Tag Archives: mythology
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…
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…
Ophiuchus: Chunk the First
What happened was this: a week ago, I checked out a perfectly innocent astronomy picture, showing a rather sweet nebula (hi res version here) in the constellation of Ophiuchus, and thought no more about it. Then a few hours later, … more…
Megalithomania report
Back hurting yesterday becomes severe back pain today, and a deadline looming for tomorrow. Hence the lack of bloggage. What follows is a little impoverished, linkwise, for which even more apologies… Okay, Megalithomania report. I caught eight of the presentations, … more…
Hello Kitty Tarot
Hello Kitty Tarot – I do try to avoid blogging stuff about which I have absolutely nothing to say, but every now and then, I just have to hit that bookmarklet, and the words, they don’t come. Sigh. (via Uppity … more…
Cerne Abbas condom intervention
Product placement The UK Family Planning Association put a condom on the Cerne Abbas Giant last weekend. Tacky as it is, this is not the worst indignity suffered by the vast chalk carving in its history: during the C19th, cretinous … more…