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Category: mythology mondays

  • Mythology Mondays: Hekate, Goddess of Witches

    Ghosts, necromancy, witcchraft…you know, all the things necessary for a bitchin’ party.

  • Persephone, Queen of the Dead

    Persephone/Kore is the goddess of paradox. I talk about her most well-known myth and how that shapes the goddess we know.

  • Postponing this instalment of Mythology Mondays

    I’m sorry, but I need to postpone today’s Mythology Mondays post. (Gwyn ap Nudd was the winner, by the way!) It’s not ready, and I’ve been under the weather for the past week or so. I need a bit more time to put it together and instead of rushing and trying to finish it today…

  • Manannán: god of endless bacon

    This week we are talking about another one of my fave gods. Manannán Mac Lir is the Irish god of rain, mist, the sea, and the Otherworld. He first came into my life several years ago, and he’s been a huge part of it since. I’m going to try to talk about him a bit…

  • The Dagda: the good god with a killer harp

    Welcome to another instalment of Mythology Mondays! The winner of our poll was The Dagda, a member of the Tuatha De Danann. (Runner-up was Manannan Mac Lir.) I actually put him on the poll because I saw a post about him on Folklore Thursday a while back, and the picture shared of him made him…

  • Hera: Queen of Heaven, Enforcer of Boundaries

    Welcome to another installment of Mythology Mondays! Today we’re going to learn a bit about Hera, Greek Queen of the Gods. (Thanks to Kayla for suggesting her in the comments on my Facebook post!) Hera gets a bad rap, honestly, especially with TV shows like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys being one of the main ways…

  • Hephaestus, renowned artificer of weapons and wheelchairs

    Welcome to the first instalment of Mythology Mondays! Every other week (to start) I’ll be posting a short intro to a figure from mythology. Any mythology that I know something about is up for grabs — Hellenic, Roman, Irish, Buddhist — you name it, I might cover it. I’ve studied a lot of mythology over…