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The Original Robocop Was A Christ Allegory
The original Robocop, released in 1987 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, was not only one of the best science fiction films of the last three decades—"a brilliant comedy operating in the guise of an ultraviolent action movie," as Tom Scocca described it on Gawker—it was also a Christian allegory. At least according to Paul Verhoeven himself who, in a 2010 interview, referred to his resurrected robot hero as "the American Jesus."
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Slut-Shaming Helen of Troy. If we blame her for the Trojan War, what does it say about us?
This is one of the most powerful modern versions of a far more widespread misogynistic trope. Heterosexual male desire for an exceptionally attractive woman tends to be projected onto the woman herself, who is then presented as particularly lustful. Since male desire can be experienced as mysterious, bewildering, and overwhelming, the woman herself must be destructive and deceptive, perhaps possessed of magical witch-like powers.
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Tarot Mythology: The Surprising Origins of the World’s Most Misunderstood Cards
The Empress. The Hanged Man. The Chariot. Judgment. With their centuries-old iconography blending a mix of ancient symbols, religious allegories, and historic events, tarot cards can seem purposefully opaque. To outsiders and skeptics, occult practices like card reading have little relevance in our modern world. But a closer look at these miniature masterpieces reveals that the power of these cards isn’t endowed from some mystical source
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Indian Mythology: Krishna-Eight incarnation of Vishnu
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Cassiopeia: The Banished Queen Ruling the Night Sky
If you've seen "Clash of the Titans", you already know part of Cassiopeia's story.
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10 Awesome and Unusual Mythological Creatures | Tor.com
A list of 10 less-familiar mythological creatures.
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Icarus
Sun kissed - watercolour on paper.
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The Fairy Faith
An Ancient Indigenous European Religion
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Journey to the West
Illustrations by Niō Mizushima for a Japanese edition of ‘Journey to the West’ (c. 1950)
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The Real Landscapes of the Great Flood Myths
In Tibet, a geologist learns how folk stories may record actual catastrophes.
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The Edda's Lokasenna
In which Loki is a sassy little shit. Bellows' translation.
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Scandinavian mythology: The Norse God Family Tree
Family Tree of the most important gods in the ancient Norse pantheon, and also some animals.
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5 Most Powerful Mythological Dragons From Around the World
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Thor's Fishing Trip
This storyteller at Fotevikens Museum tells a tale of Thor, who went on a rather interesting fishing trip.
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Rap Athenas: From Juvenile's "Ha" to A$AP Rocky's "Peso"
The first time I saw the videos for Juvenile’s “Ha” (1998) and A$AP Rocky’s “Peso” (2011), I felt I was witnessing the birth of something full-grown, wrapped in tattoos, front teeth full of jewels, wrought in an aesthetic emerging organically out of a world and a worldview both foreign and familiar.
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NSFW 27 Sex Myths Too Many People Still Believe
What is it about our genitals that make us perpetuate the dumbest lies?
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Arachne
The central question Arachne webzine takes up is the relationship of mythology to the internet.
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12 legends that prove the whole world is obsessed with dragons
Some breathe fire. Others live in water. But there's one thing all dragons have in common: they’re totally badass. By Jessica Phelan. (2014)
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Birth of the moralizing gods
“The gods of today’s major religions are moralizing gods, who encourage virtue and punish selfish and cruel people after death. But for most of human history, moralizing gods have been the exception. If today’s hunter-gatherers are any guide, for thousands of years our ancestors conceived of deities as utterly indifferent to the human realm, and to whether we behaved well or badly.” By Lizzie Wade.
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MythBusters and the Rise of Fact-checking Everything
After 14 seasons, MythBusters — Discovery’s pop-science engineering-fest, devoted to testing whether various widely held beliefs about the physical world are bogus — has confirmed that the show will go off the air in an explosive fireball after next season. Ratings have dipped, and even fans acknowledged the show was losing steam. Still, it’s news that makes you think about the cultural shift since 2001, and how the show’s hosts...
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