Ben Hellman
Teaching Gluskabe: Wrestling with American Values
Gluskabe turning man into a cedar tree. Scraping on birchbark by Tomah Joseph 1884. (Image from Wikipedia). I never read a piece of...
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Ben Hellman
- Jun 17, 2021
Immortal Queer; LGBTQ+ Narratives in Mythology
Loki consumes the female Gullveig’s heart, and is impregnated, an illustration of lines from Hyndluljóð, or Song of Hyndla, by John...
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Ben Hellman
- Feb 10, 2021
NASA Channels its Inner Goddess; Breaking Boundaries with Artemis
NASA-produced art representing woman on the moon from the Artemis program marketing campaign: “Her features are abstract enough that all...
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Ben Hellman
- Oct 22, 2020
A Roundup of Mythology News; Folklorist's Notebook
An avenging Medusa, Abenaki Folklore, a new Beowulf, a fascinating take on Norse Mythos, and the 2020 winner of the Nobel Prize for...
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Ben Hellman
- Sep 24, 2020
Weaving New Tales; A Tapestry for a Modern Hero
The Eisenhower Memorial in Washington D.C. Photos from Designboom.com Adding to the Greco-Roman temples and Egyptian obelisk in...
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Ben Hellman
- Sep 17, 2020
"This Little Book;" Marjory Wardrop and the Tales of the Georgians
Statues dedicated to Marjory Wardrop and her brother Oliver in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2015, for the siblings' dedication to the nation and...
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Ben Hellman
- Aug 18, 2020
The Protester and the Power of Ancient Ireland
Portland protester, photographed by Dave Killen, Oregonlive.com and a Sheela-na-Gig (Lavey, Cavan) found in a churchyard in 1842 and...
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Ben Hellman
- Jul 29, 2020
The Sex Demon Catch 22
An Incubus; Colour print [19th century?] after a painting by Georg Kininger, 'The Dream of Queen Eleanor', 1795. What is a folklorist to...
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Ben Hellman
- Jul 19, 2020
Black Lives Matter and Hardened Hearts
Mural painting in tomb of Ramose, Necropolis of Thebes, Egypt. I am reading Robert Alter's translation of Exodus and see some powerful...
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Ben Hellman
- Jul 13, 2020
American God
Given the attention at the Lincoln Memorial this summer, with Black Lives Matter protesters protesting it and anonymous riot gear-bearing...
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