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  1. Alejandro

    Aktaion's death as revenge for orion's death (or vice versa)

    There's this story about the young hunter Aktaion [Actæon], who owned a pack of fifty hunting-dogs, stumbling upon the hunting-goddess Artemis in a state of undress out deep in the woods and being immediately transformed into a stag which summarily got ripped to shreds by the hunter's own pack...
  2. Alejandro

    Euroswydd

    In Welsh mythology, who/what was Euroswydd? Perhaps a god or some other sort of supernatural entity? Is there any information by this dude apart from the story about him somehow imprisoning the sea-god Llŷr so that he could have his way with Llŷr's wife [and half-sister?] Penarddun, thereby...
  3. Alejandro

    Aengus mac Óg's inheritance (or the lack thereof)

    The Irish divinity Aengus Mac Óg lived at the Brú na Bóinne in the Boyne River Valley but he was landless before he acquired this property and had had to trick his father An Dagda ["The Dagda"] out of it in order to acquire any inheritance from the latter in the first place at all. Aengus was an...
  4. Alejandro

    Impossible questions database

    A catalogue of questions I've been trying to get answered for awhile now. Anyone interested in changing the "Impossible" part of the equation? Wild guesses are also welcome... as a nerdy academic exercise, or better yet: plainly just for fun! (Or is there a difference between the two? ;)) 1...
  5. Alejandro

    Monstrous phaeacians?

    Alkinoüs was king of the Phaiakoi [Phaeacians] at the time when Odysseus arrived on their island. He was the son of Naüsithoüs, son of Poseidon and Periboia; and Periboia was the daughter of Eurymedon, the chief of the Gigantes. Does it then follow that Periboia was a many-armed giant, like...
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    Why did tvaṣṭṛ (tvashtri) hide his magic cow from indra?

    There's a Hindu myth in which Tvaṣṭṛ, the architect of the gods, owns a magic cow which is actually the moon and whose milk is soma, the elixir of immortality. Tvaṣṭṛ hid this cow from Indra, the king of the gods, but Indra found a way to steal the cow's milk anyway. What reason did Tvaṣṭṛ have...
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    The giantesses feima and kleima

    Feima and Kleima were daughters of the Jötunn [Giant] Hrímnir, which would make them the sisters of the more famous characters Heiðr, who sparked off the war between the Æsir and the Vanir; Hrossthjófr, a sorcerer who once gave Óðinn advice; and Hljóð, the wife of King Völsung of Húnaland...
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    Was hermes originally mortal?

    The story of the birth of Hermes makes it sound like he was originally mortal and that he somehow managed to bribe his way into becoming the last of the Twelve Olympians, after appeasing his half-brother Apollon (Apollo) with a musical instrument, and taking some of the stolen cattle to use...
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    Were phorkys, keto & their siblings made of some sort of metal/mineral?

    Pontos (the Sea) and Gaia (the Earth) had five children who were sea deities: Nereus, Phorkys, Keto, Thaümas and Eurybia. Quite a few of the children of these five are said to have been partially composed of gold or bronze. The three Gorgons and the many-headed dragon called the Hydra of...
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    What happened to Óðinn's father bórr and grandfather búri?

    There were gods who were older than Óðinn and his brothers Vé and Vili. Those gods, more ancient than these first three Æsir, were their father Borr and grandfather Búri. Any thoughts (even by way of wanton inventive speculation :)) on what happened to them during and after the death of Ymir...
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    Were danu and domnu [perhaps] the same person?

    In Irish mythology the Tuatha Dé Danann were the "Tribe/People of the Goddess Danu," as in the children/descendants of this earth-mother-goddess. Similarly the mother-goddess of the Fomoiré (Fomorians), the traditional enemies of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was a certain Domnu, who, like her...
  12. Alejandro

    Balor's 12 sons?

    Someplace in Irish mythology it is said that Balor of the Evil Eye had twelve sons. Are we anywhere given their names? Do they feature with any prominence in the battles of their people the Fomoiré (Fomorians) against the Tuatha Dé Danann? In know that Bres ["the Beautiful"] sometimes occurs...
  13. Alejandro

    Mathonwy

    If Math ap Mathonwy was the brother of the Welsh earth-goddess Dôn and if, as Math’s name suggests, he was the son of Mathonwy, who/what was this Mathonwy? Some kind of primaeval god out which the earth (Dôn) emerged? (Or isn’t there such a story in Welsh mythology?) Someone on Yahoo!Answers...
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    Mother of lludd, llefelys and penarddun?

    The Welsh goddess Dôn was the mother, by Beli Mawr, of Llyr, Arianrhod, Gofannon, Gwydion, Gilvæthwy and Amæthon, but was she necessarily the mother of Beli's other children Lludd, Llefelys and Penarddun? And if not, who's this other woman? In connection with this>> Penarddun was married to...
  15. Alejandro

    Artistic interpretation/representation of keto

    From my gallery on deviantArt: http://pyrotekhnologos.deviantart.com/gallery/ In Greek mythology, Keto, a monster sea-goddess, was one of the five children of Pontos (the Sea) and Gaia (the Earth). Keto was married to her own brother the giant sea-god Phorkys, one of the aforementioned five...
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