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The Godyssey Podcast - Master thread Herein lies a link to all seasons and episodes of the Godyssey Podcast, posted below. It can be found on your podcast provider of choice.

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Cronus made these for all of Rhea's baby showers.

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Loki knows what he likes.

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In Indian history, Vishakanya are assassins, women who ingested poisoned herbs and chemicals to the point any bodily liquid was death to other humans. Thus they were a subtle form of assassination, utilized in statecraft to do what the distant sword could not. #FaustianFriday

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I feel like more religious parables from around the world should be modernized like this.

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Samhain is the first month of the Irish calendar, and the beginning of the dark half of the year. In Gaelic folklore it is this time the Caileach lays out her cloak and walks with her frosty hammer, covering the land in ever-increasing white. #FolkloreSunday

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Cernunnos is the Celtic horned god, called the great peacemaker and master of the wild places. This figure is largely mysterious, and we only know his name from a single source, a stone pillar in Paris, yet he has captured the modern imagination of Celtophiles. #FolkloreSunday

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Iceland is covered in miniature homes, for these are the home of the alvar: the elves of Iceland. By leaving these homes out and occasionally offerings, they take care of the land spirits and encourage them to in turn take care of the people of Iceland. #LegendaryWednesday

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History's most successful female pirate is Ching Shih, who at her height commanded between 40k and 60k pirates and had a fleet of 400 junks. She defied Qing China, the East India Company, and the Portuguese, and died peacefully of old age. #TalkLikeAPirateDay 🖼: T. Wicinas

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In Greek myth the dark half of the year begins as Persephone reclaims her throne as Queen of the Underworld: flowers no longer bloom, the earth becomes lifeless, to match Demeter's sorrow. #FolkloreSunday 🖼: S. Clarkson/R. Tayler

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G. Klimt, "The Allegory of Sculpture" 1889

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Respect the elves

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Of course Stevie Nicks is Artemis; she's a Sister of the Moon, after all.

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A deity of truly Hellenistic proportions, Aion is the god of time and eternity, and the master of the heavens, specifically the wheel of the zodiac, which is his symbol. Time is a circle: the wheel of the year meets beginning and end at the same place. #TempleThursday

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Many cultures have hyperbole to indicate "long, long ago" in mythic times, but Korea's is uniquely strange: "back when tigers used to smoke" is one of many ways tigers appear in Korean folklore and myth. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Fylgja are spirit companions that connect immediately with newborns and follow them throughout their lives, most commonly taking the form of animals. Often the animal reflects the person it is attached to, and can appear physically or in dreams. #FairytaleTuesday 🖼️: J. Bauer

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The popular image of Cernunnos surrounded by animals, demanding peace between them, is drawn from the Gundastrup Cauldron, found in Denmark. While we have no idea who the figure is, popular folklore has made this the defining image of the Gaulish god Cernunnos. #FolkloreSunday

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Hey. Let's talk modern occultism in Japan, because anime absolutely does not do it justice. Short 🧵 for #FaustianFriday August, 1945. Emperor Hirohito announces the surrender of Japan to the Japanese people via radio, also stating he was not divine. Why?

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Samhain is not just a festival: in Irish it is the name for the entire month of November, and like many ancient cultures, the day began on the night of the day before. For that reason, Halloween begins on evening of October 31st: Samhain has begun! LegendaryWednesday

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The year, 1900: due to unrest in the Order of the Golden Dawn, members decide to expel Aleister Crowley. Challenged, Crowley charges the Dawn's hall and engages in magic duels/screaming matches with anyone who screams back. Among these is WB Yeats, who kicks him down the stairs.

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First recorded by Plutarch, the Veil of Isis is a motif meant to represent the unknowable side of nature, the esoteric truths that remains hidden to humanity. Veil the goddess, and know not her nature: the motif is now popular across the world. #FolkloreSunday

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A rapidly-growing alternative death practice is tree pods, where the body is placed in a sack to compost beneath a tree sapling. As you decompose, your energy passes into the tree: for many it is a way to live on and offer the ecosystem something. #WyrdWednesday

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Unique to Ireland is the Morrigan, the Phantom Queen, the Crow goddess of fate, destiny, prophecy, and battle. She is oft depicted as three in one, making three sisters into a single goddess. Her warcry is death; her forms are many, her prophecy fatal #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: Mikadze

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To drink of the Lethe is to drink to forget, in the truest sense: the dead drink from the Lethe to forget their life on earth in attempt to make their misery more bearable, and indeed, only when they completely forget life on Earth can they be reborn. #FaustianFriday

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Happy #MayDay and Happy #Beltane ! By whatever name, Calan Mai to St. Walpurga to Irminden, Europeans celebrate the start of summer with dancing poles, flowers, and tonight bonfires. Light returns, and with it the warmth of light. #MythologyMonday 🖼: J. Colliers

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One of the oldest sites in human prehistory, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey dates back to at least 9,000 BCE. It was used for social and/or ritual functions, where people met to trade and engage in likely spiritual activity seasonally. It predates widespread pottery. #WyrdWednesday

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Forests represent liminal spaces, a place beyond order and time and space in many cultures. Whether the home of fairies, djinn, asura, yōkai, or spirits of the Americas, a forest is the place uncontrollable things happen. #FolkloreThursday 🗿: S. Byles

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Praise be

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Party on.

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Hobbits get their name from hobs, English spirits of homes and farmland that are territorial and can be quite the nuisance when offended. Similar to brownies, the best way to get rid of a hob is the gift of clothes, though the most dedicated nuisances resist. #FolkloreSunday

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The Black Hills, where Mount Rushmore can be found, are sacred to the Lakota, from whom the U.S. government took the land. In their tongue it is Paha Sapa, The Heart of Everything That Is, the origin of all things. This is why it is sacred land. #FairyTaleTuesday #LandBack

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Met a girl today.

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Long before she was a feminist goddess of rebellion or a Jewish mother of demons, Lilith was a mere tree spirit, dwelling in the sacred tree of Innana. When Gilgamesh, here her brother, chops it down, the Lilith flees for her life from the tree to the forest. #MythologyMonday

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In perhaps the most relatable version of the flood myth, in the Epic of Gilgamesh the god Ea decides to flood the Earth because humanity is too loud and he'd rather not deal with that. #FolkloreThursday

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The Once and Future Florida Man

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For centuries they were thought to just be scratches in the marble, perhaps structural damage from earthquakes. In 1964 it was determined these markings weren't random but writing: the Hagia Sophia bears Viking Era graffiti, runes that say "Halfdan was here." #FolkloreThursday

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The gold standard in dating.

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Folklore says the anonymous author of the Codex Gigas sold his soul to create, in one night, a manuscript which would make his abbey famous the world over. It's illustrations are so rich that it has another name: the Devil's Bible. #FaustianFriday

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@TheMythologyMa1 @CSMFHT I mean I can't think of a single god portrayed accurately in that movie if they had a speaking role, except maybe Hermes.

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Important folklore for future moon cycles.

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Halloween has always been a holiday for children: by the 12th century a tradition had risen up of children parading the streets and praying for the dead door to door, and being given sweet "soul cakes" for such prayers. This was called "souling." #FolkloreSunday

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The tradition of Christmas ghost stories is born out of the Victorian period, where rising literacy led to oral traditions being recorded and shared, focusing on supernatural stories that had undercurrents of social issues of the day. #FaustianFriday

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Girding one's loins sounds raunchy but is actually quite simple: when one lives in a hot place or faces social norms that force hanging clothing, you gird your loins by tying your clothes to you, so you can get physical. Whether for war or play, it's quite useful #SuperstitionSat

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Fate and prophecy are the dominion of the Morrigan, a warrior goddess associated with shapeshifting, crows, and death. She is her own singular goddess, yet also represents her and her sisters, a three-in-one yet one alone goddess. #FaustianFriday 🖼️: Mikadze

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It is thought by some that the idea of "little people" in Celtic lands is derived from the size one would have to be to live in fairy mounds, the old barrows and hills of pre-Celtic sites. These also refer to their status as ancestors of the land, a reminder. #FolkloreThursday

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According to the Romans, chief among the gods of the Iceni was the rabbit god Andraste, whom Boudica, rebellious Queen of the Iceni, requested prophecy from before each battle. Unfortunately, she ignored the final battle's prophecy and was beat. #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: AMagpiesTale

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Egypt, well ahead of its time, saw cats as the protectors of the Pharaoh, killing poisonous snakes and acting as Ra's servitor on Earth. The majority of dynasties in Egypt gave cats high praise, protecting them by law and offering them mummification and statues. #WyrdWednesday

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Lesser known but perhaps the best of Yggdrasil's inhabitants is the mighty red squirrel, Ratatoskr. The squirrel runs up and down the World Tree between the eagle and Nidhog the serpent at the tree's base, spreading rumors and enraging them. Mind not his words. #FolkloreThursday

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There's something about Mary in Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan," after she undergoes an experiment to see "the Great God Pan" and goes mad. Two decades later there's something about Helen, too, that drives men wild—something that has to be stopped. #FaustianFriday

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The skulls of Baba Yaga's home are enchanted, with burning coals inside them that cause the eyes to shine light and burn those who hold the skull's bearer harm: Baba Yaga gave one such skull to Vasilia, which burned her wicked stepmother to ash! #FaustianFriday 🖼️: I. Bilibin

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Set is the god of the red desert, the god of foreigners and outsiders, and keeper of the liminal space between lands. He is not evil, merely unpredictable, as is the desert and the storms he represents. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Hips don't lie.

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Idunn is the goddess of growth and immortality, the goddess who maintains the orchards that produce the apples of immortality, keeping the gods of Asgard and Alfheim young and spry. Kidnapped by a jotun lord, no one could maintain the orchards: what to do? #FairytaleTuesday

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Pumpkins are a New World crop, and thus unavailable to the ancient Irish from whom the Jack O'Lantern comes from. So what did they use? Multiple other crops including famously the absolutely terrifying turnip. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Be kind to the dogs you see in the American Southwest and in Mexico, for when you begin your trek into the afterlife, the first place you will come is the Land of Dogs—where only those who were kind to dogs may cross. #WyrdWednesday

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Though she is goddess of water and of Irish springs and waterways especially, Brigid is also the goddess of fire, of inspiration, of the spark of creation, for she is the goddess of crafts and innovation. #MythologyMonday 🖼️: E. Balivet

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Goals.

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Loving roommates.

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If a tree reaches 100 years of age, it's soul develops the ability to manifest out of its body. In Japan this is called a Kodama (木霊), a tree with a manifesting spirit. What form they take varies, and they can defend their forest with force. #FolkloreThursday 🖼: M. Meyer

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Awen is passion, inspiration, instinct that drives artists and muses in medieval Welsh thought. Sometimes depicted as coming from the cauldron of the white witch Ceridwen, awen is what drives people to create and craft. #FolkloreSunday

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Brigid, one of Ireland's most famous goddesses and saints, has several wells all over the island, but none more famous than her well at Kildare. The whole region, including its river, is associated with her grace and passion. #FolkloreThursday

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Dowsing, also called doodlebugging, is a prominent method to find many things, among them water for wells. Used for centuries using a number of different rod styles, the method is pseudoscientific yet many a homestead has water because of it. #FolkloreThursday

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Hy-Brasil was a medieval island so real to cartographers it appears on multiple maps. Appearing to move, Irish fishers swore they could see it off the coast, and sailors said it was a midway point between Iceland and Ireland. #FaustianFriday

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Why is 7 sacred? We're not entirely sure: while the Sumerians introduced the seven day week and dedicated each day to a god and festivals this week, subsequent cultures adopt 7 as sacred. Pythagareus suggests a combination of physical spiritual, 3 and 4. #LegendaryWednesday

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The Japanese mermaid, the Ningyo, is much more fish-like than the European imagining, but with an extra caveat: its flesh gives those who eat it immortality. Yet this comes at an untold, often tragic price: will you pay it? #FaustianFriday 🖼️: P. Piereth

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Nordic legend speaks of seven swans who, too late to migrate south for winter, froze mid-flight, their wings becoming tinged with green-blue and keeping them in the air: this is the origin of the Northern Lights. #FairytaleTuesday

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of five extant poems related to the hero, telling of his acceptance of his mortality. Others show Gilgamesh helping Inanna save her sacred tree, lead an uprising against a terrible warlord, and retell his slaying of Humbaba. #FolkloreSunday

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The moon has three prominent goddesses associated with it in Greek myth: Hekate, goddess of magic, represents the mysteries of the moon; Artemis, goddess of the hunt, represents its journey, its crescent her bow; but shining Selene is the Moon itself. #MythologyMonday

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Folklore can't make up its mind with Old Scratch's human form: sometimes he is a dapper gentleman, other times a wild man or animal. The common points: cloven feet or a tail. #SuperstitionSat

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Odin out here testing for new friends.

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The natural state of man is that of a beast, or so claims the Epic of Gilgamesh: Enkidu, ignorant of civilization, lived in peace with the animals until a woman came from the city. She seduced Enkidu, and he lost what made him a beast. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Sing, Muse, of Achilles' spiciness

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Obsidian was a highly important mineral to the peoples of the Americas but to the Maya and Aztecs especially. Weapons weren't the only thing made of obsidian: surgeons did surgery with obsidian scalpel and knives, and it was a reason to trade beyond borders. #FolkloreThursday

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If you're worried about an account you follow getting political instead of "staying in their lane," find a trash can and take up residence Mythology and folklore don't exist in a vacuum. Neither do I. The reproductive rights of my wife and daughter matter more to me than gods.

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Two feet tall with a massive head and wrinkled skin, a knocker is a sight to see in the mines of Cornwall and Devon. A good sight, too: they beckon to veins of rich minerals and warn of incoming disasters when mines collapse. Treat them well. #FolkloreThursday

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Norse myth has many afterlives, including the Healing Mountain, Lyfjaberg, where souls travel up the mountain to heal before being reborn. This predates Valhalla and suggests Nordic reincarnation predated Christianized Ragnarok. #FairyTaleTuesday

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The Ars Goetia is the most well-known section of the Keys of Solomon, depicting the sigils of 72 demons that could be called to aid in magic. Developed during the Middle Ages, these charms would be drawn or placed on amulets to invoke the demon. #TempleThursday #FolkloreThursday

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Winter is the Cailleach's, the first snow her cloak laid down. She travels the Gaelic Celtic world, often with her husband, the trickster Bodach, and their children. Often seen as cruel and harsh, she gives blessings and wisdom too, to those who are kind to her. #FolkloreThursday

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Each year in parts of Northern Japan, the demons descend: Namahage are oni dressed in winter coats of straw, bringing drums and looking for naughty or whiny children. Centuries ago, they were more akin to kami. #FaustianFriday

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Never forget gods can be exceptionally cruel: Ra got tired of how loud humanity had become, and so sent Sekhmet the lioness to destroy mankind. Such was the devastation that, like a slasher film parody, the world was flooded with red blood, so Ra called it off. #FolkloreThursday

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When trees reach a century old, their souls can manifest outside the body. These kami are called Kodama (木霊), and are seen as friendly forest defenders; some have been known to marry. Kodama must be moved, rather than cut down and Shinto priests are careful. #FolkloreThursday

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Watch yourself in the little hours of Japan: some nights the spirits decide to go on parade. Called the Hyakki Yagyō, the Night Parade of 100 Demons, obake like oni, tengu, bakeneko, and more march through the streets of Japan: to see it is a prelude to more. #FairytaleTuesday

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Modern Persephone be like:

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The old woman appeared harmless, and injured, so CuChulainn aided her in milking her cow. He soon discovered she was the dread Morrigan, goddess of death whom he had sworn never to help: and that, she said, is why she appeared as an old woman. #MythologyMonday 🖼️: A. Leonards

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Black cats with white spots on their chest are known to the Scottish as Fairy Cats, cat-sith, huge as a dog with an attitude to match. Prone to stealing souls, on Samhain if given a saucer of milk they offer blessings, and a curse without. #FairytaleTuesday

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Tomorrow will be my last hashtag day on Twitter. Change is on the wind for Godyssey, and despite Twitter being my platform of choice, I should have left months ago. I'm going to give the other platforms the old college try, but who knows? The wind is out of my sails of late.

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Walpurgisnacht, or the Night of St. Walpurgis, is named for an Anglo-Saxon saint, traditionally a night one used to protect against witchcraft and prepare for the growing season. Incidentally, in Germany it was Hexennacht, a gathering of witches. #FolkloreThursday

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The true origins of the Cinderella story are Chinese, dating to at least the Tang Dynasty: Yeh-Shen is left to the devices of her wicked stepmother, and it is the spirit of her beloved fish who grants her golden slippers she loses at the Spring Festival. #FairytaleTuesday

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I'm no expert in Slavic mythology, but I know the sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine, and I know a chthonic death goddess at work when I see one.

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Ukrainian woman confronts Russian soldiers in Henychesk, Kherson region. Asks them why they came to our land and urges to put sunflower seeds in their pockets [so that flowers would grow when they die on the Ukrainian land]

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European witches, when angry with a man, would sometimes steal their penises and put them in their trees. Or in a bird's nest. Or in a penis box. This was called penis captivus. #WyrdWednesday

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