Gods, Heroes and Monsters

ples, who originally inhabited areas in Central America now known as Guatemala, Mexico, Belize and El Salvador. Their culture flourished particularly in the period from about AD 950 up to the protracted Sp

It was in fact the Romans who first named the days of the week after the sun, the moon and five deities: Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. You can still hear the remnants of those Roman names in the Spanish and French days of the week. The Nordics, however, took those Roman names for each day and simply switched their own corresponding god onto each one

the world is reborn

As the father of the gods, Odin sits on his throne in Asgard with two ravens and two wolves acting as protectors and messengers

Norse mythology originates from Scandinavia and Iceland in northern Europe

eschatology – a term for the end of times.

From the life-giving mollusc and soil of the Yoruba people in West Africa, to the Rainbow Serpent of many of Australia’s First Nations, to the debate between the gods of grain and cattle that the Ancient Mesopotamians retold, no two stories are quite the same

The parallels can be heard in the order in which the world came into existence