Myth Crafts @MythCrafts

We are Mythologists who also love folklore, history, pop culture and anything weird and unusual. mythcrafts.com Joined October 2016

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Myth Crafts @MythCrafts

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There are many appearances of Macha in Irish mythology and folklore, and the academic consensus is that these are all tales of the same ancient Sovereignty Goddess. mythcrafts.com/2020/02/25/mac…

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After escaping the Underworld, a host of demons follow Inanna. Eager to claim someone to take her place, she lets them drag her faithless husband Dumuzid to Hell. mythcrafts.com/2020/03/10/ina…

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Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories

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Erotic Art in Pompeii and Herculaneum has been both exhibited as art and censored as pornography. Roman cities around bay of Naples were destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, thereby preserving their buildings and artefacts until extensive archaeological excavations began in 18th Century AD. These digs revealed the cities to be rich in erotic artefacts such as statues, frescoes and household items decorated with sexual themes. The ubiquity of such imagery and items indicates that treatment of sexuality in ancient Rome was more relaxed than in current Western culture. However, much of what might strike modern viewers as erotic imagery, such as oversized phalluses, could arguably be fertility imagery. Depictions of phallus, for example, could be used in gardens to encourage the production of fertile plants. This clash of cultures led to many erotic artefacts from Pompeii being locked away from public for nearly 200 years. In 1819 AD, when King Francis I of Naples visited Pompeii exhibition at Naples National Archaeological Museum with his wife and daughter, he was embarrassed by erotic artwork and ordered it to be locked away in a "secret cabinet", accessible only to "people of mature age and respected morals". Re-opened, closed, re-opened again and then closed again for nearly 100 years, Secret Museum, Naples was briefly made accessible at the end of 1960s (time of sexual revolution) and was finally re-opened for viewing in 2000. Minors are still only allowed entry to the once-secret cabinet in the presence of a guardian, or with written permission. 📷 : A 1st Century AD; Roman Mosaic from the entrance to the Caldarium in the House of Menander in Pompeii. The Mosaic depicts, a man carrying water vessels. #archaeohistories

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MJdowntheshore @MJdowntheshore

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Just sayin'. Fingers crossed.

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If you do any digging into the history of Robotics, you’ll eventually hear the tale of Talos, a ‘machine’ that guarded the Isle of Crete. mythcrafts.com/2024/02/29/anc…

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As a goddess, Seshat was tasked with presiding over all that was written. She ruled the entire domain of the written word, overseeing its use in the mortal world, the celestial heavens, and the realm of the dead. mythcrafts.com/2025/03/13/god…

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In the late 1950’s, two Italian brothers set up a space listening station in an abandoned Nazi bunker. They claim to have received and recorded transmissions from “Lost Cosmonauts”, explorers whose deaths they maintain were covered up… mythcrafts.com/2018/10/18/spa…

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For thousands of years, the giant catfish Namazu swam around in the rivers that ran beneath the earth. As he wriggled his fat body through the muddy waters everything above trembled and shook. mythcrafts.com/2019/07/12/cat…

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A connection between marriage and the domestication of the weasel becomes apparent when we consider that the modern Greek word for weasel also means “little bride” and contextualize it against some of the associated folklore #FolkloreThursday mythcrafts.com/2025/04/18/gre…

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Salamanders were believed to have powerful magical properties and were key ingredients in many folk magic recipes. #FolkloreThursday mythcrafts.com/2025/08/09/bor…

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Emma Woods, PhD. @mythwoods

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Talking about my book, and why deconstructing narratives promoting female submission and obedience are so important. youtu.be/s3rMBuWjI-w?si…

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2 months ago

While most of the Egyptian cult centers worshiped current, living gods, there was also a dedicated cult-center for those gods that came before: Khenmw or “eight-town” (later called Hermopolis after the Greek Hermes) mythcrafts.com/2017/09/11/the…

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2 months ago

Join us on Goddess Matters this week as we interview Emma Woods, the author of Bite Me. with cohost Andrea Slominski. We’ll explore the history of the vagina dentata myth, patriarchal control of women’s bodies, and why reclaiming female sexuality matters now more than ever.

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What if the “sexually dangerous woman” was never a myth—but a tool of control? How have stories about female sexuality been used to justify fear, shame, and violence against women? youtu.be/s3rMBuWjI-w?si…

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The Land of Cockaygne was a popular Middle Ages invention where the peasantry was free from labor and exploitation, houses were made of foodstuffs, and the inhabitants never went without… mythcrafts.com/2024/11/21/coc…

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The Ages of Man were theoretical ages of humanity that existed before current day human being was created and formed a part of the greater cosmological understanding of both the Greek and Roman civilizations. mythcrafts.com/2021/01/07/the…

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Reaching into His bag of jewels, Black God set about crafting the constellations… #mythologymonday mythcrafts.com/2018/07/03/coy…

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Shiva’s Other Child: Batara Kala, Lord of the Underworld mythcrafts.com/2022/02/17/shi…

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Sometime in the 12th century A.D. Chinese and Europeans made an important observation: Loadstones always aligned themselves to the North Star and any metal left in contact with a loadstone would acquire this ability. mythcrafts.com/2023/01/29/the…