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Geomythology (also called “legends of the earth," "landscape mythology," “myths of observation,” “natural knowledge") is the study of oral and written traditions created by pre-scientific cultures to account for, often in poetic or mythological imagery, geological events and phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, tsunamis, land formation, fossils, and natural features of the ...
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Dorson was born in New York City into a wealthy Jewish family. He studied at the Phillips Exeter Academy from 1929 to 1933. [3]He then went on to Harvard University where he earned his A.B., M.A., in history, and his Ph.D. degree in the History of American Civilization in 1942.
CMT and LG tell that there were four cities located on the northern islands of the world (i n-insib tūascertachaib in domain), called Falias, Gorias, Findias and Murias. [4] "The Four Jewels" also refers to the cities, but appears to locate them at Lochlann and contends that the Tuatha Dé crossed the seas in their fleet rather than in a mist.
An early source on the Scholomance and Dracula folklore was the article "Transylvanian Superstitions" (1885), written by Scottish expatriate Emily Gerard. [2] [3] It has been established for certain this article was an important source that Bram Stoker consulted for his novel Dracula.
Neidan Illustration of Bringing Together the Four Symbols 和合四象圖, 1615 Xingming guizhi. The Four Symbols are mythological creatures appearing among the Chinese constellations along the ecliptic, and viewed as the guardians of the four cardinal directions.
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Irish folklore holds that it is bad luck to damage or disrespect such tombs and that deliberately doing so could bring a curse. [5] [6] In Irish mythology, one of the burial cairns is said to be the abode of the god Bodhbh Dearg, son of the Dagda. [7] Fionn marries Sadhbh, Bodhbh's daughter, on Slievenamon, and their son is the famous Oisín.