Eastern Dragon Overview | Dragon History | The Circle of the Dragon. The Difference between Dragons Chinese dragons have five toes. The Chinese believe that all eastern dragons originated from China. They believed that when the dragons flew away, they began to lose toes. The farther and farther the dragons flew, the more toes they lost. Japanese dragons have three toes. Korean dragons have four toes. Differences from Females to Males Other interesting things to note is the differences between the dragons in pictures. Other things to look for include horns. Females have 'nicer' manes. The Oriental Dragons There are nine types of Chinese dragons, also regarded as the Oriental Dragons. The Horned dragon is also know as Lung. The Dragon King is really four dragons, and these dragons keep watch over the four main seas. How do they fly? Unlike most types of dragon, most Eastern Dragons have no wings. On Chinese dragon's heads, they would have a lump called the chi'ih-muh.
Some dragons did not have a chi'ih-muh. Life Stages of Dragons Other Information. Grimm Fairy Tales Menu. Aschenputtel / Cinderella - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict - Quiz (Quotation identification) Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten / The Bremen Town Musicians - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict - Quiz (Unscramble paragraph order) Brüderchen und Schwesterchen / Brother and Sister - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict Daumesdick / Tom Thumb - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict Dornröschen / Sleeping Beauty - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict - Quiz (Keyword completion -1810 ms) Von dem Fischer un syner Fru / The Fisherman & His Wife - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict Der Froschkönig / The Frog King - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict - Quiz (Matching) Die Gänsemagd / The Goose Girl - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict Hänsel und Gretel / Hansel and Gretel - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict - Quiz (Identify audio clips) Hans im Glück / Hans in Luck - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict - Quiz (Arrange audio clips) Jorinde und Joringel / Jorinda and Joringel - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict Rapunzel / Rapunzel - Dual Lang - Text+Glossary/Dict.
Internet Book of Shadows Index. This is a large (+9Mb) collection of articles related to Neo-Paganism which can be found archived at a number of FTP sites (for instance, here). This is a collection of posts to bulletin boards from the late eighties to the mid nineties, essentially predating the modern Internet. According to a recent communication, the original editor of this archive was Durwydd mac Tara at PODS net. We acknowledge Durwydd's hard work to preserve this archive. For ease of access, we have converted this archive to HTML using a C program. There are a number of technical difficulties with this collection including runtogetherwords in many places, problems with the table of contents and huge inconsistencies in pagination; due to the volume of this material we have left these intact for now.
We have taken the liberty of removing about twenty-five articles which were too far 'off topic', posted elsewhere at this site, or had serious copyright issues. Old Wives Tales: an exhibition of women's fairy tale art, old and new—Winter 2006, Journal of Mythic Arts, Endicott Studio. In our modern arts, as in ages past, women storytellers have understood this best. Margaret Atwood, Olga Broumas, Carol Ann Duffy, Denise Duhamel, Sandra Gilbert, Theodora Goss, Liz Lochead, Lisel Mueller, Lisa Russ Spar, Gwen Strauss, Jane Yolen, and many other contemporary feminist poets have used fairy tale themes to powerful effect to portray the truth of women's lives.
(Anne Sexton's collection Transformations, in particular, is an extraordinary work which no lover of fairy tales or women's writing should miss.) Prose writers, too, have used fairy tales themes in a variety of interesting ways, exploring tradition stories from fresh, shrewd, modern perspectives. Some of their fairy tale novels and stories can be found on the mainstream fiction shelves, such as Angela Carter’s ground–breaking collection The Bloody Chamber, Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, Kate Bernheimer's The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, Loranne Brown's The Handless Maiden, A.S.
"Snow Queen" by Connie Toebe. Ragged Trousered Philosopher. I met god the other day. I know what you're thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? Well, I'll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I do mean ALL, the answers. Every question I flung at him he batted back with a plausible and satisfactory answer. In the end, it was easier to accept that he was god than otherwise. Which is odd, because I'm still an atheist and we even agree on that! It all started on the 8.20 back from Paddington.
What did he look like? Well not what you might have expected that's for sure. 'Anyone sitting here? ' 'Help yourself' I replied. Sits down, relaxes, I ignore and back to the correspondence on genetically modified crops entering the food chain... Train pulls out and a few minutes later he speaks. 'Can I ask you a question? ' 'Why don't you believe in god? ' The Bastard! I love this kind of conversation and can rabbit on for hours about the nonsense of theist beliefs. But then I thought 'Odd! 'And why should I believe that? ' He did. Ragnarok. By Micha F. Lindemans Ragnarok ("Doom of the Gods"), also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology. It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters.
Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between. Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end. The wolf Skoll will finally devour the sun, and his brother Hati will eat the moon, plunging the earth [into] darkness. The earth will shudder with earthquakes, and every bond and fetter will burst, freeing the terrible wolf Fenrir. Meanwhile, Heimdall will sound his horn, calling the sons of Odin and the heroes to the battlefield. Then Surt will fling fire in every direction. After the destruction, a new and idyllic world will arise from the sea and will be filled with abundant supplies. Home Page. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. E-Books 8 Ball - Ask a Question - Click Here. Mythology. The mythology area is divided in 6 geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.
Selecting one continent will display the mythologies in that particular area. AfricaThe entire African continent (including countries such as Egypt, Lybia, Algeria, Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Liberia, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, South Africa, and many others). Number of areas: 2. Go to the Africa page. AmericasThe American continent. The area contains North America (including Native America, Inuit), Mesoamerica (Maya, Aztec), South America (Inca), and the West Indies/Carribean (Voodoo). AsiaAsia and Asia Minor/Middle East (eastern part of Russia, India, Tibet, Indonesia, China, Korea, Israel, Iran (Persia), Mesopotamia, etc.) EuropeThe European countries, including Norse, Celtic, and Classical mythology (Greek and Roman). Middle EastThe region extending from the southeastern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea (including countries in southwest Asia and northeast Africa). 8 - Polar Mythology. ©2011, montalk.net (Version 0.1 – changelog provided at end of article) The Meaning of Myth Since myths are not literal accounts of history, they are easily dismissed as superstitious tales invented by our naïve ancestors.
But what society considers factual, historical, and real is only that which has taken place within linear time and 3D space, namely events witnessed through the five physical senses. Far from being less than factual, myths may depict events and dynamics that are more than factual because they hail from beyond the limited modern conception of reality, beyond linear time, and beyond the five senses. What are myths really? Like dreams, myths allow passage of information across the boundary between realms. Myths are also like time capsules with nested layers, each layer encoding information intended for one type of recipient.
Entertainment and Morality Layer – the outer wrapping that ensures the myth propagates through the generations. Polar Mythology (from Hamlet’s Mill)