonday
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It was the wedding of the epoch: Zeus and Hera, how could anyone ...

2025-05-19T12:13:56Z

It was the wedding of the epoch: Zeus and Hera, how could anyone refuse? Well, Turtle did: it wanted to stay home. Thus angered, Zeus cursed the turtle to forever carry its home on its back, giving it no excuse next time ("Next time!?" said Hera). #MythologyMonday

The wild man of the Irish gods, the Dagda is disheveled and ...

2025-05-12T12:38:42Z

The wild man of the Irish gods, the Dagda is disheveled and doesn't care, his belly as large as his laugh. Also god of fertility, his pants cannot contain his... potency. Christian writers thought these traits were hilarious. #MythologyMonday

All of Lugh is now available on YouTube! Next week, Odin will ...

2025-05-05T12:27:51Z

All of Lugh is now available on YouTube! Next week, Odin will join him. #MythologyMonday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RwxghnbCWs&list=PLD0o838fG_FHUFCxPEQttgGbv8zld8yA1

Toli are mirrors used in Mongolian and Siberian shamanic ritual, ...

2025-05-05T12:26:38Z

Toli are mirrors used in Mongolian and Siberian shamanic ritual, used to ensnare or banish evil spirits, purifying liquids (including vodka), and store blessings from natural sources. The number of mirrors a shaman has reflects their power and accomplishment. #MythologyMonday

While the mirror is a key Indian religious symbol, in Tibetan ...

2025-05-05T12:22:08Z

While the mirror is a key Indian religious symbol, in Tibetan Buddhism it is a symbol of the foundation of all enlightenment. Called a melong, this mirror, worn as an adornment, reflects back true reality without judgment, without scorn. #MythologyMonday

Obsidian Tezcatlipoca, called the Smoky Mirror and Lord of the ...

2025-05-05T12:16:33Z

Obsidian Tezcatlipoca, called the Smoky Mirror and Lord of the Night Winds, tricked the final Toltec ruler, Huemac into getting drunk and and became his sister, sleeping with him. This act broke Huemac's vow of celibacy and forced him to resign as ruler. #MythologyMonday
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Dreams of past and future. The power of stories. The final ...

2025-04-28T12:17:24Z

Dreams of past and future. The power of stories. The final reunion.

Lugh is done! Season 2 will come to YouTube soon, while Season 4 is almost ready to record. #MythologyMonday

https://youtu.be/dOP4XkCjDWU

Why do bats fly? According to a Nigerian tale, bat jokingly told ...

2025-04-28T11:52:38Z

Why do bats fly? According to a Nigerian tale, bat jokingly told his friend bushrat his soup tasted so good because he bathed in it; bushrat tried this and boiled himself alive. Blamed for his death, bat became a convict: he flies from justice. #MythologyMonday
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In the tale of Hiawatha, the warlord Tadodaho of the Onodaga ...

2025-04-28T11:50:14Z

In the tale of Hiawatha, the warlord Tadodaho of the Onodaga nation killed Hiawatha's daughters each time the two attempted to bring peace to the nations. Each time, rather than face a cycle of vengeance, Hiawatha chose forgiveness: and finally changed hearts. #MythologyMonday
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The affair between the Dagda and the river goddess Boann results ...

2025-04-21T12:34:04Z

The affair between the Dagda and the river goddess Boann results in pregnancy, so to hide it, the Dagda holds the sun in place for nine months, so Boann's husband Elcmir will only think a day has passed and not realize an affair has occurred. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: EdwardEi1

In myths from Japan to Ireland, traveling in the Otherworld makes ...

2025-04-21T12:26:08Z

In myths from Japan to Ireland, traveling in the Otherworld makes time pass differently, and upon your return, not only will you recognize no one, but time will catch up with you if you try to join the land of the living. #MythologyMonday
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In Japan East is associated with spring, for at the Palace of the ...

2025-04-14T12:30:55Z

In Japan East is associated with spring, for at the Palace of the Dragons beneath the sea, in their four garden of seasons, it is the Eastern Garden that is in perpetual spring and constant blooming. Look East, ye tired of winter! #MythologyMonday

🖼️: M. Meyer
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The garden was first perfected in ancient Mesopotamia, where ...

2025-04-14T12:28:55Z

The garden was first perfected in ancient Mesopotamia, where Geshtinanna, goddess of agriculture, reigned. For half the year, she would reside in the Underworld on behalf of her brother: thus, seasons progress. Gardens are her domain. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: Inna-Vjuzhanina
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For centuries, estates in Europe had garden hermits, men who were ...

2025-04-14T12:26:48Z

For centuries, estates in Europe had garden hermits, men who were paid to stay on site and live as a recluse on estate land, living in anything from a hut to a chapel. These garden hermits were for novelty but also provided advice and support. #MythologyMonday
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They have many names: wishing trees, fairy trees, clootie trees. ...

2025-04-07T13:13:04Z

They have many names: wishing trees, fairy trees, clootie trees. Across the Celtic nations from Scotland down south to Brittany and Cornwall, by May hawthorn and oak trees near holy wells and springs are covered in ribbons, wishing for fertility and health. #MythologyMonday

The Beltaine fires. An intruder in bed. The final betrayal. Time ...

2025-03-31T12:41:03Z

The Beltaine fires. An intruder in bed. The final betrayal.

Time to kill our main character. Lugh ends in one episode! #MythologyMonday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyh_lEsF57I

While traditionally Japanese kabuki theater is thought of as a ...

2025-03-31T12:40:16Z

While traditionally Japanese kabuki theater is thought of as a male-only or male-dominated field of theater, it was founded by a woman and originally all-women, transitioning to all-male after women were banned for being "too erotic" in 1624. #MythologyMonday
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The Athenian festival of Dionysia honored its namesake god of ...

2025-03-31T12:38:41Z

The Athenian festival of Dionysia honored its namesake god of wine and revelry, Dionysus, as well as theater, where tales of gods, monsters, satyrs, and very human drama and hilarious comedies played out in the name of the Dionysian Mysteries. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: L Alma-Tadema
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Ghost lights were lights left on in theaters to keep people from ...

2025-03-31T12:36:10Z

Ghost lights were lights left on in theaters to keep people from injuring themselves, originally candles or oil lanterns but now LED and similar lights. Folklore suggests an alternative: ghost lights appease spirits of the theater, or scares them away. #MythologyMonday

A marriage of convenience. A herd of cows. The red death. Lugh ...

2025-03-24T13:55:05Z

A marriage of convenience. A herd of cows. The red death.

Lugh Episode 28 is live! Just two more in our YouTube series! #MythologyMonday

https://youtu.be/sS4nIzras5Q

Ancient Mesoamericans imagined the night's sky like that of a ...

2025-03-24T13:06:10Z

Ancient Mesoamericans imagined the night's sky like that of a cave, with light glistening from each stalactite from far above. Rain is water rushing into our cave, and for that rain gods are given much prominence in Mayan and Aztec mythos. #MythologyMonday #mythology #folklore

Ursa Major is a product of unrequited love and tragedy: Callisto ...

2025-03-24T13:01:36Z

Ursa Major is a product of unrequited love and tragedy: Callisto was a maiden of Artemis who loved her mistress, and was seduced by her... or rather, Zeus in her form. Most versions of her tale ends with her turned into a bear and placed in the Heavens. #MythologyMonday #mythology #folklore
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The Egyptians symbolized the starry night sky as Nut, daughter of ...

2025-03-24T12:56:16Z

The Egyptians symbolized the starry night sky as Nut, daughter of Ra. Prophecy dictated a child born of her would overthrow Ra, so he had Nut and her love Geb separated as Heaven and Earth: but love is stronger than prophecy. Isis and Osiris would replace Ra. #MythologyMonday #mythology #folklore
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Distorted faces in the mist. The festival of living and dead. The ...

2025-03-17T17:26:55Z

Distorted faces in the mist. The festival of living and dead. The Queen's final hand.

Too busy for the rest of #MythologyMonday but Lugh episode 27 is here! Almost done with S1's YouTube version!

https://youtu.be/yvFsA8Hqgdo

The passing of the torch. A time for grief. A Sovereign ...

2025-03-10T13:29:53Z

The passing of the torch. A time for grief. A Sovereign Queen's return.

Lugh Episode XXVI is live! Or processing, but will be live shortly! Kind of depends on how much the gods hate me right now. #MythologyMonday

https://youtu.be/KyLWB1X34kw

Gilgamesh left Uruk to find the answer to mortality, and when he ...

2025-03-10T12:18:46Z

Gilgamesh left Uruk to find the answer to mortality, and when he returned, he had found it: immortality comes not from divine potions, but through actions. He becomes a good ruler, builds high walls to protect his people: his name lives forever. #MythologyMonday

Traveling to the Otherworld offers a form of time travel, most ...

2025-03-10T12:09:52Z

Traveling to the Otherworld offers a form of time travel, most famously in the Voyage of King Bran. After spending a year traveling Otherworldly isles, they return, only to discover as one sailor turns to ash on the shore centuries have passed. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: T. Dunne

The Trojan War took ten years and many of its survivors returned ...

2025-03-10T12:06:56Z

The Trojan War took ten years and many of its survivors returned home quickly: not Odysseus. His return took an additional ten years, due to his angering Poseidon, and what he finds is troubling: his mother gone and father despondent, his wife beset by suitors. #MythologyMonday

The Final Battle. Lugh Episode 25 is the longest episode of ...

2025-03-03T15:10:42Z

The Final Battle.

Lugh Episode 25 is the longest episode of Godyssey I've made yet and the longest I plan on making that is an episode of storytelling. It took a month of editing to get right the video version. FINALLY.

https://youtu.be/h91qWucgEkE #MythologyMonday

The suitors demanded Penelope's hand in marriage and thus the ...

2025-03-03T12:14:21Z

The suitors demanded Penelope's hand in marriage and thus the throne of Ithaca in Odysseus' absence, but she was crafty: she said when she finished her loom she would choose a suitor, but each night she undid her weave, for years. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: J.W. Waterhouse

Though the bells of Nagasaki were destroyed in the atomic blast ...

2025-02-24T13:12:13Z

Though the bells of Nagasaki were destroyed in the atomic blast of August 1945, the residents of Nagasaki note with pride their Shinto shrines remained. The torii of Sannō Shrine "stopped the blast," as if the Kami stopped the bomb while the Christian God failed #MythologyMonday
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Rough around the edges, Baron Samedi is the loa of death, and ...

2025-02-24T13:09:37Z

Rough around the edges, Baron Samedi is the loa of death, and more specifically, the gateways of death. Though he is loud and verbose, he is a kind deity who helps spirits accept death and transition, making him the best kind of psychopomp. #MythologyMonday
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Doorways and boundaries are the domain of Janus, Roman god of ...

2025-02-24T13:02:21Z

Doorways and boundaries are the domain of Janus, Roman god of beginnings, endings, and gateways. The namesake of January, Janus was a two-faced god, looking forwards and back, and all forms of duality and the spaces in between. #MythologyMonday

The Three Sisters are squash, beans, and corn, grown together by ...

2025-02-17T13:54:33Z

The Three Sisters are squash, beans, and corn, grown together by indigenous Americans whose roots invigorate the soil and help one another grow. Haudenosaunee myth has them being a byproduct of Earth Mother's dying desire to sustain her children with good food. #MythologyMonday

Beware godly salad dressing: to overcome his uncle Set, Horus ...

2025-02-17T13:35:18Z

Beware godly salad dressing: to overcome his uncle Set, Horus made him a delicious salad covered in white dressing that was anything but. Because Set ingested Horus' "essence" Horus gained power over him, thus becoming king of the Egyptian gods. #MythologyMonday

A mere thief in his lifetime executed by boiling, Goemon Ishikawa ...

2025-02-12T15:23:36Z

A mere thief in his lifetime executed by boiling, Goemon Ishikawa has had an amazing afterlife, becoming an anti-authoritarian ninja who stole from the rich to give to the poor. A powerful stock character in Japanese media, the legend outdoes the man. #LegendaryWednesday

Though they loved one another greatly, jotun Skadi and Vanir ...

2025-02-10T13:22:12Z

Though they loved one another greatly, jotun Skadi and Vanir Njord proved incompatiable. She was a goddess of mountains, he a god of the sea: their worlds could not be further apart. They parted tragically but amiably, in love. #MythologyMonday

📷: L. Daligan
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When the gods made Enkidu, they forgot to instill in him the ...

2025-02-10T13:18:26Z

When the gods made Enkidu, they forgot to instill in him the instinct for civilization, making him no better than a Beast! It took love from the Beauty Shamhat, priestess of civilized Inanna, to tame him: but Enkidu lost his animal brethren. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: A. Beltyukova
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Ancient historians compare the relationship of Alexander and his ...

2025-02-10T13:16:10Z

Ancient historians compare the relationship of Alexander and his general and lifelong companion Hephaestion to Achilles and Patroclus, which many interpret as both romantic and physical love. Aristotle described them as "two bodies with one soul." #MythologyMonday
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Mithras took the Roman military by storm, a new warrior god for a ...

2025-02-07T13:20:04Z

Mithras took the Roman military by storm, a new warrior god for a modern, cosmopolitan soldier who spent a significant time away from home. Iranian in origin, Roman Mithras is a son of divinity whose martial prowess Roman soldiers sought to emulate. #FolkyFriday
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Papa Loko is the the great healer, the first houngan and the loa ...

2025-02-03T13:02:28Z

Papa Loko is the the great healer, the first houngan and the loa who ensures that the knowledge of Vodou are passed between generations. All healing is his: medicine, spiritual healing, physical recovery, and emotional damage. #MythologyMonday

📸: V. Verna
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Eir is the surgeon of the gods, a valkyrie and healer among the ...

2025-02-03T12:59:43Z

Eir is the surgeon of the gods, a valkyrie and healer among the Æsir. She offers her knowledge through blood sacrifice, a price most healers understand and can make easily. #MythologyMonday
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Visible from space, the Nazca lines were constructed two thousand ...

2025-01-27T13:45:15Z

Visible from space, the Nazca lines were constructed two thousand years ago in the deserts of Peru by removing pebbles and replacing them with dirt that differentiated the area from the top layer. Their purpose remains unknown, and more are discovered yearly. #MythologyMonday

Chinese Hanyu, known across East Asia, began life as a symbol ...

2025-01-27T13:24:07Z

Chinese Hanyu, known across East Asia, began life as a symbol pictographic system that showed what it described: over time, the symbols became more abstract and it became a full-blown writing system used by billions. #MythologyMonday

Older than the Pyramids at Giza is Newgrange, one of a series of ...

2025-01-27T13:16:35Z

Older than the Pyramids at Giza is Newgrange, one of a series of mounds in County Meath in Ireland. This mound is covered in stoned marked with geometric symbols that would become popular across the Celtic world, despite this not being built by the Celts. #MythologyMonday

Many cultures have hyperbole to indicate "long, long ago" ...

2025-01-22T12:08:59Z

Many cultures have hyperbole to indicate "long, long ago" in mythic times, but Korea's is uniquely strange: "back when tigers used to smoke" is one of many ways tigers appear in Korean folklore and myth. #WyrdWednesday
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A price too steep. The plan in place. The last of her kin. ...

2025-01-20T14:19:01Z

A price too steep. The plan in place. The last of her kin.

Moytura approaches in episode 23 of Season 1 of Godyssey! #mythologymonday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC2crPPGypw

Thrymr thought he was marrying the greatest Beauty of the gods, ...

2025-01-20T14:14:39Z

Thrymr thought he was marrying the greatest Beauty of the gods, Freyja, but what he got was a Beast: beneath that wedding veil was a Beast of a man, Thor himself, who came to destroy his enemies and win back his hammer through the deceit. #MythologyMonday

They are the Butterfly Lovers, wealthy scion Zhu Yingtai and ...

2025-01-20T14:12:00Z

They are the Butterfly Lovers, wealthy scion Zhu Yingtai and scholar Liang Shanbo; after he realizes she loves him and he her, they swear not to part. When he dies of grief at her forced marriage, she throws herself into his grave and they become butterflies. #MythologyMonday

The primordial deities, genderless and without form, bade Izanagi ...

2025-01-20T14:09:47Z

The primordial deities, genderless and without form, bade Izanagi and Izanami be fruitful and create the kami of the world. But how? Children had only been created, not born before. A method had to be devised: and so sex and marriage were born. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: E. Kobayashi

Orpheus's lyre-playing was so beautiful none could resist ...

2025-01-20T14:07:17Z

Orpheus's lyre-playing was so beautiful none could resist being drawn into his songs, including the beautiful Eurydice. They received the blessings of many a god at their wedding, but not the god of marriage, Hymen's: he predicted painful tragedy. #mythologymonday

🖼️: M. Denis

The god of war. The goddess' curse. The battle joined. ...

2025-01-13T12:31:43Z

The god of war. The goddess' curse. The battle joined.

Episode 22 of Lugh is live on YouTube! #MythologyMonday

https://youtu.be/f7VOOk5GvIA

In Buddhist folklore, tea was created by Bodhidharma (Daruma in ...

2025-01-13T12:15:43Z

In Buddhist folklore, tea was created by Bodhidharma (Daruma in Japanese), founder of Zen: upset that he fell asleep during meditation, the Buddhist monk ripped his own eyelids off, which then turned into tea leaves. The drink killed sleep: so was tea born! #MythologyMonday

The legendary Emperor Shennong drank his water boiled, even when ...

2025-01-13T11:58:02Z

The legendary Emperor Shennong drank his water boiled, even when off to war. One day the servant did not notice a leaf fall into the cup, and so Shennong drank the herbal water: so was tea born in 2737 BCE. #MythologyMonday

In the Ozarks come spring time, take some sassafras and make a ...

2025-01-13T11:55:39Z

In the Ozarks come spring time, take some sassafras and make a tea from it, the old folk will say, but don't overboil it or you'll spoil the flavor for bitterness. This thins the blood, they say, after a long winter that thickens the blood, so balance things out. #MythologyMonday

A broken mind. A dream of the sea. A father's gift. We're ...

2025-01-06T13:35:19Z

A broken mind. A dream of the sea. A father's gift.

We're back after a holiday break, making more videos and telling sad stories of Irish mythology. Episode 21 is on YouTube! #MythologyMonday

https://youtu.be/vQy70AJDCmE

Chocolate, born of cacao, began its history as medicine and as a ...

2025-01-06T13:08:20Z

Chocolate, born of cacao, began its history as medicine and as a ritual aid. To the Mayans chocolate is what their gods drank and so it was used to get closer to the gods. The Aztecs used it as a luxury good and currency. North and South Americans sought it. #MythologyMonday

Archeologists have suggested the original reason for imprinting ...

2025-01-06T13:06:10Z

Archeologists have suggested the original reason for imprinting images on coins was to mark how much they were worth: a coin with a cow would be worth a single cow, for example. This electrum likely isn't the price of a lion attack, however: those are priceless. #MythologyMonday

To the Gauls and Britons, giving their gold to their gods was ...

2025-01-06T13:02:35Z

To the Gauls and Britons, giving their gold to their gods was better than giving it to the invading Romans. They did so at pools and wells, throwing in coins and treasures of gold and silver, and many the Romans missed: we're still finding Celtic hoards today. #MythologyMonday

The mighty paladin Roland's end is tragic, a last stand of ...

2024-12-30T15:36:06Z

The mighty paladin Roland's end is tragic, a last stand of epic proportions: with his men he holds Roncevaux Pass as Charlemagne's rear guard, and waits until he is the last man standing to blow his elephant tusk horn, to guarantee he is avenged. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: H.J. Ford

Even at the End, in Ragnarok, when not just one but the Nine ...

2024-12-30T15:27:06Z

Even at the End, in Ragnarok, when not just one but the Nine Worlds will be destroyed in fire, there is hope: two humans will survive, and with them a small group of gods. Leading them will be Baldr and Hodr, twins of light and dark, into a new era. #MythologyMonday

🖼 Doepler

Here be dragons: dragons and mythological creatures were once ...

2024-12-23T15:35:53Z

Here be dragons: dragons and mythological creatures were once placed on maps to indicate unexplored, dangerous, potentially sinful territory, on land and sea: the Fra Mauro map from 1450 shows the Isle of Dragons in the Atlantic and dragons north of Afghanistan. #MythologyMonday

Hy-Brasil lies just beyond Ireland's west, a mysterious ...

2024-12-23T15:24:53Z

Hy-Brasil lies just beyond Ireland's west, a mysterious island shrouded in mists, visible only rarely from shore. They say a whole village can be seen there, living a prosperous life, but all attempts to land on Hy-Brasil have failed: it has appeared on many maps. #MythologyMonday

Converting old episodes into videos is taking a break until the ...

2024-12-23T15:14:51Z

Converting old episodes into videos is taking a break until the New Year, so now is a great time to catch up on Season 1 of Godyssey on YouTube! #mythologymonday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RwxghnbCWs&list=PLD0o838fG_FHUFCxPEQttgGbv8zld8yA1

Candles can be used to protect against witches, according to the ...

2024-12-16T15:31:53Z

Candles can be used to protect against witches, according to the Malleus Maleficarum: individuals can do this, and farmers can light holy candles to protect their livestock and crops. These must be sanctified candles, which is either witchcraft or a grift to me. #MythologyMonday

The Louisiana variant of the will'o wisp is the feu-follet, ...

2024-12-16T15:14:57Z

The Louisiana variant of the will'o wisp is the feu-follet, the souls of the damned sent back by God to act like candle light and guide people through the bayou; despite this, they prove mischievous, sometimes downright bloodthirsty: don't follow the lights. #MythologyMonday

Called the Torch Dragon in English, the Zhulong is a dragon who ...

2024-12-16T15:06:13Z

Called the Torch Dragon in English, the Zhulong is a dragon who creates each day and night by opening and closing its eyes: one eye is the sun, the other the moon. These change in the seasons, which are the dragon's breath. #MythologyMonday

Training for war. The fiery craftswoman. The staining of earth. ...

2024-12-09T12:34:21Z

Training for war. The fiery craftswoman. The staining of earth.

Only 10 episodes of Lugh left before the All-Father comes on! YouTube videos march ever on. Guess I need to get Season 4 out soon, huh? #MythologyMonday

https://youtu.be/pRxYPzkuCug

The Yeti Scalp of Khumjung is a Nepalese treasure, supposedly the ...

2024-12-09T12:32:44Z

The Yeti Scalp of Khumjung is a Nepalese treasure, supposedly the scalp of a dead Yeti that resides in a temple in Khumjung. Upon scientific analysis, the scalp is likely made of multiple animal hairs, mostly a goat-antelope, yet sightings persist. #MythologyMonday

In the depths of the Congo River Basin, a monster dwells: the ...

2024-12-09T12:31:07Z

In the depths of the Congo River Basin, a monster dwells: the Mokèlé-mbèmbé is one of Africa's most well-known cryptids, essentially a dinosaur-like creature that lives in the waterways, terrorizing humans and animals alike. #MythologyMonday

Deep in the alpine forests of Southern Germany, you may find a ...

2024-12-09T12:22:10Z

Deep in the alpine forests of Southern Germany, you may find a true chimera, a hybrid of fang and wings and fur. Most versions of the wolpertinger have the head of a hare, perhaps it's body, with fangs and antlers along with duck wings, perhaps a squirrel tail. #MythologyMonday

The future discussed. The past disclosed. The rites of passage. ...

2024-12-02T16:12:59Z

The future discussed. The past disclosed. The rites of passage.

Lugh joins the druids in the latest YouTube version of Season 1! #MythologyMonday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxaDs3QE9pk

Sedna refused all suitors her father chose for her, and ...

2024-12-02T12:29:58Z

Sedna refused all suitors her father chose for her, and frustrated her father so that he threw her from her kayak. She tried to climb back in but he cut off her fingers, which became the beasts of the sea. She rules the Underworld. #MythologyMonday

🖼: A. Galbraith

The High King of Ireland must be without blemish, and Nuada was a ...

2024-12-02T12:26:05Z

The High King of Ireland must be without blemish, and Nuada was a good king, so he abdicated when he lost his hand at the First Battle of Moytura. So awful was his successor that his people crafted him a magic hand of silver to make him whole #mythologymonday

🖼️: J. FitzPatrick

Tyr sacrificed his hand for the greater good: he placed it in ...

2024-12-02T12:19:53Z

Tyr sacrificed his hand for the greater good: he placed it in Fenrir's mouth to convince the great wolf to allow himself to be tied up with unbreakable golden rope. When the rope held, Fenrir bit the hand off. Such is the duty of the Maimed God. #mythologymonday

🖼️: J. Bauer

A vexing bargain. The Sovereign Queens. A choice all his own. ...

2024-11-25T14:13:57Z

A vexing bargain. The Sovereign Queens. A choice all his own.

Episode 18 of Lugh is available now on YouTube! #MythologyMonday

https://youtu.be/c-359hml8_E

The national symbol of Ireland is the harp, which appears again ...

2024-11-25T14:10:43Z

The national symbol of Ireland is the harp, which appears again and again in both mythology and history. The Dagda's mythic harp commanded the seasons and brought souls to peace; the first reference to them is a law stating harpers sit with nobility. #MythologyMonday

Anansi the Spider is the messenger of Nyame the Sky God, a role ...

2024-11-25T14:05:08Z

Anansi the Spider is the messenger of Nyame the Sky God, a role he achieved by playing the drum: the drum made a sound similar to the name of Nyame's magic yam, and Owia, the Sun, remembered the name because of Anansi playing. #MythologyMonday

While many horns are for enjoyment, not the Gjallarhorn: ...

2024-11-25T13:46:28Z

While many horns are for enjoyment, not the Gjallarhorn: Heimdall's horn will be blown just once, and will blow so loudly that it will shake every corner of the Nine Worlds. Its blowing signals the start of the Twilight of the Gods, Ragnarok: so listen hard. #MythologyMonday

A goddess of music and eloquence, Benzaiten is one of the Seven ...

2024-11-25T13:41:10Z

A goddess of music and eloquence, Benzaiten is one of the Seven Lucky Gods, a bodhisattva who rides a dragon and plays the biwa, a Japanese lute. Not only does she bring wealth, order, and fortune but also protection from disease, danger, and bad luck. #MythologyMonday

Extreme weather in Nordic lore is caused by Thurses, chaotic ...

2024-11-20T17:08:12Z

Extreme weather in Nordic lore is caused by Thurses, chaotic nature spirits that cause great shifts in the natural world. These include Jotnar, the giants, and if the name isn't obvious, Thor himself: Thor's mother is the Earth. #WyrdWednesday

🖼: T. A. Sahsnotasvriunt

Haunted by a pesky vampire or rampaging revenant and need ...

2024-11-18T12:22:55Z

Haunted by a pesky vampire or rampaging revenant and need protection? Bake bread with the creature's grave dirt in it, or make a drink with it mixed in, and protection will be yours. #MythologyMonday

Ghuls are djinni or djinn-adjacent monsters of Arabia and the ...

2024-11-18T12:14:58Z

Ghuls are djinni or djinn-adjacent monsters of Arabia and the Muslim world, evil spirits that dwell in cemeteries and eat the flesh of the dead: they often disguise themselves as the living and engineer mass feats of death for feasts of their own. #MythologyMonday

Hitodama is the manifestation of a human soul after death, seen ...

2024-11-18T12:09:44Z

Hitodama is the manifestation of a human soul after death, seen most commonly in graveyards, funeral homes, and places where death has recently taken place. Harmless, they glow a multitude of colors and are seen most commonly on warm summer nights. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: M. Meyer

A crafty druid. A contest of bards. A spear returned. Halfway ...

2024-11-11T15:12:42Z

A crafty druid. A contest of bards. A spear returned.

Halfway done with the video versions of Season 1 of Godyssey! #MythologyMonday

https://youtu.be/e3w0qlpaVds

The Swan Maiden is a common trope in folklore, a woman who is in ...

2024-11-11T14:47:36Z

The Swan Maiden is a common trope in folklore, a woman who is in reality a swan or some other waterfowl, with whom the hero either falls in love with, quarrels with, or who ascends to the heavens with this otherworldly maiden. Every continent has its own verison! #MythologyMonday

Don't cry fowl for peacocks: in Indian symbology, peacocks ...

2024-11-11T14:34:59Z

Don't cry fowl for peacocks: in Indian symbology, peacocks are the mounts of the gods of war like Kartikeya, and in Buddhism the herald of kings like Chandragupta Maurya, who raised them as a child. These fowl are honorable and glorious. #mythologymonday

🖼️: R.R. Varma

The enemy returned. A tale told. Cruelty like a storm. My ...

2024-11-04T15:29:28Z

The enemy returned. A tale told. Cruelty like a storm.

My favorite episode of Season 1 is now a video! Lugh has a choice: save the sons of Tuireann and aid his people, or fulfill his oath of revenge for his father's death. #MythologyMonday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp1GDi0k7lA

As early as Magellan, European lore speaks of the Patagon, a ...

2024-11-04T15:26:35Z

As early as Magellan, European lore speaks of the Patagon, a tribe of 14 foot giants native to Patagonia. Until the 20th century reports of these giants continued to circulate across North America and Europe, despite no evidence. #MythologyMonday

The Nordic world was born of ice and made of ice. From ice and ...

2024-11-04T15:17:52Z

The Nordic world was born of ice and made of ice. From ice and fire came Ymir, the first Jotun, a massive being of both sexes, constantly spawning life yet stuck in ice. Freed by a primordial cow, the gods thought him dangerous and made the worlds from his form. #MythologyMonday

Gashadokuro is the famine skeleton, a massive skeleton made of ...

2024-11-04T15:15:41Z

Gashadokuro is the famine skeleton, a massive skeleton made of the composite bones of those who died of famine that now wanders the Japanese countryside forever hungry, finding victims at night and drinking their blood like a yogurt pop. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: M. Meyer

Does the woman who has your eye have hooves? La Diablesse does, ...

2024-10-30T11:36:08Z

Does the woman who has your eye have hooves? La Diablesse does, and soon, she'll have your soul, too. Seducer of men on multiple Caribbean islands, her tell is men catching sight of her hooves under her dress as she leads them away from towns. #WyrdWednesday

🖼️: A. Silva

Jack was a cunning soul, barred from Heaven but denied by Hell ...

2024-10-29T14:27:08Z

Jack was a cunning soul, barred from Heaven but denied by Hell because of a bargain he made with Satan: thus forced to wander Earth eternally, he took hellfire and put it in a turnip: thus were born Jack's Lanterns, or Jack-O-Lanterns. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼️: J. Ukropina

Guatemala's El Sombrerón is a strange diminutive creature ...

2024-10-28T11:59:04Z

Guatemala's El Sombrerón is a strange diminutive creature who wanders the night, finding young women to seduce; if he braids their hair, he will put dirt on their plate and prevent them from eating or sleeping until death comes. #MythologyMonday