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 | | Cat in Folktales and Myths | | by balisunset, Aug 3, 2008 | | Parallel to Bast, the cat was featured in Egyptian mythology as one of the many incarnations of the solar god Ra, who struggles against and eventually kills an evil serpent. The amalgamation of the cat and the dragonslayer has left traces in Oriental as well as European folklore, where the motif often got inverted. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | An Introduction on Finnish Folktales | | by balisunset, Jul 28, 2008 | | Finnish folktales derive from two European traditions. Folktales arrived in western Finland from Scandinavia, primarily from Sweden, whereas the folktales of eastern Finland were shaped by traditions of northern Russia. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Nuclear Winter: Fulfilling the Sixth Seal | | by Andrew De Vera Ibisate, Jul 27, 2008 | | Revelation 6:12-15 talks about a sixth seal that would bring violent earthquakes, turning sun into black and moon into blood. Stars will fall, mountains and islands will move. Does a nuclear war have anything to do about this? | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Atlantis: Fact or Fiction? | | by The Quail 1957, Jul 26, 2008 | | A look at different theories on the lost continent Atlantis, and a look at "What If", thinking outside of the box. | | Comments(22) Liked It: 14 |
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 | | Folktales in Pre-Industrial England | | by balisunset, Jul 24, 2008 | | In the early and medieval periods, magical and fantastic motifs occur abundantly in works whose overall plots do not fit into the Aarne-Thompson folktale typology. Thus, the hero of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf (c. 700–1000 CE) defends a house against an ogre, whom he defeats by tearing his arm off; then he plunges down through a pool to an underwater Otherworld, where he kills the ogre’s mother. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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