mythology
43 篇The Girl Who Taught the World to Weave | 教世界编织的女孩
A myth about Hambrumai, the girl chosen by a god to learn weaving from nature's patterns. After h...
33 阅读How the First Head Was Taken | 首级是如何被取走的
A myth explaining the origin of headhunting. The Moon goddess beheads the Sun's son for watching ...
29 阅读The Seventh Fairy | 七仙女
The tale of Dong Yong, a filial son who sold himself to bury his father. A heavenly weaver, sent ...
32 阅读The Boundless Journey | 鹏程万里
This passage recounts the legend of the Kun fish transforming into the Peng bird from *Zhuangzi*,...
32 阅读Aphrodite | 爱与美之神阿佛洛狄特
Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, emerged mysteriously from the sea. Renowned for ...
33 阅读The Tale of Big Ears | 大耳朵的故事
A mythical tale explaining why humans have small ears. Long ago, humans had large, functional ear...
37 阅读Jupiter and the Tortoise | 朱庇特与乌龟
Jupiter punishes a tortoise for preferring home to his wedding feast by making it carry its house...
41 阅读Baucis and Philemon | 鲍西丝和费莱蒙
Zeus and Hermes, disguised as travelers, test a village's hospitality and find it only in the poo...
39 阅读Daphne and Apollo | 达芙妮与阿波罗
The myth of Daphne and Apollo tells how the sun-god's pursuit led the fleeing nymph to transform ...
34 阅读Arachne | 阿拉克涅
Arachne, a skilled but arrogant mortal weaver, boasts she surpasses the goddess Minerva. Challeng...
29 阅读Echo | 回声
This is the myth of Echo, a nymph punished to only repeat the last words of others. It illustrate...
39 阅读The Ant | 蚂蚁
A fable explaining how greedy humans were transformed into ants by Jupiter for stealing from thei...
27 阅读Three Borrowings of the Plantain Fan | 三借芭蕉扇
Monkey must borrow a magic fan from a hostile princess to cross the Fiery Mountains, leading to a...
33 阅读Noah's Ark | 诺亚方舟
The biblical story of Noah's Ark tells how God, grieved by human wickedness, sent a great flood b...
27 阅读Poseidon: God of the Sea | 海神波塞冬
Poseidon, the mighty Greek god of the sea, ruled the oceans with his trident after the Titanomach...
29 阅读Pandora's Box | 潘多拉的盒子
The myth of Pandora tells how her curiosity led her to open a forbidden box, releasing evils into...
31 阅读The Phoenix | 不死鸟
The legend of the lonely phoenix, a beautiful bird living in solitude for centuries before being ...
28 阅读Ulysses and the Bag of Winds | 尤利西斯与风袋
After the Trojan War, King Ulysses receives a bag containing storm winds from Aeolus to ensure a ...
38 阅读Why the Sky Is So High | 天空为何如此之高
A myth explaining the sky's height. A lonely, obsessive old woman's relentless sweeping raises du...
29 阅读The Dragon's Descent | 龙的降临
A fallen dragon, stranded in a remote village, struggles to return to the heavens with only a sha...
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