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Rejecting the paths of others is all very well, but there’s still an art to feeling out your own path. It’s a very simple process, and the most successful heroines use it instinctively, all the time. Take, for example, Jane Eyre: And now I felt that it was not enough; I tired of the routine…| Lady Writer
Practical tips on how to strengthen your invoice finance application and put your business in the best position to access the funds you need.| Invoice Financing Singapore – Solutions For Businesses
Dear Main Character, Have you grown accustomed to following others? Do you believe that somewhere, somehow, someone has the answer, and that all you need do is imitate them? Perhaps that’s why you’re here? You’re hoping for the magical combination of ingredients and recipes to tell your story, to realise your dreams, to fulfil your… The post how to go your own way appeared first on Lady Writer.| Lady Writer
Here are 8 common misconceptions about narcissists that can lead to misidentifying them or being hurt by them: —Myth #1: Narcissists don’t know they are narcissistic. Surprisingly, quite a nu…| Spencer Greenberg
“It was hardly the fault of the Argo.” I do love a good Greek myth, but will admit that my knowledge of the many tales is sketchy at best. I’m probably not alone in say that all I…| LittleFrogScribbles
“I arrived at the Humboldt University in Berlin imagining that I’d be among people who shared my enthusiasm for antiquity. But if they did, most of them hid it really well.” So writes G…| Volatile Rune
Every year, I tell myself this is the year that I will read some of the non-fiction on my shelf. This year, it actually is – I walked the Highlands with Dougie Strang in the spring, and have …| onemore.org
From the very first issue of Dark Mountain, we bring you Nick Hunt's short story about the battering to death of a Welsh myth| Dark Mountain
‘The primary function of a book is to recreate the author’s ideas in the reader’s mind’. So writes librarian and curator Paul Dijstelberge in the introduction to Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi.| c4 journal
With my recent comparison of two D&D-inspired anime using a method of genre analysis, this is a good time to get into Northrop Frye's fourth phase of interpretation, the mythical phase. In the mythical phase, we will interpret literary symbols as archetypes. This phase of interpretation speaks deeply to| With Both Hands
All nations need reminders that even their best ideals, though worth defending, do not earn them chosen nation status. Reading C.S. Lewis’ "That Hideous Strength" and Langston Hughes' “Let America Be America Again” in light of each other could rouse those in need of both a restoration of confidence in the goodness of the American dream and a renewal of national humility. (essay by Bethany Getz)| The Imaginative Conservative
By Nancy Menning In Los Angeles Spring (Aperture, 1986), landscape photographer Robert Adams sums up the previous century’s environmental history of| Reading Religion
Have you heard the story of the angry deity and the flood? The one where… The post Sounds Familiar: Deucalion and the Greek Flood Myth appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
We’re nearing the end of this year’s adventures, but we’re not ready to stop yet! There’s a few days of May left to celebrate the fantastic – first, we’re lookin…| onemore.org
Greek lekythos (oil jar) detail of a woman in the Garden of Hesperides, feeding one of the sacred snakes | The Gleewoman's Notes
For a long time, the mythology of dismemberment has fascinated me. The Vegetation Year God, cut to pieces out in the fields, scattered to bless the earth, reborn at the lip of the winter solstice, when the light begins at last to return. How potent an image of healing, of rebirth. How layered, the word re-member-- to bring broken pieces into wholeness. Of self. Of world. It seems we find ourselves teetering on such a moment, here beyond the doorway of the winter solstice, as the light begins ...| The Gleewoman's Notes
There are stories on Dartmoor that come up singing through the stones. There is a silence underneath the wind on the tops of the granite tors that is ancient with human song. I could feel it, just underneath the skin of green. The wind and the stones and the pulse of story came in like a hallowing, and I was changed.| The Gleewoman's Notes
BUY Download on Gumroad BUY Download on Etsy Download, print, cut out and stick this Ancient Greek Mythological Creatures Advent Calendar and celebrate the run up to Christmas in a different way th…| Greek Myth Comix Shop
