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#231 – The mythology of the moon
1 Jun 2026
#210 – Memories & Legends of William Shakespeare
28 Dec 2025
#209 – Being a Jew in 1900, Being a Jew Now
15 Dec 2025
#208 – Bach & God
8 Dec 2025
The Great Myths #67: The Origin of the Buffalo Dance (Blackfoot)
17 Jul 2020
The Great Myths #63: Ragnarok (Norse)
13 Dec 2019
The Great Myths #62: Loki is Captured & Punished (Norse)
4 Dec 2019
The Great Myths #60: The History of Odin’s Horse (Norse)
20 Nov 2019
The Great Myths #59: Odin Talks About Valhalla (Norse)
13 Nov 2019
The Great Myths #58: The Love Story of Freyr & the Giantess Gerd (Norse)
6 Nov 2019
The Great Myths #57: Loki’s Monstrous Children (Norse)
30 Oct 2019
The Great Myths #55: An Island is Cut Away & the Prose Edda Begins (Norse)
26 May 2019
The Great Myths #54: A Native American Orpheus (Tachi Yokut)
22 May 2019
The Great Myths #53: Thor Goes Fishing for the Serpent that Surrounds the World (Norse)
19 May 2019
The Great Myths #52: Ríg Gives Advice (Norse)
12 May 2019
“One day the Gestapo hanged a child”: God on Trial at Auschwitz
16 Apr 2019
Female Figurines and a Shipwreck: Two Poems from “Bone Antler Stone”
20 Dec 2018
The Great Myths #47: Sacred Language & the Limitation of Words (Taoism)
18 Sep 2018
The Great Myths #46: Sacred Language & Homer’s Poets (Greek)
13 Sep 2018
The Great Myths #45: Sacred Language Creates the World (Jewish)
7 Sep 2018
The Great Myths #44: Sacred Language & Two Hymns to Speech (Hindu)
3 Sep 2018
The Great Myths #43 Sacred Language & the Story of Gwion Bach & Taliesin (Welsh)
30 Aug 2018
The Great Myths #42: Sacred Language & the Story of Caedmon (Christian)
19 Aug 2018
The Great Myths #41: Sacred Language & the Mead of Poetry (Norse)
15 Aug 2018
The Great Myths #40: Enkidu Comes of Age (Mesopotamian)
9 Aug 2018
The Great Myths #39: Arrow Boy (Cheyenne)
3 Aug 2018
The Great Myths #38: Baldr’s Dreams, Baldr’s Death (Norse)
23 Jul 2018
The Great Myths #36: Parzival Grows Up & Leaves Home
12 Jul 2018
Review of Hymns & Lamentations
31 May 2018
The Great Myths #35: A Child During the Trojan War (Greek)
13 Mar 2018
The Great Myths #34: A Hausa and Swahili Story of Childhood (African)
8 Mar 2018
The Great Myths #33: The Child Cúchulainn Gets His Name (Celtic)
6 Mar 2018
The Great Myths #32: The Childhood of Jesus (Christian)
1 Mar 2018
The Great Myths #31: The Child Krishna & the Universe in His Mouth (Hindu)
27 Feb 2018
The Great Myths #30: The Holy Grail Appears (Middle High German)
21 Feb 2018
The Great Myths #29: Learning Poetry in the Giant’s Stomach (Finnish)
15 Feb 2018
The Great Myths #28: Odysseus Outsmarts the Cyclops
13 Feb 2018
The Great Myths #27: The Monster Bear & the Making of Thunder (Miwok)
8 Feb 2018
The Great Myths #26: Sigurd Kills the Monster Fafnir & Understands the Language of Animals (Norse)
6 Feb 2018
The Great Myths #25: The Monster Kirttimukha & the Face of Glory (Hindu)
1 Feb 2018
The Great Myths #24: The Monster Satan (Dante)
30 Jan 2018
The Great Myths #23: The Monster Grendel (Anglo-Saxon)
25 Jan 2018
The Great Myths #22: The Monster Humbaba (Mesopotamian)
23 Jan 2018
The Great Myths #20: The Holy Grail Appears (Middle English)
16 Jan 2018
The Great Myths #19: The Sacrifice of Ymir Made into the World (Norse)
8 Jan 2018
The Great Myths #18: The Sacrifice of Isaac (Jewish)
5 Jan 2018
The Great Myths #17: A Sacrifice for the Feast (Greek)
3 Jan 2018
The Great Myths #16: A Siberian Horse Sacrifice, and the Shaman’s Ascent to the Sky (Altaic)
2 Jan 2018
The Great Myths #15: The Horse Sacrifice (Hindu)
1 Jan 2018
The Great Myths #14: The Sparrow in Northumbria (Christian)
28 Dec 2017
The Great Myths #13: The Two Men Who Became Bulls (Irish)
22 Dec 2017
The Great Myths #12: The Corn Mother (Penobscot)
20 Dec 2017
The Great Myths #10: The Holy Grail Appears (Old French)
14 Dec 2017
The Great Myths #9 Wild With Divinity (Greek)
11 Dec 2017
The Great Myths #8: This Whole World is Dwelt in by the Lord (Hindu)
7 Dec 2017
The Great Myths #7: The Tree of Souls (Jewish)
4 Dec 2017
The Great Myths #6: Enkidu in the Underworld (Mesopotamian)
30 Nov 2017
The Great Myths #5: A Ghost Story (Icelandic)
27 Nov 2017
The Great Myths #4: The Round Dance of the Cross (Christian)
25 Nov 2017
The Great Myths #3: A Kakadu Creation (Australian)
20 Nov 2017
The Great Myths #2: The Dream of Óengus (Irish)
16 Nov 2017
The Great Myths #1: The Old Woman & the End of the World (White River Sioux)
13 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #81: “True words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not true”
9 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #80: “the people go back to simple techniques”
8 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #79: “Therefore sages keep their faith and do not pressure others”
7 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #78: “So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful”
6 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #77: “The Way of heaven reduces excess and fills need, but the way of humans is not so”
5 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #76: “Let strength and might be put below, and tender, gentle in control”
4 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #75: “Only those who do not contrive to live are wise in valuing life”
3 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #74: “If people usually don’t fear death, how can death be used to scare them?”
2 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #73: “But which man knows what heaven condemns, what precedents it’s guided by?”
1 Nov 2017
Tao Te Ching #72: “Don’t repress how people live”
31 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #71: “To presume to know what you don’t is sick”
30 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #70: “And so we remain unknown”
29 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #69: “No fate is worse than to have no enemy”
28 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #68 “This is the virtue of nonaggression”
27 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #67: “What Heaven creates let compassion protect”
26 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #66: Because they do not contend, no one in the world can contend with them”
25 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #65: “The ancient masters of the Way tried not to enlighten but to keep people in the dark”
24 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #64: “The most massive tree grows from a sprout, the highest building rises from a pile of earth, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a step”
23 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #63: “Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue”
22 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #62: “advancing calmly on this Way”
21 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #61: “A great nation wants no more than to include and nurture people”
20 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #60: “Governing a large nation is like cooking little fish”
19 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #59: “The Way of extended life and sustained reflection”
18 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #58: “happiness rests in misery, misery hides in happiness”
17 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #57: “the people simplify themselves”
16 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #56: “Those who know do not say, those who say do not know”
15 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #55: “Knowing how to be balanced we endure, knowing how to endure we become wise”
14 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #54: “What you plant well can’t be uprooted, what you hold well can’t be taken away”
13 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #53: “The Great Way is quite even, yet people prefer byways”
12 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #52: “Once you’ve found the mother, thereby you know the child”
11 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #51: “this is called Dark Virtue”
10 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #50: “for them there’s no land of death”
9 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #49: “Sages have no fixed mind, they make the minds of the people their mind”
8 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #48: “To pursue learning, learn more day by day, to pursue the Way, unlearn it day by day”
7 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #47: “Without going out your door you can know the whole world”
6 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #46: “No crime is greater than approving of greed”
5 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #45: “Clear stillness is right for the world”
4 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #44: “Extreme fondness means great expense, and abundant possessions mean much loss”
3 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #43: “In this world below the sky the gentle will outdo the strong”
2 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #42: “Those who take less shall have more, Those given more shall have less”
1 Oct 2017
Tao Te Ching #41: “If they didn’t laugh at it, it wouldn’t be the Way”
30 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #40: “The Tao moves the other way, the Tao works through weakness”
29 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #39: “Attaining unity”
28 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #38: “Virtue comes after loss of the Way”
27 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #37: “By not wanting, there is calm, and the world will straighten itself”
26 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #36: “Flexibility and yielding overcome adamant coerciveness”
25 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #35: “the Tao speaks plain words that make no sense … yet we use it without end”
24 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #34: “Therefore sages never contrive greatness; that is why they can become so great.”
23 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #33: “Those who know others are wise; those who know themselves are enlightened.”
22 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #32: “The Way is essentially nameless”
21 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #31: “Weapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them”
20 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #30: “do not coerce the world with weapons”
19 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #29: “Should you want to take this world”
18 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #28: “Know the male, keep the female”
17 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #27: “Good works are trackless”
16 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #26: “Gravity is the root of lightness”
15 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #25: “Something undifferentiated was born before heaven and earth”
14 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #24: “Those on tiptoe don’t stand up”
13 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #23: “To speak rarely is natural”
12 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #22: “Be tactful and you remain whole”
11 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #21: “For the countenance of great virtue”
10 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #20: “Detach from learning and you have no worries”
9 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #19: “Eliminate sagacity, abandon knowledge”
8 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #18: “When the Great Way is deserted”
7 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #17: “Very great leaders in their domains”
6 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #16: “Attain the climax of emptiness”
5 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #15: “Skilled warriors of old were subtle”
4 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #14: “What you don’t see when you look”
3 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #13: “Favor and disgrace seem alarming”
2 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #12: “Colors blind people’s eyes”
1 Sep 2017
Tao Te Ching #11: “Thirty spokes join at the hub”
31 Aug 2017
Tao Te Ching #10: “Carrying vitality and consciousness”
30 Aug 2017
Tao Te Ching #9: “To keep on filling is not as good as stopping”
29 Aug 2017
Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, by Erik Hornung (Favorite Passages)
6 Oct 2012
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