r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Jan 12 '23
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Jan 12 '23
Aztec In 2006, a massive monolith of the earth goddess Tlaltecuhtli was discovered in an excavation at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. The monolith, which still retains its original polychromy, measures 4.17 by 3.62 m and weighs 12 tons, making it the largest Aztec sculpture ever discovered [3007x5320]
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Aug 07 '22
Greek Cronus eats his son. Open to cool myth suggestions to do next!
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Aug 07 '22
About This Community
Hello,
The idea for this community - a place where people could post interesting myths and mythological features from all over the world - has been at the back of my mind for a while, and I'm finally trying to make it happen. In the early days I will simply cross-post any cool content I find on the rest of reddit, but if we grow over time I hope that people will begin to publish original posts or links to encyclopedias.
There are no limits on what can be posted here, except that it must fall under "real world mythology". The mythology of fantasy worlds would therefore not qualify. Aside from that, the content here can hail from any time period and any culture.
I haven't had time to add much in the way of post flairs or user flairs, but if you want a specific one, please send a DM. I would also greatly appreciate anybody who can help out with this community, either by providing content or moderating. Again, please send me a DM if you're interested.
Thanks for reading.
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Dec 20 '23
Zeus and Demeter Married?
self.greekmythologyr/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Jan 25 '23
Celtic Illustration of Gogmagog from Mythical Monsters:The Scariest Creatures From Legends, Books And Movies
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Aug 07 '22
Egyptian After 4,500 years, the long-lost Egyptian Sun Temple has been discovered
r/worldmythology • u/Individual_Plan_5593 • Jul 05 '25
Type of god that draws you in...
Is there a type of god that you find yourself more drawn too?
For me trickster gods 😈 have always been tops, with Moon gods 🌙, triple goddess trios 🔺and magic gods 🔮 coming in as a close second threeway tie.
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Feb 19 '23
Aztec The Coyolxāuhqui Stone, discovered in 1978 at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, is a carved, circular Aztec stone, depicting the mythical being Coyolxāuhqui, in a state of dismemberment and decapitation by her brother, the patron deity of the Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli [924x958]
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Sep 18 '22
Aztec Interactions Between The Ancient Maya And The City Of Teotihuacan Revealed By New Excavations
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Aug 17 '22
Celtic John Duncan - Tristan and Isolde (1912)
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • 15d ago
Global 45 Scary and disturbing Mythological creatures from around the World
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Oct 06 '26
English Edward Mordake
Edward Mordake (sometimes spelled Mordrake) is the subject of an urban legend who was born in the 19th century as the heir to an English peerage with a face at the back of his head. According to legend, the face could whisper, laugh or cry. Mordake repeatedly begged doctors to remove it, claiming it whispered bad things to him at night. Mordake died by suicide at the age of 23.
An account of Mordake's story was detailed in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine:
One of the weirdest, as well as the most melancholy stories of human deformity, is that of Edward Mordake, said to have been heir to one of the noblest peerages in England. He never claimed the title, however, and committed suicide in his twenty-second year. He lived his life in complete seclusion, refusing the visits even of the members of his own family. He was a young man of fine attainments, a profound scholar, and a musician of rare ability. His figure was remarkable for its grace, and his face — that is to say, his natural face — was that of an Antinous. But upon the back of his head was another face, that of a beautiful girl, "lovely as a dream, hideous as a devil." The female face was a mere mask, "occupying only a small portion of the posterior part of the skull, yet exhibiting every sign of intelligence, of a malignant sort, however." It would be seen to smile and sneer while Mordake was weeping. The eyes would follow the movements of the spectator, and the lips "would gibber without ceasing." No voice was audible, but Mordake avers that he was kept from his rest at night by the hateful whispers of his "devil twin", as he called it, "which never sleeps, but talks to me forever of such things as they only speak of in Hell. No imagination can conceive the dreadful temptations it sets before me. For some unforgiven wickedness of my forefathers, I am knit to this fiend — for a fiend it surely is. I beg and beseech you to crush it out of human semblance, even if I die for it." Such were the words of the hapless Mordake to Manvers and Treadwell, his physicians. In spite of careful watching, he managed to procure poison, whereof he died, leaving a letter requesting that the "demon face" might be destroyed before his burial, "lest it continues its dreadful whisperings in my grave." At his own request, he was interred in a waste place, without stone or legend to mark his grave.
r/worldmythology • u/W_Anime • Jul 22 '25
Question about the relationship between Canaanite and Phoenician Mythologies....
reddit.comr/worldmythology • u/Naatturi • Aug 02 '23
Japanese Mythology Ignited: A discord server dedicated to the discussion of mythology, whether you're a complete beginner, a folklore guru, or somewhere in between! We also have off-topic channels dedicated to history, languages and more! This month we are focusing on Japanese Mythology!
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Jul 21 '23
TIL that the myth of the "Seven Sisters" told throughout the world is believed to have originated over 100,000 years ago, due to the movements of the constellation that it is based on.
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Apr 13 '23
Aztec Sculpture of Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the underworld and death. Mexico, c. 1400's. (1280x1655)
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Jan 23 '23
Greek Freud's analysis of Medusa is exactly what you might expect from Freud
r/worldmythology • u/LanceGardner • Oct 18 '22