Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for #Monday's theme: BONES. How are bones featured in mythology? Use the hashtag #MythologyMonday and write out a story. See you soon! 🦴🦴🦴
There is a Jewish tradition that the luz bone houses the soul, though scholars differ on exactly where in the spine the luz is located. It will not decay and will be the source of recreating the body at the time of resurrection.
Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for #Monday's theme: Fruits, Nuts, and Seeds. Which myths feature a fruit or nut as part of the story? Write out a tale and tag us with #MythologyMonday. See you on December 4 🌰
Alas, I haven't translated any of the numerous "witch-gifted apples with evil toads" tales from German folklore yet. But I will see what else I can find... 😉
The Egyptian god Set being called the "red-headed god" marked him as an outsider. It linked him to the red desert sands rather than the fertile black soil where most Egyptians lived. It also gave him the hair colour of a foreigner; Set was the god of foreigners. #mythologymonday#folklore#mythology#Egypt
Greetings, myth lovers! Join @AimeeMaroux for today's theme: redheads. Which #myths feature redheads, gingers, or otherwise red-haired characters? Tell us a the myth & tag #MythologyMonday with your #redhead lore. See you #Monday! 👩🦰
In #JapaneseFolklore there is an insect yokai known as tsutsugamushi. They are large and red with huge jaws and long antennae. They live deep in the mountains but come out at night and creep into houses to drink the blood of sleeping humans, which can cause all kinds of terrible illnesses such as fevers, stomach bugs and coughing. In many cases an attack results in the death of the victim. #MythologyMonday#folklore#yokai@folklore
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A 16th century Japanese medical text explains how diseases were caused by tiny bugs that entered the body and were known as creepy germs or mushi. One of these was known as kosho, an odd, bearded, snake-like, sake-drinking creature whose hat protects it from medicine. #MythologyMonday#JapaneseFolklore#yokai#folklore#spookyseason@folklore
@curiousordinary@folklore@skye The Japanese manga "Mushishi" tells the story of a "mushi doctor" who goes around and helps people co-exist with the various mushi. It was also turned into an anime, which I highly recommend.
Greetings, myth lovers! Join @AimeeMaroux for today's theme: Pumpkins. Which myths feature pumpkins, gourds or squashes? Tell us a the myth & tag #MythologyMonday with your #pumpkin lore. See you #Monday! 🎃
Not a myth, but one of my favorite folktales is the Persian tale of Pumpkin Girl (or Melon Girl). It's about a woman who adopts a crying pumpkin and raises it as her child. At school during lunchtime, a girl sneaks out of the pumpkin to eat in secret. A neighbor's son sees her and falls in love with her. The rest is a Cinderella story, and eventually the pumpkin turns into a girl for good.
Hi, Myth Lovers! Join @AimeeMaroux for Monday's theme: #WorldFoodDay. Which myths feature food, feasts or famines? Write up a story & tag #MythologyMonday with your food lore. See you #Monday! 🥘
Thanks for your tales of FIRST PEOPLE today! This is your host @independentpen signing off. Be sure to catch #MythologyMonday again next week, when your host @AimeeMaroux will post a new topic!
Welcome back! I'm your host @independentpen and our topic this week is FIRST PEOPLE. Share a tale from world mythology in the body of your post, tag it #MythologyMonday, and I'll RT all day in Pacific time!
According to Vietnamese folklore, the Jade Emperor was so impressed by the courage demonstrated by Toad when he traveled all the way to Heaven in order to plead for rain to end a drought that he bestowed the title of “Uncle of Heaven” upon the amphibian. #MythologyMonday
@antiquidons#Astronomy and calendars are the domain of #Hermes. His grandfather Atlas turns the heavenly constellations and his mother Maia is one of the starry Pleiades.
Atlas instructed him in astronomy and the Greek mythographer Euhemeros says that #Aphrodite first established the constellations and taught Hermes. The planet #Mercury is attributed to Hermes because he first established the months and perceived the courses of the constellations.
#Hermes looks up at the sky as he ascends from the underworld. The constellation Virgo greets him with shining stars. It will be another 420 years before it's the lion marking summer's end. Hermes pulls his cloak tighter and leaps into the chilly air. Autumn is here.
Hipparchos was better in math than I'll ever be. But maybe the read was entertaining? If so, support this poor writer by joining her #Patreon: https://patreon.com/aimeemaroux