religion , and a myth theory was an implicit commentary on Christianity . This aspect of mythography ... from areas adjacent to the Roman Empire . Mythography reached both into the past, for example with the background ... been traced as an influence on Mikhail Bakhtin . Mythography is the study of the study of myths ... can see the differences and similarities readily, as evidenced by William Doty s Mythography The Study ... which employed this earlier use of the term mythography was George Eliot s novel Middlemarch . Its ... TwentiethCentury Continental Mythology Mythology.htm PhillWebb.net , Mythology Mythography Category Mythography Category Greek loanwords bg de Mythographie es Mitograf a fr Mythographe it Mitografia ... more details
Mythicism , and the verb to mythicize , may refer to the process of turning a historical or semi historical person or event into a myth mythical king hero cult interpretation of accounts in terms of mythology , see mythography in particular the term is used for those who have a Jesus as myth mythological interpretations of Jesus Christ or Historicity of Jesus deny doubt his historicity . Fact date August 2008 See also Mysticism Euhemerism disambig ... more details
See Mythical theology for the theological concept. Theologia mythologica is a 1532 book by Georg Pictorius . It was one of the first treatises of Classical mythology in the German Renaissance . Pictorius interprets the Greek pantheon as allegory , e.g. Cybele as the Earth , her chariot wheels as symbolizing the rotation of the Earth. editions Theologia mythologica ex doctiss. uirorum promptuario, labore Pictorij Vill. in compendium congesta. Videlicet De nominum deorum gentilium ratione. De imaginibus, aut formis, insignibusque eorundem et omnium imaginum explanationes allegoric , Antwerpen, Michiel Hillen 1532 Theologia mythologica videlicet de nominum deorum gentilium ratione, de imaginibus aut formis, insignibusque eorundem, et omnium imaginum explanationes allegoricae , Franeker, J. Horreus 1696 . Literature Peter S. Hawkins, From Mythography to Myth Making Spenser and the Magna Mater Cybele , Sixteenth Century Journal, 1981 . Category 1532 books Category Mythology books Category Mythography Greek myth stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The Raven Tales are a group of over 150 stories from Native American mythology , centering on the transformer and trickster Raven mythology Raven . In these stories he is responsible for the creation of the world, finding the first people and bringing important foodstuffs such as salmon into the world. The Raven Tales remain one of the least known, but greatest oral traditions of Native American cultures. Raven Tales is also the name of an award winning animated television show. Raven Tales is unique in that it features an all First Nations cast and is produced by a First Nations Native American owned and operated production company. Category Mythography Myth stub ... more details
Architectural mythology is the term used to describe the overall story of an architecture architectural work. Sometimes this story is rooted back to our cultural existence. Not all works of architecture incorporate a level of mythology myth but when we discover an architectural work that does reflect a story it is often revealed through art. These stories can also be well hidden to the casual viewer and are often built into the conceptual design of the architectural statement. Some examples are Sydney Opera House , Christian church building church es, Buddhist temple s and Islamic mosque s. See also Folly References Lethaby, William Richard December 30, 2005 Architecture, Mysticism and Myth Cosimo, English, 288 pages, ISBN 1596053801 Category Architectural history Category Mythography architecture stub myth stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The anonymous Digby Mythographer was the compiler of a twelfth century Fabius Planciades Fulgentius Fulgentian handbook of Greek mythology , De Natura deorum On the Nature of the Gods that is conserved among the Digby Mss, collected by Sir Kenelm Digby , now in the Bodleian Library , University of Oxford Oxford . ref Judson Boyce Allen, An anonymous twelfth century De Natura Deorum in the Bodleian library , Traditio 26 1970 352 64. ref An intensely renewed interest in the classics, extending to Greek mythology classical mythography in Latin texts, was expressed in twelfth century France and England, an aspect of the reviving humanism of the Renaissance of the 12th century twelfth century renaissance . Myth was read in Allegory allegorical mode , where the surface detail was simply the visible cloak integumentum of the hidden neo Platonism Platonic truths they bodied forth. ref Jane Chance, Medieval Mythography From the School of Chartres to the Court at Avignon, 1177 1350 1994 60, The allegorization of Classical myth . ref Medieval commentaries on Boethius , Martianus Capella , Ovid , and Virgil also reached a peak during this period, under the impetus of the new cathedral school s. The Digby Mythographer concentrated on genealogy of the gods, drawn from Ovid, and material from Statius . An edition of the text was edited by V. Brown, An edition of an anonymous twelfth century Liber de natura deorum , Medieval Studies 34 1972 . See also Vatican Mythographer Alberic of London Theodontius Notes reflist 2 Category Greek mythology Category mythographers ... more details
Mythical theology theologica mythica is one of three branches of theology established by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro 116 27 BC in his lost work Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum . The other two are political theology theologia civilis and natural theology theologia naturalis . Mythical theology is practiced by poets, based on narratives Mythos Aristotle mythoi pertaining to divine matters. The theologians of civil or political theology are the people, asking how the gods relate to daily life and the state see imperial cult Ancient Rome imperial cult . The theologians of natural theology are the philosophy philosophers , inquiring into the nature of the gods. Mythical theology should be distinguished from the theologia mystica of Pseudo Dionysius the Areopagite . Literature Shanks A., In Defence of Mythical Theology , Cultural Values, Volume 3, Number 2, April 1999, 244 249. W. Geerlings, Die theologia mythica des M. Terentius Varro 1990 , ISBN 3 922031 88 9. See also Mythology and religion Theologia mythologica Mythopoiesis Category Mythography Theology Category Theology Category Ancient Roman religion ... more details
For other individuals by this name, see Telesarchus disambiguation . Telesarchus or Telesarch lang el , Telesarkhos is a little attested Greek literature Greek author who wrote a work on the early history of Argolis , called the Argolicum or Argolica . ref W. McLeod, The Epic Canon of the Borgia Table Hellenistic Lore or Roman Fraud? Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 1985 , p. 161. ref He is mentioned by Sextus Empiricus and scholia on Homer and on Euripides Alcestis play Alcestis . ref Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , v. 3, page 990 relevant passages from the Greek texts in Karl M ller, Fragmenta historicorum graecorum Paris 1851 , vol. 4, http books.google.com books?id lz0OAAAAYAAJ&pg PA508&dq Telesarchus&lr &num 100&as brr 3 p. 508. ref The availability of his writings was limited even among the Culture of ancient Rome Romans . ref Alan Cameron, Greek Mythography in the Roman World Oxford University Press, 2004 , p. 163 also pp. 100 101. ref References references AncientGreece writer stub Greece historian stub Category Ancient Argolis Category Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources ... more details
Creative Mythography An Expansion of Philip Jos Farmer s Wold Newton Universe ref http www.emcit.com .... Creative Mythography A Nova of Genetic Splendor. in Farmerphile The Magazine of Philip Jos Farmer ... Universe. in The Black Forest 2 Castle of Shadows , Image Comics, September 2005. Creative Mythography ..., Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri , eds., October 2005. Creative Mythography How He Avoided Publicity ... 2010. Creative Mythography Ouroboros, Part I. in Farmerphile The Magazine of Philip Jos Farmer No. 4, Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri , eds., April 2006. Creative Mythography Ouroboros, Part ... , eds., July 2006. Creative Mythography Doc Wildman Out of Time. in Farmerphile The Magazine of Philip ... Stories by Philip Jos Farmer Subterranean Press , 2007 ISBN 1 596 06128 6 Creative Mythography ... Scott Eckert, eds., October 2007. Creative Mythography Trunks and Branches The Wold Newton Family. in Farmerphile ... 2008. Creative Mythography The Farmerian Holmes. in Farmerphile The Magazine of Philip Jos Farmer No. 12, Paul Spiteri and Win Scott Eckert, eds., April 2008. Creative Mythography Sahhindar through ... Eckert, eds., July 2008 with Dennis E. Power . Creative Mythography Excessively Diverted, or, Coming ... Eckert, eds., October 2008. Creative Mythography Philip Jos Farmer in the Wold Newton Family. in Farmerphile ... more details
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Alan Cameron born 1938 is a British classicist, Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University . Cameron gained a BA from Oxford University , and his MA in 1964. He has taught at Columbia University since about 1977. In March 1997 he was awarded the American Philological Association s Goodwin Award of Merit in classical scholarship. His books include Claudian Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius 1970 Porphyrius the Charioteer 1973 Circus Factions Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium 1976 Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius May 1992 with Jacqueline Long, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin The Greek Anthology From Meleager to Planudes OUP 1993 Callimachus and his Critics 1995 Greek Mythography in the Roman World OUP Sep 2004 enthusiastically reviewed by T P Wiseman in the Times Literary Supplement , 13 May 2005 page 29 The Last Pagans of Rome 2011 External links worldcat id lccn n50 31530 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cameron, Alan ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Cameron, Alan Category British classical scholars Category Columbia University faculty Category 1938 births Category Living people Category Fellows of the British Academy Category British Byzantinists UK historian stub de Alan Cameron pl Alan Cameron ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Dusklands title orig translator image File DusklandsNovel.jpg 180px image caption 1st edition South Africa author J. M. Coetzee cover artist country South Africa language English language English series genre Novel publisher Ravan Press SA br Secker and Warburg UK release date 1974 media type Print pages isbn 0 86 975035 6 oclc 39714684 preceded by followed by Dusklands 1974 is the first novel by J. M. Coetzee , winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature . It is a presentation and critique of the violence inherent in the colonialist and imperialist mentality of the Western world . The novel actually consists of two separate stories. The first one, The Vietnam Project , relates the gradual descent into insanity of its protagonist Eugene Dawn. Eugene works for a U.S. government agency responsible for the psychological warfare in the Vietnam War . However, his work on mythography and psychological operations is taking a heavy toll on him his fall culminates in him stabbing his own son, Martin. The second story, The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee , which takes place in the 18th century, is an account of a hunting expedition into the then unexplored interior of South Africa . After crossing the Orange River , Jacobus meets with a Namaqua tribe to trade, but suddenly falls ill. He is attended to by the tribe and gradually recovers, only to get into a fight for which he is expelled from the village. His last slave dying on the way home, he returns alone and later organizes a punitive expedition against the Namaqua . The narrative concludes with his execution of the slaves that deserted him on the previous journey and the massacre of the tribe. John Maxwell Coetzee Category 1974 novels Category Novels by J. M. Coetzee Category Debut novels 1970s novel stub de Dusklands eu Dusklands it Terre al crepuscolo ... more details
For the polychaete worm genus , see Orseis polychaete . leave redlink to prevent ambiguous genus In Greek mythology, Orseis , Greek language Greek polytonic O was the water nymph Naiad of a spring in Thessalia , Greece , and the mythical ancestor of the Greeks . It is uncertain whether she was believed to be the daughter of Oceanus or the river god of Thessalia, Peneios. There is even a possibility that she was the daughter of Zeus and Deino the Graeae . According to the Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Library of Apollodorus disambiguation Pseudo Apollodorus , Orseis married Hellen , son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and brother of Pandora II Pandora , the legendary Eponym Other eponyms eponymous ancestor of the Greeks. Their sons, Dorus , Xuthus , and Aeolus , according to Hesiod s probably Eoiae lang el or Catalogue of Women ref Hesiod s probably Eoiae Greek or Catalogue of Women , the origin of Hellenes ref together with the sons of Pandora, Graecus , Magnetes Magnetas and Makedon mythology Makedon with Zeus, became the founders of the seven primordial tribes of Hellas Graecians , Magnetes , Ancient Macedonians Makedones , Dorians , Achaeans tribe Achaeans , Ionians , and Aeolians . ref Apollodorus, The Library 1.49 Hellen and a Nymphe named Orseis had Doros, Xuthos, and Aiolos. ref References reflist Sources Apollodorus, The Library Greek Mythography 2nd century BC . Hesiod s probably Eoiae lang el or Catalogue of Women , on the origin of Hellenes . External links http www.theoi.com Nymphe NympheOrseis.html Theoi Project Orseis http freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com jamesdow s053 f004819.htm The Pedigree of Orseis the Nymph Category Greek mythology Category Naiads bn de Orseis es Ors is fr Ors is it Orseide ru sr fi Orseis uk ... more details
Skaay was a blind, crippled storytelling storyteller of the Haida people Haida village of Ttanuu born c. 1827 at Qquuna. Skaay could illiteracy neither read nor write , but his stories of Haida mythology have survived in the form of written transcriptions taken down by John R. Swanton John Swanton with the aide of Henry Moody over the winter of 1900. These transcriptions of myths are unique in the literature, both for their fidelity due to Swanton to the precise wordings of the mythteller, and for the survival of the pre translation originals. The stories Skaay chose to dictate are the Qquuna Cycle , the longest poem recorded in Haida, Qquuna Qiighawaay , the oral history of Skaay s family, and Raven Travelling , Skaay s original take on the well worn tale see Raven Tales . Skaay appears three times in church records first, in 1884 when he was baptized Robert McKay second, on 13 March 1892, again a baptism, where his name is entered simply as Sky third, in January 1894 when he registers a marriage to Esther and was baptized once more, this time as John Sky . In Haida language Haida , Skaay refers to a type of mollusk . The Haida were divided into two social groups, or descent group moieties , called Raven and Eagle, Skaay belonged to the Eagle side or descent group moiety . See also Oral history References Bringhurst, Robert 2000 A Story As Sharp As a Knife The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World . U of Nebraska Press ISBN 0803261799. Being in Being The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller by Skaay of the Qquuna. 2002 Robert Bringhurst Ed., Translator University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978 0803213289 Category Haida people Category Canadian storytellers Category First Nations literature Category Mythography Category 1827 births Category Year of death missing ... more details
unreferenced date March 2009 notability Academics date March 2009 Orphan date June 2009 Carl Herman Tillhagen , born December 17, 1906 in Liding , Sweden, died 2002, was a Swedish folklorist and ethnologist who did extensive research on Scandinavian folklore . Career From 1932 to 1936 Tillhagen studied at Uppsala University . He continued his studies at Stockholm University until 1943, and until 1960 in Oslo where he received his doctorate. In 1939 he was employed by Nordiska museet , where he was a curator from 1961 to 1972. In 1954 he was employed for a study of the Romani people . He was even on the board of directors in the International Society for Folk Narrative Research . In 1966 he was guest professor at Indiana University and University of California . Bibliography Taikon ber ttar 1946 Svenska folklekar och danser I II 1949 50, med N. Denker Folklig l kekonst 1960 Folklig sp domskonst 1961 Papers on folkmedicin Folk Medicine 1964 Zigenarna i Sverige 1965 Glada juledagar 1965 F glarna i folktron 1978 Folklig ordakonst 1980 J rnet och m nniskorna, verklighet och vidskepelse 1981 Vardagsskrock 1982 Barnet i folktron 1983 Jaktskrock 1985 Arbetsliv och julgl dje 1985 Dr mrosor och k rleks rt 1985 Bellmanhistorier 1986 V vskrock 1986 Allmogejakt i Sverige 1987 Malms gner och gruvskrock 1988 V r kropp i folktron 1989 Himlens stj rnor och v drets makter 1991 Skogarna och tr den 1995 Vattnens folklore 1997 Bergen de bl och stenarna d r barn du lekte 1998 V ra folkminnen 1999 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Tillhagen, Carl Herman ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1906 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2002 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Tillhagen, Carl Herman Category 1906 births Category 2002 deaths Category Ethnologists Category Swedish folklorists Category Mythography Category Folklorists Sweden academic bio stub fi Carl Herman Tillhagen sv Carl Herman Tillhagen ... more details
italic title Infobox Journal title The Chaucer Review cover Image The Chaucer Review.jpg editor Susanna Fein, David Raybin discipline Literature language English abbreviation Chaucer Rev. publisher Penn State University Press country United States frequency Quarterly history 1966 present openaccess impact impact year website http www.psupress.org journals jnls chaucer.html link1 http muse.jhu.edu journals chaucer review link1 name Online access link2 link2 name RSS atom JSTOR 00092002 OCLC 43359050 LCCN CODEN ISSN 0009 2002 eISSN 1528 4204 The Chaucer Review A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism is an academic journal published by the Penn State University Press . Founded in 1966 by Robert W. Frank, Jr. who continued as editor through 1981 and Edmund Reiss, The Chaucer Review acts as a forum for the presentation and discussion of research and concepts about Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer and the literature of the Middle Ages . The journal publishes studies of language, social and political contexts, aesthetics, and associated meanings of Chaucer s poetry, as well as articles on medieval literature, philosophy, theology, and mythography relevant to study of the poet and his contemporaries, predecessors, and audiences. The Chaucer Review has been edited since 1982 by Susanna Fein Kent State University and David Raybin Eastern Illinois University . The four annual issues are published in January, April, July, and October and are distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press . External links http www.psupress.org journals jnls chaucer.html Official website http muse.jhu.edu journals chaucer review The Chaucer Review at Project MUSE http www.press.jhu.edu journals chaucer review The Chaucer Review on the JHU Press website DEFAULTSORT Chaucer Review Category Literary magazines Category Medieval studies Category Literary criticism Category European literature Category British literature Category English literature Category Middle English literature Category Qu ... more details
unreferenced date January 2011 Expand German date December 2010 Vincenzo Cartari 1531 ? in Reggio nell Emilia 1569 was an Italian mythography mythographer and diplomat of the Italian Renaissance . According to Jean Seznec , Cartari was probably a prot g of the duke of Ferrara . In his work Imagini colla sposizione degli dei degli antichi Images depicting the gods of the ancients of 1556, he identifies Lilio Gregorio Giraldi s De deis gentium varia et multiplex historia of 1548 as one of his sources. Despite the success of De deis , Cartari s work competed with it by going for a populist approach, with woodcuts of the ancient gods by Bolognino Zaltieri . Cartari focussed on the gods iconography and explained their clothing, expressions, poses and attributes. Cartari s work was an influence on that of Gian Paolo Lomazzo . The antiquarian and philologist Lorenzo Pignoria added extra text and notes to the work in 1615 along with Seconda Parte delle Imagini de gli Dei Indiani , a second volume containing a short series of images of Mexico Mexican and Japanese deities. In his Teutschen Academie Joachim von Sandrart writes of his respect for Cartari s work, which Sandrart republished in translation in 1680 with new illustrations. Use dmy dates date December 2010 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cartari, Vincenzo ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Mythographer DATE OF BIRTH 1531 PLACE OF BIRTH Reggio nell Emilia , Italy DATE OF DEATH 1569 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Cartari, Vincenzo Category 1531 births Category 1569 deaths Category Italian diplomats Category Italian Renaissance humanists Category Mythographers de Vincenzo Cartari ... more details
The Minyades lang el were three sisters in Greek mythology who were daughters of Minyas mythology Minyas , and the protagonists of a myth about the perils of neglecting the worship of Dionysus . ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Schmitz first Leonhard authorlink title Alcithoe editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 97 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0106.html ref Their names were Alcathoe or Alcithoe , Leucippe and Arsippe although instead of Arsippe , Claudius Aelianus calls the latter Aristippa , and Plutarch Arsino Ovid uses Leuconoe instead of Leucippe . ref Claudius Aelianus , Varia Historia 3. 42 ref ref Plutarch , Quaestiones Graecae 38 ref ref Ovid , Metamorphoses , 4. 168 ref Mythography At the time when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into Boeotia , and while the other women and maidens were reveling and ranging over the mountains in Bacchanalia Bacchic joy , these sisters alone remained at home, devoting themselves to their usual occupations, and thus profaning the days sacred to the god. Dionysus punished them by changing them into bats, and their work into vines. ref Ovid , Metamorphoses iv. 1 40, 390 415 ref Plutarch , Claudius Aelianus Aelian , and Antoninus Liberalis , though with some differences in the detail, relate that Dionysus appeared to the sisters in the form of a maiden, and invited them to partake in the Dionysian Mysteries . When the sisters declined the invitation, the god metamorphosed himself successively into a bull, a lion, and a panther, and the sisters were driven mad. In this state of madness, they were eager to honor the god, and Leucippe, who was chosen by lot to offer a sacrifice to Dionysus, gave up her own son Hippasus, whom the sisters tore to pieces. The sisters afterwards roamed over the mountains in a frenzy, until at last Hermes changed th ... more details
About the mythological place other uses Nysa disambiguation Greek myth In Greek mythology , the mountainous district of Nysa , variously associated with Ethiopia , Libya , Tribalia , India or Arabia by Greece Greek Mythography mythographers , was the traditional place where the rain nymphs , the Hyades mythology Hyades , raised the infant God male deity god Dionysus , the Zeus of Nysa . Though the worship of Dionysus came into mainland Greece from Anatolia Asia Minor where the Hittites called themselves Nesi and their language Nesili , the locations of the mythical Nysa may simply be conventions to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended. The name Nysa may even be an invention to explain the god s name. Even Homer mentions the mountain Nyseion as the place where Dionysus, under the protection of the nymphs, grew up. Hesychius of Alexandria Hesychius Alexandria of Alexandria 5th century Byzantine lexicon gives a list of the following locations proposed by ancient authors as the site of Mount Nysa Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt , Babylon , Erythraian Sea the Red Sea , Thrace , Thessaly , Cilicia , India , Libya, Lydia , Macedon ia, Naxos Island Naxos , around Pangaios mythical island south of Arabia , Syria . On his return from Nysa to join his fellow Olympians, Dionysus brought the entheogen wine . According to Sir William Jones, Meros is said by the Greeks to have been a mountain in India, on which their Dionysos was born, and that Meru, though it generally means the north pole in Indian geography, is also a mountain near the city of Naishada or Nysa, called by the Greek geographers Dionysopolis, and universally celebrated in the Sanskrit poems . External links http books.google.co.uk books?id jEcpkWjYOZQC&pg PA319&lpg PA319&dq mount meru greek&source bl&ots Otz5jSJFx &sig zjbUu8rZnP1ZCdBSxAPHHOxlfP0&hl en&ei Yb6LSsmwD8z2 Aav78HeDw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 2 v onepage&q mount 20meru 20greek&f false Dictionary of Ancient Deities Greek my ... more details
Chthonians are fictional creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos . The species is the creation of Brian Lumley and was first featured in his short story Cement Surroundings 1969 though the creature never made a direct appearance. The chthonians had a more prominent role in Lumley s novel The Burrowers Beneath 1974 . Summary blockquote Flowing tentacles and pulpy gray black, elongated sack of a body...no distinguishing features at all other than the reaching, groping tentacles. Or was there yes a lump in the upper body of the thing...a container of sorts for the brain, basal ganglia, or whichever diseased organ governed this horror s loathsome life br Brian Lumley, The Burrowers Beneath blockquote Chthonians are described as immense squid s, with elongated worm like bodies coated with wikt slime slime . Despite their squid like appearance, chthonians are land dwellers and are even harmed by water. Chthonians are powerful burrow ers, live for more than a thousand years, and are protective of their young. It is said that a chant ing sound accompanies every chthonian, and that by such they can be detected while underground and unseen. The most important individual chthonian is the gigantic Great Old One compendium Shudde M ell Shudde M ell , which is worshiped by the rest. In Greek mythology, chthonians pron en o ni nz , from the root chthon earth inhabit the underworld and are the dark, shadowy complement to the Olympians. ref http www.loggia.com myth chthonians.html Mythography definition . ref See chthonic entry. Other appearances In the original Alone in the Dark video game Alone in the Dark , a Chthonian is encountered when first entering the underground area. It is mentioned by name in a book that can be discovered shortly thereafter, verifying it is indeed a Chthonian. It is mentioned in it that he is the only creature that resists the evil master of Derceto. In Charles Stross novel The Jennifer Morgue , Chthonians code named Deep Seven by British Intelligence are lock ... more details
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