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		<title>Brave: &#8220;The Bear and the Bow&#8221;: Bear Mythology</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/06/brave-the-bear-and-the-bow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Myths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just watched the Disney / Pixar movie Brave, I'm pondering the vaguely Scottish-Irish-Celtic-European mythology and motifs buried in this film. There's a lot of bear + mother goddess symbolism which I find fascinating.]]></description>
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		<title>The Transit of Venus and of Ray Bradbury: June 5, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/06/the-transit-of-venus-and-ray-bradbury-june-5-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/06/the-transit-of-venus-and-ray-bradbury-june-5-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constellation Myths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had been raining for seven years; thousand upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sand Stories of Kseniya Simonova</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/05/sand-stories-of-kseniya-simonova/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommendations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mythphile.com/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mythos means &#8220;a thing told,&#8221; an utterance, a story. Mythology is the art of passing down culture, lessons, ideas through stories which pluck at our souls, our dreams, our emotions, not just our rational minds. Bards are the purveyors of mythology in many societies. A bard is more than a storyteller, although a bard works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Ancient Art Tells Us About Pinboards</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/04/what-ancient-art-tells-us-about-pinboards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/04/what-ancient-art-tells-us-about-pinboards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pondering Myth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egyptian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do "pin boards," social media websites designed around sharing pictures, have in common with Stone Age cave paintings and Egyptian funerary art?
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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>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/04/androids-electronic-sheep-psychology-and-mythology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Modern Myths]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/03/secret-service-code-names-the-power-of-names-in-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science May Explain Why Egyptians Worshiped Dung Beetle as Sun God</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/01/ancient-egyptian-scarab-beetle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2012/01/ancient-egyptian-scarab-beetle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Myth Posts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother sent me a link to a fascinating Scientific American article about zoologist Emily Baird&#8217;s research on dung beetles. Egyptologists give these poo-pushing champions the more dignified name of &#8220;scarab,&#8221; after an ancient Greek word for beetle. Dr. Baird&#8217;s specialty is insect vision, flight and navigation (see her profile at Lund University). She wrote her thesis [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/12/the-ritual-of-the-gift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of Samhain/ Hallowe&#8217;en: Past and Future</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/10/samhain-halloween-past-and-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/10/samhain-halloween-past-and-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love both the old Celtic holiday of Samhain and the modern secular holiday of Hallowe&#8217;en, despite the over-commercialization of the latter. They are two different holidays. For me, they are both magical. Personally, I celebrate Samhain by honoring my ancestors: I light a candle and spend some time remembering my Nana, my other relatives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Midas Has Donkey Ears,&#8221; Whistleblowers and Wikileaks</title>
		<link>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/10/midas-has-donkey-ears-whistleblowers-and-wikileaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mythphile.com/2011/10/midas-has-donkey-ears-whistleblowers-and-wikileaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fables]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard of King Midas of the &#8220;Golden Touch,&#8221; monarch of ancient Phrygia (See theoi.com&#8217;s Midas entry for classical Greek and Roman sources.) Probably you&#8217;ve heard Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s version, which makes Midas into a moralistic fable about gold-greed and appreciating the simple things in life. Hawthorne supplies King Midas with a daughter to drive the [...]]]></description>
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