http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:52:18 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398c109dc000300fa968105bf0003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Lucy) http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398c109dc000300fa968105bf0003.html?_c=feed-rss http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398c109dc000300fa968105bf0003.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:52:18 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398c109dc000300fad69374250004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00e398c109dc000300fad69374250004-50si" alt="Sisyphus_by_von_Stuck" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398c109dc000300fa968105bf0003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398c109dc000300fa968105bf0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cruelty self preservation sisyphus tartarus preserving self unjust punishment http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400f48d0786ad0001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jarod Cerf) http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400f48d0786ad0001.html?_c=feed-rss http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400f48d0786ad0001.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:19:49 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e3989fa994000400f48d0785960001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00e3989fa994000400f48d0785960001-50si" alt="Hobbitgandalf" /></a> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e3989fa994000400f48ceea0650003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00e3989fa994000400f48ceea0650003-50si" alt="Howl&#39;s Moving Castle" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989fa994000400f48d0786ad0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> narnia fantasy books disney movies animation magic tolkien tim burton special effects c.s. lewis cgi stories the hobbit the last unicorn adaptations peter s. beagle http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398bececb0005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398bececb0005.html?_c=feed-rss http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398bececb0005.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:37:18 -0800 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398bececb0005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398bececb0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> religion genesis myth bible flood biblical scholarship flood myth http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b76c050001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(LondonYankee) http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b76c050001.html?_c=feed-rss http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b76c050001.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:29:29 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b71a0d0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b71a0d0003-50si" alt="Eurydice - wife of Orpheus" /></a> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b71b1c0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b71b1c0005-50si" alt="Flight of the Buddha" /></a> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b719c80003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b719c80003-50si" alt="Sunna the Saxon God" /></a> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b719980003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b719980003-50si" alt="Valour" /></a> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b704df0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b704df0002-50si" alt="Pluto and Proserpine" /></a> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b717aa0004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b717aa0004-50si" alt="Pandora" /></a> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b71a940005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b71a940005-50si" alt="Buddha" /></a> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b717c50004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b717c50004-50si" alt="Mother and Child" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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 :)... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b76c050001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144dd8313c7f00e398b76c050001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> museum http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400e398a048520001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jarod Cerf) http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400e398a048520001.html?_c=feed-rss http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400e398a048520001.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:43:48 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400e398a048520001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989fa994000400e398a048520001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> copyright writing authors sharing ethics intellectual property collaborative storytelling http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400e3989faf240003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jarod Cerf) http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400e3989faf240003.html?_c=feed-rss http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400e3989faf240003.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:35:28 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e3989fa994000400e3989faf240003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989fa994000400e3989faf240003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> writing bio http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00c2252523e1f21900d09e4d967bbe2b.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Rhadamanthus) http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00c2252523e1f21900d09e4d967bbe2b.html?_c=feed-rss http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00c2252523e1f21900d09e4d967bbe2b.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:15:21 -0800 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mythology.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00c2252523e1f21900d09e4d967bbe2b.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252523e1f21900d09e4d967bbe2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mythology words linguistics etymology