Detail view an oaken casket lid containing a preserved Norse giant’s heart. (5th century)
The inscription on the casket is written in old Norse runes and reads…“Behold! Within this casket lies the heart of the fierce and terrible giant known as Hrungnir, slain this day by Fafrd the Red whose bravery and cunning shall live forever!”
This is what I need in my life.
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EVOLUTION OF MUSIC by Pentatonix
11th Century
Salve Regina
1600s
Canon in D - Pachelbel
1800s
Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven
1910s
Danny Boy - Frederic Weatherly
1920s
Old Man River - Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II
1930s
Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway
1940s
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrew Sisters
1950s
I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
1960s
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Barbara Ann - Beach Boys
I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
1970s
ABC - Jackson 5
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
1980s
Celebration - Kool & The Gang
Don’t Stop Believin’ - Journey
Thriller - Michael Jackson
1990s
Can’t Touch This - MC Hammer
…Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Say My Name - Destiny’s Child
I Want It That Way - The Backstreet Boys
2000s
Hey Ya! - Outkast
Drop it Like It’s Hot - Snoop Dogg
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Hips Don’t Lie - Shakira
Single Ladies - Beyonce
I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
I Got a Feelin - Black Eyed Peas
2010s
Baby - Justin Bieber
We Found Love - Rihanna
Some Nights - Fun.
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye
Gangnam Style - Psy
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
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I found this interesting.
Where is Muspellheim?
(via fuckyeahstrangemythology)
Poorly Drawn Dinosaurs by Henrik Tomenius [website | twitter]
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Does anybody know the source for this? I would really like to give credit where credit is due.
(Source: ihungers)
World’s Most Beautiful Abandoned Places
Italian product manager and web designer Francesco Mugnai recently added a collection of images to his blog touting some of the most beautiful images of abandoned spots and modern ruins that he’d ever seen. The images Mugnai has captured come from empty castles, shuttered power plants, and dilapidated churches around the world. From a sunken yacht in Antarctica to a forever-closed amusement park in Japan, these images all make up a sort of anti-phoenix; rather than rising as new from the ashes, these husks remain preserved in decomposition, forcing viewers to confront the strange beauty of ruination.
Let’s begin with the history of Ishtar, yes? She is the Babylonian goddess of fertility, war, love, and sex. Now, let’s keep in mind that Babylonia was an active civilization a few thousand years before Christianity came about. Now, Easter came about during the Second Century, so around 200 AD, long after Babylonia was gone and their texts about Ishtar unfound and untranslated.
Easter on the other hand is COMPLETELY separated from Ishtar. In the second century, Christian missionaries began to come into contact with the Ancient Saxons who celebrated the return of spring and celebrating their goddess of offspring and springtime. This celebration was called Eastre(though it obviously had a Saxon spin on the name because this is the translated name from the Christian missionaries).
In order to convert the pagans to christianity, they needed to absorb the traditions the pagans had without destroying the sactity of christianity. Luckily for them, Eastre fell around the same time as the Christian observance of the Resurrection of Christ, so for them, it made sense to alter the festival of Eastre to fit with Christian morrays, and the spelling also changed from Eastre to Easter.
Now where did the bunny come from? The goddess worshipped by the Saxons was given an earthly symbol of a rabbit. And because rabbits were the most fertile animal that Saxons and Christians new of, that image was also absorbed into Easter as a way to represent new life.
The eggs didn’t show up until after Easter was practiced in the Americas. German settlers taught their children that if they behaved, their Easter bunny would leave them colored eggs.
Now, throughout this, Ishtar has not been mentioned because Ishtar has nothing to do with the modernization of Easter. Easter was a festival taken from the Saxons and molded over time to fit with a changing culture and to absorb more followers.
(via fuckyeahstrangemythology)
Duck face
Have I ever told you about my anatidaephobia?
Professor Oak, did you know that the gender binary is a social construct, and does not accurately represent all members of our society?
Get with the times, man.
