In the #Roman world, roads & crossroads had their own guardian spirits - the Lares Viales (roads) & the Lares Compitales (crossroads). Travellers would offer them sacrifices in the hope of arriving & then returning home safely (travel was dangerous back then!) 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #MythologyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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In Japanese lore, Urashima Tarō escaped drowning when he saved a turtle and was carried to an undersea palace. But when he returned to shore, centuries had passed. The cost of paradise was time. #MythologyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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It's easy to find where the inspiration for the wizard duel in The Sword in the Stone came from. In the Tale of Taliesin, the young Gwion Bach repeatedly escapes the sorcererss Ceridwen by changing form, with each form being countered by the witch in turn shifting shape.
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It's easy to find where the inspiration for the wizard duel in The Sword in the Stone came from. In the Tale of Taliesin, the young Gwion Bach repeatedly escapes the sorcererss Ceridwen by changing form, with each form being countered by the witch in turn shifting shape.
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🇬🇷 The Sword in the Stone - Merlin vs Madame Mim - Greek
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October 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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In #JapaneseFolklore there is often strange advice given about how to escape from #yokai. For today's #MythologyMonday I've put a few examples together in this thread.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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In Lower Germany, honeysuckle, woody nightshade and other twining plants are called “albranke”, the witch-snare. Folklore held these plants aided witches in their escape by tangling pursuers in their coils, thus allowing the witch to slip away safely. #MythologyMonday #Halloween
October 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Pandora couldn’t escape the consequences of curiosity, but from the jar’s depths came hope. It's the one thing that makes any escape possible. #MythologyMonday
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October 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Senbiki okami is a supernatural phenomenon relating to large packs of wolves that is found throughout #JapaneseFolklore. This strange #yokai occurrence tends to involve travellers being chased at night by wolves where their only option to save themselves is to climb up a very...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Every escape in myth is a mirror of longing - from cages, from time, from destiny. What we flee from most is often ourselves. #MythologyMonday
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October 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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In Japanese myth, earthquakes are caused by a giant catfish named Namazu. He lives beneath the islands of Japan, where he's guarded by Kashima, the god of thunder. Earthquakes occur when Namazu escapes Kashima's watch and thrashes his long body. #MythologyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Hello, Everyone! Join us tomorrow for the theme: ESCAPES. Which myths feature an escape?
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October 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Baldr was trapped in Hel because one soul chose not to weep for him: Loki, disguised as a crone. Yet he will escape, once Hel is emptied for battle at Ragnarok: he will gather the surviving gods and humans and rebuild the worlds. #MythologyMonday
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October 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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"Escape"
Hades, Persephone'u görür görmez aşık olur ve çiçek toplarken onu atlı arabasıyla yeraltı dünyasına kaçırır. Demeter, kızını her yerde arar, bu süreçte yeryüzündeki tüm bitki örtüsü kurur ve kıtlık başlar.
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Hades, Persephone'u görür görmez aşık olur ve çiçek toplarken onu atlı arabasıyla yeraltı dünyasına kaçırır. Demeter, kızını her yerde arar, bu süreçte yeryüzündeki tüm bitki örtüsü kurur ve kıtlık başlar.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The Children of Lir fled human cruelty but found no refuge in flight. Transformed into swans, they drifted across centuries, bound by grief and song until the curse ran out of time. #MythologyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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1/3 Two siblings, starving and lost in the woods, come across a #fairytale cottage of sweets.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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In #JapaneseFolklore mikoshi nyudu is a peculiar shape-changing #yokai that lurks on empty streets late at night. It waits for those who walk alone and will initially appear as a regular bald monk. However, once seen, it will grow extremely tall, sprout wild hair and grow...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Sun Wukong, the Monkey King of Chinese myth, rebels against the gods in his pursuit of immortality. When the Jade Emperor sentences him to death for extorting the Dragon Kings, he escapes the underworld by erasing his name from the Book of Life and Death. #MythologyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Celebrate Diwali or Christmas with a festive book for kids about love, caring sharing, kindness in the community and family values.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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To escape from King Minos and give his son a better life, Daedalus crafted for his son and himself wings with wax: but gleeful Icarus, got too close to the Sun at the end of their journey, and melted his wings; the sea he crashed into Helios named Icarian. #MythologyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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1/4 Thanatos is the Greek god of nonviolent death. When it was the evil King Sisyphus' time to die, Zeus ordered him shackled in Tartarus. 🎨Rene Bull redbubble.com/shop/ap/3879... #MythologyMonday #vintage #art #illustration #folklore #mythology #interiordesign #homedecor #giftideas
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October 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Wayland the Smith is a master blacksmith in Germanic myth, known for forging the swords of legendary heroes. In one tale, he's enslaved by a king who cripples his legs so he can't escape. He manages to make a feathered cloak and fly out the window. #MythologyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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3/5 Daedalus built a wooden bull so Pasiphae could mate with it. The result was the birth of the Minotaur. Daedelus & his son Icarus were then tasked with building the labyrinth to contain the minotaur. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3445... #MythologyMonday #mythology #interiordecor #folklore
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October 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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In Gnostic thought the Material world was born of crisis, a crisis of thought or faith or oneness. This led to creation, the birth of the world of matter to which we are condemned and seek escape from: the ever-being worlds of Light beckon. #MythologyMonday
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October 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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A recurring motif born of the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, the Seven Sages of the bamboo grove reappears across East Asia. Avoiding the trivialities of politics and the upheaval of dynastic collapse, Daoist-driven poetry and discussion: an escape. #MythologyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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