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The Nine Worlds of Norse mythology are usually described as the different realms that make up the Norse cosmos, including Asgard, Midgard, Jotunheim, Vanaheim, Alfheim, Niflheim, Muspell, Hel, and one…
The Second Battle of Mag Tuired, also known as the Second Battle of Moytura, was one of the most important conflicts in Irish mythology. It was fought between the Tuatha…
Loki is one of the most unpredictable figures in Norse mythology. He is usually described as a trickster and shapeshifter, but the surviving myths present a far more complicated character….
The Morrígan is one of the most complex figures in Irish mythology. She is usually associated with war, fate, prophecy, and sovereignty, yet the surviving sources do not present her…
In the traditional myth, Perseus kills Medusa, escapes with her head, rescues Andromeda, defeats Polydectes, and eventually fulfills the prophecy that haunted his grandfather Acrisius. But what if his story…
The Fomorians are often introduced as the monstrous enemies of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a race of giants associated with darkness, chaos, and the sea. Medieval Irish tradition, however, presents…
Yggdrasil is the great World Tree of Norse mythology, a vast sacred tree at the center of the Norse cosmos, linking the worlds of gods, humans, jötnar, the dead, and…
Thor is one of the best-known gods of Norse tradition. The son of Odin and Jörð, husband of Sif, and a major member of the Æsir, he is most closely…
Lugh stands among the most prominent gods of Irish mythology. A leading figure of the Tuatha Dé Danann, he is associated with warfare, kingship, craftsmanship, poetry, music, and exceptional skill….
Achilles was never meant to see the end of the Trojan War. Greek tradition makes his early death part of the price of his glory, yet Homer’s Iliad stops before…
The Tuatha Dé Danann are among the most important supernatural beings in Irish mythology. Medieval Irish texts describe them as a powerful people associated with magic, warfare, healing, skilled craftsmanship,…
The Norse creation myth does not begin with gods building a finished universe from nothing. It begins with a vast empty space called Ginnungagap, bordered by forces of cold and…
Odin was one of the most powerful and complex gods in the Norse world. He is best known as the All-Father, a god associated with wisdom, war, death, poetry, magic,…
The Dagda was one of the most important divine figures in early Irish mythology and a leading member of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He appears as a king, warrior, druid,…
Every night, Ra was believed to cross the Duat in his solar barque while Apophis tried to stop him. Every morning, the rising sun meant that the journey had succeeded…
Tutankhamun died at around nineteen years old, after a reign of less than a decade and without a surviving heir. His death opened the way for Ay and later Horemheb…
The Assyrian Empire did not disappear the moment Nineveh fell in 612 BCE. Assyrian forces continued resisting from Harran, Egypt intervened on their side, and the struggle for control of…
The Battle of Thermopylae is remembered as a heroic Greek defeat, but its importance went far beyond the death of Leonidas and the Spartans. Once the pass fell in 480…