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Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book ...
Daughters of the salt-makers, and many more, engaged in these dances. [1] In the Florentine Codex, Sahagún describes the range of participants in Huixtocihuatl's festival. He says, "All gathered together and took their places, the salt people and the salt-makers - the old women, the mature women, the maidens, and maidens recently matured." [7]
Why the Sea Is Salt (Norwegian: Kvernen som maler på havsens bunn; the mill that grinds at the bottom of the sea) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book (1889). [2]
Chapter 2 ("The Age of the Gods", Part 2) includes five versions of the Hoori-Hoderi myth, three of which mention the tide jewels. Chapter 8 ("Emperor Chūai") has a legend that Empress Jingū found a Buddhist nyoi-ju 如意珠 lit. "as-one-wishes jewel", and Chapter 9 ("Empress Jingū") tells how the Sea God and Wind God helped her to conquer ...
The Fountain of Youth is a mythical spring which supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters. Tales of such a fountain have been recounted around the world for thousands of years, appearing in the writings of Herodotus (5th century BC), in the Alexander Romance (3rd century AD), and in the stories of Prester John (early Crusades, 11th/12th centuries AD).
Emmanuel S. Sison. Tales from the Land of Salt - A glimpse into the history and the rich folklores of Pangasinan. (Makati: Elmyrs Publishing House, November 2005). Emmanuel S. Sison. More Tales from the Land of Salt - Continuing the saga of the Salt People. (Makati: Elmyrs Publishing House, December 2006). Juan C. Villamil. Diad Lawak na bilay.
The book is a prose recounting of myths and stories from three eras: Greek and Roman mythology, King Arthur legends and medieval romances. [6] Bulfinch intersperses the stories with his own commentary, and with quotations from writings by his contemporaries that refer to the story under discussion. [6] This combination of classical elements and ...
The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. [1] It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre-creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah's ark.