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Order of Myths, 2007: Folly chasing Death Folly: Order of Myths 2007. The Order of Myths, (OOMs) founded in 1867, [1] is the second oldest mystic society to celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, after the Striker's Independent Society. It is the oldest continuously parading mystic society in Mobile. The Order of Myths chose, as its symbolic ...
The Order of Myths is a 2008 documentary film directed by Margaret Brown.It focuses on the Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama, the oldest in the United States.It reveals the separate mystic societies established and maintained by Black and White groups, and acknowledges the complex racial history of a city with a slaveholding past.
The Order of Myths, Mobile's oldest continuously parading mystic society was founded in 1867 and held its first parade on Mardi Gras night in 1868. [4] The Infant Mystics also begin to parade on Mardi Gras night in 1868, but later moved its parade to Lundi Gras (Fat Monday).
The Cowbellions got their start when a young merchant and cotton factor from Pennsylvania, Michael Krafft, began a parade with rakes, hoes, and cowbells. [2] The Cowbellions introduced horse-drawn floats to the parades in 1840 with a parade entitled, "Heathen Gods and Goddesses.
Occultism is one form of mysticism. [a] This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices, including alchemists, astrologers, some Kabbalists, [b] magicians, psychics, sorcerers, and practitioners some forms of divination, especially Tarot.
List of creation myths; List of legendary creatures by type; List of mythology books and sources; List of mythological objects; List of culture heroes; List of world folk-epics; Lists of deities; Lists of legendary creatures; National myth; Mythopoeia
According to another theory, myths began as allegories for philosophical or spiritual concepts: Athena represents wise judgment, Aphrodite romantic desire, and so on. [81] Müller supported an allegorical theory of myth. He believed myths began as allegorical descriptions of nature and gradually came to be interpreted literally.
Order of Incas conquistador float in 2009. Some of Mobile's most famous floats include: Order of Myths Emblem: Folly chasing Death around the broken pillar of life. Knights of Revelry Emblem: Folly dancing in the goblet of life. Infant Mystics Emblem: A black cat atop a cotton bale, the foundation of Mobile's antebellum wealth