Category: Epicycles

Out of the Box: How Raven gave light to the world

Raven rattle. Haida, c. 1800. The raven clenches in its bill the box from which it released sunlight. Wood, pigment. Cleveland Museum of Art. Wikimedia Commons. Gift of W.A. Price. Source/Photographer: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1577

Anonymous / Haida
Retold by Leslie Hebert

Healing Water Goddesses

St. Bride. John Duncan, 1913. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Four Sacred Guardians

Suvannavanna Hamsa Jataka: The Golden Swan

Long, long ago the Bodhisatta was born as a swan…

Sarabha-miga Jataka, The Noble Stag, Retold by Margo McLoughlin

An anonymous Buddhist tale translated from the Pali and retold by Margo McLoughlin

Ceremony, an Aztec myth, By Fray Juan de Torquemada and Translated by David Johnson

How the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca created a fiesta of music.

Izanagi and Izanami, a Japanese myth, Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith

How the goddess of creation became the goddess of death

Ring of Wisdom, a Sufi Parable, Retold by Anne Twitty

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A Sufi king seeks a ring of great power.

The First Tears, an Eskimo folktale, Retold by Anne Twitty

How the First People learned to cry.

O My Country!, A Maghreb folktale, Retold by Anne Twitty

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45723

King Salomon seeks paradise with the help of an eagle

The Awakened Eye, by Frederick Franck

A recollection of the first moment of being at one.