FOLKTALES AND MYTHS

SPHINX....expressing the secrets of the elements and answers to the riddle of life and death.

GREENMAN.... greener than green as the guardian. Try to get past that poison ivy. How'd you like them apples?

AEGIPAN....seduction of the maiden by pipe playing. This Pan is usually more goat than man.

BRIAR ROSE....illustrated features of the faery tale Briar Rose commonly known as Sleeping Beauty,with its lessons and wisdom about the male and female principles.

HOLY STONES....find a stone with a hole caused by nature. Look through it and see the otherside. Included here are the salagrams sacred to Vishnu and Orisha Shango's thunder stone.

ME AND THE SPHINX

PERCEUS RESCUES ANDROMEDA FROM CETUS

SILKIE AND THE MAIDEN....according to Western and Northern European folk tales, the shape shifting from seal to human Silkie, would commonly take mortal mates.

DURGA....Goddess Durga slays the demon Mahashasura (see OTHER section for an article about Durga).

MAGUS AND THE SPINX

CORNCOCK....September's full corn moon brings about many strange and even ruckus rituals, each unique to its own region or township. Here the rooster represents the Corn god who's blood will be shed on the fields at harvest to insure good crops.

CITY IN THE CLOUDS

HAIL MEN,LIGHTNING WOMEN

HAILMAKERS