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A mythical city at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. Vyraj: A mythical place in Slavic mythology, where "birds fly for the winter and souls go after death". Westernesse: A country found in the Middle English romance King Horn. Xibalba: The underworld in Mayan mythology. Yomi: The land of the dead according to Shinto mythology, as related in ...
The English author J. R. R. Tolkien has often been supposed to have spoken of wishing to create "a mythology for England". It seems he never used the actual phrase, but various commentators have found his biographer Humphrey Carpenter 's phrase appropriate as a description of much of his approach in creating Middle-earth , and the legendarium ...
Vulcan (Latin: Vulcanus, in archaically retained spelling also Volcanus, both pronounced [wʊɫˈkaːnʊs]) is the god of fire [1] including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and myth.
Omphalos stones marking the center were erected in several places about the Mediterranean Sea; the most famous of those was at Delphi. Omphalos is also the name of the stone given to Cronus. (Greek mythology) Uluru (also Ayers Rock), the first tells of serpent beings who waged many wars around Uluru, scarring the rock. The second tells of two ...
English mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of England, sometimes being elaborated upon by successive generations, and at other times being rejected and replaced by other explanatory narratives.
Avalon (/ ˈ æ v ə l ɒ n /) [note 1] is an island featured in the Arthurian legend.It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
Lycurgus (/ l aɪ ˈ k ɜːr ɡ ə s /; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος Lykourgos) was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, credited with the formation of its eunomia (' good order '), [1] involving political, economic, and social reforms to produce a military-oriented Spartan society in accordance with the Delphic oracle.
As is usual in bestiaries, the lynx in this late 13th-century English manuscript is shown urinating, the urine turning to the mythical stone Lyngurium (from List of mythological objects) Image 84 The Fall of the Titans (1596–98) by Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (from Comparative mythology )