All posts tagged: Mythology

AANHPI Graphic Novels Inspired by Mythology & Folklore

AANHPI Graphic Novels Inspired by Mythology & Folklore

Published by José Betancourt

May is Asian American, Native Hawai’ian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! One great way to celebrate is by reading graphic novels that celebrate and uplift the AANHPI community’s rich cultural history. Sometimes we can learn the most about a culture through their storytelling and the ways they envision magic in their own history and present. That’s why these AANHPI graphic novels for all ages specifically explore mythology, folklore, and spiritual traditions in creative, visual ways. These excellent reads for kids, teens, and adults are full of ancient magic, mythological heroes, fascinating histories, and fresh perspectives on immigrant and first generation experiences. Plenty will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and they’ll all give you something new to learn this AANHPI Heritage Month. Children’s AANHPI Graphic Novels Hi’iaka and Pana’ewa: A Hawaiian Graphic Legend by Gabrielle Ahuli’i, illustrated by Sarah Demonteverde While this short graphic novel was written for kids, it’s a lively way for readers of all ages to explore a classic Hawai’ian legend. When an evil lizard starts to turn Hawai’i’s verdant …

Middle Grade Graphic Novels Featuring Global Mythology

Middle Grade Graphic Novels Featuring Global Mythology

Published by Jenni Sidey

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. VAULT COMICS – the best in science fiction, fantasy, and horror graphic novels! Inspired by Aztec mythology and Mexican folklore, Travis Muñoz and the Fire of the Aztecs shines with baseball, best friends, sun gods, and snakemen in this action-packed, middle grade graphic novel fantasy. For fans of the Charlie Hernández series and The Sunbearer Duology. Before the eclipse changed everything, Travis Muñoz’s biggest problems were math class and playing on the same baseball team as bestie Yolanda. Now, he has to deal with the news he’s the chosen, next warrior priest for an Aztec sun god. Meaning it’s his job to make sure the sun rises every morning. At least it’s not the end of the world…yet. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t obsessed with mythology. In elementary school, I pored over books about Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology. Stories of gods like Athena, Anubis, and Diana consumed my thoughts. At the library, I searched …

Take A Look at These Greek Mythology Romances

Take A Look at These Greek Mythology Romances

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Don’t you love romance stories? They’re everywhere—in poetry, music lyrics, and classic novels, to name a few. But also, you can find romance in Greek myths. Greek mythology is vast and extensive. My first peek at it was probably in Percy Jackson, the book series by Rick Riordan, but I couldn’t just leave it there, you know? When I set out to learn more about the gods, the demigods, and the mortals who starred in these mythic tales, I found an impressive amount of content available. Since the romance genre is close to my heart, I wanted to focus even more on the love stories surrounding these divine personalities. It’s a good thing that there are romance novels that reinterpret Greek myths and give them a new take! The following five titles are romance novels inspired by a Greek myth or a Greek god. Each author gives life to the myth, providing a new take on characters we …

A Book for Schitt’s Creek Fans, Norse Mythology, and More New YA Releases For March 4, 2026

A Book for Schitt’s Creek Fans, Norse Mythology, and More New YA Releases For March 4, 2026

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. March fo(u)rth, y’all: one of the best months of the year is here. March is a fun one, since we experience a little bit of more than one season–at least most places in the U.S. do–and the slight promises of spring in colder locales become true signs of the new season by the end of the month. But March isn’t exciting just for its transitions. March is also a busy month for publishing. There are so many new books hitting shelves this month, and that includes a wealth of YA books. We’ve had a slower start to 2026, but things are picking up quickly now. For the first week of new releases, we’ve got a couple of novels gracing readers with simultaneous publication in hardcover and in paperback. I’ve mentioned several times how much this micro-trend in publishing has been welcomed over the past year or so, and it’s great to see it continue. Offering readers options for …

Why Men Resist Therapy: Challenging Male Mythology

Why Men Resist Therapy: Challenging Male Mythology

Published by Jenni Sidey

I am guilty of it myself: In my mid-20s, as I struggled with debilitating anxiety and panic attacks, I bristled at the idea of going to therapy. After all, I had never needed therapy before. I was young, healthy, and had the world ahead of me. What would going to therapy be but a sign of failure or of an inability to handle things on my own? Statistics show that I was not alone in my resistance: A 2019 CDC report discovered that “nearly one in four women received any mental health treatment (24.7 percent) in the past 12 months, compared with 13.4 percent of men.” But why such a difference? I am reminded of a scene in the HBO series The Sopranos where the main character, mob boss tough guy Tony, laments (ironically, in a therapy session): “Nowadays, everybody’s gotta go to shrinks, and counselors…and talk about their problems. What happened to Gary Cooper? The strong, silent type.” Gary Cooper, an actor who often portrayed the archetypal American “rugged,” hyper-independent male—a horseback-riding, no-nonsense, cowboy-hat-wearing …

This animated mythology saga from Zack Snyder is the fantasy Netflix gem you missed

This animated mythology saga from Zack Snyder is the fantasy Netflix gem you missed

Published by skeptic

Among movie fans, Zack Snyder has a reputation for making hard-driving action spectacles that rock the faces off anyone who watches them. Think about the non-stop adrenaline rush of a movie like 300 or the grim sprawl of Zack Snyder’s Justice League. He likes slow motion, lens flares, and framing his characters like they’re powerful, unstoppable gods come to Earth. So why not make something about actual gods? Twilight of the Gods is (as yet) the only TV show Snyder has made, a one-season Netflix original that remixes elements of Norse mythology. And if you’re a fan of Snyder, action, or animation, it’s well worth a watch. Thor like you’ve never seen him before Norse myth meets rock and roll in Twilight of the Gods Twilight of the Gods starts with a typically violent setup: the human king Leif (Stuart Martin) and the warrior Sigrid (Sylvia Hoeks) fall in love in the heat of battle. They get married, but the Norse god Thor (Pilou Asbæk) crashes the party looking for the escaped god Loki (Paterson …

The Greek Mythology Family Tree: A Visual Guide Shows How Zeus, Athena, and the Ancient Gods Are Related

The Greek Mythology Family Tree: A Visual Guide Shows How Zeus, Athena, and the Ancient Gods Are Related

Published by José Betancourt

It was long ago that poly­the­ism, as the sto­ry comes down to us, gave way to monothe­ism. Human­i­ty used to have many gods, and now almost every reli­gious believ­er acknowl­edges just one — though which god, exact­ly, does vary. Some pop­u­lar the­o­ries of “big his­to­ry” hold that, as the scale of a soci­ety grows larg­er, the num­ber of deities pro­posed by its faiths gets small­er. In that scheme, it makes sense that the grow­ing Roman Empire would even­tu­al­ly adopt Chris­tian­i­ty, and also that the gods it first inher­it­ed from the city-states of ancient Greece would be so numer­ous. Through our mod­ern eyes, the var­i­ous immor­tals invoked so read­i­ly by the Greeks look less like holy fig­ures than a cast of char­ac­ters in a long-run­ning tele­vi­sion dra­ma. Or maybe it would have to be a soap opera, giv­en that most of them belong to one big, often trou­bled clan. Hence the struc­ture of Use­fulCharts’ Greek Mythol­o­gy Fam­i­ly Tree, explained in the video above. Also avail­able for pur­chase in poster form, it clear­ly dia­grams the rela­tion­ships between …

Friedrich von Schlegel, the Idealist Who Wanted to Invent a New Mythology

Friedrich von Schlegel, the Idealist Who Wanted to Invent a New Mythology

Published by skeptic

Published: Nov 16, 2025written by Mirjana Jojić, BA Literature and Theory of Literature, in-progress   Let’s go back briefly to the year 1800—a year extremely important for the Romantic movement and the Philosophy of Idealism for a couple of reasons: Schelling publishes his System of Transcendental Idealism, and Wordsworth adds the famous preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads. The most important reason for us is that Schlegel published his Dialogue on Poetry, implementing his idea that one can write about poetry only through the poetry itself. Written on the model of Plato’s Symposium, is his own work: The Debate on Mythology.    Friedrich von Schlegel and Dialogues on Poetry The Looks of Athenaeum from 1798. Source: Public Domain   Friedrich von Schlegel was one of the most significant minds of German Romanticism. He was a master in many fields: not only a literary critic and theoretician, a philosopher and historian, but he was also a linguist and philologist. A man with so many interests, he started studying law. Still, he soon discovered …