Tag: Mythic Monday

Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Mannaz

MANNAZ Divination is a way to focus on what matters. It allows us to gain insight into the ripe possibilities of the moment and is best used as a type of meditative effort. With their symbolism and kinship with long ago Scandinavian and Germanic cultures, runes are a fascinating method. From the bag of runes,… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Mannaz

Mythic Monday: Thank God It Wasn’t Daryl

The new season of the horror fantasy, The Walking Dead, premiered last night. We knew Neegan, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and his temperamental baseball bat, Lucille, had bashed to death at least one of our beloved friends in Rick Grimes’ zombie fighting group. Last season’s finale had shown us that, but had not revealed… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Thank God It Wasn’t Daryl

Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Inguz

Divination is a way to focus on what matters. It allows us to gain insight into the ripe possibilities of the moment and is best used as a type of meditative effort. With their symbolism and kinship with long ago Scandinavian and Germanic cultures, runes are a fascinating method. From the bag of runes, we… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Inguz

Mythic Monday: Realm of the Sea King

  Sergei Maliutin (1859-1937) painted this fabulous figure as part of the stage design and costume of the Morskoy Tsar, a character from the Rimsky-Korsakov opera Sadko. The first production of Sadko took place in 1897, and in 1906 it went to the Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow. Do you enjoy the music of Rimsky-Korsakov? I love… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Realm of the Sea King

Mythic Monday: Myths About Anne Boleyn

The Snickerdoodle family’s recent visit to Potter’s Wax Museum in St. Augustine made me think about Anne Boleyn, a fascinating woman and tragic queen with a ton of myths swirling around her. Her daughter Elizabeth went on to become England’s greatest queen. Inside the ruby ring Queen Elizabeth wore was a very special and secret… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Myths About Anne Boleyn

Mythic Monday: What Do You Know About Trilogies?

Think trilogies originated with the romance industry or J.R.R. Tolkien? Oh contraire! Aeschylus, the dramatist with the oldest extant plays, created trilogies 2,500 years ago. His Oresteia is the only surviving trilogy, with its three plays —Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides. The Oresteia tells the story of a Greek hero of the Trojan… Continue reading Mythic Monday: What Do You Know About Trilogies?

Mythic Monday: Felicia and the Pot of Pinks

FAIRY TALES I’m excited to add a new, regular feature to Mythic Monday, the sharing of fairy tales from the set of ten books I had as a little girl: Young Folks Library by Charles E. Knapp. My grandmother read these stories to me, and I later read them to my dolls. These fairy tales… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Felicia and the Pot of Pinks

Mythic Monday: 11 Reasons to Love Your Library

Libraries—why do we love them? Let’s start way back with once upon a time. The goddess Seshat exerted a powerful civilizing influence on ancient Egypt. Her name means “female scribe,” and she was known as the mistress of libraries and secretary of heaven. Over 3,000 years ago Ramses II inscribed his library in Thebes, Egypt… Continue reading Mythic Monday: 11 Reasons to Love Your Library

Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Algiz

Algiz Divination is a way to focus on what matters. It allows us to gain insight into the ripe possibilities of the moment and is best used as a type of meditative effort. With their symbolism and kinship with long ago Germanic cultures, runes are a fascinating method. From the bag of runes, we close… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Algiz