Shiva: One of the principal Hindu deities, worshiped as the destroyer and restorer of worlds and in numerous other forms. Shiva is often conceived as a member of the triad also including Brahma and Vishnu.
Gilgamesh: The semidivine king of Erech, a city of southern Babylonia, and hero of an epic collection of mythic tales, one of which tells of a flood that covered the earth.
Odin: Ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan
Ragnarok: The so-called ``Twilight of the Gods,'' the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the [AE]sir (gods) on the one hand, and on the other, the giants and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki.
Freya: The daughter of Njorth, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.
Alexander: Lots of myths there, but I doubt they got him off them
Golem: In Jewish folklore, an artificially created human supernaturally endowed with life.
Bismark: A raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam
Leviathan: A monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Bible.
Titan: Greek Mythology. One of a family of giants, the children of Uranus and Gaea, who sought to rule heaven and were overthrown and supplanted by the family of Zeus.
Lucrecia (the real spelling is Lucretia): In Roman legend, a woman who was raped by a son of Tarquinius Superbus and took her own life; this led to the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome by a rebellion under Brutus.
Hades: The god of the netherworld and dispenser of earthly riches.
Pandora: Greek Mythology. The first woman, bestowed upon humankind as a punishment for Prometheus's theft of fire. Entrusted with a box containing all the ills that could plague people, she opened it out of curiosity and thereby released all the evils of human life.
Quetzalcoatl: A god of the Toltecs and Aztecs, one of the manifestations of the sun god Tezcatlipoca and represented as a plumed serpent.
Eden: The garden of God and the first home of Adam and Eve. Also called Garden of Eden.
There. That's enough for now. Oh, and get Cid for next week.
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Quote of the week:
“Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.” – Woody Allen
Image of the week:
Pointless fact of the week:
A flea can jump more than a foot. Comparable to a human leaping over the Washington Monument with plenty to spare.
