2 januari 2020 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (22): The Magic Horse | ATU 531 (4) + PDF That Johanan understood the language of animals is a motif also present in a Greek version (of ATU 531), [...]
19 december 2019 0 HistoryPod – 20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established Published on 19 mrt. 2018 Dutch voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ put them in direct competition [...]
16 december 2019 1 Oscar van Gelderen – On Sturtevant, the mother of appropriation art (and a bit on Houellebecq) Last week, I went to see the Sturtevant exhibition in the Madre Museum in Napels. While walking around [...]
12 december 2019 0 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (21): The Magic Horse | ATU 531 (3) A quite different version of the story of the golden feather has been collected from Jews in the USSR, [...]
6 december 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (20): The Magic Horse | ATU 531 (2) In the German version (of ATU 531) ‘The Key’ Hans, flying on his grey through the clouds, sees a bird, [...]
4 december 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – De Mythe van het Opbouwwerk (6): Buurtwerk Seizoen 1978 – 1979 (met PDF) In de notulen van teamberaad van 12 september 1978 lezen we bij het puntje Rondvraag: “Verkeersplan: vorige [...]
2 december 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Sphinx Speaks (10): De Zeven Patala’s + Manu in the Bible and the History of Mankind + FIVE FLOOD STORIES YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT De Indiase Purana’s spreken van zeven Patala’s. Ze geven beschrijvingen van deze Patala’s, die zeer [...]
24 augustus 2019 6 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (14): The Eagle and the Snake in AT 301 (conclusion) In the Midrash Kohelet there is a story about a man returning from Babylon, who sees two birds quarrel, one [...]
12 augustus 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (13): The Eagle and the Snake in ATU 301 (the wonderful cure of the hero) The episode with the eagle is also a part of the Kirgizian epos Er Töstük, reviewed by Karl Reichl in his [...]
21 juli 2019 0 Eric Zuesse – The U.S. Police State Is Now Undeniable: The Assange Case It’s not just that the United States has a higher percentage of its people in prison than does any other [...]