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    Category: Mythology

    Shiva’s Other Child: Batara Kala, Lord of the Underworld

    Before getting into the origin(s) and function(s) of Batara Kala, the Javanese/Balinese God of the Underworld, a little back story is necessary. Hinduism enjoyed a brief but… Read more “Shiva’s Other Child: Batara Kala, Lord of the Underworld”

    February 17, 2022 by MythCrafts Team

    The Last Egyptian Pharaoh and the Tarot, or: the Alexander Romance and the Sola Busca

    Many people are introduced to Tarot as an ancient tool, a divining device whose history is blurred in the haze of antiquity, having been transmitted from Egypt… Read more “The Last Egyptian Pharaoh and the Tarot, or: the Alexander Romance and the Sola Busca”

    January 27, 2022 by MythCrafts Team

    Adolf Hitler and Queen Nefertiti’s Bust: Homesick

    What line could possibly connect the Fuhrer and the Queen of the Sun loving Pharaoh Akhenaten, a woman whose visage is almost synonymous with ancient Egypt? Let’s… Read more “Adolf Hitler and Queen Nefertiti’s Bust: Homesick”

    January 20, 2022 by MythCrafts Team

    From King Arthur to Newly Discovered Runes: The Year With No Sun

    What do the death of the legendary King Arthur and the Norse Prelude to Ragnarok have in common? They very well might have been inspired by the… Read more “From King Arthur to Newly Discovered Runes: The Year With No Sun”

    November 26, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Womb and Tomb: the Undiscovered Country

    Imagine this: you are walking with your tribe across the plains of the Savannah. Predation is a fact of life; you are surrounded by carnivores, and you… Read more “Womb and Tomb: the Undiscovered Country”

    October 14, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Sleipnir, Odin’s Eight Legged Horse

    Enjoy Loki as a hermaphroditic were-horse who engages in bestiality, resulting in the birth of a cryptozoid

    September 24, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Guidebook to the Underworld: Egyptian Funerary Texts

    The texts from which we gather knowledge of the Egyptian Underworld (Duat) include the various funerary texts which also served as guides to the underworld.

    September 9, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Suggested Reading: Norse Mythology

    Two of the richest textual sources for Norse myth come from the Poetic and Prose Eddas. The Poetic Edda represent an compendium of older, oral poems, anonymous… Read more “Suggested Reading: Norse Mythology”

    August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    Charon: Old Man and the River

    Charon, the ferryman of the Greco-Roman underworld, was born from a union of the primordial embodiments of night (Nyx) and darkness (Erebus). Charon’s many siblings included Aether… Read more “Charon: Old Man and the River”

    January 14, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

    The Ages of Man – Hesiod, Pt.1

    The Ages of Man were theoretical ages of humanity that existed before current day human being was created and formed a part of the greater cosmological understanding… Read more “The Ages of Man – Hesiod, Pt.1”

    January 7, 2021 by MythCrafts Team

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