bevanthomas

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

Sometimes in British legends, Fairyland is underground. However, other times it is in the far west, across the Atlantic Ocean, and so must be sailed to. Fairyland being across the ocean inspired J. R. R. Tolkien to have his elves sail west to return to their homeland.
🎨 Darrell K. Sweet
#MythologyMonday

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

Many legends feature someone with no powers recruiting a team of superpowered heroes to help him on a quest (Greece's "The Argonauts," Grimms' fairy tale "Six Servants," etc.). In "Argonauts," the heroes are demigods, but other stories don't explain the powers.
🎨 Lorenzo Costa
#MythologyMonday

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to Theatre

"The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman."

• William Shakespeare, "King Lear" (Act 3, Scene 4)

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bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

"It is the bone of a man’s head," [Mowgli] said quietly.

"They came to take the treasure away many years ago." The White Cobra fairly shook with evil delight. "I spoke to them in the dark, and they lay still...."

• Rudyard Kipling, "The Second Jungle Book"
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bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

"There's a snake on the western wave,
And his crest is red.
He's as long as a city street,
And he eats the dead.
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
Where the snake goes down.
And he waits in the bottom of the sea
For the men that drown...."

• Vachel Lindsay, "Sea Serpent Chantey"
  🎨 James W. Buel
  #BookologyThursday

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

In the "Divine Comedy: Paradiso," Dante sees the blessed souls in Heaven arranged in the shape of an immense white rose that shines with God's light. The queen of the rose is the Virgin Mary, who in Catholic symbolism is often represented by a rose herself.
🎨 Gustave Dore
#TempleThursday

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

Five topics I can talk about for 30 minutes unprepared?

1. King Arthur

2. Robin Hood

3. Greek Mythology

4. Norse Mythology

5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to 13thFloor

Margaret Jones was an artist most famous for the strange, haunting illustrations she created for various children's books of Welsh myths by Dr. Gwyn Thomas.
https://blog.library.wales/margaret-jones/

#WyrdWednesday #OfDarkandMacabre #BookChatWeekly #mythology #folklore #Celtic #Wales #MargaretJones #art

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bevanthomas, 3 months ago to fantasy

Sphinxes by Orphné Achéron, an artist who draws heavily on mythological imagery.
https://instagram.com/orphne_acheron

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bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

In a Czech fairy tale, a childless couple adopts a log and names it "Otesánek." When the log comes alive, the couple is unable to keep their new son fed. Eventually the growing Otesánek starts to eat humans. Czech director Jan Švankmajer adapted the fairy tale into a movie.
#LegendaryWednesday

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to art

"The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" by Francisco Goya

#WyrdWednesday #31DaysofHaunting #Goya #art #gothic #horror #dream #nightmare #monster

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

In Norse myths, Garm is the watchdog of the Underworld. Garm and Tyr will kill each other at Ragnarok. Since Tyr had previously lost his hand to the similar Fenris Wolf, some scholars theorize that Garm and Fenris were the same beast in an earlier version.
🎨 Johannes Gehrts
#FairyTaleTuesday

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

King Arthur owned the hound Cavall in Welsh myth. His name is similar to a Latin word for "horse," indicating great size, strength, and speed. While hunting the giant boar Trwyth, Cavall left a permanent footprint on a stone cairn, which is impossible to remove.
#FairyTaleTuesday

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to random

The phoenix is one of the most iconic symbols of immortality and rebirth - the bird that dies in a burst of fire and then rises from its own ashes. In some versions, the phoenix just spontaneously combusts, but in others it builds and lights its own funeral pyre.
🎨 Friedrich Bertuch
#FolkloreSunday

bevanthomas, 3 months ago to literature

"Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on."

• William Shakespeare, "Othello" (Act 3, Scene 3)

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bevanthomas, 4 months ago to random

"The Well at the World's End" (1896) by William Morris features Ralph, prince of Upmeads, as he quests for the Well at the World's End. Very influential, arguably the first fantasy novel whose world has a completely invented geography distinct from our own.
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