Here are posts labelled "Mythology" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Padraic Colum
- Birth: December 8, 1881, County Longford, Republic of Ireland
- Death: January 11, 1972, Enfield, Connecticut, USA
- Language: English
- Who he was: Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, playwright, children's author, and folklorist; The Saxon Shillin'; The King of Ireland's Son; The Children's Homer; Children of Odin: Nordic Gods and Heroes; The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
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- Name: Carl Gustav Jung
- Birth: July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland
- Death: June 6, 1961, Küsnacht, Switzerland
- Language: German
- Who he was: German-speaking Swiss psychiatrist; Psychology of the Unconscious; Symbols of Transformation; Man and His Symbols; Memories, Dreams, Reflections; Seven Sermons to the Dead; Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
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Just the Facts:
- Name: James George Frazer
- Birth: January 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Death: May 7, 1941, Cambridge, England, UK
- Language: English
- Who he was: Scottish anthropologist; mythology and comparative religion, especially The Golden Bough
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)
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| Xibalba, the Mayan underworld |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Popol Vuh
- A;so known as: Popol Wu'uj
- Dates: between 1554 and 1558
- Place: Guatemala
- Language: Quiche (K'iche')
- What it is: Mayan mythological text
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| characters from Fengshen Yanyi |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Xu Zhonglin
- Dates: died 1560
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese writer; Fengshen Yanyi (also called Fengshen Bang, meaning The Investiture of the Gods)
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Ceridwen, an enchantress in the Mabinogion,
by Christopher Williams |
Just the Facts:
- Name: The Mabinogion
- Dates: 12th-13th centuries
- Place: Wales
- Language: Welsh
- What it is: Welsh story collection, including Welsh and other Celtic traditions
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Otto Rosenfeld
- Known as: Otto Rank
- Birth: April 22, 1884, Vienna, Austria
- Death: October 31, 1939, New York City, New York, USA
- Language: German, English (?)
- Who he was: Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher; Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden (The Myth of the Birth of the Hero); Das Inzest-Motiv in Dichtung und Sage (The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend); Das Trauma der Geburt (The Trauma of Birth)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Known as: Boccaccio
- Birth: June 16, 1313, Certaldo, Italy
- Death: December 21, 1375, Certaldo, Italy
- Language: Italian; Latin
- Who he was: Italian writer; Decameron (The Decameron); De mulieribus claris (On Famous Women)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC
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| by Sandro Botticelli |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Dante Alighieri
- Birth: June 1, 1265, Florence, Italy
- Death: September 14, 1321, Ravenna, Italy
- Language: Italian
- Who he was: Italian poet; Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy); Monarchia (On Monarchy); La Vita Nuova (The New Life); Convivio (The Banquet)
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 4); HC; LRP; Bloom; GC
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"Odin and the Völva" (1895) by Lorenz Frølich,
first and best-known tale in the Poetic Edda |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Poetic Edda
- Dates: presumed 12th century
- Place: Iceland
- Language: Old Norse
- What it is: collection of poetry in Old Norse (sometimes attributed to Saemundr the Learned) including Norse mythology and tales of human heroes
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Joseph Campbell
- Birth: March 26, 1904, White Plains, New York, USA
- Death: October 30, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Language: English
- Who he was: American mythologist, writer, and lecturer who wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces; the four-part Masks of God; The Mythic Image; A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living; The Power of Myth
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Just the Facts:
- Name: O no Yasumaro
- Died: August 15, 723 (birthdate unknown)
- Place: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese chronicler; compiled and edited Kojiki (A Record of Ancient Matters), a book of mythology and history; probably assisted Prince Toneri with Nihon Shoki (The Chronicles of Japan)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Prince Toneri
- Known as: Toneri shinnō
- Birth: January 28, 676, Japan
- Death: December 6, 735, Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese author (with O no Yasumaro) of Nihon Shoki (The Chronicles of Japan), starting with the creation myths and blending into history up to the 8th century
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Snorri Sturluson
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1179, Dalasýsla, Iceland
- Death: September 23, 1241, Reykholt, Iceland
- Language: Icelandic
- Who he was: Icelandic historian and poet, assumed author or editor of the Prose Edda (also called the Younger Edda), an Old Norse saga compiled around 1220-1241
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Publius Ovidius Naso
- Known as: Ovid
- Birth: March 20, 43 BCE, Sulmona, Italy
- Death: Unknown Date, 17 CE, Constanța, Romania
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman poet who wrote Metamorphoses; love poetry, especially Amores (Love Affairs) and Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: The Bible, "Old Testament" (better called "The Hebrew Scriptures")
- Date: c. 8th-3rd century BCE
- Place: Palestine; Babylon; perhaps Persia
- Language: mainly Hebrew; some Aramaic
- What it is: a collection of 39 books (in the Protestant version) detailing God's relationship with the Israelites. Includes mythology, history, poetry, wisdom literature, and prophecy (admonition).
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC; Bloom; GC
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| Hesiod and the Muse, by Gustave Moreau |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Hesiod
- Date: between 750 and 650 BCE
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Ancient Greek poet who wrote Theogony (on mythology); Works and Days (on agriculture, a kind of almanac)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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