Nordic Mythology-Ride Of The Valkyries

Gods - goddess - celtic - heroes - mythology - cults

Celtic Mythology
"O Lady of the Fair Hair,
Sing to me of the fair ancient land.
Yours divine voice
Whispers the poetry of magic
that flow through the wind,
Like sweet-tasting water of the Boyne.
"Girls,   more...forever young and beautiful,
Dancing around the broken dun,
Where long forgotten heroes
sang of victory
And drank ales
to old memories.
"Sing to me one last time,
Goddess of the Fair Hair,
Before my old ear fail me.
Let me see you dance,
Before your beauty fade away
from my failing sight."

Song to the Lady of the Fair Hair,  less

a quick video about my favourite Greek mythologic creatures, the minotaur

This is my world; This is the world I love. It is a world without limits. My World is what I choose to make it. My world is yesterday..,or today..,or tomorrow. My world is a world of dreams and realities.   more...It is a world of Knights and Ladies, of Gods and monsters or fairies princesses, femme fatales and mythic creatures…….Howard David Johnson  less

Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well.
Only one phoenix exists at a time. When the bird felt its death was near,   more...every 500 to 1,461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire. The bird then was consumed by the flames.
A new phoenix sprang forth from the pyre. It embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh and flew with it to Heliopolis, "city of the sun," where the egg was deposited on the altar of the sun god. In Egypt, it was usually depicted as a heron, but in the classic literature as a peacock or an eagle.  less

Part 2 of the Arthurian legend and Knights Templar Grail mythology. This episode looks at human sacrafice and its relationship to the origin of kingship.

Arthurian legend evolved from Neolithic Earth Goddess mythology into Medieval knighthood. Learn how the transformation evolved from sacred ritual to fanciful folklore.

Why is it said that Heaven is paved with gold?

a video about my favourite video game, god of war (if you cant stand blood and gore, do not watch)

According to Edith Hamilton in Mythology the source of all misfortune was Pandora's curiosity. "The gods presented her with a box into which each had put something harmful, and forbade her ever to   more...open it. Then they sent her to Epimetheus, who took her gladly although Prometheus had warned him never to accept anything from Zeus. He took her, and afterward when that dangerous thing, a woman, was his, he understood how good his brother's advice had been. For Pandora, like all women, was possessed of a lively curiosity. She had to know what was in the box. One day she lifted the lidand out flew plagues innumerable, sorrow and mischief for mankind. In terror Pandora clapped the lid down, but too late. One good thing, however, was thereHope. It was the only good the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune."  less

This is the Trailer for the Latin Movie III, now being released on LiveVideo. Check out my channel for more!

If you're looking for hard evidence for the biblical stories, the archaeologists have it - or more accurately, they don't have it. This video features Anne, a real working archaeologist who explains what   more...archaeologists do and how they do it and what they find. And they find very little of significance to support the Bible stories. King David existed, but he was only a two-bit chieftain, and the Exodus did not happen, and Joshua did not level the walls of Jericho. As for early Christianity, it was far from being a community united in one belief and spread by love, as the Bible claims. Video produced by www.atheistvoices.com  less

Anne the archaeologist explains the early origins of Christianity, how it was copied from other religions (also called "demonic mimicry" by Christians) and gives very good information about   more...a few of these other gods. Video produced by www.atheistvoices.com  less

In Egyptian mythology, Bast (also spelt Ubasti, and Pasht) is an ancient goddess, worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty, for whom the centre of her cult was in Per-Bast (Bubastis in greek), which   more...was named after her. Originally she was viewed as the protector goddess of Lower Egypt, and consequently depicted as a fierce lion. Indeed, her name means (female) devourer. As protectress, she was seen as defender of the pharaoh, and consequently of the chief god, Ra, who was a solar deity, gaining her the titles Lady of flame, and Eye of Ra.
Later scribes sometimes named her Bastet, a variation on Bast consisting of an additional feminine suffix to the one already present, thought to have been added to emphasise pronunciation. Since Bastet would literally mean (female) of the ointment jar, Bast gradually became thought of as the goddess of perfumes, earning the title perfumed protector. In connection with this, when Anubis became the god of embalming, Bast, as goddess of ointment, became thought of as his mother, although this association was broken in later years, when Anubis became thought of as Nephthys' son.  less

The third and final episode of "The Story of God" begins with Robert Winston in St Peter’s cathedral in Geneva. This, he tells us, was the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation 450 years   more...ago. The Medieval statues and wall paintings were removed and the congregation ‘set out to know God directly, with only their Bibles to guide them.’ The reformation, ‘redefined man’s relationship with God by replacing the mysteries of faith with the certainties of religious conviction.‘ Winston’s tone hints that he doesn’t see this as progress, and the remainder of the episode confirms this as he laments the problems caused by certainty in the debate between science and faith. Winston travels to the United States to visit a "Creationalist Museum" which depicts a history that is only a few thousand years old.  less

Robert Winston introduces the second episode of The Story of God at the tomb of Abraham in Hebron. ‘According to the Bible,’ he tells us, ‘Abraham was the first person to believe in one God.’ This is   more...a curious comment since the Bible never makes that claim. It also fails to allow for the first eleven chapters of Genesis which refers to such notable characters as Adam, Eve, Enoch and Noah (all predating Abraham) with the constant assumption that there is only one God.
Estimates for when Zoroaster lived vary widely, with most scholars suggesting 1000-600 BC – which is later than Abraham.

Abraham’s tomb is therefore a good place to start, given that these three faiths look to him as their ‘spiritual father.’ It is closely guarded by Israeli security forces, and Jews and Muslims are segregated so that they face it (veiled behind a curtain) from opposite sides. It is a powerful metaphor of how the common heritage of Jews and Muslims is the very thing which causes so much hostility between them: ‘A symbol of our common heritage and a barrier which keeps us apart.’

‘Monotheism begins with a choice: God’s,’ we’re told. ‘Jews, Christians and Muslims have all had to wrestle with this demanding God’ – a God who said to Abraham, ‘Walk before me and be perfect’. Their wrestling has resulted in them coming up with some very different ideas about who this God is and what he expects of us.’  less

Large spun glass dragon

Half lion half bird

A short animated movie of a wolf changing into a dragon made my me^^

Pure delight, "Alex Webster and the Gods" is satirical, knowing, irreverent and, above all, entertaining. If you love pop culture, Science Fiction or are a fan of either Neil Gaiman or Terry   more...Pratchett you'll have a fun read with this novel!  less

In ancient Egyptian culture the Sun was considered the manifestation of god. He was called Ra. Actually his full name is Ra - Atum - Khepri. This name represents the three stages of the Sun. Khepri -   more...the rising Sun, Ra - the Sun at the zenith (noon) and Atum -the setting Sun. It is believed that Ra created the first divine couple, Shu and Tefnut, who are the parents of the earth and sky. The Egyptians also believed that man was born from the tears of Ra, and were the god's cattle. So since man is created in his image and is issued from his flesh, the earth was created to provide care and support for mankind.  less

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/1MC/821F6CFE366E47C8B5B5412C37616DA8/maps-of-meaning-5-grappling-w.aspx">Part 5</a>

Theme: The ideas encoded in religion and mythology emerged   more...from the bottom up, not the top down. This means they were not planned or abstractly conceptualized, in their initial forms. Instead, religious ideas emerged from a platform whose structure was defined by collective behavior. Ordered collective behavior has a game-like structure, and some games are better than others. Sophisticated religious narratives outline the best possible games.  less

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/1MC/B07F4B86D42E4017958E642448ECBB35/maps-of-meaning-3-becoming-li.aspx">Part 3</a>

Theme: Traditional theories of moral attitude and behavior,   more...encoded in religion and mythology, posit that the world of human experience is composed of chaos and order, and that the human psyche mediates between those two forces or domains.  less