augustus 24, 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 [...]
augustus 12, 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 [...]
juli 29, 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (12): The Eagle and the Snake in ATU 301 The scene of the hero in the bird’s nest is also a feature of versions of ATU 301. In the versions we saw [...]
mei 22, 2019 7 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (8): The Flight on the Eagle in ATU 301 The story told by Konon is part of a series of stories Panzer collected for his research into the folktale [...]
mei 16, 2019 0 Cor Hendriks – De Twee Broers (2): Osiris en Seth (met PDF) De twee broers, die elkaars vijanden zijn, komen we in de Egyptische mythologie tegen als Osiris en Seth. Het [...]
mei 7, 2019 5 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (6): Alexander and the Valley of Diamonds A story from the Arabian writer Meisami (12th c.) connects Alexander with the story of the jewel-mountain. [...]
april 7, 2019 10 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (3): Excursus | The Retrieval of the Disappeared Musical Instruments by Gilgamesh The story of the retrieval of the stolen musical instruments from the Underworld is an old one, already to be [...]
maart 10, 2019 1 Cor Hendriks – De wereld van Mohammed (3): De Duivelsverzen (De Ster) Ongetwijfeld de meest interessante soera (53) is de 46e: “De Ster”, waarin zich de zogenaamde [...]
februari 19, 2019 0 Eric Zuesse – How America’s Dictatorship Works Trump could not have become America’s President if he had not won the “vote” of his nation’s [...]
maart 2, 2018 1 Cor Hendriks – De sardonische lach (2): Senicide en sprookjestype ATU 981 In de vorige aflevering [...]