Recent Posts Tagged With 'stories'

• Labors of Hercules

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 21:34 in stories, myth, 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...

• Why are there no more Myths? - Repost

  Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 19:41 in children, stories, myths

  As a Pagan Father I have noticed that for little Pagan children there are no myths that are being taught to them. And in my opinion it is not from a lack of trying, there are just simply not any myths that are suitable for kids. But why are myths imp...

• The Third Labor of Hercules

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 21:13 in children, series, stories, myth, hercules, multi-part

  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 Second Labor of Hercules

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 19:53 in children, series, stories, myths, hercules, multi-part

  Continuing in my series in stories with children, here is the next of the labors of Hercules. Again these were found on perseus.tufts.edu, I hope that you all enjoy. The second labor of Hercules was to kill the Lernean Hydra. From the murky waters o...

• The First Labor of Hercules

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 21:57 in stories, myths, hercules, multi-part

  We own the statue of a multi-headed dragon that a friend gave to us. It is an incense burner. Earlier this week my youngest daughter was looking at it and began to ask me questions about it. So I decided to tell her the story of Hercules and the Hydr...

• The End of the Golden Age - Children's Story

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 20:08 in children, stories, greece, myths

  After the great response I got last week I decided to continue in the same pantheon. So here is a story from Activity Web, this one titled "The End of the Golden Age" or how Zeus and his siblings defeated the Titans. Hope that you all enjoy. Zeus and...

• Thor in Utgard

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 19:57 in children, God, stories, myth

  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...

• The Story of Corn and Medicine

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 19:32 in stories, creation, myths, cherokee

  This is a combination of several Cherokee stories. Credit goes to this website. Hope you enjoy! The earth began as nothing but water and darkness, and all the animals were in Galúnlati, above the stone vault that makes up the sky. Eventually Galún...

• Apache Creation Story

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 19:52 in series, stories, native american, myth, creation, apache, multi-part

  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 ...

• Creation Stories - Norse

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 19:05 in series, stories, creation, myths, norse, multi-part

  Last week I started a multi-week series on different Creation Stories. This week I am going to tell the story of Creation from the viewpoint of the Norse. Hope that you enjoy. In the beginning there was the void. And the void was called Ginnungagap. ...

• Creation Stories

  Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 21:03 in series, stories, creation, multi-part

  I want to start some weekly  multi-part series. The first being this one on different Creation Stories. And I figured I would start it off with one of my own. I hope that you all enjoy. In the beginning there was the Goddess. And from her mind a...