THE LEGEND OF  TYRFING  Introduction    Tyrfing, Tyrfing, or Tyrving (the name has an uncertain origin and is probab…

The ancient Greek Pantheon gods are categorized in various categories on the next page. The first of these, the Oly…

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…