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5 days ago · In The Wonderful Sack, the trickster Wihio locates a Man-of-Plenty – a figure who appears in many myths around the world, someone who has what everyone else wants and seems to have come to his fortune easily or, at least, mysteriously – according to the understanding of those around him –through the will (in this case) of the Cheyenne ...
3 days ago · An elf ( pl.: elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda .
1 day ago · Futurology. Political history. ↓ Future. v. t. e. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had populated most of the Earth by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
4 days ago · Goth, member of a Germanic people whose two branches, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, for centuries harassed the Roman Empire. According to their own legend, the Goths originated in southern Scandinavia and crossed to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
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4 days ago · Sunday honors Sunna or Sól, the Norse goddess of the Sun. Monday is Máni's day, the god of the Moon and brother to Sunna. Tuesday is Tyr’s day, the god of war. Wednesday is Odin's day, the ...
2 days ago · Taoism. Korean Taoism. Quanzhen School ("School of the Fulfilled Virtue") Shangqing School ("School of the Highest Clarity") Way of the Five Pecks of Rice. Way of the Celestial Masters. Zhengyi Dao ("Way of the Right Oneness") Syncretic Taoism. Dragon Gate Taoism.
