I've been developing something for a while now and recently ran into a bump in research, I can't find if there's any mythological beings in Celtic...
[MEDIA] "Custom is our nature."—Pascal (the first Existentialist philosopher) The poetry entry was getting ridiculously long, so I decided to...
Hey everyone! This is my first post and I wasn't sure where to ask. I am working on a modern day mythology based story and the main/modern...
Hi. I'm tooling around with the idea of a short story centered around a shape shifter as the main character. Not one who has the 'curse of the...
I realized recently that the gods and goddesses are representations of certain human traits or capacities. In part anyway—some of them also embody...
Creation myths, like the Genesis story from the Bible, were never about the physical creation of the world, they’re about the dawning of conscious...
Posted by jannert @ Wreybies’ What Makes Non-Westerns Westerns thread yesterday: Men were protectors and providers in the 19th century. My...
I've been looking further into Norse mythology, got a few more books from Gutenberg. It turns out Loki is the personification of fire and its...
I've been studying mythology pretty intensely for a while now—really fun and fascinating stuff! And I find the more I learn about mythology and...
Hello, I'm trying to research creatures and beings that are similar to the Valkyrie. According to my research on Valkyries, the word means...
When children make up stories about things they don’t understand the stories tell you more about how the child thinks than about what they’re...
Hi all, First of a sall, I'm a very new member of this forum. I'm personally a guy with lots of dreams. One of those dreams is writing a book. A...
Ok. So im writing this bit where one of my main characters get taken in the middle of the night by some creature. Now most of the creatures and...
do you have a favourite and if so why?
Hi I'm creating a fantasy world where rivers of "lava" are common place across the land, I keep referring to it as lava in my notes because it's...
Hi I haven't posted much before I've mostly just been reading through, I had some questions about which names of races / places from mythology can...
So I'm thinking about doing a story arc and I want to use the Amazons as my villains. I've been unable to find much on them online so I'm hoping...
Hello Writing-Community, I think everyone in this forum knew the 12 Olympian Gods. You know Zeus, Hades, Athena, etc. Might he/she read famous...
This is another poetry book in progress for me. Just getting thoughts on whether people have an interest in this. I will be focusing on lesser...
So, I'm writing some stories set in a fictional, polytheistic culture. If you were to go to a temple in their lands, instead of it being devoted...
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