by Daphne Elliot
In the midst of Chaos there was a great void. It was a time of deep darkness, before the memory of mankind.
Into this void came Kane, the god of creation. He picked up a giant calabash, threw it high into the air where it broke into two enormous pieces. The top piece was curved like a bowl, and became the Sky. The seeds scattered and became the stars. The remainder of the calabash fell downward, and became the Earth.
by Daphne Elliot
In the mythology of Oceanic peoples, Forever has always existed. So has Darkness, and so, too, the Sea.
Soaring over the endless sea, The Old Spider fond a giant clam and opened it and crawled inside. It was totally dark, and cramped inside but she found a snail, whom she asked to open the shell a bit so she could have more room.
by Daphne Elliott
In the beginning, Chaos, an amorphous, gaping void encompassing the entire universe, and surrounded by an unending stream of water ruled by the god Oceanus, was the domain of a goddess named Eurynome, which means “far-ruling” or “wide-wandering”.
by Chen Zhao, Clarksville Middle School
Hauhet is an Egyptian goddess and is represented as a frog. She was the goddess of immeasureable infinity. She is one of the Ogdoad. The Ogdoad are eight Egyptian dieties who were especially worshipped in Hermoplic in Upper Egypt. They formed the basis of the creation myths. The Ogdoad were made up of four goddesses and four gods. The goddesses were represented as either frogs or humans with frog heads. The gods were represented as either snakes or humans with snake heads.
by Aries
“…Aries shows us how modern images (albeit set in 19th century America)…” Julia, Web of Wyrd No. 7.
For me, that “albeit” sounded like a gauntlet being slapped down. Can we show the presence of myth in films other than Westerns? We don’t plan to go on in great detail, but we suspect that what we’re trying to get across is the suggestion that maybe “The Mythic” is not the stories or rituals, but the substrate out of which our tales and trials grow.
by Dr Anthony E. Smart
In many myths, the world is destroyed in punishment for a great sin; usually, a husband and wife survive to repopulate the earth (sometimes a brother and sister, sometimes more than two people). In the case of this tale from the Caroline Islands, Magigi forsees the flood, and so she and her husband survive.
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee, Ph.D.
Palamedes, who was the son of the Euboian king Nauplius (2) and queen Clymene (4) and who was also the grandson of Poseidon and Amymone (one of the fifty Danaus’ daughters) was the personification of time-honoured wisdom. But he was also a tragical hero in the Greek myths, because he was the first example of an error of justice.
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.
The name Ida or Idaea (Idaia) appeared in the Greek myths as the name of two nymphs who were living in various places. The first nymph lived on Ida, which is the highest point of Crete (in modern times called Mount Psiloritis 2456m) and the second one was living on Mount Ida (now named Kaz Gagi 1774m) in ancient Phrygia near Troy, in the north-western region of Turkey. Ida, -idi means in the Greek language the wooded mountain, so this word became the name of the mountains as well as the name of these female divinities; the nymphs who were — according to the myths — living on Mount Ida.
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.
According to certain myths, Euanthes was one of the sons of Ariadne and Dionysus, and the grandson of King Minos from Crete. He was the brother of Oenopion, Thoas, Staphylus, Tauropolus, and Latramys. According to some accounts Euanthes was not Oenopion’s brother, but his son, and that he arrived with his father and the other children with a Cretan fleet at the island of Chios.
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee, Ph.D.
According to the myths, Acacallis (Akakallis) was one of the daughters of the Cretan king Minos and his wife Pasiphae. She was the sister of Xenodike, Ariadne and Phaedra. She became the first love of Apollo, when this god with his sister Artemis came for a purification reason from Aigialeia to Crete. Acacallis was just at Tarrha visiting the house of the seer Carmanor, who was a family member from the side of her mother. There at Tarrha in Western Crete, Apollo met her for the first time and there she became his beloved one. Their relation did not stay without effects and Acacallis faced the consequences when she became pregnant.
Witch's Well 