Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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The myth of Hermes: messenger of the gods, patron of travellers, merchants and thieves, guide of souls to the underworld, and the infant trickster who stole Apollo's cattle and invented the lyre.
The myth of Aphrodite: born from the sea-foam at Cyprus, goddess of love and beauty, the magic girdle, her affair with Ares, and how her promise of Helen sparked the Trojan War.
Bathin (Mathim) — the eighteenth demon of the Ars Goetia, a mighty duke with thirty legions appearing as a serpent-tailed man on a pale horse, who knows
The myth of Pollux (Polydeuces): the immortal half of the divine twins the Dioscuri and champion boxer, who gave away half his immortality so he could
The myth of Orestes: the son who avenged his father Agamemnon by killing his mother Clytemnestra, was hunted by the Furies, and was acquitted in the first
The myth of Sigurd (Siegfried): the greatest hero of Norse legend, the dragon-slayer who killed Fafnir, won the cursed Nibelung treasure, learned the
The myth of Medusa: the mortal Gorgon whose gaze turned the living to stone, the victim cursed by Athena after Poseidon, beheaded by Perseus with a
The myth of the Minotaur: the man-bull born of a curse on King Minos, sealed in the Labyrinth of Crete and fed Athenian youths, until Theseus slew it with
The myth of Scylla: the six-headed, dog-girdled sea monster who snatched sailors from passing ships, once a nymph transformed by Circe's jealousy, who
The myth of Charybdis: the monstrous whirlpool that swallowed the sea three times a day and dragged ships to their doom, paired with Scylla across a
