分类目录归档：myth
From sailors who were turned into pigs,
nymphs that sprouted into trees,
and a gaze that converted the beholder to stone,
Greek mythology brims with shape-shifters.
The powerful gods usually changed
With his harebrained schemes and asinine dealings with the gods,
King Midas ruled the ancient kingdom of Phrygia with an uneven hand.
He was known in Greek mythology as a rogue ruler
whose antics b
Whether it’s being chained to a burning wheel, turned into a spider,
or having an eagle eat one’s liver,
Greek mythology is filled with stories of the gods
inflicting gruesome horrors on mortals wh
Curiosity:
a blessing, or a curse?
The paradoxical nature of this trait
was personified for the ancient Greeks
in the mythical figure of Pandora.
According to legend,
she was the first mortal woman,
w
The talented young herbalist named Xu Xian was in trouble.
It should have been a victorious moment–
he had just opened his very own medicine shop.
But he bought his supplies from his former employer
Xu Xian had just received yet another invitation
to the opening ceremony of the new Jin Shan Temple.
His wife, Bai Su Zhen,
had warned him not to attend.
Since she was in fact a benevolent white sn
Hercules, the strongest man alive
with a mighty heart to match.
Orpheus, charmer of nature and master of music.
Castor and Pollux, the twin tricksters hatched from an egg.
The Boreads, sons of the
After a savage seafaring skirmish
and eight long days of being battered by waves,
Väinämöinen— a powerful bard and sage as old as the world itself—
washed up on the shores of distant Pohjola.
Unlik
Chak Ek’ rose from the underworld to the surface of the eastern sea
and on into the heavens.
His brother K’in Ahaw followed.
Though Chak Ek’ had risen first, K’in Ahaw outshone him,
and the resentfu
Before the world of humans began,
there was the world of the gods, made of fields, plains and gardens.
Four brothers wandered this celestial realm.
They had no family other than each other—
they di