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The Top 5 Scariest Christmas Monsters

Edit About.com 06 Dec 2015
Frau Perchta (or Berchta), aka "the belly-splitter," is another character from Germanic mythology who may not have originally been associated with Christmas but who is now thought of by Austrian children as a Yuletide terror....

Life of Nietzsche

Edit About.com 30 Oct 2015
If — God grant — he lives long enough, I prophesy that he will one day stand in the front rank of German philology ... During the years Nietzsche knew him he was finishing his ring cycle of four operas rooted in Germanic mythology and was seeking to establish a new opera house at Bayreuth which would become a sort of shrine to Wagner and his work....

Top 10 Easter movies

Edit Celebrity Café 05 Apr 2015
A fun holiday tradition for many people is watching a film about that day or season ... Oddly enough, the Easter bunny actually comes from German mythology where Eostra, the goddess of spring and fertility, was connected to the rabbit and eggs which also signified new life, according to Herald Independent ... horror, religious, musical and drama ... Follow @celcafe. Tweet ... ....

The Pagan Side of Easter

Edit Huffington Post 16 Mar 2015
After what felt like the longest winter ever, the spring equinox is finally showing up. The clairvoyant in me loves it when seasons change because it shifts energy for new opportunities to come into people's lives. Spring is a feel good and happy season. During one of my psychic reading sessions the German and well known pagan goddess, Eostre, showed up ... However this goddess does not appear anywhere in Germanic mythology ... ....

Stone sonata

Edit Deccan Herald 22 Nov 2014
ODISHA'S TIARA. Decades back, during an extended family holiday to Odisha, I had been denied the pleasure of wandering amidst the erotic sculptures of the Sun Temple at Konark ... That was my second visit ... His description of monuments has always been singular ... Like Ra, the Egyptian Sun God, Sol, of the Germanic mythology, and the Greek Helios, Surya has found a place in the ancient Indian scriptures ... ....

Tolkien and fiction-based religions (Universiteit Leiden)

Edit noodls 14 Oct 2014
... of groups and individuals that are largely found online, and that draw spiritual inspiration from Tolkien's literary mythology ... And finally, the largest group of followers recognise Tolkien's work as fictional, but are especially interested in the sources it has been based on, like Celtic and Germanic mythology and a number of natural religions....

10 Wildly Eccentric Classical Geniuses

Edit ListVerse 14 Mar 2014
Larry Jimenez March 14, 2014. “Have I gone mad?” asked the Mad Hatter. “I’m afraid so,” replied Alice ... All the best people are.” ... German composer Richard Wagner, a colossus in the world of opera, made revolutionary contributions to the development of harmony and musical drama. His most towering work was Der Ring Des Nibelungen (“The Ring of Nibelung”), an epic retelling of Germanic mythology in four monumental operas ... ....

Adolf Hitler's religious beliefs

Edit The Examiner 27 Jan 2014
This papal encyclical was written in German (where normally they would be written in Latin) by Pope Piux XI and smuggled into Germany ... Its true that Hitler drew on the symbolism and mythology of Germanic mythology as a way to manipulate people but that is not the same as saying he worshiped those deities....
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