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Snopes is a good resource. That being said, you have to understand that it's a husband and wife team who started and still do the most work, on Snopes. Anyone can make a mistake. Don't just take one website's word for anything. Do some research.

If we do not understand the past, we cannot move into the future. I sincerely believe that study of different culture's mythology leads to a deeper understanding of them. It's the basis for their culture and the things they do now. I had wonderful teachers when I was growing up and we did study...

I'm not sure of the story that goes with the green man, but the symbol, which is a man's face made from leaves with vines running from them, is a symbol of rebirth or the cyclic nature of the seasons. I would be interested in hearing the story too.

It's said that the Old Possum got his slick tail this way: The Old Possum was in the woods one day and he came upon Old Raccoon. He was admiring Old Raccoon's pretty striped tail. He asked Old Raccoon how he made his tail look the way it did. Old Raccoon told Old Possum he had wrapped strips of...

I like a lot of them. There are too many to just like one, that's why they continue to be told on and on throughout history. We remember the ones we like and they continue on through our children, if we teach them.

Oh, I don't doubt it at all. We don't live in harmony with the Earth now. We take and take and never give back to Mother Earth. Eventually she is going to be exhausted and not be able to renew herself.

They always end worse than the versions that are told to children. You should hear some of the Native American myths they are gruesome sometimes. Read about the Corn Woman sometime.

I like to think of the time America was still ours. :>) Seriously though, English history has always fascinated me, Henry the VIII to be specific. I think I've talked about this one but the story of these times fascinate me.

Nope. I'm more of a last minute person. I don't even have Christmas decorations up. I am so behind this year I will never catch up. Do you think if I keep putting things off we'll get to have more days in 2011?

Of course she evolved over time as all deities did. OracleLady has the right of it as to why the changes evolved. There were many Native American tribes who had just one God whom the called the Great Spirit. That's how a lot of tribal members transitioned so easily into the Christian culture...

Sometimes I wonder if we are just seeing a cycle that happens over millennia instead of over hundreds of years. I'm sure the Earth has gone through changes before and will again. I'm just not sure it will be changes we can survive with. But then the dinosaurs didn't survive the last big change.

I agree totally. I just get so tired of getting the same notice again, and again, and again. People keep circulating this stuff and it's utter tripe! I would rather hear a new rumor in the next bunch of spam mail I get.

It's hard to know what to do at the time some things like this happen. But, I don't think it's a test. It's more of a learning experience. If you come upon the same situation again, you will surely act differently.

I think munitions is one of the most important inventions. I'm not sure it's the top but it is one of the most important. Without it many wars would have been lost and things could have turned out quite differently.

You know, this is one Disney movie the kids didn't make me sit through. I don't think I've ever seen it at all. Sounds like I did a good thing by missing this one.

Kokopelli was one of the minor gods of some of the Native American tribes in the Southwest. He was a trickster but also was the one who carried babies to the mother's arms. You can read more about him here. #mce_temp_url#

Hmmmm. Excellent choices, OracleLady. I've read some but I would like to read more and the one's you've listed I've heard of in one capacity or another. I'll have to go see what my library has.

I have heard this so many times I'm sick of it! Facebook to start charging for us after (place your date of the demise of Facebook here). I have received tons of emails from friends and relatives with whom we keep in contact with via Facbook and I'm sick of it. FACEBOOK isn't going to charge for...

I agree with that, OracleLady. We have no idea how stories have changed and been altered down through the ages. A lot of history was handed down by oral tradition so it's amazing we know anything at all.

I've seen it and I really liked it too. I would love to see them continue the show with new urban legends and myths. People come up with some of the wildest legends I've ever heard.