The Multi-Headed Serpent (Mythology Synchroblog 5)

4 Comments | December 1, 2008 at 12:23 pm by mahud

This post is one of many in the Fifth Mythology Synchroblog: Mythical Monsters and Otherworldly Entities (View the list of other bloggers below)
Seven-Headed Serpent of Mesopotamia
There is an Akkadian Seal impression (mid to late 3rd millennium B.C.), excavated from Tell Asmar (Iraq, near Eshnunna), that depicts two gods slaying a gigantic monster with seven serpentine […]

Mythology Sychroblog: Journeying To Otherworlds

6 Comments | August 28, 2008 at 9:20 pm by mahud

Thank you all for your fantastic contributions:

Faith and the Hero’s Journey (Hawk’s Cry: The voice of a witch)
Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied (Between Old and New Moons)
Lions at the Door (Quaker Pagan Reflections)
More Than These Words (Aquila ka Hecate)
Journeying to Otherworlds (The Dance of the Elements)
Mythology Synchroblog 4: Children’s Story for Mabo (Pagan Dad)
Underground Ruminations […]

Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied (Mythology Synchroblog 4)

12 Comments | August 21, 2008 at 3:54 am by mahud

This post is one of many in the fourth Mythology Synchroblog (View the list of other bloggers below)
Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied
Our transition from child to adulthood to old age to death is often marked by some kind of rite of passage within various systems of belief. Each transition, in reality, is a gradual one: […]

Vertical Dualism of Mother Earth and Father Sky (Mythology Synchroblog 3)

7 Comments | May 1, 2008 at 7:15 am by mahud

This post is one of many in the third Mythology Synchroblog (View the list of other bloggers below)
…the primordial image of Mother Earth…is found throughout the world in countless forms and variants. It is the Terra Mater or Tellus Mater so familiar to Mediterranean religions, who gives birth to all beings.
…In some religions Mother Earth […]

The Great Mother from Asia Minor to Rome

10 Comments | April 2, 2008 at 6:52 am by mahud

My contribution for the Mythology Synchroblog on the theme of Motherhood. For more posts see below.
Sections

The Anatolian Mother
Cybele in Greece
Magna Mater in Rome
Magna Mater’s Spring Festival (15th and 27th March)
The Taurobolium in the Magna Mater Cult

The Anatolian Mother
Both the Greek and Roman worship of the Great Mother derives from Anatolia/Asia Minor (Turkey). Her name appears […]

Chanting the Landscape (Mythology Synchroblog)

5 Comments | March 1, 2008 at 1:56 am by mahud

Before the creation of the Navajo people (dine), Holy People (diyin dine’e), journeyed toward the present upper world through a series of horizontally layered underground worlds. These underground worlds were the epitome of chaos, the result of the diyin dine’e living in a state of disharmony with the surrounding world. Despite these conditions diyin dine’e […]