One of the fascinating discoveries I have made as an amateur cultural sleuth and mythologist is the hidden archetypes of the old Earth Mother – a spirit our ancestors believed in for thousands and thousands of years prior to the advent of Greek, Roman, and Modern European civilizations took root. The Earth Mother in Western […]
October, 2020
Ultima Thule
I love the strange and imaginary places our ancestors dreamed up centuries ago before the known world was mapped. Ultima Thule is one such imaginary landscape, a strange ‘terra incognita’ beyond the borders of the known world. The Land of Thule was first recorded by the ancient Greeks around 300 B.C. as a distant continent […]
The Magic Ring of Andvaranaut
All of the great Modern stories of magic rings come from a single ancient Indo-European tale about a magic ring called Andvaranaut. Both J. R. R. Tolkien and Richard Wagner built their stories of magic rings from this same source. In the original Volsunga Saga, the dwarf Andvari creates the magic ring Andvaranaut, whose sole […]
