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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · 11h ago
We got 6(!!) episodes edited during Jordan's recent visit! Once we get a few more done, we'll resuming Season 3 🥳 In the meantime, you can catch up here: https://starrytimepodcast.com/episodes #podcast #astronomy #mythology
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@david_castleton@universeodon.com · 1d ago
Some feel the Isle of Man is named after Manannan, a sea god who protected the island by cloaking it in mist. The name may, however, come from a Celtic word meaning 'mountain island' and the god may have been named after the island rather than the other way around. From Man's highest point, it's said that on a clear day you can see 7 kingdoms - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland & Man, plus the Kingdom of the Sea & Kingdom of Heaven. #FolkloreSunday #folklore #mythology #history #weird
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@david_castleton@universeodon.com · Mar 09, 2026
Real attempts to deal with 'dangerous corpses' persisted in England long after vampires had been made into literary and theatrical spectacles. Four years after the publication of 'Dracula', a Devon farmer is recorded as saying the coffin of a "troublesome" woman would be buried upside-down so "her can on'y diggy downwards." During World War I, English soldiers are recorded as having buried a "huge, scowling" German facedown for the same reason. #gothic #folklore #mythology #vampire #vampires #death #history #paranormal #weird
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Mar 07, 2026
As a person on the record (our #podcast) as being afraid of birds (looking at you Sagittarius serpentarius -- for details: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/sagittarius-the-archer/) I'm honestly not sure if I think it makes a bird more or less scary to imagine it with a human head a la this siren... 📷: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254295 #Mythology #GreekMythology #Siren #Museum #Art #Cermanics #Myths #Creatures #MythologicalCreatures
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@david_castleton@universeodon.com · Feb 26, 2026
In Richmond, North Yorkshire, legend claims a secret tunnel runs between the town's castle and a ruined abbey in the nearby hamlet of Easby. It's said that soldiers one day discovered a mysterious tunnel in the castle dungeons and - due to its narrow dimensions - decided to send a young drummer boy along it while they followed his beats from above. About half-a-mile outside town, however, his drumming ceased and he was never seen again. Folklore states that on dark quiet nights, you can still hear his drumming beneath Richmond's marketplace. Similar legends are found elsewhere. In Edinburgh, a tunnel beneath the Royal Mile was explored by a young piper who met a similar fate and the faint sounds of his bagpipes can also be heard in the wee hours. #Folklore #FolkloreThursday #BookologyThursday #history #mythology #Yorkshire #ghosts #paranormal #gothic #weird
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@david_castleton@universeodon.com · Feb 24, 2026
Though ravens are strongly linked to the Tower of London, the association may not go back further than Victorian times, when some beefeaters started keeping the birds as pets. Ravens became popular pets thanks to Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem. The idea some misfortune will occur if the ravens leave the Tower seems to have emerged about 1900 and the notion their departure will result in the kingdom falling doesn't seem to predate World War II. However, medieval Welsh legend says that the severed - though still talkative - head of the hero Bran the Blessed was buried on nearby Tower Hill, facing out towards Europe as a talisman against invasion. The name Bran translates as 'raven'. #FairytaleTuesday #folklore #gothic #mythology #poem #poems #poetry #poets #history #London #weird
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@david_castleton@universeodon.com · Feb 22, 2026
The Band of Holes, on Monte Sierpe (Serpent Mountain), Peru. There are around 5,200 aligned holes or pits, stretching for about 1.5 kilometres and thought to date back to around 1400. Some feel the pits - at the intersection of two Inca trade routes - may have been used to measure out goods for accounting and tax purposes. Others have suggested that the holes were graves or defensive fortifications or that they had a religious significance. #archaeology #history #mythology #folklore #architecture
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@david_castleton@universeodon.com · Feb 21, 2026
John Cowper Powys was a highly eccentric British writer, whose extremely long novels explored folklore, landscape and mythology. Though some were set in the South West of England, Powys later reinvented himself as a kind of wizard Welshman. His magnum opus, Porius, is around 1000 pages long and features Merlin, King Arthur, the bard Taliessin, Neanderthal giants, the cult of Mithras, and an alchemical child. Two accounts of bilocation (being in two places simultaneously) are associated with Powys. In one incident, he promised to appear to a friend at precisely two o'clock the following day. At the appointed time, the friend looked up and saw Powys before his image slowly faded. The other account involved him appearing at a hotel to a nephew who had annoyed him, bursting through some doors and shouting "No tea! No tea!" The nephew later asserted there was no way Powys could have been at the hotel at that time. #literature #folklore #mythology #weird #paranormal #books #occult
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@SKRiley_Author@universeodon.com · Feb 16, 2026
“Then [he]… threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and an hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the sword in the water.” ~ Thomas Malory, ‘Le Morte d’Arthur’ #Excalibur #LadyOfTheLake #KingArthur #Mythology #ArthurianLegend
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@bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Feb 09, 2026
In Welsh mythology, the woman Blodeuwedd was created from the flowers of the broom, meadowsweet, and oak by the wizard Gwydion to marry his ward Lleu. However, Blodeuwedd fell in love with Gronw and tried to murder Lleu. As a punishment, Gwydion transformed her into the first owl. 🎨 Yuri Leitch #MythologyMonday #Mythology #Folklore #Wales #Celtic #Bird #Owl #Mabinogion #Mabinogi
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Jan 30, 2026
Mars v. Mars 📷 :https://esahubble.org/images/heic2505b/ & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(mythology)#/media/File:0_Statue_de_Mars_(Pyrrhus)_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_MC0058_(2).JPG #astronomy #astrophotography #Space #Hubble #science #ESA #NASA #Mythology #RomanMythology #Ares #Mars
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@starrytimepod@universeodon.com · Jan 29, 2026
This cyclopes design choice in #PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians ... i find it... couldn't very disconcerting -- I couldn't get over it all season 😂 #PercyJackson #DisneyPlus #TVShows #TV #Mythology #CharacterDesign #tyson
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