Mythology and Paganism
I classify Cernunnos (Celtic) as a threshold God. Other mythological characters of this type I include Noah (Hebrew), Dionysus (Greek), Shiva (Hindu), and many more, but for this brief article I want to focus on Cernunnos and the iconography surrounding this God, particularly the God’s headdress as shown on the Gundestrup cauldron (Denmark: 2nd to […]
Apollo, created for Jeff over at Druid Journal: Word of the Day » Apollo
The God Apollo
Image based on Gustave Moreau’s Apollo and the Nine Muses
Garden of Eden and the Mythological Axis Mundi
As a Christian, I believed that there were two trees in the garden of Eden. As I began to study mythology, I came to the conclusion that the garden of Eden was a kind of axis-mundi, probably situated on a mountain, with it’s four rivers symbolic of the […]
I discovered the article Why Pagans Aren’t Really Pagan, via Under a Violet Sun, submitted to Metapagan. Basically the author claims that just because the ancients did not identify themselves as Pagan, then modern day Pagans are nothing of the sort.
One thing moderns who think of themselves as pagans have that ancient pagans never […]
Leviathan seems to come from Canaanite mythology, through comparisons made with the multi-headed serpent called Lotan (ltn), from the Ugaritic tablets, discovered at Ras Shamra.
Lotan was killed by the god Ba’al (other sources indicate that the goddess Anat, or maybe both of them Killed Lotan). Bernhard Anderson, in Out of the Depths: The Psalms Speak […]
Recite this chant before using the Pagan name generator
Oh, great Pseudonomys, god of monikers
Empower this web page to reveal my true name.”
From now on you can call me Sun Rune Glimmer
Image requested by Cathy (Rose of the World)
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Morrigan (small)
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This post originally started out as a comment to a recent post at Druid Journal, Hearing the Song of the World, where Jeff shares the story of Komo the Shepherd boy.
It’s surprising that the tale of Komo is not traditional. I also thought of the myth of Adam, naming all the animals in the garden, […]
Far beyond all oceans, lakes, rivers and springs, Medusa coils endlessly, weaving the web of life, like a half forgotton dance. Maneuvering through these landscapes of time, a driving audhumla, dancing down the moon laughs, and cries aloud,
“Oh, magic in these hills, in ten thousand days, will I reach Pandora’s Bazaar?”
And like […]
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