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RE-ENCHANTMENT: If you Love Fairy Tales, Go Here

Phyl — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:47:01 +0000

Visit the beauty parlor and click on the sections to learn about Rapunzel and her hair! Learn the significance of Cinderella's cleaning the ashes, which are connected with death. And discover why fairy tale women so often get involved with beast-men! [...]

Book Review – The Lost Books of the Odyssey

Phyl — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:39:11 +0000

It was as though, metaphorically, I could feel the entire Odysseus mythos being built up, piece by piece, over years and centuries. [...]

Ramayana: Divine Loophole

Phyl — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:48:20 +0000

You know the two major Greek mythological epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey? They could take lessons in greatness and epic sweep from The Ramayana and the other, even more massive Hindu epic, The Mahabharata. [...]

Fables Graphic Novels

Phyl — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:55:54 +0000

You may be interested in fairy tales in an adult context, say, if you liked Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim for example. Or you might enjoy the fun concept of mixing literary or mythical characters with the real world, as Jasper Fforde does in the Thursday Next books.

If you like those things, I’d [...]