Hades, Greek god of the dead and ruler of the underworld: his family, symbols, Persephone and the realm of the shades.
Hades: Greek God of the Underworld
Ops: Roman Goddess of Plenty
Ops, the Roman goddess of plenty and the harvest, wife of Saturn, identified with Rhea and Cybele.
Minerva: Roman Goddess of Wisdom
Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, crafts and strategy: her symbols, festival and two classic accounts of her myths.
The Florida Skunk Ape: Bigfoot of the Everglades
The smell arrives first. It drifts across the road at dusk, thick and sour, something between a skunk, a wet dog and a rotting swamp. Then, at the edge of the headlights, a tall shape covered in reddish-brown hair steps out of the saw grass, crosses the road on two legs, and is gone into […]
The Patterson-Gimlin Film: Bigfoot’s Most Famous Minute
Two men on horseback round a bend in a dry creek bed in the mountains of Northern California. On the far bank, something tall, dark and covered in hair is walking away from them. One man’s horse rears. He grabs a rented movie camera, jumps down and starts running, filming as he goes. The figure […]
Lake Monsters: Nessie, Champ, Ogopogo and the Creatures Said to Live Below
A couple are driving home along the shore of a Highland loch. The water is flat and gray. Then something huge breaks the surface, rolls like a whale, and slides back under, leaving only a spreading ring of foam. They drive on, shaken, and tell no one but a friend who writes for the local […]
The Black Dog: Phantom Hound of British Folklore
The black dog is a spectral hound of British folklore: huge, shaggy and red-eyed, haunting lonely roads and churchyards. Meet Black Shuck, the Barghest and more.
Hephaestus
Hephaestus, the son of Zeus and Hera, was the god of fire in its beneficial aspect, and the presiding deity over all workmanship accomplished by means of this useful element. He was universally honoured, not only as the god of all mechanical arts, but also as a house and hearth divinity, who exercised a beneficial […]
Aphrodite
Aphrodite (from aphros, sea-foam, and dite, issued), the daughter of Zeus and a sea-nymph called Dione, was the goddess of Love and Beauty. Dione, being a sea-nymph, gave birth to her daughter beneath the waves; but the child of the heaven-inhabiting Zeus was forced to ascend from the ocean-depths and mount to the snow-capped summits […]
Apollo
Apollo, the god of Light, Prophecy, Music, Poetry, and the Arts and Sciences, is by far the noblest conception within the whole range of Greek mythology, and his worship, which not only extended to all the states of Greece, but also to Asia Minor and to every Greek colony throughout the world, stands out among […]
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