Myths & Legends Archive

  • Eye_Ra

    The Pillars of Hermes and the emerald tablet

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    According to legends, Thoth preserved his canon of writings inside two great pillars just before the Great Flood inundated the world. Thousands of years later, the pillars were rediscovered. According to existing texts written by Egyptian priests, one of the pillars was discovered outside the...

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  • hic sunt dracones

    hic sunt dracones

    Posted on January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments
    “Here be dragons” is a phrase used to denote dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of the medieval practice of putting sea serpents and other mythological creatures in blank areas of maps. The only known historical use of this phrase is in the Latin form “HC SVNT DRACONES”...

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  • The names of the Watchers

    The names of the Watchers

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments
    According to the Book of Enoch, exactly 200 Watchers fell to Earth to take human wives. It names 20 of these, explaining that each one was a leader in a group of 10. In his book From the Ashes of Angels, Andrew Collins names a few...

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  • Nyx – Goddess of the night

    Nyx – Goddess of the night

    Posted on August 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
    In Greek mythology, Nyx (Νύξ, Nox in Roman translation) was the primordial goddess of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother ofpersonified gods such as Hypnos (sleep) and Thánatos (death). Her appearances in mythology are sparse, but reveal her as...

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  • Titans

    Titans

    Posted on August 2, 2009 | No Comments
    In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek: Τιτάν - Ti-tan; plural: Τιτᾶνες - Ti-tânes), were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. Their role as Elder Gods was overthrown by a race of younger gods, the Olympians, which effected a mythological paradigm shift that the Greeks may have borrowed from the Ancient Near...

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  • The Kraken

    The Kraken

    Posted on February 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Below the giant thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the...

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  • Kubla Kahn

    Kubla Kahn

    Posted on November 11, 2008 | No Comments
    In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man     Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with...

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  • Spring Heeled Jack

    Spring Heeled Jack

    Posted on October 23, 2008 | No Comments
    119 Spring Heeled Jack (also Springheel Jack, Spring-heel Jack, etc), is a character from English folklore said to have existed during the Victorian era and able to jump extraordinarily high. The first claimed sighting of Spring Heeled Jack that is known occurred in 1837. Later...

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  • Fomorians

    Fomorians

    Posted on October 14, 2008 | No Comments
    The fomorians, whose name means ‘dark of the sea,’ were a race of Gaelic demons said to be the offspring of Noah’s son, Ham. They are said to have the body of a man and the head of a goat, according to an 11th century...

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  • H.P. Lovecraft: Cthulhu

    H.P. Lovecraft: Cthulhu

    Posted on October 10, 2008 | No Comments
    The most detailed descriptions of Cthulhu in “The Call of Cthulhu” are based on statues of the creature. One, constructed by an artist after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have “yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature…....

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