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Blog postYou’ve heard of Atlantis, right? Of course you’ve heard of Atlantis. We’ve all heard of Atlantis. If you haven’t, then you’re lying. Atlantis is innate knowledge nowadays - but did you know that Atlantis is only one of many mysterious sunken cities? I’ve put together a list of six underwater masterpieces you’ve likely never heard of.
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Blog postOn the advent of Buddhism, all animals (other than those that became envoys to the gods) lost their divinity. The tanuki was obviously one of these, and I can’t imagine it was very happy about it. You see, rumour has it that before Buddhism the cute little Japanese raccoon dog occupied a very powerful position - as governor of all things in nature. So if you had a problem with the way things were organised, then you’d go visit your local tanuki.
Following this fall from grace, the tanu -
Blog postFinding your soulmate is tough. But sometimes the perfect mate is someone dismissed out of hand simply because they’re a different species. Sure, cuddling with a porcupine might be tough, but love is an endless supply of bandaids.
And as fo
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Blog postIn Native American mythology, the Deer Woman is a shape-shifting woman whose appearance is never quite stable. She is described as being either young or old, with hooves in place of feet. In some tales, she takes the whole form of a deer - and then in others the split is roughly half-woman half-deer, the lower half being that of a white-tailed deer. I haven’t found any stories that switch this around; deer-headed with a human lower body. I think this is a real shame. Would make for some hilar
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Blog postDragons. Massive reptilian creatures with interlocking scales whose breath can burn a person to cinders within seconds. The beating of their wings bends trees at the trunk, and at full spread they stretch a fields length. Then there are the claws; curved knives at the end of each toe that can tear flesh from the bone in one quick, leisurely, swipe.
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Blog postAstarte; lustful badass of the ancient world. She's had as many names as men throughout history, known in different cultures as Ishtar, Inanna, Astarte, Ashtoreth... the list goes on.
Some of her earliest appearances can be traced back to
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Blog postLet’s be honest, there are a lot of mythical creatures walking around in the GoneGod World. Some of them are painfully obvious, standing out in ways that make sore thumbs positively innocuous. Sure, sore thumbs stand out, but they pale in comparison to extra appendices, wings, claws and, either massive or minuscule, size.
There’s no mistaking an angel with their dove-like wings, an ogre with their tusk filled jaws or a phoenix with their fiery (as in literally on fire) bodies. -
Blog postI’m sure I’ve mentioned the yōkai in an article already, but maybe I haven’t gone over them in detail. So, yōkai are essentially supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. They can be spirits, or monsters, or creatures, or really rather human - and their characters are equally as various. Some are deadly, whilst others are actually harmless and rather friendly. So let’s begin.
Tōfu-kozō
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Blog postCreature Feature: Gef
(Image from http://thinkingsidewayspodcast.com/gef-the-talking-mongoose/)
This is not a mythological creature, per se, but a story interesting enough to be told. It
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Blog postCreature Feature: Nuckelavee Take the M9 out to Stirling from Edinburgh, and you’ll come upon two giant steel horse-head sculptures rearing up into the sky. At 30-metres tall, they’re very hard to miss. Completed in 2013, the sculptures are
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Blog postCreature Feature: Eloko (Image from http://ctaudubon.blogspot.co.uk)
The Eloko can be found in the deepest, darkest regions of the rain forest in Zaire. They are dwarf-like in stature, li
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Blog postCreature Feature: Mapinguari
If you’ve been lucky enough to visit the National History Museum in London, then you’ve likely seen the hulking skeleton of the giant ground sloth. At a height of six metres, and a maximum weight of four tonnes,
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Blog postImage from RadioDark
Many believe that bones of the deceased contain spiritual properties that live on beyond the decay of flesh. Ghost stories and hauntings, for example, can often be traced back to the act of disrespecting burial sites. Stepping on graves, uncovering buried bones, or removing parts of the skeleton and placing them elsewhere disturb the peaceful dead. For these people our bones become a home after death - a place in which our spirit rests.
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Blog postApocalypses aren't fun. That said, some apocalypses are better than others. This article isn't about those fun, easy-going apocalypses. No, no, no... These apocalypses are positively horrible.
Enjoy and pray for the Rapture.
Hindu Hindu’s are on the lookout for Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu who is described as riding a white horse and wielding a flaming sword. He brings about the apocalypse, but not in the standard sense of the destruction of the world - he’s more -
Blog postIt was a summers day in the outback and the heat was starting to get to me. I stopped beneath a fig tree to rest my legs, but the cool sensation of the shade quickly sent me to sleep. I woke a few hours later and opened my eyes to find two wide eyes staring back. A creature with a large red face, a massive grin, and short frog-like limbs sat crouched in front of me. I later learnt that this was a Yara-Ma-Yha-Who.
A creature of Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Yara-Ma-Yha-Who is a s -
Blog postWhen we think of fallen angels, most of us go straight to the big guy — the Devil, Satan, Lucifer, the Morning Star—pick your preferred handle. If we left our minds to linger on the topic, we’d enividebly come up with Beelzebub (thanks Freddy!). And for those of us who have read Paradise Lost or simply are interested in the subject, we might even come up with a few other names such as Azazel, Belial, Mammon… to name a few.
But what about the other guys? The ones who populate the -
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Blog postWho doesn’t like dolphins? People travel across the world to swim with them, to see them, and to play with them. They’re so curious and inquisitive, and very playful. What’s not to like about a dolphin?
Well, there’s the encantado…
Amazon river dolphins are kind of creepy anyway. As they get older they become more pink, which is due to the skin becoming more translucent with age. ‘Yayy! Cute!’ You may be thinking, but it’s actually a little uncomfortable. They start to look like -
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