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yeyinde · 1 year

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do you have any recs for folklore/mythology books to learn from or docs/videos?

I have tonnes!!! I prefer non-fiction books when it comes to mythology, with the exception of American Gods and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This one is more history focused but it blends the mythology and culture of Nigeria/Igbo folklore. I would recommend it to anyone just looking for a really good book to read about culture, history, the perception of masculinity within that culture, and of course, the negative effects of colonisation, and the history of pre-colonisation in Nigeria. It's one of my favourite history books by a really amazing author and poet! Def recommend.

I tried to focus on mythology that is not as widely popularised as others since they are often harder to find. But here are some of the ones that I enjoyed! Most of them were available at my public library as well so if you can't find them in stores or online, that's always another good place to look for mythology books/refs!

Books:

Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley

Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales by Naguib Mahfouz

Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many by Erik Hornung

Indaba, my Children: African Folktales by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (this is a massive encyclopedia at 700 pages but sooooo worth it!)

Folktales from India by A.K. Ramanujan

Myth = Mithya: Decoding Hindu Mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik (also: The Goddess in India: The 5 faces of Eternal Feminism, 99 thoughts on Ganesha: stories, symbols and Rituals of India's beloved Elephant Headed Deity, and the Pregnant King are really good)

Myth and Reality: Studies in the Formation of Indian Culture by Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi

The Ramayana & Mahabharata by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (these are epics but OH GOD they are fantastic!)

Irish Mythology - this is a massive tumblr reference with books and guides on where to find Irish Folklore

I've really been enjoying the Chronical Books series on mythology - if only for the illustrations. My favourite so far is Tales of East Africa by Jamilla Okubo, Tales of India: Folktales from Bengal, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu by Svabhu Kohli and Viplov Singh. I wouldn't really say these are super important for mythology - the stories are very basic (not in a bad way at all, just less in-depth since I believe the books are geared toward a younger audience) but the art alone makes them worth it!

Mythology by Edith Hamilton is usually a good introduction to Greek, Roman, and Norse myths

The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology by Snorri Sturluson

Videos:

Trese on Netflix - it's about Philippine mythology told in modern times, and just an amazing show on its own!

The Entire Story of Greek Mythology Explained - it's 3.5 hours but WORTH IT!

I don't really watch too many videos on mythology, but I do on history and culture. It's just kinda hard to find mythology/folklore specific videos but since it's often interwoven within the cultures respective history, I watch Smithsonian docs on their history instead.

I really hope this helps!!!

#if anyone else has any others to add please do so!!#and before i had disposable income #there's the wikipedia rabbit hole #and tourism pages!

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gathoscorner · 1 year

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(A late)Huntlow week Day 4. Studying/Comfort

Like Hunter’s gonna waste a free botany lesson from the best plant witch ever, pfft get real🌱📖

#huntlowweek2022 #huntlow #hunter toh #Willow park #i have one more sketch from huntlow week but i gotta finish my secret santa gift first #time taken to draw this?like 2 and so hrs. time spent reading about random botany information to half ass the dialogue..maybe more than 3 #its been a while since i got into a wikipedia rabbit hole . it was fun #my-art #gathosart

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polaroidcats · 18 days

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happy international workers' day, what a beautiful day to join a union and never stop advocating for shorter work days/weeks ❤️‍🔥

#just fell into a wikipedia rabbit hole of researching the history of mayday #the map of all the countries that celebrate mayday today is so fascinating to me #anywaysss #ramblings #mayday

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anistarrose · 11 months

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saw kravitz adventurezone (crow standing in a puddle at the side of the road) this morning :)

#also went deep down a wikipedia rabbit hole and learned of a mathematician w/ last name burnside #everywhere i go i see their faces...#rosalia talks

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radiostranger · 1 month

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i just simply cannot outrun the brain rot. bee mention in a poem? omg cas would love that. it’s tuesday? omg remember that one episode where- sitting in latin class? this is just like supernatural. see someone wearing a trench coat? omg castiel cosplay. vintage car drives past me? omg that just like the impala (it wasn’t). flannel? dean. any mention of kansas? you know who was born in kans-

#rot. my brain is actual rot.#went on a wikipedia rabbit hole yesterday about the etymology of the name winchester #like i actually cant stop thinking about this stupid show #it’s a problem #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #castiel #spn fandom #sam winchester

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fishandshesmygills · 2 months

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mullet

#on a wikipedia rabbit hole #underwater thing

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keymintt · 7 months

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Same (shy) anon as before: My absolute favorite prehistoric animal was Inostroncevia alexandri! It's a type of gorgonopsian. Kind of a proto-mammal but not classified as a mammal.

OHHHH THESE GUYS HELL YES GORGONOPSIDS ARE FUN

they're defs the kind of prehistoric beast that i see and recognize it enough to go "oh hey is that a gorgonopsid", but i don't know it by name. maybe now i'll have a better chance at remembering it hflgfhfd LOVE how chunky their heads are it's excellent

one of my friends actually got me this print by @/mulchmouth for christmas two years back and i think it might be of inostroncevia...? idk i tried looking through the artist's stuff but i couldn't find this postcard print in their shop nor posted anywhere. regardless, i see this guy every day bc he's up on my print wall above my desk hehe

#defs a gorgonopsid. idk specifics of the print fella #but fuck yeah!!! thank you for the ask #this sent me down a small wikipedia rabbit hole so thank you dhflksdhg #asks #anon #dinosaurs #sorry anon i'm putting this in the dinosaurs tag even though these guys aren't dinosaurs hdsglfdkh #aw piss did this actually tag the artist #sorry if you get this in your notifs mulchmouth. tho if you see this and have input as to the nature of the guy in the print that's welcome

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solidwater05 · 7 months

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Do you ever open your browser to open a link someone sent you and instead get distracted with the Wikipedia article of Archangel Motherfucking Gabriel

#ice speaks #'quick google search turns into wikipedia rabbit hole' moment #i have no interest in theology which makes this funnier and a thousand times worse!!!

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iscariotapologist · 9 months

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so did you guys know that martin luther was obsessed with satans ass. makes sense in a way

#i am in such a wikipedia rabbit hole you would not believe #me

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anonymous-ivplay · 2 years

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I literally cannot think of a better name for the Roman god of penises

#mutunus tutunus #i cant stop saying it its so funny #wikipedia #down the rabbit hole #roman gods #roman deity #roman mythology #lilac speaks

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trans-corvo · 1 month

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last exam of my bachelors degree is done, all I have left is my thesis defense, which I'm actually really excited for because I've been waiting a year to have a good in depth conversation about early 20th century Hungarian history, but have the good sense to know that no one else in my life wants to talk about that for an hour straight. Sure it'll be with people trying to pick my argument apart, but a. none of them actually specialize in Hungarian history, and b. I feel like I handled the colloquium presentation and questions pretty well.

Anyway, I'm going to be proud of myself for this because I spent most of my childhood thinking I was stupid, was a C average student in in K-12, and believed that post secondary was utterly beyond my capabilities. I've always loved history but I never really thought I'd be able to study it, so the fact I'm about to graduate (with honours!) and will be going on to do my masters this fall is literally more than I ever dreamed.

#personal #also shout out to béla lugosi for sending me down the wikipedia rabbit hole that sparked my obsession with hungarian history

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burningvelvet · 4 months

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reading about edmund curll, an important figure in erotic literature, and didn't know i was about to stumble across the most chaotic wikipedia page ever... i love historical literary drama

critics have always been the same

and of course where there is 1700s literary drama, alexander pope is always involved. no wonder byron idolized him and was involved in a seven-year long public debate concerning him... honoring him the way he'd like to be remembered (see: the pope-bowles controversy). don juan rly was a tribute to him. we need a series about the restoration era (behn/wilmot/dryden/etc) & of course the young romantics (byron/shelleys/keats/etc) and now we also need the augustan era (pope/montagu/now curll, etc.). someone please pplease please let me do an anthology series (in the vein of ahs or black mirror) about literary communities throughout history already!

cartoonish levels of opportunistic behavior. manipulating every situation to work in his favor like a sitcom character...

the most informative thing i've learned from edmund curll's wiki page is that in the 1700s, the name of the U.S. state "maryland" inspired a whole genre of erotica novels based on puns of the idea of a "[woman's name]-land," as evidenced by "bettyland." staples of the genre included colonization as a metaphor for patriarchal sexual conquest, & erotic descriptions of the female body which borrow from descriptions of natural landscape. much to think about re: postcolonial feminism - this quite literally proves the idea that colonization is inherently patriarchal

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strawbebbiesart · 11 months

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Fasciation (Long Dog) 🌾🪴🐕

#sasha's art #traditional art #original art #sketchbook #original illustration #recently fell into a wikipedia rabbit hole about plant mutations and learned about fasciation or cresting which makes flower heads look Lon #and also kinda vaguely disgusting but i kinda liked that about ti #so i was wondering what would it look like if that happened to Dog #besides i was starting a new sketchbook and i Had to put a quintessential yellow dog into it or else the world would have probably ended #theres just Something about long dogs in sketchbooks isn't there #just makes you feel Alive right???#anyways!! i hope u all enjoy my Long Dog #hopefully i'll be back to digital art by the end of july #toodeloo !!

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mossspond · 1 year

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Late night chats

#literally went down a wikipedia rabbit hole of american painters for this for no reason #anyways garry is not very good at being a normal redneck #a couple hits in LOL #oc #garry #aldine #moss.art #sketch #cw smoking #smoking #cw drugs #cw weed #cw alcohol

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killlerfang1 · 17 days

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Today I learned that chili peppers are spelled with an i on all Wikipedia pages except for ones that are related to New Mexico, in which case it’s spelled with an e

#fell down a rabbit hole and now I’m knee deep in chile facts #chili pepper #chile pepper #Wikipedia #New Mexico #my post

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arcsin27 · 5 months

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So I was browsing the wikipedia list of lgbt video game characters as one does and

Ladies and gentlemen

We got em

#love wins #shitpost but not really #idk if I fully agree hes canonically bi #since it’s an option for the player and not scripted to be true a la tatsuya suou #and since this isn’t the first time he’s had romantic options including both men and women #but there he is #though the stage confession could have been a joke #whereas tacticas was a daydream in which they were in love with him aka totally not a joke #hmm #persona 5 #p5 #ren #lgbt representation #lgbt #bi #bisexual #wikipedia rabbit hole #Wikipedia #Wikipedia rabbithole

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