Just to clarify 😅 the stick would be the kind of stick used in a ball game…not just a random stick.

In an older tale, unrelated to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh is said to have been playing a game with an (unidentified) object (possibly a stick or a drum) He lost the object and it fell into the underworld causing Gilgamesh great distress. [1/2] #FolkloreThursday

Loosely inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the Snow Queen, Frozen initially seems very dissimilar from its predecessor - that said there are a few nods to the fairy tale scattered throughout the movie. #FairytaleTuesday www.mythosblog.org/post/movie-v...

With truly the worst of Father-in-Laws (a murderous king who had already attempted to drown him as a babe) a newly married young lad is sent on a dangerous journey to retrieve three golden hairs from the devil himself in this unusual fairy tale. #MythologyMonday www.mythosblog.org/post/in-summ...

Autumn is the time for summer birds leaving, and winter birds arriving so this week on #MythosSunday we’d love to see your favourite bird, myths, superstitions and (hopefully) photos. Share with the hashtag and we’ll retweet! #BlueskyBirds #Birdsky #BirdsInArch

“Our spines fit together, like jigsaws, or fingers, Bone settled gently against perfect bone. My palm in your palm, where it lovingly lingered, When I was still we, and you were my own…” #LegendaryWednesday #Poetry #Grief #Love www.mythosblog.org/post/the-chi...

A popular subject of Japanese tattoo art is Tamitori-Hime, a pearl diver who undertook a dangerous dive to retrieve a precious, lost jewel from a dragon’s undersea castle. #MythologyMonday www.mythosblog.org/post/tamator...

Welcome to Mythos! Just some housekeeping, as a blanket TW for our blog, we explore myths and legends around the world which may include themes people find uncomfortable. This may include murder, suicide, assault, rape, cannibalism and more. Please do keep that in mind when checking out our content.

After a lengthy hiatus Mythos is thrilled to be back with our later article - we take another look at the musical #Epic and how it relates to Homer’s #Odyssey www.mythosblog.org/post/music-v...

Halloween is almost here so this week for #MythosSunday we’d love to hear all about Death. Omens, superstitions, Psychopomps. Anything that’s a little Grimm.

According to Greek legend, cicadas were once humans who lived before the birth of the Muses. Once the Muses were born (and song, dance and poetry with them) the humans were so enthralled with song and dance they forgot to eat or drink, wasting away.[1/2] #MythosSunday

If you’d like to join us this week for #MythosSunday we’d love to share your favourite transformation myths and legends! Whether that’s pumpkins into coaches, dragons into humans or women into birds.

Visible from the shore of Kos, the island of Kalymnos is said to have been named for the Titan Kalydnos who managed to cling to the newly-emerged island to prevent himself being cast into Tartarus by his paranoid father, Uranus. #MythosSunday #Greece #Myths #Photos

If anyone would like to join us this Sunday for another #MythosSunday we’d love to hear your favourite island myths and legends. Share your myth with the # and we’ll reshare!

Leaving home to marry the prince of a far off kingdom, a princess is betrayed on the journey, replaced by her seemingly 'faithful' maid. The only witness to the crime? The Princess' horse, who is immediately killed by the maid. #WyrdWednesday

Lares Familiares - guardian spirits of ancient Rome who protected the household - were believed to be deceased family members, returned to protect their living descendants. Though these family spirits are perhaps the more commonly known of the Lares, they were not the only kind. #FairytaleTuesday

A fascinating look into civility and wilderness, Kij Johnson's incredible The Fox Woman sees a Japanese fox fall in love with both a human and humanity...learning the magic that only a fox may wield in order to join that strange, two-legged world. #MythologyMonday

"Our spines fit together, like jigsaws, or fingers, Bone settled gently against perfect bone. My palm in your palm, where it lovingly lingered, When I was still we, and you were my own..." #Poetry #LovePoetry #MythsAndLegends #TheOriginsOfLove

Perhaps one of the lesser known fairy tales, the story of the Devil and the Three Golden hairs tells of an unlucky boy, born with a caul (born with an unbroken amniotic sac) whose unlikely birth attracts the attention of a cruel king and a unescapable prophecy. #Fairytales

We’re joining the hashtag fun! Join us Sunday with the hashtag #MythosSunday! We’d love to hear your favourite spooky myths and legends for October - the spookiest season!

If you're looking for a creepy, fantasy read in the darkening months (and aren't put off by body horror, or gore), why not check out Peadar O’Guilin’s #TheCall. Inspired by Irish myths of the Sidhe, the story sees teenagers stolen away by to a cruel, inhuman, land.

If you haven't yet checked out our reviews of the incredible #Epic (a musical telling of Homer's Odyssey) where we compare and contrast the musical to its source material you can check out the first instalment here:

Mythos is back! Just in time for spooky season. At the end of the month we'll be sharing our latest article - the next instalment in our reviews of #Epic the Musical, an Odyssey retold. In the meantime we'll be posting here with our usual snapshots of myth and legend.

Hi All, here at Mythos we would like to apologise for our unexpected hiatus! We are now back and do hope to be returning to socials in October, as well as picking back up with our monthly blog posts. We’d love to thank everyone for sticking with us while we were gone.

While there are many cultures around the world who have envisioned the sun as a male deity, their is also a large number who look to the sky and see a woman in that golden sphere. From Áine to Xihe we take a look at just a few of the goddesses associated with the sun. #Myths #Solar

There are many legends about how the robin got its red breast. Some say the robin's feathers were scorched by flames, carrying water to the unfortunate souls trapped in purgatory. Others say blood, from where the bird attempted to comfort Jesus on the Cross. #Myths #Birds #BlueskyBirds

A musical reimagining of the Iliad and the Trojan War, the album The Blues of Achilles explores that tragedy and grief of this conflict, beginning with one of the most poignant moments of the epic - the death of Hector. #Myths #Music #Interviews

Dating from around the 1300s the tale of Sir Orfeo sees the aforenamed Orfeo travel to the realm of the fairies after his beloved wife, Heurodis is abducted by the Fairy King. Ten years after her disappearance, Orfeo finally made his way into the fairy realm winning his wife back. #WyrdWednesday

If you want mermaid horror this #MerMay look no further than #MiraGrant's incredible Into the Drowning Deep - a Sci-Fi take on mermaid myths which explores the sinister implications behind just why creatures of the deep may evolve to look and sound like us. #FairytaleTuesday

For fans of #Arthurian Legend, #DevPatel and mind-bending movies, David Lower's #TheGreenKnight has it all. We explore the differences and similarities between this incredible film and the bizarre tale it is based on. #Movies #MythsAndLegends

Join us as we explore the Trojan war - beginning with the backstory of a few key players in the upcoming conflict and the series of events that would make this war inevitable. #TrojanWar #History #MythsAndLegends

In one old fairy tale a man stumbles upon a cat's funeral and returns home to discover that his own beloved tom is now the king of cats. We try our hand at a modern version of the tale, with a new generation and a newly crowned king. #Cats #MythsAndLegends #ShortStory

On a trip to sunny Cyprus, we at Mythos were lucky enough to visit a very special beach - a beach whose foamy waters and ancient rock formations are said to be the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite herself. #Cyprus #Beaches #Aphrodite #Holidays #MythsAndLegends

From the Fairy Queen to the Tooth Fairy, elves and fey have long captured the imaginations of the British Isles. Join us as we take a look at just a few of the fairy stories stories that were immortalised in ballad form. #Myths #Legends #Ballads #Fairies

A musical retelling of the Odyssey the incredible concept album #Epic followed Odysseus' journey from the wall of Troy to the shores of his home, Ithica. Join us as we take a look at the myths that inspired this tale. #Odyssey #Reviews #EpicTheMusical

"There’s a dragon in my goldfish bowl, My older brother told me so, With fins instead of wings to help it fly..." #Poetry #Dragons #Legends #MythsAndLegends

The two bears in the sky - Ursa Major and Minor may once have been mother and son! One transformed into a bear, the other unknowingly hunting her and both flung into the stars to prevent a tragedy. #MythologyMonday www.mythosblog.org/post/in-the-...

In honour of Ovid's birthday, why not check our one of his many tales - the story of two sisters violently used and betrayed by the same man who seek their own bloody vengeance and are later transformed by the gods into birds.

For fans of Greek and Roman history, the 20th March marks a special occasion - the birth of Roman poet Ovid. His most famous work, 'Metamorphoses' spans the creation of the world to the death of Caesar and tells the stories of a number of mythical transformations. [1/2]

There are a number of plants said to have once been human, transformed by tragedy or the will of the gods. Once such tale, is the legend of Farhad and Shirin, star crossed lovers whose love ends tragically but still becomes something beautiful. #LegendaryWednesday

The Fern has long been said to have mystical powers and were once seen as a symbol of protection. Because it's impossible to find a fern seed (they don't produce them) it was said that this seed was invisible keeping one in your pocket would render the holder invisible also. #LegendaryWednesday

the 18th of March marks the anniversary of the first ever space walk, a culmination of years of humanity looking towards the sky. There are many myths and legends of the milky way, envisioning it as a road through the sky that thieves, sprits, deities and even dogs use to traverse the stars. [1/2]

In an old English fairy tale a man accidentally witnesses a cat funeral and returns home only to learn that (with the old king dead) his own tom was the new king of the cats. Check out our modern retelling of the tale, and a new royal cat. #Cats #Fairytales

A retelling of the Goose Girl fairy tale, Margaret Owen's fantasy world reimagines the tale from the perspective of the disloyal servant who had stolen a princesses' place. Of course, things are not that simple, as our protagonist faces of against a cruel fiancé, and unkind gods.

In the tale of the Goose Girl a princess is betrayed by a favoured servant, forced to switch places. She was relegated to a poor goose herder while her servant went on to marry the princesses' royal fiancé . Fate eventually twisted back in the Goose Girl's favour. #MythologyMonday

For our first article of 2025 here at Mythos we’re thrilled to have had the chance to chat with Miya. Inspired by Greek Mythology her strategy card game Mytho gives players the strength of gods and heroes at their fingertips! www.mythosblog.org/post/intervi...

Though reading the leaves is one famous method of telling the future there are other tea-based prophecies that are useful to know…two women drinking from the same teapot means on will soon fall pregnant while accidentally putting two spoons in the cup means marriage is imminent. #MythologyMonday

Learning that her handsome new husband was in fact a shapeshifting bird, Sedna fled with her father. Her husband pursued, his great wings whipping up a mighty storm. #FolkloreSunday www.mythosblog.org/post/sedna-a...

Learning that her handsome new husband was in fact a shapeshifting bird, Sedna fled with her father. Her husband pursued, his great wings whipping up a mighty storm. #FolkloreFriday www.mythosblog.org/post/sedna-a...

A small household spirit the Alux is said to protect a property when happy and cause mischief when not. Building a small home on your property for an Alux - especially in a corn field - is said to entice one in and possibly calm those angered. #FolkyFriday www.mythosblog.org/post/househo...