Category Archives: mythology
links for 2010-03-18: St. Patrick’s Day
The Secret Sun: The (Not-So) Secret History of Saint Patrick's Day fascinating occult history of St. Patrick's Day. No mention of Guiness. (via TDG) (tags: St.-Patrick's-Day Osiris Bacchanalia Freemasonry)
Get thee behind me, Santa
I’m back, and very glad to be back. I am also full of a nasty head cold, so posting is likely to be a bit underwhelming for a few days more. Illustration from Robert Anton Wilson’s exposition of the ancient … more…
Thanksgiving
Yup, it’s that time again. See last year.
Inside the Hollow Earth « strange maps
strange maps has an interesting historical run-down, very light on the linkage, but easily remedied by pointing Wikipedia at “hollow earth“. I might have posted on this subject while I was reading the relevant passage in Against the Day, but … more…
Cerne Abbas intervention, again. This time it’s Homer.
The small but perfectly formed controversy over Homer Simpson’s appearance in the field adjoining the Cerne Abbas giant has brought a little traffic this way already today, before I’d even got around to considering whether to run with it here. … more…
The Yule Cat — Stakhanovite Prophylactic Knitting Song
Last night I attended a most enjoyable Folk Yule organised by Scott and Claire from SELFS at Tanners Hill, Deptford — in the course of which the assembled company were introduced to the Icelandic Jólakötturinn, or Yule Cat legend — … more…
Modern Alchemy: Tincture of Winchester
I am partial to smoky flavours — smoked cheese, smoked fish, smoked tea, all that good stuff — so the Tincture of Winchester candle, apparently named after the rifle and giving forth, according to this here online brochure, an aroma … more…
Myths Over Miami
Fascinating emergent mythologies abroad amongst the homeless children of Miami: Satan harbors a special hatred of Miami owing to a humiliation he suffered while on an Ocean Drive reconnaissance mission. He was hunting for gateways for his demons and was … more…
Zapruder Frames
39 years ago today in Dealey Plaza, JFK shot dead by person or persons unknown, givng rise to the conspiracy theory leisure industry. My recommended reading? Don Delillo’s fictional biography of the putative perp / patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in … more…
Joseph Campbell Saves The World
/ In which the late, great master of myth reveals just how foolish all our religious impudence is, again Mark Morford’s appreciation of PBS showing Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth series again. Has this series ever been shown in … more…