Mythology Vox 2008-06-24T06:24:41Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cdf7f40590094f/ Sisyphus Learns tag:vox.com,2008-06-21:asset-6a00e398c109dc000300fa968105bf0003 2008-06-21T14:52:18Z 2008-06-24T06:24:41Z Lucy http://lucy750.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Sisyphus Learns Sisyphus heaves the boulder one mighty shove that first time trudging ascent after the tenth time his chest bruised he knows he is screwed he learns to take it slow to breathe between pushes like perpetual labor he measu...

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]]> Magic, Old School... tag:vox.com,2008-03-28:asset-6a00e3989fa994000400f48d0786ad0001 2008-04-01T04:19:49Z 2008-04-15T03:37:34Z Jarod Cerf http://jarodcerf.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Hobbitgandalf Howl's Moving Castle

I won't lie. I grew up during the Golden Age of cartoons, back when animated Disney movies were still good and overgrown mouse ears weren't synonymous with commercialized satanism. Sure there were schlock and drivel back then, just as there...

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]]> The Two Sources of the Genesis Flood Myth tag:vox.com,2007-11-18:asset-6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398bececb0005 2007-11-18T12:37:18Z 2008-06-21T04:58:44Z SpiritSeeker http://spiritseeker.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Biblical scholars have long realized that the flood myth in the Bible is compilation of two older but parallel stories, one from the northern kingdom of Israel (called the E source) and the other from the southern kingdom of Judah (called the J so...

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]]> Some mythological offerings from the V&A in London... tag:vox.com,2007-10-28:asset-6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b76c050001 2007-10-28T12:29:29Z 2007-11-06T21:34:13Z LondonYankee http://kiminuk.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Eurydice - wife of Orpheus Flight of the Buddha Sunna the Saxon God Valour Pluto and Proserpine Pandora Buddha Mother and Child

The last one is actually Aphrodite and Eros but I was rushing when I tagged it! Valour is part of a larger sculpture entitled Valour & Cowardice but Cowardice came out blurry :)...

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]]> On the ethics of sharing... tag:vox.com,2007-08-22:asset-6a00e3989fa994000400e398a048520001 2007-08-22T23:43:48Z 2007-09-19T04:57:39Z Jarod Cerf http://jarodcerf.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom As I explore my options in regards to how to best go about developing and promoting my first work, I find my interests, and my somewhat iconoclastic nature, naturally drawn to the forefront of debates about copyright and intellectual property. In...

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]]> Twenty six letters and a handful of scribbles... tag:vox.com,2007-08-20:asset-6a00e3989fa994000400e3989faf240003 2007-08-20T22:35:28Z 2007-09-10T00:58:44Z Jarod Cerf http://jarodcerf.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Myths. Legends. Stories. Fables. Folklore. Alternate worlds, realities. To access these, I needed only twenty-six letters. Twenty-six symbols capable of infinite combinations, phonetics be damned. Toss in some commas, periods, quotation mar...

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]]> Words derived from mythology. tag:vox.com,2007-01-16:asset-6a00c2252523e1f21900d09e4d967bbe2b 2007-01-16T07:15:21Z 2008-04-25T18:24:31Z Rhadamanthus http://rhadamanthus.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Several words in the English language (and probably other languages, as well) are borrowed from mythology. I decided to compile a list of these words, because I thought it would be interesting. I'm aware this isn't a linguistics group [this is p...

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