Greek Mythology   What are myths and if they aren’t real, why do we study them in history class? A “myth” is a traditio…

Demeter means “Barley-mother.” Another name for her is Ceres, from which we get the word “cereal.” She was the goddess…

When the Greeks buried their dead, they put a coin under the corpse‟s tongue so his soul could pay the fare on the…

Njord (Njorðr, originally Nerpuz) guides the course of the winds and governs sea and fire; he grants to those who cal…

Like most, if not all peoples of the world, the Greeks have their own myths and legends about how the world came to be …

P rometheus was a young Titan, no great admirer of Zeus. Although he knew the great lord of the sky hated explicit q…

ODIN’S DEBATE WITH VAFTHRUDNIR  Just as Thor was accustomed to making adventurous sorties in order to discomfit the Gi…

RAGNAROK — THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS  A t last, the time draws near when the existing universe must perish and the gods…

We must begin our story with those new races which were to mix their blood with that of the peoples of the Roman Empi…

Germanic Paganism  At the period of which we are speaking, the Germans did not believe in one God as we do, but many. …