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The poem features words from "Philomythos" (myth-lover) to "Misomythos" (myth-hater) who defends mythology and myth-making as a creative art about "fundamental things". [4] It begins by addressing C. S. Lewis as the Misomythos, who at the time was sceptical of any truth in mythology:
A warmonger is someone who instigates war, or advocates war over peaceful solutions. Warmonger may also refer to: Warmonger, a 2002 novel based on the Doctor Who television series; Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction, a 2007 first-person shooter computer game developed by NetDevil; Warmonger, a villain from the cartoon series Mighty Max
Hræsvelgr [needs IPA] is a jötunn in Norse mythology. He is portrayed as the eagle-shaped originator of the wind. [1] Name The Old Norse ...
Warmonger is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fifth Doctor and Peri .
The Power of Myth is a book based on the 1988 PBS documentary Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. The documentary was originally broadcast as six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) and journalist Bill Moyers. It remains one of the most popular series in the history of American public television. [1]
The Buddhist asuras have a few myths distinctive from the asuras of Hinduism, which are only found in Buddhist texts. In its Buddhist context, the word is sometimes translated "titan", "demigod", or "antigod". [4] Buddhaghosa explains that their name derives from the myth of their defeat at the hands of the god Śakra.
Beira, Queen of Winter, also Cailleach Bheur, a personification or deity of winter in Gaelic mythology; Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhás) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wind" or "Devouring One". His name gives rise to the adjective "boreal".
Tithonus has been taken by the allegorist to mean ‘a grant of a stretching-out’ (from teinō and ōnė), a reference to the stretching-out of his life, at Eos’s plea; but it is likely, rather, to have been a masculine form of Eos’s own name, Titonë – from titō, ‘day [2] and onë, ‘queen’ – and to have meant ‘partner of the Queen of Day’.