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NEW PAGES AND UPDATES: FEBRUARY 2022
Friday 25th February 2022
THE ECHTRAE AND OTHER ADVENTURES
A look at the echtrae and related tales from Irish mythology, which detail dealings with the other worlds of Irish myth.
LEARN MOREThursday 24th February 2022
INVISIBLE IRISH ISLES: HY BRASIL AND COMPANY
Medieval cartography, sandbars and shallow seas, and ancient tales, some taller than others, all leave their imprints in a rich Irish lore of lost islands.
LEARN MOREWednesday 23rd February 2022
LAHONTAN'S MEMOIRS OF NORTH AMERICA
A curious tale of a mysterious river and its inhabitants - Eokoros, Essanapes, Gnacsitares, Mozeemleks and Tahuglauk - from Baron de Lahontan's New Voyages to North America.
LEARN MOREMonday 21st February 2022
A NOTE MADE BY MICHAEL LOK
Michael Lok the Elder's account of his transactions with Juan de Fuca, supposed discoverer of a Northwest Passage through the Straits of Anian.
LEARN MORESunday 20th February 2022
A LETTER FROM BARTHOLOMEW DE FONTE
Arthur Dobbs' account of Vice-Admiral Bartolomé de Fuentes' supposed 1640 discovery of the Northwest Passage.
LEARN MORESaturday 19th February 2022
CREATION STORIES FROM WESTERN OCEANIA
A variety of cosmogonies and creation stories from Western Oceania - Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Indonesia and Melanesia.
LEARN MORESaturday 19th February 2022
CREATION STORIES FROM WEST AFRICA
Creation stories from the peoples of West Africa, including the Dogon, Ashanti, Serer, Ijaw, Bambara and Yoruba.
LEARN MOREFriday 18th February 2022
CREATIOR GODS AND CULTURE HEROES: AN INDEX OF NAMES
An index of named figures from creation myths from around the world.
LEARN MOREMonday 14th February 2022
IRISHMEN AT SEA: DICUIL, ST. BRENDAN AND THE PILGRIM SAINTS
Updated with the addition of the tales of Cormac, Ronan and Brenhilda.
LEARN MORESaturday 12th February 2022
MAGNETIC NORTH: TALES OF WHIRLPOOLS, GIANTS, TEMPERATE SEAS AND A HUGE LODESTONE
A glance at the North Pole and its mythology, from whirlpools and giants to the indrawing sea and the Rupes Nigra.
LEARN MOREThursday 10th February 2022
CREATION STORIES FROM CENTRAL AND WEST ASIA
Details of the Hurrian-Hittite myths of creation - the succession in the heavens and the tale of Ullikummi - have been added.
LEARN MOREThursday 10th February 2022
FOOTBALL (SOCCER): WELSH MEN'S ROLL OF HONOUR
A Welsh men'sroll of honour, starting with the inception of the national league in 1992.
LEARN MORETuesday 8th February 2022
FOOTBALL (SOCCER) IN SCOTLAND
Another starter section featuring a roll of honour, an overview of the league system and different associations and some league tables for recent seasons.
LEARN MOREMonday 7th February 2022
BAILE IN SCÁIL: THE PHANTOM'S FRENZY
A poem detailing the encounter between Conn of the Hundred Battles and the sidhe of the Tuatha Dé Danaan.
LEARN MOREMonday 7th February 2022
THE ADVENTURE OF THE FIVE LUGAIDS
This is an abridged account of the legend of the Five Lugaids as it appears in the Cóir anmann, edited and translated by Whitley Stokes.
LEARN MORESunday 6th February 2022
HEODOTUS' REPORTS ON SCYTHIAN ORIGINS
Herodotus' material on the origin of the Scythian people of the Pontic Steppe and Western Asia. The Halicarnassan gives four current narratives appertaining to the ancestry and arrival of this group of horse-nomads in the regions in which they dwelt.
LEARN MOREFriday 4th February 2022
IRISHMEN AT SEA: DICUIL, ST. BRENDAN AND THE PILGRIM SAINTS
Among the greatest navigators of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe were the Irish.
LEARN MOREThursday 3rd February 2022
THE IMMRAMA: IRISH STORIES OF THE SEAS
A brief account of the lands encountered by Máel Dúin, the Uí Corra, Snédgus and Mac Ríagla, heroes of the great Irish immrama, now with extensive links to the original texts.
LEARN MOREThursday 3rd February 2022
CREATION STORIES FROM THE EASTERN WOODLANDS OF NORTH AMERICA
A variety of cosmogonies from North America's Eastern Woodlands from the Mi'kmaq in the north to the Calusa of ancient Florida. The section on Abenaki mythology has been extended to include details of the beings of the first two of three ages.
LEARN MOREWednesday 2nd February 2022
CREATION STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
"How did things begin?" "Where do we come from?" These are questions that we as humans ask ourselves. It's what separates us from the animals.
LEARN MOREWednesday 2nd February 2022
BEGINNINGS: THE VIEW FROM SCIENCE
The scientific picture of the origins and development of the universe, earth and life. Section on early tetrapods updated.
LEARN MORETuesday 1st February 2022
CREATION STORIES FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
Ancient Egyptian creation stories are diverse and fascinating, featuring any number of deities as prime cause. This page has undergone some minor cosmetic changes.
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