by Christian Roy | Aug 6, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory, Visual Arts
We tend to forget that the advent of the Atomic Age, with the destruction of Hiroshima in a single bomb blast 75 years ago on August 6, 1945, was not greeted with dread so much as with wonder at mankind’s near-divine power over matter. For it was thought that man was...
by Michael Dunn | Jul 27, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions
Be astonished: a beautiful woman, beheaded 1,700 years ago, still lives. She is the patron of miners, tunnellers, armourers, military engineers, artillerymen, gunsmiths and those who handle explosives. People put up her effigy at the entrance to tunnels and mines, and...
by Jason Williams | Jul 21, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
Maximilian Robespierre was the leader of the French Revolution, which promised to free France from the tyranny of despots. For centuries, the French people had lived under a system where the peasants carried the burden of the tax load. And while the monarchy did...
by Nicholas Kotar | May 27, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
“Whatever shadow may fall on your life–maybe you are worried about the fate of your country, or perhaps dark thoughts visit you concerning your own future, or maybe your entire life seems an unbearable wound–remember the fairy tale. Listen to her quiet, ancient, wise...
by Eugene Schreder | May 20, 2020 | — Bestiary, Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Short Stories, Theory
This is part I in a two-part article, and the first article in a series of posts that discuss the symbolism of a particular and peculiar literary tradition within Western Europe. Collectively, this body of works is called “the Bestiary.” To reduce this mysterious...
by Gareth Boyd | May 15, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
Within the panoply of Western mythic imagery, perhaps few things excite the imagination like that picture of a brave knight, armed with sword and shield, fighting and defeating a scaled dragon while rescuing a damsel in distress or liberating a town terrorized by...
