Tag: History
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Aphorodíta of Phoenicia
Aphorodíta, Cast in marble Watches through the years Yearning, Waiting, For Phoenicia, Her land to reappear One Phoenician, Her Phoenician, Adonis, She waits for too But cast in marble She waits forever For that’s All she can do. Behind the marble The story’s different, They live on Forever more Even in the Underworld, even if…
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Left Hanging
I’m feeling a little like Mae West when she was left hanging off the Empire State Building. Well, she wasn’t actually hanging off of the building, he was. The big gorilla monster thingy that had hold of her. Was it Mae West? Fay Wray. I’m feeling like Fay Wray when she was left hanging off…
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Legends Always
Legends come in many different forms; some surprising, some poignant. Some mythical, some magical. And some heroes just by doing what they do. Diane writes about one such hero here. Whenever, wherever, and not only on November 11th, Remembrance Day, we should never forget.
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The Caipora, the Ciguapa and the Kalonoro
In South America, particularly Brazil, legends talk of the Caipora. A mythical being that is very mischievous, it sometimes becomes part fox and part human, and can have a large black mane. Folklore tells of the way the Caipora defend the jungle by causing all kinds of problems to those who show disrespect to the…
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Dyfed’s Prince Pwyll
Hundreds of years ago, perhaps in the realms of mythology or perhaps not, in an England where magical swords and dragons and wizards and round tables existed, there was also then as there is now, an Otherworld. Many of them, actually, depending on where upon this wonderful world one lived. In one kingdom, that Otherworld…
The Mansionic Perspective 
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