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What happened with the Golden Fleece?
As we all know, Jason and his company of Argonauts took the Golden Fleece from Colchis. What happened with it afterwards? Is it mentioned in any other story of the Greek mythology?
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Is there a word for the type of creatures that feeds off human energy, such as emotions?
Is there a common, categorical name for creatures that become stronger and more powerful by feeding off living beings' emotions, such as fear, anger, greed?
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Were each of the myths in the Epic Cycle of Greek mythology intended to be related to one another?
The Epic Cycle, a group of eight Greek epics, collectively tell the story of the Trojan War, as well as related events. It is an ongoing matter of debate as to when the epics were first complied into a "cycle", and as it doesn't seem as if that…
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Star islands in Egyptian cosmology
Among the phenomena they describe is the Milky Way, which the Egyptians called "the beaten path of stars". Like other parts of the sky, it could be navigated by boat, and was apparently viewed as a series of islands in the midst of celestial…
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What did Cuchulainn's warp spasm look like?
In the Táin Bó Cúailnge, or Cattle Raid of Cooley, the great Irish hero Cuchulainn is said to undergo a process which appears to be quite similar to "hulking out". The most colorful translation of the phrase used to describe this transformation is…
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Are there any relations between Norse elves and Celtic fairies, or their home realms?
A lot of, if not most, modern fantasy tends to have 'Elven' races that seem to be largely inspired by the Norse Elves, likely by way of Tolkien. There also seems to be a large amount of Celtic influence, however. This has got me wondering, are there…
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Is The Golden Bough still relevant today?
I have a condensed copy of James Frazer's The Golden Bough lying on the floor of my room (the 1922 edition), and I'm trying to decide if I should read it.
Is reading this 800+ page "condensed" book worth my time? Is it relevant in today's…
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Are there Kali-types deities in other pantheons?
Is Kali, the dancing goddess, with skull necklaces, and blood licking tongue, unique? Specifically the mix of joyous rapture, death embrace, yet mothering and sexual.
Eros and Thanatos, at once a maiden, a mother and a crone.
Are there other…
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Why does Óðr (Oder) travel away from Freyja?
In chapter 36 of the Gylfaginning, it is said that:
The sixth is Freyja, who is ranked with Frigg. She is wedded to the man whose name is Oder; their daughter's name is Hnos, and she is so fair that all things fair and precious are called, from her…
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What is this myth: elderly couple unwittingly feed gods, changed into tree
I studied Latin in 7th grade, and my teacher used to read some stories from Greek and Roman mythology to us. There is one of those that I wanted to learn more about, but haven't been able to find. Here is what I remember. Bear with me, that was over…
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Why do Mormons believe Quetzalcoatl (and other American deities) are actually Christ?
I've been doing some research into Quetzalcoatl, and one of the surprising things about him is that Mormons think he is Christ (Mormons believe Christ visited America, and that the story of Quetzalcoatl is actually a corrupted version of the story…
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Where did this story about stars being part of a board game come from?
I have a memory that must be from before the year 2000, so I'm very unsure of the details, of reading what I think was a mythology book from a country with less famous mythology, maybe from the Middle East or South Asia. There was a story in the…
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Why did Odysseus pretend to be Helen's suitor if he wanted to win Penelope?
An important point in the story of the Iliad is that Odysseus (hoping to win the hand of Penelope, King Tyndareus niece), proposes an "Oath of Tyndareus", which binds all the suitors of Helen to join one another if one of the suitors abducts her…
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Who were the twelve princes of Gaul?
In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Brutus wanders about western Europe, stopping in, amongst other places, Aquitane and Gaul. He vanquished Goffarius, king of the Pictavians at Aquitane, with the help of Corineus, the leader of the…
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Bendigeidfran's head was one of the Three Fortunate concealments; what are the other two?
Bendigeidfran's head was one of the Three Fortunate concealments (emphasis mine):
'Shame on my beard,' said he 'if I don't open the door and find out whether it is true what is said about it. [So] he opened the door, and looked out to Cornwall and…
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