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Myths, Creatures, and Folklore

Want to create a religion for your fictional world? Here are some references and resources!

General:

General Folklore

Various Folktales

Heroes

Weather Folklore

Trees in Mythology

Animals in Mythology

Birds in Mythology

Flowers in Mythology

Fruit in Mythology

Plants in Mythology

Folktales from Around the World

Africa:

Egyptian Mythology

African Mythology

More African Mythology

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

The Gods of Africa

Even More African Mythology

West African Mythology

All About African Mythology

African Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

The Americas:

Aztec Mythology

Haitian Mythology

Inca Mythology

Maya Mythology

Native American Mythology

More Inca Mythology

More Native American Mythology

South American Mythical Creatures

North American Mythical Creatures

Aztec Gods and Goddesses

Asia:

Chinese Mythology

Hindu Mythology

Japanese Mythology

Korean Mythology

More Japanese Mythology

Chinese and Japanese Mythical Creatures

Indian Mythical Creatures

Chinese Gods and Goddesses

Hindu Gods and Goddesses

Korean Gods and Goddesses

Europe:

Basque Mythology

Celtic Mythology

Etruscan Mythology

Greek Mythology

Latvian Mythology

Norse Mythology

Roman Mythology

Arthurian Legends

Bestiary

Celtic Gods and Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses of the Celtic Lands

Finnish Mythology

Celtic Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

Middle East:

Islamic Mythology

Judaic Mythology

Mesopotamian Mythology

Persian Mythology

Middle Eastern Mythical Creatures

Oceania:

Aboriginal Mythology

Polynesian Mythology

More Polynesian Mythology

Mythology of the Polynesian Islands

Melanesian Mythology

Massive Polynesian Mythology Post

Maori Mythical Creatures

Hawaiian Gods and Goddesses

Hawaiian Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses

Creating a Fantasy Religion:

Creating Part 1

Creating Part 2

Creating Part 3

Creating Part 4

Fantasy Religion Design Guide

Using Religion in Fantasy

Religion in Fantasy

Creating Fantasy Worlds

Beliefs in Fantasy

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Astrology, the Basics

“Wait, so i’m not just an Aries?!”

No, you’re not. In fact none of us are just one anything. So let’s dial it back to day we were born. The stars and planets in the sky aligned to convey a story completely unique to you, and thus your natal chart was born!

   Our Sun sign

“Playboi, what’s a Sun Sign?”

Well, the Sun Sign is the sign everyone typically knows about themselves. It’s the sign you were born under that immediately correlates with your birthday. Meaning, “I was born in April so I’m a Taurus!” Your sun sign is the sign the Sun was in on the day of your birth. So what does the sun represent in astrology? Our vitality and ego, “who we are.” The thing about the Sun is we’re constantly growing into ourselves and our egos, constantly learning ourselves and strengths, so we’re constantly growing into our Suns. Many people write off astrology due to their inability to relate to their Sun signs when so much more goes into a person. Your Sun sign is less “who i am” and more so “who i’m becoming.” And sometimes we never fully become the poster child of our Sun signs because we grow at different rates and resonate with different things, not to mention the housing of the Sun plays a heavy role in how our “egos” will play out. Also aspects made to our Sun by other planets are most important as they shape our Sun’s characteristics, but that’s another post!

Our Moon Sign

“…okay, so I understand Sun Signs now, but what’s a moon sign?”

The moon sign in astrology is of immense importance. This is where we feel most comfortable and secure and our primal emotional reactions. As I mentioned previously, the sun is “who we’re becoming’’ while the moon can be defined as “who we always are.” Unlike the Sun who illuminates everything, the moon is a softer, dimmer light. It lights up the dark sky at night and it does the same for our personal dark sky emotionally. Simply put, the moon is our emotions. Emotions can be simply irrational and erratic, so we suppress them because throwing a hissy fit in public is not that endearing. My point being that our moons can sometimes be overlooked by others as well as our selves because the attributes of our moons are highly subconscious at times.The moon is how we were nourished, and in turn how we nourish others. It’s an extremely sentimental and personal part of our being.It’s what makes us feel safe as well as habitual patterns we carry. A balanced moon is very important as an unbalanced one can take a toll on us physically. When the needs our moon requires aren’t met, we can start to display it’s negative attributes and fall into a bit of a depression, eat less, and never leave your bed. Or perhaps become more aggressive and angry depending on your moon sign. It’s also equally important to understand that others around us have different moon placements then us natally. Everyone requires different things to feel emotionally secure, sometimes we’re harder on others because their love languages differ from our own.

   Our Mercury Sign

“What does Mercury have to do with anything?”

Well, everything. Mercury rules over the mind, how we think, how fast we think, how we learn, our speech, and even our style of writing. He’s the fastest moving planet in the solar system so it’s fitting that he rules the nervous system. The poor guy gets glossed over a lot until he turns retrograde and everyone starts running around like chickens missing their heads because that’s when we notice most how strong Mercury’s influence is on our lives. Mercury is not an emotional planet but more so an intellectual one. It’s how we asses things and use logic before we act, if we use logic before we act.

Our Venus Sign

“I KNOW THIS ONE…LOVE RIGHT?”

You’ve guessed it, Venus rules over romance but a lot more as well. She’s our social graces, if we have any social graces at all. How we charm others as well as what we personally find pleasurable. Venus rules over our attitude towards money and material things. How much we spend and how often we treat ourselves. What we like to eat, what tastes good, what feels good. Venus is also our attractiveness, and what we’re attracted to. She gives us a clue to our love language on a more superficial level, what it takes to woo us. How we like to be seduced and pursued. Venus is diplomatic, she shows us how we make peace with others. Venus also rules over artistry and how appreciate the arts and even the possibility of having artistic gifts as well. Venus also highlights our sexual nature in terms of what we find pleasurable, what feels right, and what we find acceptable.

Our Mars Sign

“Mars is our…anger?”

He can be, yes. After all he is the God of War. Mars in astrology represents energy. Our physical energy and vitality, and especially our sexual energy. He’s all about action, what it physically takes us to do…well, anything. He’s our day to day strength and drive. He exemplifies how aggressive and assertive we are. Our ambitions, durability, temperament, action, and drive. Do we exercise? How sexual are we? Our sexual style? Our competitiveness? All can be answered by our mars sign. Mars showcases how quick we are to anger, what makes us tick/explode. He’s also the last of the personal planets.

Our Jupiter Sign

“……”

Jupiter is the first non personal planet as it stays in the same for an entire year. Everyone born within that year will have the same Jupiter sign. That doesn’t negate Jupiter’s importance in anyway, so don’t skim over him. It just means we have take a closer look at him in our natal chart by examining his house placement and aspects made towards him by other planets. Jupiter rules over good fortune, philosophy, travel, and higher level learning (different from mercury.) He is expansive and optimistic. He’s a grand catalyst to spiritual growth. He’s where we overindulge, our generosity, and wisdom.

Our Saturn Sign

“So what does Saturn do?”

Saturn is like our astrological father. He sets the rules and regulations, the routine. And like when we disobey our paternal father there’s consequences the same applies for Saturn. Saturn is not out to punish anyone, he just returns anything we put out into the universe. “What goes around comes around.” Sound familiar? Saturn rules over Karma. Saturn in our chart shows us where he grounds us, where we must be held responsible, where we must work hard. Our careers, the practicality of how we achieve success.

Our Uranus Sign

“and Uranus?”

Uranus is a much slower moving planet. His energy is very erratic, spontaneous, and rebellious. He’s extremely progressive and an advocate for originality. Uranus has to be looked at by house placement to determine its effects on us individually, as people from the same generation will share the same Uranus sign. Uranus in our charts will show us where we are unpredictable and rebellious. How and where we go against the grain. Our humanitarian side. How interested in activism we are, where we are liberated ourselves.

Our Neptune Sign

“that Sea God?”

Indeed. Neptune is the God of the Sea. In astrology Neptune rules over spirituality, all things hazy, confusion, love and romance on a deeper, ethereal level. He is illusions and our dreams. Intuition and psychic abilities. Neptune has dominion over deeper creativity and artistic abilities. He also shows us where we might try to escape reality and what we may try to use to escape reality with. He is addiction, substance abuse, and deception. Our fantasies. 

Our Pluto Sign

“isn’t Pluto like not even a planet anymore?”

Yes, technically Pluto is a planetoid, but we still refer to Pluto as a planet in astrology so he will be respected as such! Despite his small size and the grand amount of distance he is from us his effects are undeniable.Pluto in our charts shows us where we are transformed and regenerated. Where we must die to be born again. His energy is very subconscious, we don’t always see it, but we feel it.  He is obsession, and our hunger for power, where we struggle for power. He is how we react to sex on a deeper, subconscious level. Where and what we become drawn and attached to. His energy is very primal. He also highlights where we’re manipulative or jealous if we’re displaying the negative attributes of Pluto. 

Our Ascendant Sign

“our…what sign?”

Our Ascendant sign is crowned the ruler of our chart, and is of equal importance as our Sun and Moon signs. It’s specific to our birth time and location. The Ascendant is like the mask we put on to face the world. It’s our initial reaction to external forces. The lens we see life through on a day to day basis. Our ascendant is our physical bodies, how we look and how we act in public. It’s how people initially receive you, our first impressions, our mannerisms. Our outer personality. If people were to describe you they’d likely describe this sign.

So, as you can see a lot goes into a persons personality even more than what’s been mentioned above, humans are complex beings who can’t be described as just one sign, or one anything. We are more than our sun signs, we are more than signs period.

- playboi

Andromeda, Our Sister 

Feeling Small in Big Hogan by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website, Instagram, Facebook This is a vertical panorama in Big Hogan Arch in Monument Valley, Utah. After taking the panorama I photographed myself with the same lens and settings and added it to the panorama in the same position. As you can see, Big Hogan Are is aptly named. It is huge. You feel like you are standing in a cathedral. The hole at the top is actually overhead in reality. The appearance here makes it look like it is in the front wall, but that is the result of trying to fit the inside of a sphere onto a rectangular image. You need a guide to enter Monument Valley at night. If you are interested in a night tour contact Majestic Monument Valley Tours and ask for Quanah. Thanks for all the kind support over the last year, it is much appreciated! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family!

                                    Temples of Knowledge (Series 8)

1. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England 

2. Library from the East, University Club, New York, NY 

3. Queen’s College Library, University of Oxford, England

4. Library of Parliament, Canada

5. Edinburgh Library, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

6. The Theological Hall, Strahov Monastery Library, Prague

7. Marsh’s Library. Dublin, Ireland

8. Stanford White Library, Bronx, New York City

9. Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum Library, Osaka, Japan

10. Biblioteca Civica di Fermo, Fermo, Italy

Helike is a moon of Jupiter.

A young gay dragon has to explain to his parents why he is only kidnapping princes

I don’t know why the ancient Greeks have the reputation of being really classy and sophisticated because they are the same people who prosecuted a roof tile for falling on someone’s head

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 ✨✨

𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 <𝟑

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮

𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝, 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦, 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞, 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥, 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬/𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜

𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥, 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜, 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲, 𝐢𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫, 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭

𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐥, 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭

𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐟, 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐧

𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐮𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥, 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞

𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐲, 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞