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Sisyphus Tricks Death

Morningbird Library, Poems and Prose

Who is Sisyphus this man who struggles endlessly in Hades to push a rock to the top of a mountain, only to watch it roll down again. Who is this […]

Orpheus and Eurydike

Morningbird Library, Poems and Prose

Orpheus was a bard, a singer of great renown, son of the Muse Calliope and also the King of the Cicones, a tribe that lived in the Rhodope Mountains in […]

Some Samhain History

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Samhain originated as a Gaelic festival. The word is from the name for the month of November. A popular translation of the word is “Summer’s end” though it could refer […]

Storytelling In The Hallows

Morningbird Family, Ritual

What is The Hallows? It is that big collection of sacred days that happen at the end of October/ beginning of November. Also known as Samhain, Halloween, The Feast of […]