by Evan Dwan | May 11, 2020 | News |
Circe had told Odysseus about the sirens. No one who heard their song had survived. Through their music the sirens lured passing sailors to their deaths as they passed by. As they sailed, an island appeared on the horizon and the sound of sweet music began to slowly...
by Evan Dwan | May 8, 2020 | News |
Circe gave Odysseus directions to the underworld. He sailed into the northerly wind, following the stream of ocean until he came to Persephone’s grove of trees. From there the gates of the underworld opened before him. In the grove Odysseus dug a trench and filled it...
by Evan Dwan | May 8, 2020 | News |
They arrived, after barely surviving a ferocious storm at sea, at a wooded island, filled with beeches and oaks. On the shore lions and tigers and wolves prowled but when approached they rolled over and purred. Odysseus sent some men to investigate. The beasts led the...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 29, 2020 | News |
Karen Armstrong, in her book, A short history of myth, writes that in old times the hunter and shaman of the tribe had to turn their backs on the familiar world, enter the unknown and face fearsome trials. Their journey took them out into uncertainty where they would...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 21, 2020 | News |
Many of the early myths related to the sky. Gazing at the sky, Karen Armstrong suggests, may have given people their first notion of the divine. The sky offered a religious experience without any sense of a god behind it – it offered the essence of the mysterium...
