Curated playlist
Avian humanoids
- HorusHorus won the throne of Egypt with a boat made of painted wood. His rival Set sailed one of real stone, and it sank.
- Victoria (mythology)Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory, had no myths of her own. Rome borrowed her from the Greek goddess Nike.
- ErosIn the earliest Greek sources, Eros was not a child at all. He was one of the first four things to exist.
- AngelNo angel in the Bible is actually described as having wings. Only cherubim and seraphim get wings in scripture.
- Uranus (mythology)In Greek myth, Cronus ambushed his father Uranus, the sky, with a sickle. His mother Gaia, the Earth, had made it.
- ThothPlutarch says the Egyptian god Thoth won five extra days for the calendar by gambling with the Moon.
- EosEos got her lover Tithonus immortality but forgot eternal youth. In the end she turned him into a cicada.
- IsisThe goddess Isis made a snake to bite the sun god Ra. She offered a cure only if he told her his secret name.
- Siren (mythology)The sirens of Greek mythology are female humanlike beings, and in the Odyssey they make a bold promise to a passing ship. They tell the listener that they know the pains the Greeks and Trojans endured on the plain of Troy. Their song…
- ErinyesIn Aeschylus's Oresteia, Athens put a man on trial for killing his mother. The Erinyes accused him.
- Iris (mythology)Iris, the Greek personification of the rainbow, has no temple, no shrine and no festival that anyone can name. Yet she turns up everywhere in ancient storytelling. She appears in epic poems, in tragedies, and even in a comedy about birds…
- RaEvery night, the serpent Apophis attacked the boat of the Egyptian sun god Ra. Hymns and spells helped him win.
- NephthysThe Egyptian goddess Nephthys was also a beer goddess. The pharaoh offered her beer to avoid a hangover.