By ArtiZen Editor A chattering crow lives now nine generations of aged men, but a stag’s life is four time a crow’s, and a raven’s life makes three stags old, while the phoenix outlives nine ravens, but we, the rich-haired Nymphs daughters of Zeus the aegis-holder, outlive ten phoenixes. ——Greek Literature，Precepts of Chiron The…
By Bella from Wukong Education In many Western countries, snakes have long been associated with evil and temptation. However, in China, snakes hold a more complex and varied symbolism. They are simultaneously associated with harvest, procreation, spirituality, and good fortune, as well as cunning, evil, threat, and terror.What does it…
Compiled by ArtiZen Editor From 2100-1400 BCE, When Aryans, the ‘superior’ Indo-Iranian racial group residing in central and eastern Europe, were expanding tribal territories aggressively across the West and South Asian steppes, the slavery society and dynasty Shang in East Asia was in its prime time with the current ruling…
Compiled by ArtiZen Editor Joan of Arc, 1412-1431, French’s first and most prominent female role model of ethics and true grit is a young military leader, honored as the Savior of France for her role in the siege of Orleans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of…
Complied by ArtiZen Editor Sisyphus the Myth The Myth of Sisyphus is a book written by French philosopher Albert Camus in 1942. Influenced by predecessor philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd. The absurdity lies in the two parallel lines which will…
By @Gigi Geng France Arsene Lupin—France’s beloved, detection-prone gentleman burglar (illustrated by Vincent Mallie) Arsene Lupin was created as a fictional gentleman thief by writer Maurice Leblanc in 1905 and debuted on a French Magazine Je Sais Tout(I know all). Arsene Lupin is a suave theif, escape artists, master of…
By Celtic Titles Irish mythology is rich and complex, with lots of different Celtic gods and goddesses featured in stories and folklore. It can be difficult to keep on top of all the different characters – that’s because the Celtic people were polytheistic, meaning they worshipped multiple gods. In fact,…
Compiled from Fandom and Wiki Erlang Shen, or simply Erlang, is a god in Chinese folk religion and Daoism, associated with water (mainly flood control), warriorhood, hunting, and demon subdual. He is commonly depicted as a young man with a third, truth-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead, wielding a three-pronged spear, and being accompanied by his loyal hunting…