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Apparently, the ancient Greeks had their own take on the werewolf legend.
On the slopes of Mount Lykaion, worshipers of Zeus-Lykaois (Zeus-the-Wolf) would conduct a ritual in his honor. A ritual that supposedly involved cannibalism and human sacrifice. Inspired by the well-known myth where King Lycaon kills his own son Nyctimus and tries to trick Zeus into eating his flesh only to be found out and transformed into a wolf, the ritual attendance would gather once every nine years in the dead of night and make their sacrifice consisting of a human volunteer and an animal. And after the deed was done, a portion of the volunteer's intestine would be mixed with the animal's entrails. The cult members would then each take a morsel of meat and whoever wound up eating the human flesh was transformed into a wolf.
The kicker is they would be stuck in their wolf form for nine years and the only way to be transformed back would be to abstain from eating human flesh that entire time. Not an easy task for a wolf.
Fun Fact:
It turns out Genghis Khan, former Khagan of the Mongol Empire, may have done some good for the planet...
He did more to combat global warming than any of us ever will. Between 1162 and 1227, Genghis Khan and his Mongolian armies conquered around 22% of the Earth's surface, killing as many as 40 million people. But he also cut 700 million tons of carbon emissions while doing so. By lowering the population of the world by as much as 10%, he allowed huge portions of cultivated farmland to return to their natural forested state and absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
Anomalisa by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson.
Based on Kaufman's 2005 audio play of the same name.
An epic, moving, meticulous, and miraculous feat of filmmaking.
One of my favorite types of animated films are of the independent variety. Films like Hoodwinked!, Persepolis, Mary and Max, and the works of Ralph Bakshi are among my personal recommendations.
Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (later republished as The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation) by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.
This is not just an "animation book". It's an amazing volume on visual storytelling, written by two of the key animators at Disney during the Golden age of American animation.
The Neverending Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte) by Michael Ende.
A magnificent book.
Superman: The Movie, to me, remains one of the supreme comic book to film adaptations of all time.
In my opinion, this is the very BEST Alan Moore ending in his entire body of work. 100%
Do you think Batman killed The Joker? Or did he have him sent back to Arkham?
A Dictionary of Symbols by J. E. Cirlot.
An essential piece of literature.
This is a book that can help you interpret paintings, cipher and decipher art, and view the world in a different light.
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander.
The Chronicles of Prydain is a masterful book series full of magic and chills (The Horned King and Annuvin).
Give it a try!
Our tour begins before we even enter the Mansion itself in the Magic Kingdom, where you can see some of our guests in their corruptible...mortal...busts.
Pictured here, we have the Dread Family. Uncle Jacob Dread, Bertie Dread, Aunt Florence McGriffin Dread, Wellington and Forsythia Dread, and Cousin Maude (Dread, I'm assuming).
They were a family of six who once inhabited the manor before one day they all met their gruesome fate at each other's hands. Uncle Jacob was poisoned by Bertie for his wealth. Who was then shot dead by Florence as an act of revenge. Who was then smothered by bird seed by Forsythia and Wellington, who were then killed in their sleep with a mallet…by Cousin Maude. Who, as the sole surviving member of the Dread Family, burned to death because she liked to use matches in her hair instead of hairpins (really amazing thinking there Cousin Maude…🙄). And now, the Dread Family is no more and haunt the halls of the esteemed mansion.
"Perhaps Madame Leota can establish contact. She has a remarkable head for materializing the disembodied."
- The Ghost Host
The Winged Man (1880), by Odilon Redon, a classic symbolist image that has inspired me.
War of the Worlds (2005) by Steven Spielberg.
I love Spielberg's adaptation of War of the Worlds.
It's a remarkable film, and one of Spielberg's great dream films, in the way that sometimes you'll have a dream, and it will start out meaning one thing, but by the end it will mean something else.
Le Roi et l'Oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) by Paul Grimault.
The first animated surrealist film.
An animator's animated film. The King and the Mockingbird was at the forefront of animation as an art. Influenced Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.
Mythic stories fall into several categories. There are sagas, epics, and fantasy stories called "märchen." These stories depend on something difficult for us to conceive these days: Simplicity or the "Logic of the Fairy Tale." In other words: things are just what they are, because that’s just the way they are.
These stories frequently examine or teach a moral lesson, exalting it or exposing a particular flaw. If the story is a parable or doctrinal, one of its goals is to delineate the characters as "types" in order to illustrate this basic lesson, characters which make the story whole and who are also contained by it. The lives of these "types" can and must have links with the past and the future but their role ends with the story.
In a magic story, the flow is more important than the logic. Man invented monsters to explain the entire universe (Norse and Greek mythology, for example). Once man began to live in an organized way, with a "social contract," an abyss was opened up between his instincts and his thoughts, and monsters started to REPRESENT another universe altogether: man's inner universe. The pagan prefigures the social and offers us a glimpse of the deepest reaches of man's soul, articulating a primordial, savage universe, populated by elves, fauns, ogres, faeries, trolls, and demons.
Out of all adaptations of the ballet and short story, this has gotta be my favorite version of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
I hope you like rodents! ^^
Momo the Monster, also known as the Missouri Monster (Momo).
Strange and other-worldly creatures have been spotted all over the United States... but were these sightings real? Or the imagination run wild?
In 1972, residents of Louisiana, Missouri claimed to have seen a creature they described as being 7 ft, having a large pumpkin shaped head, thick black fur covering most of its body that emitted a putrid odor, and the only facial feature noticeable were its large glowing orange eyes. At one point, a 20-person posse got together to hunt down the monster, but never found it. Later on, though, tracks were discovered and submitted to Lawrence Curtis, director of the Oklahoma City Zoo who deemed the tracks to be that of an unknown primate species.
So what could it have been? A monster or an ape?
The Rock by Michael Bay.
A great action movie!! Perfect confection...
For some, this is the one good movie Michael Bay ever gave us (I disagree. I like this film and the first three Transformers movies).
Would you take a job as a professional hermit (also known as a garden hermit or ornamental hermit)? Yes, believe it or not, this was a real job in the Victorian era. In 18th and 19th century England, Scotland and Ireland, aristocrats placed ads like this in papers: "Wanted - Ornamental Garden Hermit". The profession required you to become a human ornamental folly on the grounds of a wealthy family estate whilst living in a cave or cottage, turret or hole, contemplating the human condition and enchanting the occasional passerby with your presence at the behest of the landowner. The less like a young English aristocrat you looked, the better. So they were often elderly men with long beards and loose clothes, resembling garden gnomes. Talk about a dream job! Who WOULDN'T want a gig like this? It's the Victorian equivalent of a Walmart greeter.
It's hard to believe it, but Hades (the Greek god of the Underworld) had 3 encounters with his nephew Heracles (Hercules) and was left humiliated. Each. Time.
The most well-known encounter is when Heracles travelled to the Underworld to capture the three-headed hound Cerberus for his 12th and final labor. Hades told his nephew that he could only take Cerberus if he could subdue him without using any weapons. But clever Heracles used the impenetrable Nemean Lion skin he wore as a makeshift muzzle and wrestled Cerberus until he was worn out.
The second time, Hades came to the surface to collect the soul of Queen Alcestis, who agreed to die in place of her husband King Admetus. But Heracles didn't like the idea of the happy couple's love being cut short and wrestled Hades into submission, just like he did his dog.
The third instance is the strangest though. When Heracles attacks the city of Pylos after its king refuses to purify him of his sins, Hades arrives to either collect the dead from the battlefield or defend the city (depending on the version). Either way, when Heracles sees his uncle, he shoots him in the shoulder with an arrow and Hades retreats to Olympus where Apollo heals his wound.
Hercules: Meg...? I would never... EVER... hurt you.
Yeah, I'm not so sure about that Herc. Don't make promises you can't keep.
While Disney's Hercules would never hurt the girl of his dreams, the guy he was based on certainly would. In the original myth, Hera was hell-bent on making Heracles rue the day his father cheated on her (because somehow, that was his fault). And to get revenge, she cursed the hero with such insane rage that he actually killed his wife Megara and their children.
The poet Seneca said that Hercules grabbed one son by the arm and swung him about like a ball and chain, smashing him to a bloody pulp. Then he shot his other son with an arrow and crushed Megara's head with his club. Apollodorus claims that he threw Megara, their two sons and his nephews into a burning fire. But the darkest and saddest one has to be by Euripides who wrote a passage where Hercules' son begs for his life before being pierced by one of his father's arrows.
As grizzly as this is though, I've gotta admit, after learning about what happened in the original Greek myth, it's a wee bit funny to me that in the Disney movie he literally says that he would never hurt Meg...
Dreamchild by Gavin Millar.
Ian Holm is amazing as Lewis Carroll. But like Return to Oz, so are the Lyle Conway/Jim Henson Creature Shop characters.
Check it out, you won't be disappointed.
Re-Imagining Kingdom Hearts in Final Fantasy’s style on PS1 1/???
I wanted to try to publish something different this time. I have been working on this project for some time and now I can finally start sharing the first ones. Tomorrow I’ll publish the next ones.
Covers in order: Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
I’m recreating all the covers (by the moment without final mixes versions), and that includes the last one that will be released in November.
Hope you all like it.
No reproduction or republication without written permission. Copy, claim or edit is prohibited. You can use it as mobile or PC wallpaper.
No copyright infringement intended. All right reserved to ©Square Enix, ©Disney and ©Disney/Pixar.
Connection/Fate
Flowery Princess Kairi & Garden's Guardian Aqua
This commercial seriously changed my life. I never would’ve discovered Kingdom Hearts without it.
And yay! Someone finally found and uploaded/the Chain of Memories one, too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71teqgu095Q I miss Disney’s Secret Lab commercials, tbh.
Also… it’s funny. At the time this was made, the idea of this kid “breaking into the lab” and stealing secret information about KH and the creators being mad was of course all a skit. But Kingdom Hearts ended up getting so popular, that that’s pretty much the reality now. No matter what Nomura does, he can’t protect us from leakers or people who get their hands on the game early, like the freaking real life mafia with KHIII. It’s mad.
Fun Fact:
The Cheshire Cat was first introduced in Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The character was inspired by an old phrase "Smiling like a Cheshire cat". The origins of that phrase are still debated to this day, but the most widely accepted theory is that it refers to a cat living in the English county of Cheshire, which is known for producing a lot of milk and dairy, which cats love, hence the smiling. Carroll decided to personify the cat from that phrase, he gave it a physical form, a personality and magic powers. In the book, the cat doesn't play quite as large a role as he does in the Disney movie, but the two have very similar characteristics. They talk in really confusing ways that are sometimes funny but also kind of annoying, they raise philosophical questions to Alice even though she clearly doesn't understand them and while they sometimes appear to be making a situation worse for her, they're actually rooting for Alice to succeed and even are helping her indirectly.