Myths And Legends
Myths and legends from all across the world tell stories of incredible gods and goddesses who possessed remarkable abilities and divine weapons. Who were these beings and in what way were they important to our ancestors?
There are also accounts of mythological creatures and mysterious ancient places. Historians, archaeologists and scientists have been able to confirm the validity of some of these myths, but many mythological personalities, creatures and places are still shrouded in mystery. There is no doubt many mythological beings and places are still of great cultural and historical significance to people.
In this section we take a closer look at some of the most intriguing stories and enter the magical and fascinating world of myths and legends.
Myths & Legends Archive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Stories of mysterious beings who dwell in secret underground worlds are common among many Native American tribes. According to local accounts, these individuals avoid
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The primeval goose shares a close relation with certain deities from ancient Egyptian mythology. Among these is Gengen-Wer, an archaic Egyptian god represented
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to a surviving clay tablet dated by the scribe who wrote around 2125 BC during the reign of King Utukhegal of Erech
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the religion of the ancient Egyptians, Nefertum (in Greek: Iphtimis) is the personification of the refreshing and most beautiful smell, which, according
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the Rigveda, a collection of hymns, the authors appeal to many gods, and one of them is the goddess Aditi, who is
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient civilization of Sumer still hides many secrets. Representatives of this unique culture left behind many art pieces, pottery, writing, hydraulic engineering,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Chibcha (Muisca) mythology, Huitaca was the rebel goddess of drunkenness, widely known as the goddess of lust. She was a beautiful woman
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Arimaspians present a fascinating subject in ancient lore—a tribe of horsemen, each described as having a single eye centered on their forehead.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most of us have a beloved mythological character we remember from childhood. Whether it is Snow White, Mickey Mouse, Big Bad Wolf, Pinocchio,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In folklore and storytelling, swords were companions to heroes, and the spirit of each blade was very sensitive to the spirit of its
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - It is a literary work that has inspired numerous works of art through the centuries and is considered one of the most touching
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Chinese mythology, Qilin (Kirin) is one of the "Four Benevolent Animals, " including the tortoise, dragon, and phoenix. All four noble ones ruled
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Yoruba say that the planet Earth was nothing but an enormous expanse of water and marshes in the beginning. Yoruba people have
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Every year, sometime between Christmas and New Year's Eve, residents of Block Island, Rhode, report seeing an eerie light that is believed to be
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the Mahabharata, one of the major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, Surya is the "eye of the universe, soul of all existence,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Africa contains many nationalities and a large variety of legends. Every nation has had many beliefs handed down from one generation to the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Basque people—often regarded as one of Europe's oldest, most distinctive, and most resilient cultures—inhabit a rugged, mountainous region that straddles the border
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Wisdom is better than ignorance, but perhaps not always. How far should a person go to become a wise man or woman? There
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The last confrontation between friends of the gods and their enemies will occur in the field of Vigrid on the day of Ragnarok. Naglfar
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The pantheon of early South and Mesoamerican gods included many deities to whom people regularly made offerings. Yum Kaax (Lord of the woods
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Nue is a mysterious shape-shifting creature referred to in Japanese literature since ancient times. It is a yokai, a weird, mysterious creature
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Myths and legends of Europe, the Americas, China, Japan, and India describe terrible bloodsuckers that may differ in power and individual characteristics. Still,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we talked about the origin of the mysterious twins mentioned in ancient myths and legends of our
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the Inca and Aymara mythologies, Supay ('Andean Devil') was both the god of death and a powerful ruler of the Incan underworld
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient people kept the memory of mysterious shining twins alive. Myths, legends, ancient carvings, and prehistoric artifacts reveal these enigmatic beings played an
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We are today so used to the name that we hardly think about how the Vatican got its name. The truth is that
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Egyptian Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Egyptian dream is, alongside the Babylonian dream, one of the most widespread ways of interpreting dreams. The belief that dreams can foretell the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The most famous garden in Greek mythology was the Garden of the Hesperides. This legendary aromatic place was full of golden apples, which
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In classical Greek mythology, the empusa is depicted as a terrifying female monster. She is described as a demonic, vampiric being with no
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