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| x Comparative religion |
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Comparative religion is a field of religious study that analyzes the similarities and differences of themes, myths, rituals and concepts among the world's religions. Religion can be defined as the human notions regarding the sacred, numinous,...
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| x Masonic Landmarks |
Masonic Landmarks are a set of principles that many Freemasons claim to be "both ancient and unchangeable precepts of Masonry". Issues of the "regularity" of a Freemasonic Lodge, Grand Lodge or Grand Orient are judged in the context of the Landmarks...
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| x Masonic manuscripts |
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There are a number of masonic manuscripts that are historically important in the development of Freemasonry.
The Halliwell Manuscript, also known as the Regius Poem, is the first known Masonic text. It consists of 64 written pages in poetic form....
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| x Zodiac |
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In astronomy, the zodiac is the ring of constellations that lines the ecliptic, which is the apparent path of the Sun across the sky over the course of the year. The Moon and planets also lie within the ecliptic, and so are also within the...
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| x Mythology |
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Mythology is the study of myths and or of a body of myths. For example, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece. The term "myth" is...
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| x Pair of ewers |
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Pair of ewers is a pair of large ewers created in Nevers workshops around 1675.
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| x Armoire said to be by Hugues Sambin |
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Armoire said to be by Hugues Sambin is an armoire (said to be) created by Hugues Sambin in 1580.
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| x Fame and Mercury |
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Fame and Mercury is a sculpture created by Antoine Coysevox in 1702.
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| x A River |
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A River is a sculpture created by Jean-Jacques Caffieri in 1759.
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| x The Hero with a Thousand Faces |
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a non-fiction book, and seminal work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell. In this publication, Campbell discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world...
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| x Biblical and classical myths |
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| x Six myths of our time |
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| x Sun, moon, and stars |
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| x Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come |
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| x The Natural Genesis |
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| x Threading the maze |
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| x Illustrated dictionary of mythology |
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| x The body of myth |
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| x Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols |
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| x When the Gods Came Down |
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| x Metamorphoses |
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The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world. Completed in 8 AD, it has remained one of the most popular works of mythology, being the Classical work best known to...
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| x Frankenstein |
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known simply as Frankenstein, is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing when she was 18 and the novel was published when she was 21. The first edition was published anonymously in...
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| x The Iron Heel |
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The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the...
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| x Journey to the West |
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Journey to the West (simplified Chinese: 西游记; traditional Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xī Yóu Jì; Wade-Giles: Hsi-yu chi) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Originally published anonymously in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty...
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| x Waiting for Godot |
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Waiting for Godot (pronounced /ˈɡɒdoʊ/) is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for someone named Godot. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different...
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| x Autobiography of Red |
Autobiography of Red (1998) is a verse novel by Anne Carson, based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus' poem Geryonis.
Autobiography of Red is the story of a...
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| x The Fire Thief |
The Fire Thief was written by Terry Deary, and is the first book in The Fire Thief Trilogy . The book is about Prometheus, the Greek Titan who is said to have brought fire to the humans.
It first tells you of Prometheus when he is chained to a rock...
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| x The Sword in the Stone |
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The Sword in the Stone is a novel by T. H. White, published in 1938, initially a stand-alone work but now the first part of a tetralogy The Once and Future King. Walt Disney Productions adapted the story to an animated film, and the BBC adapted it...
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| x Lady into Fox |
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Lady into Fox was David Garnett's first novel under his own name, published in 1922. This short and enigmatic work won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize a year later.
Sylvia Tebrick, the 24-year-old wife of Richard...
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| x Anansi the Spider |
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Anansi the Spider is a short film and a 1972 book, both by Gerald McDermott. The book won the 1972 Caldecott Honor medal for illustration. It tells, with little text and bold, colourful illustrations, how Anansi was rescued by his sons, each...
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| x The Land of the Silver Apples |
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The Land of the Silver Apples is a fantasy novel by Nancy Farmer, published in 2007. It is a sequel to The Sea of Trolls, and a sequel, The Islands of the Blessed, is to be published on October 20, 2009.
In this novel, we find Jack back in his...
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| x The Wallet of Kai Lung |
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The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards in 1900, and there...
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| x Once a Mouse |
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Once a Mouse is a 1961 book by Marcia Brown. Released by Scribner Press, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1962, Brown's second honor.
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| x Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears |
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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale is a picture book written for young children, which tells an African legend. In this origin story, the mosquito lies to a lizard, who puts sticks in his ears and ends up frightening another...
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| x Arrow to the Sun |
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Arrow to the Sun is a 1973 short film and a 1974 book, both by Gerald McDermott. The book was printed in gouache and ink, and won the 1975 Caldecott Medal for illustration. Both media are a retelling of a Pueblo tale, in which a mysterious boy seeks...
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| x Drummer Hoff |
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Drummer Hoff is the title and main character of a children's book by Barbara and Ed Emberley. Ed Emberley won the 1968 Caldecott Medal for the book's illustrations. Written by Barbara Emberley, it tells a tale of seven soldiers who build a cannon...
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| x The Nightingale |
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"The Nightingale" (Danish: "Nattergalen") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875). The story is about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real...
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| x City of Bones |
City of Bones is the twelfth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the eighth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.It was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.
On New Year’s Day, a dog digs up...
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| x The Little Mermaid |
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"The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue) is a fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a...
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| x The Kingmaking |
The Kingmaking is the first in the Pendragon's Banner trilogy of Arthurian novels by the British writer Helen Hollick. It was published in 1994 by William Heinemann in the United Kingdom. It was followed by Pendragon's Banner and Shadow of the King....
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| x The Circus of Dr. Lao |
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The Circus of Dr. Lao is a 1935 novel written by Arizona newspaperman Charles G. Finney, and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. (Many later editions omit these illustrations.)
The novel is set in the fictional town of Abalone, Arizona, the...
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| x Mesopotamian mythology |
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Mesopotamian mythology is the collective name given to Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian mythologies from parts of the fertile crescent, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq.
The Sumerians practiced a polytheistic...
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The Hollow Hills is a novel by Mary Stewart. It is the second in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian Legends. This book is preceded by The Crystal Cave and succeeded by The Last Enchantment. The Hollow Hills was written in 1970.
The...
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| x Peter and the Shadow Thieves |
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Peter and the Shadow Thieves is a children's novel that was published by Hyperion Books, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, in 2006. Written by humorist Dave Barry and novelist Ridley Pearson, the book is a sequel to their book Peter and the...
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| x The Prisoner of Zenda |
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The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles...
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| x Dracula |
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Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion...
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| x Mirror, Mirror |
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Mirror, Mirror is an American novel published in 2003. It was written by Gregory Maguire. The novel is a revisionist version of the tale of Snow White.
The story takes place in Montefiore, Italy in the early 16th Century, on the estate of a nobleman...
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| x The King Must Die |
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For the song by Elton John, see The King Must Die (song)
The King Must Die is a 1958 Bildungsroman and historical novel by Mary Renault that traces the early life and adventures of Theseus, a hero in Greek mythology. Naturally, it is set in Ancient...
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| x The Crystal Cave |
The Crystal Cave is a 1970 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. The first in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian legend, it is followed by The Hollow Hills.
The protagonist of this story is a boy named Myrddin Emrys, also known as Merlin, which is...
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| x The Old Wives' Tale |
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The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into...
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| x White Fang |
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White Fang is the title of a novel by American author Jack London. The novel was first serialized in The Outing Magazine in May to October 1906. It is the story of a wild wolfdog's journey toward becoming civilized in Yukon Territory, Canada, during...
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| x Worlds in Collision |
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Worlds in Collision is a book written by Immanuel Velikovsky and first published on April 3, 1950, by Macmillan Publishers. Macmillan's interest in publishing it was encouraged by the knowledge that Velikovsky had obtained a promise from Gordon...
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| x Rupert of Hentzau |
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Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898.
The story is set within a framing narrative told by a supporting character from The Prisoner of Zenda. The frame implies that the...
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| x The Three Impostors |
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The Three Impostors is an episodic novel by British horror fiction writer Arthur Machen, first published in 1895 in the Bodley Head's Keynote Series. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the forty...
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| x Wolves Eat Dogs |
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Wolves Eat Dogs is a crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in Russia and Ukraine in the year 1996. It is the fifth novel to feature Investigator Arkady Renko.
Russia has changed from a Communist to capitalist state, and the Ukraine has seceded from...
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| x The Penelopiad |
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The Penelopiad is a novella by Margaret Atwood. It was published in 2005 as part of the first set of books in the Canongate Myth Series where contemporary authors rewrite ancient myths. In The Penelopiad, Penelope reminisces on the events during the...
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| x The Bull from the Sea |
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The Bull from the Sea is the sequel to Mary Renault's The King Must Die. It continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from Crete.
The story is a retelling of the life of mythological hero Theseus after his return from the...
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| x The Wind in the Willows |
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The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is...
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