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		<title>Flower Crowns: Ancient &amp; Modern</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2013/08/flower-crowns-ancient-modern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 03:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The interwebs are an ever-changing culture, and the blooming trends of today will have withered by next week. Nevertheless, the recent fad of Photoshopping &#8220;flower crowns&#8221; on popular figures from TV, film and other media has caught my eye. It&#8217;s a consciously ironic way of claiming ownership of a cultural icon, expressing devotion while showing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Androids, Electronic Sheep, Psychology and Mythology</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/04/androids-electronic-sheep-psychology-and-mythology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greekgeek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many science fiction authors have written about androids &#8212; robotic humans simulating human intelligence with powerful software &#8212; and as usual, science fiction (20th century mythology) is becoming reality. The term &#8220;android&#8221; was popularized, I think, by prominent science fiction writer Phillip K. Dick, whose Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? short story was one [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Service Code Names: The Power of Names in Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/03/secret-service-code-names-the-power-of-names-in-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greekgeek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service code names have been used to refer to the president and VIPs since the Truman Administration. I find them fascinating, because they are a modern expression of a very old mythological theme, the Magic Name or Secret Name. Names have power in both mythology and psychology. In many mythologies, speaking a name [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ritual of the Gift</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/12/the-ritual-of-the-gift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greekgeek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Time magazine article this week notes that traditional ink-and-paper paper books are seeing a surprising spike in sales this year, as they did last year, despite the meteoric rise in popularity of ebook readers. The article flails for causes: &#8220;The holiday spike may reflect this year’s partial lifting of economic gloominess.&#8221; If that&#8217;s true, why was there one [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapture vs. Ragnarök: A Pagan Apocalypse</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/05/ragnarok-pagan-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/05/ragnarok-pagan-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 06:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greekgeek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the earthquakes of Harold Camping&#8217;s apocalypse failed to roll around the globe at precisely 6PM (God has apparently modernized enough to observe human time zones), I spent the day reading The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology. I suppose I find modern mythology more appealing when presented as such. Of course, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ham Sandwich and Eternal Happiness</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/04/the-ham-sanwich-and-eternal-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 04:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greekgeek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old logic joke goes like this: I. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. II. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. III. Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness! It turns out that there are a lot of ham sandwich myths trying to reassure us that our life is tasty just as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Godzilla, Akira, Mononoke: Japan&#8217;s Fear</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/03/godzilla-akira-mononoke-japans-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/03/godzilla-akira-mononoke-japans-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greekgeek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Peter Winn Kirby of Oxford has a thoughtful and painfully spot-on essay about how the original Godzilla movies, far from being mere campy horror flicks, in fact were fictional dramatizations giving a voice to Japan&#8217;s visceral fears of radioactive contamination. Once again, mythology and stories put a face on things which are almost unthinkable. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Myths Go to the Movies: Alice in Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/01/myths-go-to-the-movies-alice-in-wonderland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greekgeek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a poorly-kept secret that nowadays, myths have gone to Hollywood. Joseph Campbell spent time holed up with filmmaker George Lucas, helping him hash out the first Star Wars movies (and to my mind, the recent three were missing that timeless spark). In Campbell&#8217;s classic book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he outlines a &#8220;universal myth,&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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