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Hello, I taught an elective class many years ago covering different cultures' and their myths. The district I work for canceled the class in 2010, but wants to bring it back. The district is interested in the class emphasizing "character" traits like honesty, integrity, respect...

Spoiler alert Just wondering your thoughts on the characters and storyline in the movie. Finally, they let Loki shapeshift.

Anyone have suggestions for numerology books? Morris Squares or any other number puzzles? Thanks!

Article and trailer here... http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1681234/dark-shadows-trailer-reactions.jhtml Never having seen an episode, I'm not sure what to expect... but then again, I'm a bit biased because I'm a JD fan :)

Good read about the trickster archetype. She mentions one of my favorite books- Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde. http://www.southerncrossreview.org/18/trickster.htm

Love this :)

While researching the shift from paganism in Rome to Christianity, I came across a book called "Woman Who Rides the Beast." The summary of the book stated that there is a mention of a female Anti-Christ in the book of Revelation. Anyone heard of this? Just curious...

Is there any evidence that says Greece and Rome were at one time matriarchal, matrilineal or matrilocal? I am doing research on Priestesses and Vestal Virgins and I have come across some interesting quotes from historians as far back as the 1890s up through 2005 claiming that Greece and Rome...

Hey, I'm a little rusty on my Ancient Roman Civ History. Can anyone suggest sources to help me write a paper about the role of the Vestal Virgins before Christianity, and the impact Christianity had on them? Any help is appreciated!!!

Thought the archaeological evidence mentioned on this webpage was interesting... http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/giants.htm

Check out this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0

Had to do some research on Genghis Khan for a history class and found this in National Geographic. Thought it was interesting... Zerjal et al. [2003] [6] identified a Y-chromosomal lineage present in about 8% of the men in a large region of Asia (about 0.5% of the men in the world). The paper...

Hilarious! http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/385915/may-10-2011/yahweh-or-no-way----thor-and-apocalypse-billboard

One of my favorite myths - I miss teaching this to my kiddos. What do you take away from this myth? Frigg's son, Balder had a dream that showed his death. He told his mom about the dream, and she went to everyone and everything asking them to promise not to hurt her son. She saw mistletoe...

Went to a lecture about this Chinese province today. Have you heard of the political controversy with the mummies found there? Check out this link http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/a-meeting-of-civilisations-the-mystery-of-chinas-celtic-mummies-413638.html

Besides Loki stealing Sif's hair, Theseus cutting his hair before his father quest, and Isis restoring vitality to Osiris with her hair, do you know of any other myths with hair references? Found this in Walker's Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets "A comet was supposed to be a tendril...

Means "fork mound." Found in Turkey in 1958. I've been fascinated by this discovery, and wanted to know if anyone else had heard of it. They are dating it back to 7500 BC - sooooo cool. Usually don't like wikipedia, but it had some details on the place...

It's in Dallas every year and the entertainment is amazing! I'm going to try to attend. http://www.ntif.org/

Check out this site, cool stuff http://www.theoi.com/

Lupercalia was an ancient pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia subsumed Februa, an earlier-origin spring cleansing ritual held on the same date, which gives the month of February its name.