These missionaries, the Algonquin tribe insisted, had turned into Wendigos and started killing their fellow men. It was something that had happened before, usually during famines in a cold winter. And it was something the tribe had learned to prepare for. They would hold great festivals where they would dance and chant, trying to keep this mythological creature away.
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Most likely, the men had just gone mad with hunger and turned to cannibalism. But the idea of these mythological creatures must have almost been a comfort to the Algonquins. It was a way to make sense of moments when hunger would drive good and decent men into doing the unthinkable.
It is essential for children to know their roots and culture to develop a sense of pride and respect for them. And, Indian mythological stories for kids can be a great way to gain knowledge and learn about ancient times. For instance, the Puranas are a collection of traditional stories that talk about the olden times and how life used to be. These mythological stories describe the good deeds of the heroes and teach children important values and morals to bring a positive change in their lives. Moreover, they are interesting and entertaining and help you bond with your children. So, read on to learn more.
One remarkable feature of European culture as it developed in the Renaissance was the accommodation it made with ancient paganism. The classical gods and their legends were allegorised, transformed into symbolic figures or emblematic scenes that might accord with Christian morality. At the same time a secular space was created in art for the depiction of the most popular myths, above all the love stories recounted by the ancient poets. These stories were not only attractive in themselves; they offered the opportunity to depict nude figures in narrative action, which the example of antiquity held forth as the highest goal for painting. Rubens was one of the greatest creators of classical allegory; he was also a supreme interpreter of the classical stories. No painter was so at home in the literature of the Greeks and Romans. When he painted for pleasure, which, increasingly in the course of his life, he felt able to do, he used pagan myth to express and celebrate themes of love, beauty and the creative forces of nature, often in wonderfully idiosyncratic ways. At the same time, as a Christian committed to the ideals of the Catholic Reformation, Rubens respected the restrictions generally placed on the depiction of pagan tales. Most of his mythological paintings were made for private settings, for display within houses (including his own) or in the galleries of princes, noblemen and prelates. It is happy accident of history that these splendid paintings are now widely visible in the great museums of the world.
British director Nosa Igbinedion brings the Yoruba Orishas to the superhero genre in the 2014 short film Oya: Rise of the Suporisha. The film, which we covered during its release, places the Orishas, mythological deities, in modern-day Britain as superheroes and Ade, one of the few people left who can still connect with the Orishas. The god Ade speaks to is Oya, who guards the door between the world of the Orishas and the world of humanity. If that door is opened, then the Orishas will punish man for forgetting them. Ade has to find the key to the door before the world as we know it feels the wrath of the Orishas. The film also inspired a miniseries, Yemoja: Rise of the Orisha, which we covered on Shadow and Act in 2017.
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