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How was the reputation of Zhuge Liang established, before joining Liu Bei?
According to legend (particularly Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"), after Liu Bei pays three visits to the remote thatched cottage of the strategist Zhuge Liang (Kongming), he agrees to join him.
Zhuge Liang is touted as among the…
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How did horses become integrated into Navajo mythology?
I've been reading a lot of Native American mythology, and I've noticed that horses play a prominent role in several stories. For example:
Looking around, she saw a great white horse with black eyes. He had a long white mane, and he pranced above…
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Did Zeus have any male lovers?
Many of the Greek gods were bisexual. Did Zeus have any male lovers?
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What are the origins of the mythic Shachihoko?
A shachihoko (鯱鉾) is an animal in Japanese folklore with the head of a tiger and the body of a carp. It is said to bring rain so is often used on roofs, most notably on Nagoya Castle:
Since tigers became extinct in Japan in prehistoric times, it is…
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How do the valkyries choose among the warriors in a battle?
The valkyries are female demigod warriors from the Norse mythology. They served Odin by choosing, among the warriors in a battle, who dies and who lives and from the ones who die which ones go to Valhalla, to become Odin's einherjar and wait in the…
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Is Erebos a deity or a place?
The Wikipedia on the Erinyes (Furies) is that they live in Erebus:
The Erinyes live in Erebus and are more ancient deities than any of the Olympians.
This is backed up by Homer:
According to the Homeric notion, the Erinnyes, whom the poet…
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Where did the notion the moon was made of cheese originate?
We've all at one point or another heard something about the moon being made of cheese- does anyone know where this myth got started?
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What kind of offerings did worshipers make to Thor?
I'm currently playing a role-playing game as a cleric that worships a god of storms and I'm researching what kinds of offerings that god would likely accept.
What examples are there of the kinds of offerings that were made to Thor?
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Is there a common theme of dragon meat being toxic?
I have noticed a few stories that talk about dragons having toxic blood or meat. Their offshoots(?), wyverns, have a particular association with poison.
Despite this, there is a lot of culture related to eating dragons, which continues to the modern…
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Slavic mythology, human-animal hybrid creature
In Greek mythologies, there are a lot of human-animal hybrid creatures (Satyr, Centaur or Lamia, to name a few...), but I can't find any from Slavic mythos.
The best list I found is on Wikipedia - but AFAIK there are only full-monster (like…
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What treasure was made by famous mortal men, who we know by name, in Greek mythology?
The stories of ancient Greek mythology mention many cases when mortal men use treasure forged by gods, usually by Hēphaistos.
The most famous example might be the armor of Achilleus, which Odysseus has won after Achilleus's death. Another example…
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Are Noah and Ziusudra the same person?
There are similarities between the stories of Noah from the Bible and Ziusudra hero of the Sumerian flood epic.
Both stories describe a flood myth.
Based on what kind of information/similarities we can say that both stories describe the same flood…
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Were Romulus and Remus real people?
In Roman mythology Romulus and Remus were two brothers that were kept alive by suckling from a wolf. Romulus later kills Remus and that is supposedly how Rome got its name.
But were Romulus and Remus real people?
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Is it Heracles or Herakles?
In the question, "What happened to Theseus after Heracles found him" that I answered, someone edited my answer and replaced Heracles with Herakles. I was confused because when I searched up Heracles on the internet, it showed that he was spelled…
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Why does Medea escape punishment?
Medea murders her brother Absyrtus to facilitate her's and Jason's escape from Colchis. In some versions of the myth - most notably in Euripides's eponymous play - she also murders her sons to revenge Jason for abandoning her. Yet,…
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