Tag: mythology
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Werewolf of the Olympians – Ancient Greek
The Olympian Werewolf; Damarchus was a real-life Olympic Boxer from Parrhasia (Arcadia) who was said to shape-shift into a Werewolf during the Festival of Lycaea. The Story of the Werewolf Pausanias investigated the story for his famous work Description of Greece. While he seems to accept that Damarchus the boxer did indeed exist, he notes…
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Hieroglyphic Hallucinations and the Wicked Ibis
Hieroglyphic Hallucinations and the Wicked Ibis, Lycanthropy and Hybrid Creatures. Let me inform you of the first to Egyptology Athanasius Kircher. He was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in comparative religion and geology and medicine. Why is A.Kircher important? Equally important, Kircher was compared to fellow…