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  MuggleNet | Name Origins
Gryffindor - A "griffin" was "a creature in mythology with the body of a lion and the head of an eagle." Also known in Greek Mythology as the "gryphon," it was the protector of a god's gold from mortal men.
In Greek mythology, Hestia was the goddess of the hearth and domestic activity.
A third Merope in Greek mythology, is one of the Heliades, or daughters of Helios.
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 Ash
In folklore and mythology the ash tree has many associations with the gods, such as: Uranus, Poseidon, Thor, Odin, Oceanus, Nemesis, Mars, and Gwydion.
The Greek goddess Nemesis carried an ash branch as the symbol the divine instrument of the justice of the gods, the scourge.
In Norse mythology and to the ancient Teutons the ash tree represented Yggdrasill, also known as the World Tree.
www.controverscial.com /Ash.htm   (2493 words)

  
 The Oxford Tolkien Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Verlyn Flieger is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, where she teaches courses in Tolkien, Medieval Literature, and Comparative Mythology.
He has taught courses on literature and mythopoeia since 1997, with a break in 2005 to research American fantasy on a Fulbright fellowship.
He is the author of the first in the Polish language monograph on C. Lewis, The Magical Spell of Narnia: Poetics and Philosophy in C. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia (Universitas, 2005), and co-editor of Towards or Back to Human Values: Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary Fantasy (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006).
www.tolkiensoxford.com /speakers.asp   (1381 words)

  
 Booklist ( All Listings ). Secondhand Books. Man Myth & Magic
An investigation into the roots of British mythology using the myth of Atlantis as a central thesis.
Talks with His Divine Grace on the Universe and the origins of life, and where its going.
Hermes Trismegistus, The Divine Pymander of Hermes Trismegistus, by the editors of The Shrine of Wisdom, 2nd ed.
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 The Epoch Times | Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party — Part 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Buddhism and Taoism are the parts of Chinese culture that focused on “leaving the mundane world.” The influence of Buddhism and Taoism can be found to penetrate all aspects of ordinary people’s lives.
Owing to the fact that the traditional culture is rooted in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, the CCP’s first step in destroying traditional culture was to extinguish the manifestation of the divine principles in the human world, eradicating the three religions corresponding to them.
After investigation, it was discovered that the disease was caused by poisonous milk powder made by a fl-hearted and greedy manufacturer.
english.epochtimes.com /news/4-12-20/25087.html   (12494 words)

  
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The story of the birth of Athena, is not so much the birth of a Goddess, as the birth of a human centered democratic civilization.
No longer did mankind worship animal-like gods and goddesses, or divine kings.
We stood unashamed as Her children, growing in our wisdom and our ability in the dawn's light of Reason.
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