Was family lunchtime ever like this? The family gathered, dressed on their fine white clothes, but Patsy bears a frustrated frown… “Can’t you see what’s happening around you?” Patsy yells, inside her head. It is Sunday. While not being a religious family, they do observe a long tradition of polite lunchtime gathering. Patsy’s father, his bloated body dressed in an …
Micro-fiction 030 – Shaman (Echoes Series)
On a blue planet, somewhere in the region of Barnard’s Star, in someone’s future, and somebody else’s past. In the dark mountains the chanting beat at the walls of the red cave. It had echoed through the catacombs for days, and would continue for more than a hundred years. That night the moon had wept blood. A dark stain red …
Sources | Celtic Myths | Origins
We reach for the Celts through the parchments of Christian monks, and Greek and Roman historians but still we grasp at phantoms of truth. The mythic invasions, cycles of life and death, war and famine, the true story is the spread of a people across Europe, trying to understand their world, and take command of it. Unlike the Greeks, with …
Sources | The Great Deluge | Retold
The Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian Myth of Apocalypse, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Dream of Atrahasis and the Eridu Genesis. Retold by Jake Jackson. The Great Deluge: Beginnings Enlil, Fategiver, Lord of Storms and warrior god ruled the realm of Earth, creating kings and great temples for the pure worship and honour of the gods who lived alongside Earth …
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