“But what does it mean?” Of course you know that’s what my folks said. But they listened. They’re always good like that. Some of you will recognize the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which I’ve had […]
Tag: myth
(Art) The Enchantments of Errol Le Cain
Born in Singapore, Errol Le Cain (1941-1989) spent his early childhood in India until he moved to the U.K. by himself at the age of 17 to study animation. Settled in the U.K. until his […]
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom
Ilya Repin (Russian, 1844-1930) “Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom” Sadko (Russian: Садко) is the principal character in the East Slavic epic Bylina. He was an adventurer, merchant, and gusli musician from Novgorod. Sadko played the […]
(Myth) Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld
Ereshkigal , Sumerian goddess of the underworld, was also called Irkalla, the name of her land, in the same way that in the Greek, Hades is both the name of the realm and its king. […]
(Art) The Martial Mytho-fantasies of Konstantin Vasilyev
“Konstantin Vasilyev died on October 29, 1976 in a railway accident near Kazan. His family and friends never believed in the official version of his death and suspected that the painter was murdered. Vasilyev was […]
(Feature) The Utter Reality of Myth
The French philosopher and literary critic Roland Barthes developed an extension of Saussure’s semiotics that he aptly called mythology, where strictly speaking ‘-ology’ means ‘study of’ rather than ‘collection.’ For Barthes, the semiological system of […]
(Feature) In the Beginning: a bird’s eye history of religion
In the beginning was the crisis. This is the singular belief that defines the religious history of our species, the insistence that this world, full of suffering — where the race goes not to the […]
