Tag: myth
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Loch Ness Monster Dead? Lowest Sightings Reported in 90 Years
from hngn.com: Is Nessie dead? Reports suggest the iconic Loch Ness Monster has not been spotted in over a year. This is the first time in about 90 years that there has been such a long absence of sightings, BBC News reported. Gary Campbell, who keeps records of sea monster sightings, said nobody has claimed…
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Who Is Lilith?
Who is Lilith? Was Lilith intended to be Adam’s first wife but proved unsuitable? Does Lilith repesent a feminist figure? A Yahoo article, “Woman Before Eve: The Story Of Lilith” summarizes the figure Lilith without pedantic clutter: “Before God created Eve, he made another woman, also for the purpose of serving as Adam’s friend and…
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‘The Golem’
Holy Hexes presents for your Saturday night entertainment, a horror flick, “The Golem,” based on Jewish myth. “The earliest stories of golems date to early Judaism. In the Talmud (Tractate Sanhedrin 38b), Adam was initially created as a golem when his dust was ‘kneaded into a shapeless husk.’ Like Adam, all golems are created from…
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der krampus: santa’s alter ego
“You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why; because Santa [and his clean up man for children with bad behavior, Krampus,] is coming to town!” Wikipedia’s entry describes Krampus as a tradition of Austrian Alpine villages and thought to be a holdover from pagan times, “Krampus is…