Category: Mythology Blown Apart
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The Trail’s the Thing
Another episode of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [… Fox and Bärchen are walking a trail in the woods …] Fox: Watch out! Right where you’re about to step is a… [… Bärchen stumbles for a moment …] Fox: …loose rock. Are you okay? Bärchen: I’m fine. I’m fine. Just a little slippage, but…
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Mythology Blown Apart: The White Snake (Grimm’s Fairy Tales)
This episode of Mythology Blown Apart will proceed a bit differently. We will attempt to defuse this one carefully, so please take a pair of goggles that Fox is handing out and go behind the concrete barrier. For all its humble appearance, and origins, this one carries quite a bit of explosive power. (Maybe because,…
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Mythology Blown Apart: The Holy Grail
What do you want to do today? I dunno. I’m kinda fed up with the “usual”. I’m thinking we should try to find the Grail. Sure, and what shall we do after that? Whaddya mean “after that”?! Won’t that take practically forever? Nah, I put it away because I know you’re always forgetting where you…
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Mythology Blown Apart: Jason and the Argonauts
Jason and the Argonauts get their comeuppance Uh, oh! The Ancients have gotten here before us and done an admirable job of blowing this story to smithereens. Not much else for us to do here. Nonetheless, we will soldier on. Let’s start at the very end, shall we?! The moral of the story is… Nothing,…
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Mythology Blown Apart: Orpheus and Eurydice
[The first installment in what we anticipate will become a regular dust-up.] Orpheus and Eurydice, the story in outline: The rock star Orpheus marries the beautiful Eurydice and they live happily for a while. But that happiness is fated to be short-lived. Eurydice dies of a drug overdose and Orpheus writes some of his most…
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