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The Story of Theseus and the Minotaur
Prince Theseus was the son of King Aegeus of Athens, not too long before the Trojan War (so maybe around 1300 BC). At this time the Minoans, who lived on the island of Crete, had a very strong navy. The Minoan king, King Minos, used to send his navy ...
Crow Brings Daylight
A long time ago when the world was first born, it was always dark in the north where the Inuit people lived. They thought it was dark all over the world until an old crow told the them about daylight and how he had seen it on his...
Coyote Steals Fire
The Native Americans believed in a trickster spirit that they called Coyote. I figured as we enter into the cold of winter that I would share a story about Him and He steals fire. Long ago, when man was newly come into the world, there were days wh...
Labors of Hercules
Eleventh Labor Poor Hercules! After eight years and one month, after performing ten superhuman labors, he was still not off the hook. Eurystheus demanded two more labors from the hero, since he did not count the hydra or the Augean stables as proper...
Labors of Hercules
Ninth Labor For the ninth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the belt of Hippolyte [Hip-POLLY-tee]. This was no ordinary belt and no ordinary warrior. Hippolyte was queen of the Amazons, a tribe of women warriors. These Amazons had n...
The Eigth Labor of Hercules
After Hercules had captured the Cretan Bull, Eurystheus sent him to get the man-eating mares of Diomedes, the king of a Thracian tribe called the Bistones, and bring them back to him in Mycenae. According to Apollodorus, Hercules sailed with a ban...
The Seventh Labor of Hercules
After the complicated business with the Stymphalian Birds, Hercules easily disposed of the Cretan Bull. At that time, Minos, King of Crete, controlled many of the islands in the seas around Greece, and was such a powerful ruler that the Athenians sen...
The Sixth Labor of Hercules
After Hercules returned from his success in the Augean stables, Eurystheus came up with an even more difficult task. For the sixth Labor, Hercules was to drive away an enormous flock of birds which gathered at a lake near the town of Stymphalos. Arr...
The Fifth Labor of Hercules
For the fifth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to clean up King Augeas' stables. Hercules knew this job would mean getting dirty and smelly, but sometimes even a hero has to do these things. Then Eurystheus made Hercules' task even harder: he had t...
Pan - WIld God or was He?
Sometimes put under the same label as the Horned Lord, Pan is more well known then other Deities that fit into that aspect. And in fact has more that is known about him. Pan has a goat's feet and two horns, and wears a lynx-pelt. He is the god of wo...
Fourth Labor of Hercules
For the fourth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the Erymanthian boar alive. Now, a boar is a huge, wild pig with a bad temper, and tusks growing out of its mouth. This one was called the Erymanthian boar, because it lived on a mountai...
The Third Labor of Hercules
For the third labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the Hind of Ceryneia. Now, before we go any further, we'll have to answer two questions: What is a hind? and, Where is Ceryneia? Ceryneia is a town in Greece, about fifty miles from Eurys...
The Spirit of the Corn
Here is a story about the harvest time. It was adapted and translated by Harriet Maxwell Converse from an Iroquois legend. There was a time, says the Iroquois grandmother, when it was not needful to plant the corn- seed nor to hoe the fields,...
Mani - The Norse God of the Moon
Mani the son of Mundilfari and Glau, he was tasked with driving the chariot of the moon across the sky every night chased by Hati the wolf. His sister Sol was tasked with driving the chariot of the sun. There is a reference to a myth that I found th...
Children's Story - Lugh at the Gate
The festival of Lughnassadh to the ancient Celts was the Funeral Feast of Lugh. But who exactly was Lugh? Lugh was the God of many skills. He was skilled in as different things as healing, the craft of the warrior, and music, among other things. Ther...
Thor in Utgard
I had planned on doing this story tomorrow but with all the comments I figured I would replace it with some more Greek myths. But I had also promised a story on Thor this week as well. So here it is. Hope you enjoy! When Loki and Thor set out to vis...
Ra the Sun God
According to E. A. Wallis Budge he was the one god of Egyptian monotheism, of which all other deities were aspects, manifestations, phases, or forms. Ra itself, however, was also a monotheistic god. A Hymn to Rah (approx. 1370s BC) was written to str...
Children's Story for Litha
The old man laid resting in his favorite chair, feet propped by the cold fireplace. His eyes closed and a half smile showing around his favorite pipe, which of course was lit. But then he felt something a small tug at his pant leg. He opened one eye ...
Life from the Moon and Stars
This was marked as an African creation myth. If anyone has any more info, please speak up. Before there was any life on earth, God made a man and named him Moon. He sent Moon to live on the bottom of the sea, but Moon ...
Apache Creation Story
Since my start on sharing different Creation Stories was such a hit, I figured I would start it again. Here is a creation myth from the Apache, American Indian Tribe. Credit goes to Willow Branch's site. In the beginning nothing existed--no ...
Children's Story for Beltane
The children came to their grandfather, crying out for another story. "Tell us grandfather about the Gods and what comes next in their story." Smiling the grandfather said, "Well children, if you remember the Gods and the animals had just worked the ...
Creation Stories - Hindu
A commenter last week talked about a Indian creation story that involves a cow. I have been unable to find that specific story but I figured that I would share one of the stories that I did find. Hope that you all enjoy. On a side note this will be t...
Children's Story for Imbolc
"Grandfather? Grandfather, is it time for another story," asked the littlest child, barely refraining from jumping up and down in excitement. The old man leaned back in his chair and smiled, as he lit his pipe. After taking several puffs, he said, "Y...
