TALES: KASHMIRI STORIES AND SONGS Collected By Tilawônu Hatim, Sir Aurel Stein, And Sir George Abraham

i was not a nice little girl, gillian flynn

A little girl in peasant dress, playing with a cat (Peder Severin Krøyer, 1880)

Traditional Tibetan-style house in the Indian Himalayas.

by Drowster

The costume of Medea worn by Maria Callas in Pasolini’s Medea (1969).

Persephone and the Springtime was written by Margaret Hodges with illustrations by Arvis Stewart.

Part 1

AND IF we’re talking about Ovid’s take on the Persephone myth anyway, and the other story Ovid inserted, the comparison between the boy being turned into a lizard for laughing at Demeter and the Demophon myth are so different in every single aspect that I cannot fathom what the use of the second one is to the Persephone myth, only to Ovid’s overall themes. While Demophon is a temporary stand-in for Persephone and perhaps even a tool Demeter uses to one-up her brothers, and is a cultic display of her matronly side as a goddess, the lizard tale just…provides comedy? Characterizes her as petty or fickle? It really is the most derailing story line in this part of the text, as Demeter is searching before it and after it. It only provides the mandatory metamorphosis, but so does Cyane? And the fun part is that the episode reflects the Homeric hymn in that Demeter is received as a guest and receives a specific type of food tied to her role as goddess of the grain, but here it has absolutely no payoff, nor any ambiguity to make us guess at more. It just…is. 

The Epic of Gilgamesh illustrated by Wael Tarabieh (2/2)

Four books by Frantz Fanon - Downloadable

The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove, 2004. Here it is.

Black Skin, White Masks. London: Pluto, 2008. Here it is.

A Dying Colonialism. New York, NY: Grove, 2007. Here it is.

Toward the African Revolution. New York, NY: Grove, 1994. Here it is.

If you haven’t read Fanon, now is the time. The zip file password is: archive.

From Head of Medusa (1617-1618) by Peter Paul Rubens

Also forever grumbling about the fact that people want to divorce the myth but more specifically the Homeric Hymn to Demeter from its cultic purposes; Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries play a major role in the story and this has a huge effect on the storytelling, and if we divorce all of the themes it imposes on Persephone/Demeter’s storylines from their myth in this adaptation, you lose a significant amount of context and meaning