Teaching & Learning English
Diet Pepsi's Guide to Mythology I feel like a lot of the good stuff I know isn’t familiar to Chinese people. I get that some stuff is banned because of cultural influences, but some I don’t know why. Like for example, Dr. Who, Avatar the Last Airbender, and Pokemon actually too. Games too, I mean no one in China knows … Read more
I just found out about Orphic cosmogony, and it completely blew my understanding about Greek mythology. I am so confused. In the Orphic cosmogony version, the creator Phanes, which I understand as the creator. This is completly different from the more known version of Chaos. Sometimes Phanes is said to be the same as Eros, … Read more
Second post today. Or at least I hope so. Enjoy. At first, Chronos wasn’t so bad. He freed the Hundred Handed Ones and the Elder Cyclopes from Tartarus, which made Gaia happy. The monstrous guys turned out to be useful too. Turns out that they learned to build in Tartarus, but if you want to … Read more
Finally! The titans are here! Also I got the time to write stuff. And I can get back to the mainline. It’s been a long time, so I’m gonna start with a recall. So last time we talked about how Gaia, the Earth mother, told her children to help assassinate their father (yeah, I know … Read more
Ok first time with a myth I’m not really familiar with. Might not be as fun because I dont really have any background for this. This myth won’t start with the world creation, because it is basically the Greek version with more blood. So here we go… So, long ago, when Rome doesn’t exist yet, … Read more
I’m kind of curious about this, who is your favorite Greek god. My personal fav is Apollo, god of poetry, prophecy, sun, healing, plagues, etc. Let’s vote
I love poetry. Here’s a not well known type of poetry I want to share. Terza rima is a form of poetry composed of tercets (3-line stanzas) with an interlocking rhyme scheme. It was invented by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri and famously used in his Divine Comedy. So, it is famous for its peculiar … Read more
Yay. Our favorite writer of plays, Shakespeare. And I found out he really sucked at Greek Mythology, and is getting a lot wrong. Here’s my proof. First, in The Tempest, Shakespeare made a bunch of gods & goddesses to bless Miranda and Ferdinand. The goddesses were Juno, the goddess of marriage, Ceres, the goddess of … Read more
I have to say, Shakespeare really does have a use in real life, like for example to insult someone with the highest possible manner, or in quotes. “Her face is not worth sunburning.” from Henry V. Meaning someones soooo ugly the sun don’t even bother giving him/her a sunburn. “Villain, I have done … Read more
This is directly after what happened in part 1, pls read part 1 if you have not already. Well, that’s it for Gaia. She wailed and moaned and caused so much earthquakes that the titans came running to check up. “Your father is a *first cuss word first invented*.” She explained what happened. Then she … Read more
Hey people! I’m back! Yesterday’s story got some attention, and I was bored in this break anyway, so today I’m going to try finishing the Gaia and Uranus’s story, but its very long and idk if its possible. Oh by the way, these stories is just the version that I think make the most sense, … Read more