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Mythology, History, Storytelling: the Godyssey podcast is a deep dive into our shared humanity through gods.
Zagmuk is the earliest-known winter festival, a seven day Mesopotamian solstice festival highlighting the triumph of light over darkness despite being the darkest part of the year. Marduk is slain by Tiamat but is revived and takes up his weapon to do his duty. #FolkloreSunday
December 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Zagmuk is the earliest-known winter festival, a seven day Mesopotamian solstice festival highlighting the triumph of light over darkness despite being the darkest part of the year. Marduk is slain by Tiamat but is revived and takes up his weapon to do his duty. #FolkloreSunday
The Oak King and the Holly King are modern figures of folklore, born of neopagan religions that draw on traditional motifs of contrasts: light and dark, summer and winter, vitality and endurance. Though modern, they represent ancient values. #FolkloreSunday
🖼️: A. Stokes
🖼️: A. Stokes
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Oak King and the Holly King are modern figures of folklore, born of neopagan religions that draw on traditional motifs of contrasts: light and dark, summer and winter, vitality and endurance. Though modern, they represent ancient values. #FolkloreSunday
🖼️: A. Stokes
🖼️: A. Stokes
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adoro que as pessoas acham que natal é sinônimo de cristão quando é o dia mais pagão de todos
Often associated with Santa, Father Christmas is actually much older than the modern incarnation, going back to the 1400s. A figure for adults that involved merriment, feasting, and gift-giving, Father Christmas was outlawed by the Puritans' brief ban on Christmas. #FolkyFriday
December 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
adoro que as pessoas acham que natal é sinônimo de cristão quando é o dia mais pagão de todos
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Still probably my favourite Christmas figure. I understand him being somehow conflated with Santa Claus, it's a fit that can work well, but my perfect Santy would retain this ancient wildness...
Often associated with Santa, Father Christmas is actually much older than the modern incarnation, going back to the 1400s. A figure for adults that involved merriment, feasting, and gift-giving, Father Christmas was outlawed by the Puritans' brief ban on Christmas. #FolkyFriday
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Still probably my favourite Christmas figure. I understand him being somehow conflated with Santa Claus, it's a fit that can work well, but my perfect Santy would retain this ancient wildness...
Set came from the desert to Osiris' party with a gift: a sarcophagus ready for Osiris' death. Taking it good-humoredly, Osiris laid down when his brother suggested he test it out: it snapped shut on him and Set threw him in the Nile, killing him. #FolkyFriday
🖼️: S. Forlenza
🖼️: S. Forlenza
December 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Set came from the desert to Osiris' party with a gift: a sarcophagus ready for Osiris' death. Taking it good-humoredly, Osiris laid down when his brother suggested he test it out: it snapped shut on him and Set threw him in the Nile, killing him. #FolkyFriday
🖼️: S. Forlenza
🖼️: S. Forlenza
Not suspecting Medea's treachery, Jason's new wife Glauce accepted Medea's gift of a crown and dress, but putting on these gifts, she was immediately poisoned and died. Her father, King Creon of Corinth, tried to help her and died too, her vengeance complete. #FolkyFriday
🖼️: E. de Morgan
🖼️: E. de Morgan
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Not suspecting Medea's treachery, Jason's new wife Glauce accepted Medea's gift of a crown and dress, but putting on these gifts, she was immediately poisoned and died. Her father, King Creon of Corinth, tried to help her and died too, her vengeance complete. #FolkyFriday
🖼️: E. de Morgan
🖼️: E. de Morgan
Often associated with Santa, Father Christmas is actually much older than the modern incarnation, going back to the 1400s. A figure for adults that involved merriment, feasting, and gift-giving, Father Christmas was outlawed by the Puritans' brief ban on Christmas. #FolkyFriday
December 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Often associated with Santa, Father Christmas is actually much older than the modern incarnation, going back to the 1400s. A figure for adults that involved merriment, feasting, and gift-giving, Father Christmas was outlawed by the Puritans' brief ban on Christmas. #FolkyFriday
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It's #FolkyFriday! 🖤
Our theme today is "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore!"
From Thor's hammer Mjölnir to Pandora's Box, bread, milk and salt for Hobs and household spirits to the Eye of Horus, let's give it away!
Tag related posts #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!
Our theme today is "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore!"
From Thor's hammer Mjölnir to Pandora's Box, bread, milk and salt for Hobs and household spirits to the Eye of Horus, let's give it away!
Tag related posts #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!
a cartoon character is holding a large sword
ALT: a cartoon character is holding a large sword
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It's #FolkyFriday! 🖤
Our theme today is "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore!"
From Thor's hammer Mjölnir to Pandora's Box, bread, milk and salt for Hobs and household spirits to the Eye of Horus, let's give it away!
Tag related posts #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!
Our theme today is "Father Christmas and Famous Gifts in Folklore!"
From Thor's hammer Mjölnir to Pandora's Box, bread, milk and salt for Hobs and household spirits to the Eye of Horus, let's give it away!
Tag related posts #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!
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Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.
Idk, just spitballing here.
Idk, just spitballing here.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.
Idk, just spitballing here.
Idk, just spitballing here.
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💫This week's theme is #snow! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your blizzard legends, your snow sport traditions, snowflake rituals, avalanche survival, & snowy deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
💫This week's theme is #snow! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your blizzard legends, your snow sport traditions, snowflake rituals, avalanche survival, & snowy deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
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Wyrdlings!
With the nights getting colder and longer towards the end of the year, we give you:
"Dark Tales For Dark Nights"
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
Come and share stories better told in a whisper 👻
With the nights getting colder and longer towards the end of the year, we give you:
"Dark Tales For Dark Nights"
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
Come and share stories better told in a whisper 👻
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Wyrdlings!
With the nights getting colder and longer towards the end of the year, we give you:
"Dark Tales For Dark Nights"
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
Come and share stories better told in a whisper 👻
With the nights getting colder and longer towards the end of the year, we give you:
"Dark Tales For Dark Nights"
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
Come and share stories better told in a whisper 👻
The pre-Christian origins of the Christmas tree, or perhaps the non-German origins even, are heavily disputed. From the Late Middle Ages onward Christmas trees were an established German tradition, popularized in the Anglophone world by Prince Albert. #FairytaleTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The pre-Christian origins of the Christmas tree, or perhaps the non-German origins even, are heavily disputed. From the Late Middle Ages onward Christmas trees were an established German tradition, popularized in the Anglophone world by Prince Albert. #FairytaleTuesday
Closed to non-Zuni since 1990, the ceremony of Shalako gives thanks for what's been given and requests fertility in all things for the next cycle of seasons: good harvest, wealth aplenty, and healthy children. While a solstice festival it is held on December 1st #FairytaleTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Closed to non-Zuni since 1990, the ceremony of Shalako gives thanks for what's been given and requests fertility in all things for the next cycle of seasons: good harvest, wealth aplenty, and healthy children. While a solstice festival it is held on December 1st #FairytaleTuesday
The full moon of December is the day of Sanghamitta, daughter of famed Mauryan King Ashoka. A Buddhist nun, she brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka and founded an order of nuns. The day is marked with prayers saying nuns will abstain from certain vices. #FairytaleTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The full moon of December is the day of Sanghamitta, daughter of famed Mauryan King Ashoka. A Buddhist nun, she brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka and founded an order of nuns. The day is marked with prayers saying nuns will abstain from certain vices. #FairytaleTuesday
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Oh so we can do this but we can’t just speedrun a TRIPS waiver for a pandemic vaccine
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Oh so we can do this but we can’t just speedrun a TRIPS waiver for a pandemic vaccine
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But Hestia never caused a problem...(my archtype)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the much-maligned Hera is the goddess of women, of mothers, and particularly of mothers while pregnant and in childbirth. She maintains the family, in spite of everything, and protects it. #MythologyMonday
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
But Hestia never caused a problem...(my archtype)
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“Used to assist in child birth”
“Others were used as knives to ward off evil.”
“Others were used as knives to ward off evil.”
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“Used to assist in child birth”
“Others were used as knives to ward off evil.”
“Others were used as knives to ward off evil.”
In Shinto, kegare (汚れ) is ritual impurity, almost like sin, that comes from environmental pollutants. Those include menstruation, childbirth, exposure to dead bodies, and other select regular activities. Purity comes through misogi, ritual water cleansing. #MythologyMonday
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
In Shinto, kegare (汚れ) is ritual impurity, almost like sin, that comes from environmental pollutants. Those include menstruation, childbirth, exposure to dead bodies, and other select regular activities. Purity comes through misogi, ritual water cleansing. #MythologyMonday
Some of the earliest magic wands were used in Egypt, made of hippo ivory and used to assist in child birth, invoking the goddess Tawaret, the hippo-headed goddess of childbirth and fertility. Dating to the 1800s BCE, others were used as knives to ward off evil. #MythologyMonday
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Some of the earliest magic wands were used in Egypt, made of hippo ivory and used to assist in child birth, invoking the goddess Tawaret, the hippo-headed goddess of childbirth and fertility. Dating to the 1800s BCE, others were used as knives to ward off evil. #MythologyMonday
Childbirth is on the same level as war in Aztec society, so these women who die in childbirth, called Cihuateteo, ascend to the Sun, where they guide it on its journey each day and protect it like their child through the Underworld until morning. #MythologyMonday
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Childbirth is on the same level as war in Aztec society, so these women who die in childbirth, called Cihuateteo, ascend to the Sun, where they guide it on its journey each day and protect it like their child through the Underworld until morning. #MythologyMonday
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the much-maligned Hera is the goddess of women, of mothers, and particularly of mothers while pregnant and in childbirth. She maintains the family, in spite of everything, and protects it. #MythologyMonday
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the much-maligned Hera is the goddess of women, of mothers, and particularly of mothers while pregnant and in childbirth. She maintains the family, in spite of everything, and protects it. #MythologyMonday
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Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us on Monday, December 1st, for the theme: BIRTHS! Which myths feature a birth? Write out your story and use the hashtag #mythologymonday for boosts. See you soon!
📸 Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
#mythology #folklore […]
[Original post on thefolklore.cafe]
📸 Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
#mythology #folklore […]
[Original post on thefolklore.cafe]
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us on Monday, December 1st, for the theme: BIRTHS! Which myths feature a birth? Write out your story and use the hashtag #mythologymonday for boosts. See you soon!
📸 Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
#mythology #folklore […]
[Original post on thefolklore.cafe]
📸 Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
#mythology #folklore […]
[Original post on thefolklore.cafe]
When is the right time to put out Christmas decorations? Too early, and you warn the spirits of the upcoming holiday, which may lead to them giving you an abundance of bad luck in your holiday prep. Folklore says Christmas Eve is the best day, but in this economy? #FolkloreSunday
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
When is the right time to put out Christmas decorations? Too early, and you warn the spirits of the upcoming holiday, which may lead to them giving you an abundance of bad luck in your holiday prep. Folklore says Christmas Eve is the best day, but in this economy? #FolkloreSunday
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
Tsurara-onna are by their nature tragic. They are Icicle Women of Japan, formed from the minds of lonely hearts, and appear for a season of fleeting, passionate love. Then, when the snow melts, so too does the Icicle Woman, leaving only a memory. #FolkyFriday
🖼: M. Meyer
🖼: M. Meyer
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Tsurara-onna are by their nature tragic. They are Icicle Women of Japan, formed from the minds of lonely hearts, and appear for a season of fleeting, passionate love. Then, when the snow melts, so too does the Icicle Woman, leaving only a memory. #FolkyFriday
🖼: M. Meyer
🖼: M. Meyer