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Whether it's the adventures of Greek gods and goddesses or Norse trickster tales, we all love to hear a good story. Kenneth C. Davis gives readers a taste of the diverse myths that live on in the cultures and religions around the world today. In his trademark question-and-answer style, peppered with entertaining sidebars and quotes, he also shows how almost every civilization's mythology shares common themes. A wealth of photographs and art reproductions, along with clever black-and-white illustrations by Sergio Ruzzier, helps convey mythology's lasting vitality. This is the perfect young companion to Don't Know Much About® Mythology -- and other titles in Davis's best-selling Don't Know Much About® series.

Top 5 Spiritual Destinations

If you are looking for a luxury holiday that pampers your spirit as well as your body, look no further than these top 5 destinations.

Peru

Peru has long been regarded as a place of power. As reported in James Redfield's best-seller 'the Celestine Prophecy', it is reputed to sit on a ley line, or energetic pathway. Since the book was published, pilgrims in their thousands have visited the mysterious lost city of Machu Picchu. As a consequence, there are many luxury tours available.

However, the magic of Peru is not a modern notion, but something that has been known by its inhabitants for many years. Peru contains the remains of the Inca empire Cuzco, an empire that worshipped the goddess Pachamama, or Mother Earth.

Pachamama is still worshipped worshipped today. This makes witchcraft and magic very popular. In Peru witchcraft and Catholicism have been fused together into the one religion.

On every street corner witchcraft markets can be found selling potions and spells. And brujos or curanderos are numerous. Curanderos use the healing power of Pachamama to cure their patients. Brujos can be found anywhere in Peru, but Huacho, Piura and the Selva district are the best places to find them.

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. It plays a central role in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Christianity reveres Jerusalem because in the New Testament, Jesus was brought to Jerusalem soon after his birth. Jerusalem is also home to the Cenacle on Mount Zion, reputed to be the location of Jesus' Last Supper. Golgotha, or the site of Jesus' crucifixion, is another central Christian landmark located in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is sacred to Judaism because King David proclaimed it his capital in the 10th century BCE. Jerusalem contains the site of Solomon's Temple and the Second Temple. The Temple Mount is the central site of spiritual importance to the Jewish people, and is referred to as the "Holy of Holies."

Jerusalem is considered the third-holiest city in Islam. The city's lasting place in Islam is due to the belief that Muhammad was transported one night from Mecca to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, whereupon he ascended to Heaven.

India

The traditional symbol of India is the lotus flower, a symbol of transformation that grows from the mud, yet remains untouched.

India is home to many sacred sites, or tirathas -- crossings between the worldly and divine spheres. The seven sacred cities are:

Varanasi and Hardwar, Ayodhya, the birthplace of Rama; Mathura, Lord Krishna's Birthplace; Dwarka, where Krishna ruled as a king; Kanchipuram, the great Shaivite temple city of Tamil Nadu; and Ujjan, site of Kumbha Mela.

Bodh Gaya is an extremely sacred Indian city. According to Buddhist traditions, Prince Gautama Siddhartha reached the Falgu River and sat in meditation under a bodhi tree. After three days and nights of meditation, Siddharta attained enlightenment.

For Buddhists, Bodh Gaya is the most important of the main four pilgrimage sites relating to the life of Buddha, the other three being Kushinagar, Lumbini, and Sarnath.

Tibet

Lhasa is Tibet's capital and its heart and soul. Jokhang Temple is one of the most sacred temples in all of Tibet. Founded 1,400 years ago, its shadowy hallways and incantations of monks add to the mystery of this intriguing complex. All luxury holidays should include a visit to the Temple.

The Barkhor Prayer Circuit is said to be one of the most powerful spiritual centres on earth. It teems with pilgrims circumambulating the Barkhor loop of devotion. Stalls line the circuit, selling everything from prayer flags to Maoist memorabilia. Make sure you walk the Circuit in a clockwise fashion.

Be sure to visit Potala Palace - once home to the Dalai Lama. It now sits empty as its former resident lives in exile in India. Despite the deserted feel of the place, Potala Palace stands as an impressive example of Asian architecture.

Egypt

The concepts of death and the Afterlife were central to the beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians. The Egyptians believed that when a pharaoh died, everything he needed for the Afterlife would have to be buried with him, even his physical body -- which is why mummification was such an important tradition. The ancients believed the pyramids were "where gods were born."

The Valley of the Kings was and is an important place for Egyptian spirituality. The Egyptian belief that, "To speak the name of the dead is to make him live again" is depicted by the design of the tombs. All luxury tours include a stop at this magnificent destination.

Most tombs were cut into the limestone following a similar pattern: three corridors, an antechamber and a sunken sarcophagus chamber. The king's formal names were inscribed in the tomb along with his images and statues. The tombs contain text from the Book of the Dead and the Book of the Underworld.

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The Greek Deity Known as Hermes

Hermes was unique among Greek Deities for a number of reasons. Primary among them was his tendency to be a god for everything at one point or another.

The Greek Deity Known as Hermes

The twelve gods of Mount Olympus, in ancient Greece, played an important role in the everyday lives of most Greeks. Whether they read the works of their famous poets and playwrights, such as Homer, or dedicated offerings to their patron deity, gods and goddesses played a major part in Greek culture. One of the most important of these deities, because of his ability to translate between gods and humans, was Hermes.

Hermes, along with being a god that was able to converse directly with humans, was also the patron god of many other aspects of Greek life. He was the god of travelers, cow herders and shepherds, athletics, literature, mechanics and invention. Along with these good qualities, Hermes was also seen as the governing deity of thieves and liars. In fact, the writer Homer was sure to count this as important among his many attributes.

Another item that was connected with Hermes was fire. He was credited with the invention of fire (going along with his governance of invention), but this also made him a parallel of the Titan Prometheus. His other major inventions were the sport of boxing, the syrinx (pan pipes) and lyre. His association with the invention of boxing made Hermes an occasional patron of athletes. While he was definitely involved in many aspects of life, Hermes also had another job for those who entered the world of the dead.

Hermes served as a psychopomp, or escort from death into the afterlife, for the Greek pantheon. He was seen as the one who would bring souls down into the Underworld. In most Greek myths, he is the only deity besides Hades and Persephone that could cross between the world of the living and the Underworld. As time went on, the Olympic deities' world evolved and so did Hermes. Once the pantheon was fully formed, Hermes was described as being the son of Zeus and Maia (who was the daughter of the Titan Atlas). He also gained a more detailed description, including a pouch, winged sandals and a winged cap.

Hermes was important to many average Greeks throughout the Olympian era. His many different aspects (such as a messenger between gods and mortals, and as a psychopomp) as well as the diverse number of myths that were associated with him made Hermes an integral part of the Greek polytheistic society.

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Religion, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 1772 words. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. The second edition of this highly regarded encyclopedia, preserving the best of the first edition's cross-cultural approach, while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture, this new edition is the definitive work in the field for the 21st century. An international team of scholars and contributors have reviewed, revised and added to every word of the classic work, making it relevant to the questions and interests of all researchers.

Devil, Dragon Or Serpent Slayer Apocalyptic Messianic Theme in Mythological Tradition

In the Egyptian myth of resurrection of the god Osiris, his body, after having been cut into pieces by the usurper Seth, was reconstituted by his mother-wife Isis with the help of the Jackal headed god Anubis who embalmed the body. Osiris' afterlife in the embalmed state was in the underworld of the dead where he presided as judge over the dead. Isis, however, bore him a posthumous son Horus, by magical impregnation. She hid the boy from the usurper Seth who took over the throne of Egypt at Osiris' death. Isis hid her son Horus in the marshes of the Delta with the help of the cow-goddess Hathor as wet nurse. When Horus grew up, he reclaimed his father's throne from Seth after a violent contest in which Seth plucked out one of Horus' eyes and Horus Seth's genitals.

The myth of the struggle between Horus and Seth is the Egyptian version of a common Afro-Asiatic apocalyptic theme of cosmic struggle between an infant-messiah(as "avenger of blood") and an evil cosmic serpent often pictured as dwelling in the deep. We find this apocalyptic messianic theme in the liturgical hymns of the Davidic cult of YHWH in Psalm 74: 12-14: "God is from old working salvation in the midst of the earth. Thou didst divide the sea by thy might. Thou didst break the head of the dragon in the water. Thou didst crush the head of Leviathan, thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness..."

We find a similar reference to the Devil-Dragon-Serpent of the apocalyptic battle also in Isaiah 27: 1: "In that day YHWH with his hard and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea."

Isaiah associates his vision of God's apocalyptic endtime(mythical time) victory over the Dragon-Serpent of the deep with the vision of a new age: "..in that day Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit."

YHWH's victory over Leviathan is associated with the commencement of reign of a messianic "son of David," a "Shoot from the stump of Jesse," who will shall, as YHWH's agent in the execution of judgment, "...smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips slay the wicked."

The figure of the apocalyptic end-time(mythical time) messiah as "Son of David" is equivalent to that of the Egyptian Horus as "Avenger of his Father." In the Egyptian legend, the infant Horus is represented with a finger on his lower lip, a symbolic representation of his identity as a messianic child-deity sucking at a finger like an infant. The ancient Greeks named the common Afro-Asiatic messianic child-deity Harpokrates. Dragon slaying deities were almost universal in the ancient Near East: The Hittite Sutekh was a dragon slayer. The Greek Heracles fought and killed the monster Hydra. The Norse Thor(son of Odin) at Ragnarok killed the Midgrad serpent. Serpent slayer heroes were pictured in myths as finger or thumb sucking infants. Sigurd, Siegfried and the Celtic Finn mac Coul all sucked at a finger or thumb after slaying the Dragon-Serpent. In the Ancient Egyptian story of the cosmic struggle between Horus and Seth, Seth(as Apep) is represented as a "roaring serpent" and Seth was said to have been confined, after defeat by the sun god Ra, in a cave or hole. In Hittite mythology, we have the monster Typhoon, a half-human, half reptile dragon who dwelt in the subterranean caves and warred against the gods. He was a fire breathing dragon with lightening and flames flashing from his eyes and tempests issuing with his breath. Typhoon was slain in the Hittite myth by Tarku(a form of Sutekh who is a "good" god in Hittite mythology). Tarku is depicted by the Hittites as armed with a hammer(like Thor of the midgrad legend) and with three wriggling flashes of lightning. He is also sometimes shown with a mace and trident or a double axe(like the Yoruba Sango).

Historians detect a fusion of the Horus-as-Seth-slayer identity with the dragon slaying deities of Asia Minor who, in Greek tradition, becomes Harpokrates the child-god sucking at a finger or thumb. The Asiatic deities are associated in mythology with the Norse Thor who slew the Midgard Serpent at the battle of the "Dusk of the Gods"(i.e apocalyptic end or mythical time). Seth is identified with the Apep serpent who lived in the depth of the celestial Nile and was the mythical enemy of Ra in the mythical apocalyptic battle.

Behind the image of the child-messiah sucking stupidly at a finger after slaying the Leviathan dragon is the motif of his acquisition of secret knowledge. He is said to have acquired mastery of the languages of animals(birds, fish and four-footed beasts) after slaying the dragon. In the European story of the mythical hero Siegfried, he roasted the heart of the dragon and after eating it acquired the language of the birds. Sigurd, after slaying fafner thrust his thumb in his mouth.

In Egyptian folktale popular in the nineteenth dynasty, Ahura, after slaying the dragon received a book of arcane secrets containing spells and enchantments. He learned the language of birds, fishes and animals and could, by spells, enchant the heavens, the earth, mountains and seas. The thumb sucking juvenile imbecility of the child-messiah-hero is, therefore, only seeming and he maintains a juvenile silence for the good reasons: to conceal his knowledge. The Greeks, therefore, referred to the figure of Horus as Harpokrates "god of eternal silence."

In the Christian tradition Jesus is the child-Messiah hero(the image of the nativity dominates his Horus-Harpokrates identity). The apocalyptic Book of Revelations is replete with references to the Devil as Dragon-serpent and to Jesus as the the Dragon-Serpent Slayer(Revelations 12:9).

The writer JohnThomas Didymus is the author of "Confessions of God: The Gospel According to St. JohnThomas Didymus."( http://www.resurrectionconspiracy.com/ ). If you have found this article interesting please read the related article: OSIRIAN MYSTERIES, DAVIDIC CULT OF YHWH AND THE LITURGICAL BOOK OF PSALMS on his blog: http://johnthomasdidymus.blogspot.com/2010/10/osirian-mysteries-davidic-cult-of-yhwh.html

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Over the course of the nineteenth century, the figure of Persephone rapidly evolved from what was essentially a decorative metaphor into a living goddess who embodied the most spiritual aspects of ancient Greek religion. In the first comprehensive survey of the Persephone myth in English and American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Margot Louis explores the transformation of the goddess to provide not only a basis for understanding how the study of ancient history informed the creation of a new spirituality but for comprehending the deep and bitter tensions surrounding gender that interacted with this process.Beginning with an overview of the most influential ancient texts on Persephone and references to Persephone in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Romantic period writing, Louis shows that the earliest theories of matriarchy and patriarchal marriage emerged in the 1860s alongside the first English poems to explore Persephone's story.As scholars began to focus on the chthonic Mystery cults, and particularly on the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, poets and novelists explored the divisions between mother and daughter occasioned by patriarchal marriage. Issues of fertility and ritual resonate in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Willa Cather's My Antonia, while the first advance of a neo-pagan spirituality, as well as early feminist critiques of male mythography and of the Persephone myth, emerge in Modernist poems and fictions from 1908 to 1927. Informed by the latest research and theoretical work on myth, Margot Louis' fascinating study shows the development of Victorian mythography in a new light; offers original takes on Victorian representations of gender and values; exposes how differently male and female Modernists dealt with issues of myth, ritual, and ancient spirituality; and, uncovers how deeply the study of ancient spirituality is entwined with controversies about gender.

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Young Persephone is the most beautiful maiden in Hellas. But all the boys are scared away by her mother, Demeter, whose mysterious powers must have come from the gods. So Persephone keeps her distance, and spends her days living a sheltered life. Then one day, Hades-the dreaded lord of the dead-sees Persephone. Enchanted, he whisks her deep into his dark realm. At first, she rejects him-but Hades is wealthy, intelligent, and powerful. He courts Persephone as no man has ever dared before and reveals to her, in the rumored "land of the dead," a world more wondrous than she'd ever imagined-one where she may just discover a passion greater than life itself.

A Rectification of Names - On Truth and Freedom of Speech

"We live in strange times." I hear this phrase often today. Given the nature of this apparent strangeness, it is perhaps necessary to clarify one's position - a kind of rectification of names, if you will. Simply put, I am a culture critic. I describe what I see in the social, political, and cultural milieu, and try to provide my readers with some perspective, an alternative to the commonly accepted view. I go behind the official version of the Curriculum to expose the framework informing it, although it is not always welcome.

I don't condone revolutionary activity. I fail to understand violence directed against the State; it is a pointless exercise that cannot possibly result in a positive outcome. It can only encourage and justify further countermeasures - acts of violence, belligerence, and repression - on the part of the State and its machinery. Honestly, was there any less hierarchical control of citizens after the revolutions in Russia, France or America than there was before? Such actions apparently only succeed in replacing one power hierarchy with another, perhaps more restrictive one.

Why feel compelled to take any action at all? Empires are already in the process of crumbling and civilization itself is collapsing of its own weight and inertia. Collectively, we have done so much irrevocable damage to the biosphere and its sensitive ecosystems, to flora and fauna alike, that our systems cannot function for much longer. We have rendered such irreparable damage to diverse species, including Homo sapiens, and most specifically to its indigenous populations, that such constant battering can only result, finally, in collapse.

So, there is no reason to fight against the hegemony; it can only provokes a response, and provide the State with more strength and greater legitimacy in the long run. As LaoTzu said, the best course of action is through non-action (wei wu wei) - to sit out the competition, let the disease run its course, and watch the spectacle unfold. Just be sure to find a safe place from which to enjoy the view. Because when things get rough, it could become dicey or dangerous. And while I am partial to the anarchist's point of view, I am cynical about his prospects. The anarchy that will likely emerge post-collapse will not be the peaceful, kinship-based egalitarian anarchy of pre-civilized clan and tribe; but more on the order of Hobbes' war of all against all.

But when the State - particularly an elected, purportedly democratic one - begins to treat any and every exercise in free speech or truth-seeking as a revolutionary act, as an act of espionage, it overplays its hand, undermining its own credibility, its own legitimacy, and betrays the underlying deceptions and deceptiveness of its core motives.

So, given my position, how would I judge the actions of Julian Assange and Wikileaks' role in the recent spate of finger-pointing we find animating divergent voices of this Administration and the body politic? Is he really a revolutionary, or, more boldly, a terrorist or anarchist, as some have suggested? After all, most of these labels flow from the mouths of those who are paid to know better. But are they not merely political deflections, all of them, calling names and creating straw men or red herrings wherever they can be useful in diverting attention from the truth? Truth. Now that's an interesting concept.

As I recall, our word for "truth" has a unique etymological history. It derives, in a circuitous fashion, from the Greek word Lethe- the river of forgetfulness, one of the five rivers of the underworld. The term "lethe" in classical Greek mythology literally means "oblivion", "forgetfulness," or "concealment." The Greek word for "truth" on the other hand, from whence we derive our own concept, is aletheia (ἀλήθεια), meaning un-forgetfulness, un-concealment, or disclosedness. The event of truth would be taking something that was previously concealed or hidden and letting it shine-forth. What the Wikileaks people seem to be about is precisely this activity, aletheia... the disclosure or unconcealment of that which was previously hidden or concealed. They are, in brief, truth-seekers, in the sense we derive from its classical Greek origins.

The truth, as far as I can see it is as follows: Mr. Assange (while not technically a US citizen) is exercising a purported right among all apparently democratic regimes - the right to freedom of speech (unconcealment or disclosedness) as articulated in our own Bill of Rights. Second, he neither solicits nor pays for the information he receives. It is provided to his organization freely by whistleblowers that believe their employers are engaged in wrongdoing or otherwise committing ethical infractions that the whistler feels compelled to rectify. They too are truth-seekers, engaged in acts of unconcealment, of disclosedness (aletheia). And, if I remember correctly, there was a time, not too long ago in this great country, when we were teaching our college graduates, particularly in the engineering curriculum where I worked, to understand their broader obligations to society, over and above obligations to some corporate owner or even government agency if it were engaged in wrong doing, and to report those abuses so as to get the conditions rectified.

But this begs a larger question: why is Julian Assange receiving so much material, and why now? The American people have never been big on rebellion or revolution (well except for that one-time thing with the British); and we have not even been very good on protesting (ok, maybe on Vietnam and briefly on civil rights). But there are historical and philosophical reasons for this. Slick marketing and even slicker politicians have convinced We The People that something called freedom exists in this country. And because we can drive our own cars from one state to another here with no constraints, because our passports are almost universally accepted around the world, the majority has believed that this freedom is something real. But this is not what constitutes freedom; the American people have been sold a bill of goods, not a Bill of Rights... and all the bills are finally coming due (pun intended).

So there is a growing sense among the body politic here that they have been paying for all of these charades and excesses long enough, and now they are going to exact payment from the real culprits. They are going after all the avarice, the greed, the pretension and self serving lies of the political class and corporate elites who run this country, and who have run it into the ground lording it over those have-nots who have nothing or very little left to lose. The middle class in particular, the workers of America, have awoken from The Dream and recognized that they have been living a nightmare, and they want it to stop. So they have taken matters into their own hands, and one by one they are sharing the dirty laundry of this country - its political, military and economic bullies - for the entire world to see.

Of course, those who are running the show, the elites and overlords whose unmentionables are being exposed, have a significant interest in withholding such information, so they will do whatever it takes to make it stop and silence the leakers. They tell us about "clear and present dangers;" they will talk about protecting State secrets, safeguarding our process, and ensuring the safety of American lives on the battlefield and abroad. So they call this information-release espionage, treason, even terrorism. And they are seeking to punish the whistleblowers severely; they will try to close down Assange's shop anyway they can, resorting to whatever methods are at hand, applying pressure, economically, politically and militarily upon its own constituencies, its colleagues, and its allies internationally; they will try to tuck Julian Assange away for good in some dark off-shore prison, if they only could.

As I said, it is in the nature of the State to fight any apparent rebellion or protest with increasing oppression, repression and aggression. Ironically, such increased repression will only exacerbate the State's own headlong rush off the cliff. Nietzsche was not wrong my friends when he wrote:

State, where the slow suicide of all is called 'life'... Only where the State ends, there begins the human being who is not superfluous; there begins the song of necessity, the unique and inimitable tune. Where the State ends - look there, my brothers!

After a ten-year career in academia, Dr. Krolick spent the next twenty years in the executive ranks of several of America's largest international firms. Sandy has spent many years traveling around the world, including parts of Asia, Africa, Western and Eastern Europe. Retiring from business at fifty, he recently returned to the USA with his wife Anna, after teaching for several years in the central Siberian Steppe, at the foot of the Altai mountains in Barnaul, Russia. His latest book, The Recovery of Ecstasy: Notebooks from Siberia, is available at http://www.amazon.com/Recovery-Ecstasy-Notebooks-Siberia/dp/1439227365/?tag=widgetsamazon-20 or visit him @ http://www.kulturcritic.com.

Dionysus - The Greek God of Wine, Vegetation, Theatre, Madness

An informative slideshow on the Greek god Dionysus. Made for my Greek mythology project in humanities class.

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Though nearly everyone is familiar with such great mythological figures as Hercules, Icarus, and Medusa, one may wonder what relevance these ancient characters, and their stories, hold for modern readers. This unique reference book brings mythology to life for students by exploring the connections between ancient myths and contemporary culture. An introductory essay sets the tone with its overview of the myriad areas of human endeavors—including the arts, science, psychology, language and literature, consumer products, and other aspects of popular culture—that mythology has influenced. The user-friendly volume is comprised of 50 narrative essays that trace the cultural connections and offer a lively retelling of each myth. For example, readers will discover the derivation of Freudian psychoanalysis from the myth of Oedipus, and fans of popular film and fiction may be surprised to learn the mythological inspirations for works like Beauty and the Beast, The Matrix, or Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead.

This engrossing book is enhanced with 25 original illustrations. Five fact-filled appendices offer glossaries and interesting mythological etymologies of commonplace words in nature, science, and everyday consumer products like Nike shoes and Olympus cameras. Whether for research or pure enjoyment, this accessible and informative book reveals the many unrecognized references to mythology that impact our lives.

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Search for the origins of fire with Mantis. Witness mighty Zeus as he employs a powerful thunderbolt to overthrow his tyrannical father in ancient Greece. Meet Amaterasu, the Japanese goddess of the sun who shut herself in a cave, leaving the whole world in darkness. Join the Valkyries as they roam through Scandinavian battlefields in search of brave warriors. Find answers to everything you ve ever wanted to know about the intriguing mythologies from around the world . . .

How did Isis help Horus become king of all Egypt? See page 15. What was inside Pandora s Box? See page 28. How were the Olympic games started? See page 48. Who was Gilgamesh, and what was the purpose of his quest? See page 7. How did the powerful warrior Rama rescue his bride, Sita? See page 66. How was the silkworm created? See page 74. What is The Dreamtime? See page 84. How did Thor, the Norse god of thunder, regain his magical hammer? See page 99.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY s bestselling reference books include The New York Public Library Desk Reference, The New York Public Library Book of Answers, and The New York Public Library Student s Desk Reference. BRENDAN JANUARY is the author of many nonfiction children s books.

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