Death’s Messengers — Folk Story, & Background On The Gigantes Of Greek Mythology (Giants)

November 24, 2016 in Stories

On the roads of an old day, a giant* was once wandering along a highway when, out of nowhere, a stranger appeared, and shouted “You’ll have to stop here. Not a step further.”

“What?” said the giant. “Why would I stop here? Who are you to speak so boldly?”

“I am Death,” answered the stranger. “Everyone obeys my orders, one way or another, you know.”
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Tezcatlipoca — Jaguars, The Night Sky, Obsidian, Divination, The Night’s Winds, The Smoking/Erupting Mirror, & The Days

November 24, 2016 in Stories

Jaguar Tepeyollotl

Tezcatlipoca was of the night’s sky, and made with it his divination, and his jaguars. And a smoking/erupting mirror, that made an enemy of both sides, and of the near and the nigh, as a lord is an enemy even as possessor of the earth and the sky.
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The Smith And Death (The Smith And The Devil) – Story

November 24, 2016 in Stories

In a village once, there was a man who was not as the others in the village were, he was good. He was a blacksmith, and he worked at the smithy that he had built. And death watched him, and wondered why he was good. And so he decided to test the blacksmith.

And so death went to the blacksmith’s forge, and he told the smith, “I am a blacksmith, I know the craft well. I can do the work of ten men, and I can do it well. If you want to know my price, it’s simple, it’s 10 copper pieces a day.

The blacksmith was happy to hear the price, for it was so low, and so he hired him. And so death began to work, and it was as he said, he could do the work of ten men, and for only 10 coins a day of copper.
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The Two Wrestlers — Inter-Action, Context, & Experience In A Mobius Universe

November 24, 2016 in Stories

A two-ton wrestler, unbeaten in his own land, went searching for a three-ton wrestler, who he had heard lived not very far away. The two wrestlers met, and they began wrestling in the field of a farmer. In the process of doing so, they killed and crushed six or seven goats, part of a herd of forty or fifty, belonging to an old woman living nearby.
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Mermaids — Common Threads Of Mythologies & Folk-Stories From Around The World (Melusine, Merrow, Rusalkas, & Finfolk Of The Orkneys)

November 24, 2016 in Stories

The word mermaid originates with the Old English compound of mere (meaning “sea”) and maid (meaning unmarried “girl/woman”). Older stories sometimes used the term merewif. In many of the stories of the region (British Isles), such “mermaids” were depicted similarly to the sirens of Greek stories such as the Odyssey — beautiful women with enchanting voices, who tried to lure sailors to shipwreck and stranding on the islands that they inhabited. That certainly paints a different picture than the pop culture image of a mermaid doesn’t it?

There are some early depictions of mermaids though that aren’t vastly different in nature than modern ones, but there are also some that hold nothing in common with modern depictions as well. The culture that the associated stories spring from predictably seems to have a lot to do with the nature of the “mermaids” in question. For instance, the Slavic corollary, Rusalkas, are usually depicted as being the restless spirits of young women who died violent, or untimely deaths. These Rusalkas inhabit the rivers, streams, and lakes, of the region, and attempt to lure young men to their drowning — presumably as resolution for their own violent or untimely deaths.

Waterhouse mermaid painting famous
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