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Check out my video on Odin in the Old Norse language! It premieres on Wednesday (Odin's day) on Leif Erikson Day, October 9th, an annual observance that honors Leif Erikson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson), the Norse explorer!
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Since nobody else ever thought of coming up with a scientific name for gods as a species, I came up with "Deus omnipotens". As for the taxonomic class, "Deitia" since they'd obviously be unrelated to anything conventional animal.
So, I came across this WatchMojo video about Roman gods:
https://www.watchmojo.com/video/id/58950
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This is where I learned to calculate distance using free fall:
According to Hesiod Theogony, Tartarus is so far "below" Earth that if one were to take an anvil and drop it from Earth, it would take 10 days and nights falling constantly to reach Tartarus.
"For a brazen anvil falling down from heaven nine nights and days would reach the earth upon the tenth: and again, a brazen anvil falling from earth nine nights and days [725] would reach Tartarus upon the tenth. Round it runs a fence of bronze, and night spreads in triple line all about it like a neck-circlet, while above grow the roots of the earth and unfruitful sea."
Converting 10 days to seconds lands us 864,000 seconds.
0.5 x 9.8 as our m/s x 864,000 seconds = 3,657,830,400,000 meters
3,657,830,400,000 meters = 2,272,870,436 miles
To put that in perspective, the distance between our Earth and Sun is 94,314,000 miles. It says that the distance between either the sky or Olympus is the same distance as this, so this is pretty crazy.
Dagon is actually not a god of fish/fishing. In erroneous 19th and 20th century scholarship, Dagon was incorrectly viewed as a god of fish/fishing. Mesopotamian depictions of Oannes or Apkallu were incorrectly believed to represent Dagon. This false idea was likely a medieval invention made by 11th-century Jewish Bible commentator Rashi. The first to cast doubt on the "fish" etymology was Hartmut Schmökel in his 1928 study of Dagon, though he initially nonetheless suggested that while Dagon was not in origin a "fish god", the association with dâg "fish" among the maritime Canaanites (Phoenicians) would have affected the god's iconography. However, later he correctly identified it as a medieval invention. He was worshiped in a large, geographical area, from Mesopotamia to Syria, by the Amorites and the cities of Ebla and Ugarit. He was possibly a major deity in the pantheon of the Philistines. According to the Hebrew Bible, Dagon was the national god of the Philistines, with temples at Ashdod and Gaza, but there is no extrabiblical evidence confirming this. Evidence for Dagon's worship by the Philistines include an inscription of the sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II, dating to the 6th century BC, calls Jaffa, a Philistine city, one of the "mighty lands of Dagon." It is one of only three Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi found outside Egypt.
So I was recently looking through the pages for the Greek gods and found that there were not many images or visual references on the pages. Maybe the other users on the Greek mythology project could help me improve it?!
sorry to bother but the Lucifer wiki article the Arabic term "Shaykhu n-naar" where is the source that gives this term?I am exploring mythology as depicted on American Playing Cards from the late 1800s. While I have figured out the characters on a few cards. this one continues to be a mystery to me.
In this image, some little folk are capturing some sort of evil character in a chest. Can anyone shed any info on the story behind this? It was first published on a joker card in 1895 by a company with offices in Chicago and St Louis
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So, guys. I've just come up with an idea for a game. Using four pictures relating to a figure from Greek mythology, you have to guess who it is. First up:
What are the names of Muspelheim’s volcanoes?
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I was wondering if I could become an Admin I would love to build the community and more fascinating tales!
So, I came across this video of the most TERRIFYING mythical creatures:
https://www.watchmojo.com/video/id/56383
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As the sixth installment in my Norse mythology aesthetics, fly high with this Valkyrie-inspired moodboard:
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Hi, so I've been looking at the page for Zimadevushka and I'm wondering if anyone knows other locations/websites that I could look at for more information? I can't find any sources on the page and searching it up doesn't get any results. I've been looking for Slavic or Russian winter-based spirits or entities and this is the best one I could find information on, so if it's okay could I get some help sourcing extra information? I can't read Cyrillic (I think that's what the Russian written language is called?) So it's getting tricky. If you have other suggestions for different entities I could look into feel free to recommend them!
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