Examples of deities of love and lust from across the world.
Folklore and Myth
‘Deadly Women’ in Fiction and Myth
An outline of several 'deadly women' for May 2022's theme, femme fatales.
Women in Mythology – Summary
A summary for January 2022's theme - Women in Mythology!
The Epic of Kundalakesi
Kundalakesi is one of the five great Tamil epics of the Sangam Age. Only 19 of its original 99 verses survive today; an additional five have surfaced, but it has not been conclusively proven that they belong to Kundalakesi.
Women in Mythology: Nüwa (女媧)
Every religion and mythology has a creation myth. The Ancient Greeks believed in Chaos and Gaea, who gave birth to the first beings. In the Christian Bible, God spends six days forming animals, plants, and people. In Ancient China, there was Nüwa.
Women in Mythology: The Morrígan
Sometimes a triple goddess, sometimes an individual entity, the Morrígan is a feared figure from Irish mythology. As a goddess of war, her stories are centred around the battlefield, an unusual place for a woman in Celtic myth.
X is for… Xtabay
La Xtabay is a Yucatec Maya myth which seems to invert the typical Madonna/whore complex that is often seen in folktales. The story contrasts two women - one promiscuous, the other chaste - but it may not turn out like you expect.
M is for… Medusa
The monstrous woman is a common figure in Greek mythology, and Medusa is arguably the most well-known of them. But who is the woman behind the myth, and is she truly the monster of her story?
F is for… Female archetypes of Latin America
La Malinche, La Virgen, and La Llorona are three archetypal women from Chicano folklore who have historically been used as tools of a patriarchal society to repress women's bodily agency and sexuality. However, recently there has been a pushback by Chicana feminists to reclaim these figures - but how are they doing this, and why?