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Crossroads are very important both in Brazilian mythology (related to the headless mule, the devil, the Besta Fera and the Brazilian version of the werewolf) and religions (as the favourite place for the manifestation of "left-hand" entities such as Exus and where to place offerings to the Orishas). Eshu and Legba derive from the same African ...
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown.
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Legendary location in Inuit mythology, believed to either be entirely mythical, or possibly Labrador Peninsula, Baffin Island, or even Iceland. Alatyr: A sacred stone, the "father to all stones", the navel of the earth, containing sacred letters and endowed with healing properties in East Slavic legends. Alomkik
In Greek mythology, Endymion [a] (/ ɛ n ˈ d ɪ m i ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ἐνδυμίων, gen.: Ἐνδυμίωνος) was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis. [1] He was also venerated and said to reside on Mount Latmus in Caria, on the west coast of Asia Minor. [2]
Hercules at the crossroads, also known as the Choice of Hercules and the Judgement of Hercules, is an ancient Greek parable attributed to Prodicus and known from Xenophon. It concerns the young Heracles (also known to the Romans as Hercules ) who is offered a choice between Vice ( Kakia ) and Virtue ( Arete )—a life of pleasure or one of ...
Mark Smith, known as The Man in Seat 61, has unravelled the myth of the 13-country rail journey as complete fiction on a route littered with logistical impossibilities and political obstacles.
Information about the Chugaist can be found in the dictionary "Hutsul Mythology. Ethnolinguistic dictionary" ( Lviv , 2002) N. V. Hobzei. [ 10 ] The image was popularized by M. M. Kotsyubynskyi in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", where the Chugaist is bred as a kind and cheerful inhabitant of the Carpathian forests, a protector of people from ...