"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
People are always misplacing this one and, due to the proximity of his exhibition to the Goya one I wrote about yesterday, I'm unsurprised that some people queuing for the ticket thought they were contemporaries. Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco because he moved to...
The exhibition is called "The Rebellion of Reason", echoing Goya's famous statement on the monsters-producing sleep of reason, it's set up at the lower level of Milan's Royal Palace, and it's curated by Víctor Nieto Alcaide, an 83-years-old Spanish historian of arts (and historian of...
In Greek mythology, Minthe was an underworld naiad, a nymph of water, connected with the infernal river Cocytus, so I guess this could also work for #MermaidMonday. Hades, king of the Underworld, was very fond of her and she eventually became his mistress, but this...
Among the most common are that myths are stories about gods, myths are sacred stories, myths are stories that explain the way the world is, or myths are simply traditional stories that hand on collective knowledge or experience. Writers from various disciplines and intellectual movements have...
Borrowing G.S. Kirk's distinction between three kinds of myth, today on my Patreon we take a look at entertainment, operative, charter and explanatory myths, and what this distinction means for us when we tell a story. The post will be released to the public tomorrow,...
A thermal lake with waters that are rendered warm after staying entrapped for 25 years in crystal, a young Count suffering from chronic pain, a fateful encounter on Saint John's Eve. Join me on my Patreon for some Italian merfolk this Monday. ...
Tuchulcha was a double-gendered, lesser deity in Etruscan mythology, announcer of death and guide through the Underworld. They're today's feature on my Patreon. ...
In Egypt, concepts that might in other cultures belong to the realm of ab- stract philosophy were expressed by symbols, images, and, to a lesser extent, myths. Geraldine Pinch, Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt (2002) While I was at...
The Gwragedd Annwn, Wives of the Lower Lands, are Welsh water creatures connected with the myth of how the black cow came to be. They're today's feature on my Patreon. ...
Once upon a time, the god Ra started to grow old and humanity plotted to overthrow him. Upon discovering their treachery, he assembled the gods and decided to send against men a female embodyiment of his wrath: the goddess Hathor in the form of the...
