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Tu Di Gong and his wife in a village earth god shrine
Chinese Mythology

Tu Di Gong: The Local Earth God in Chinese Folk Religion

zhang guolao s quirky escapades
Chinese Mythology

Zhang Guolao: The Backward-Riding Immortal

Di Jun between the ten suns and twelve moons with Xihe and Changxi
Chinese Mythology

Di Jun: Ancestral God of Suns and Moons

ancient greek deity fights
Greek Mythology

Typhon or Typhoeus? Sources, Zeus’s Battle, and the Monster Genealogy

Hou Tu presides over mountains rivers and fields as Sovereign Earth
Chinese Mythology

Houtu: Sovereign Earth in Chinese Religion

matchmaking deity in china
Chinese Mythology

Yue Lao: The Old Man Under the Moon

Baosheng Dadi with healing herbs a medical text and tiger guardian
Chinese Mythology

Baosheng Dadi: The Medicine God and Wu Ben

chinese qixi festival details
Chinese Mythology

Qixi: The Weaver Girl, Cowherd, and Festival of Skills

aztec divine duality deity
Aztec Mythology

Ometeotl: The Scholarly Debate Over a Nahua God of Duality

chinese folklore immortal woman
Chinese Mythology

Ma Gu: Immortal of Longevity and Changing Seas

ancient mythical giant creatures
Greek Mythology

Hecatoncheires: Cottus, Briareus, and Gyes in the Titanomachy

aztec mythology creation story
Aztec Mythology

Cihuacoatl: Snake Woman, Childbirth, War, and a Mexica Political Office

creation from primordial chaos
Greek Mythology

Chaos in Greek Myth: Hesiod’s Primordial Chasm, Not a Creator God

Mictecacihuatl represented in a Mexica inspired ceremonial setting
Aztec Mythology

Mictecacihuatl: Lady of Mictlan and the Limits of Modern Retelling

inventor of chinese script
Chinese Mythology

Cangjie: Legend of Chinese Writing and the Oracle-Bone Record

iris messenger of gods
Greek Mythology

Iris: Rainbow Goddess and Swift Messenger in Greek Epic

Perseus carrying the closed kibisis bag after meeting Medusa
Relics

Kibisis: The Bag That Carried Medusa’s Head in Perseus’s Myth

chinese mythological figure deifies
Chinese Mythology

Nüwa Creates Humanity: Yellow Earth and Early Sources

Aztec Mythology

Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl: Wind, the Fifth Sun, and Circular Temples

legendary celtic mythical weapon
Relics

Gáe Bolg: Cú Chulainn’s Barbed Spear in the Táin

ancient chinese herbalist legend
Chinese Mythology

Shennong: Divine Farmer, Agriculture, and Materia Medica

inseparable greek myth siblings
Greek Mythology

Castor and Polydeuces: Parentage, Shared Immortality, and the Dioscuri

xolotl deity guide underworld
Aztec Mythology

Xolotl: Evening Star, Divine Twin, and Guide Toward Mictlan

epic viking curse tale
Relics

Egill Skallagrímsson’s Bones: What the Saga Says and Medicine Cannot Prove

Ikutamayorihime holding a red thread in the Mount Miwa story
Japanese Mythology

Ikutamayorihime: The Thread That Revealed the God of Mount Miwa

silk production breakthrough revealed
Chinese Mythology

Leizu: Silk, Sericulture, and a Culture-Hero Legend

ancient deities of power
Greek Mythology

Titans in Greek Myth: The Elder Gods, Cronus, and the Titanomachy

ancient aztec mythological figure
Aztec Mythology

Tlaltecuhtli: Earth, Creation, and the Great Templo Mayor Monolith

legendary irish sword fragarach
Relics

Fragarach: Textual History of Manannán and Lugh’s “Answerer”

creative writing about dragons
Japanese Mythology

Toyotama-hime: Hoori, the Wani, and the Broken Birth Taboo

kitchen god s storytelling tales
Chinese Mythology

Zao Jun: The Kitchen God and the New Year Report

the goddess of night
Greek Mythology

Nyx: Night in Hesiod, Homer, and Greek Cosmogony

pilgrims unite at black stone
Relics

Kaabas Black Stone Unites Pilgrims

Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic beside Kandy Lake in Sri Lanka
Japanese Mythology

Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic: History and Worship

festival honoring maize deity
Aztec Mythology

Centeotl: Maize, Gender, and the Mexica Agricultural Cycle

A lance head displayed in a medieval Christian reliquary
Greek Mythology

The Holy Lance: History, Relics, and the Longinus Legend

sea god s powerful weapon
Relics

Poseidon’s Trident: Cyclopean Gift, Homeric Weapon, and Divine Attribute

divine messenger from heaven
Japanese Mythology

Ame-no-Wakahiko: The Failed Envoy and the Returning Arrow

legendary blade forges destiny
Greek Mythology

Durendal: Roland’s Sword in the Song of Roland

elixir of forgetfulness brewed
Chinese Mythology

Meng Po: The Brew of Forgetfulness and a Late Chinese Underworld Tradition

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