Category: | Our Mythical Childhood Survey

Karen Healey

Part One:Guardian of the Dead is a young adult urban fantasy novel about a New Zealand high school student named Ellie Spencer, who is drawn into a mythological conflict that re-enacts key aspects of Maori spirituality, and that will determine the fate of the North Island.After Ellie bumps into fellow student Mark Nolan, she begins to experience disorientation, fevers, and memory loss. She is disturbed by the serial killer on the North Island of New Zealand called The Eyelasher, who is removing (...)

literary

YEAR: 2010

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Circe Dryades Homer Naiad Orpheus Penelope Persephone Selene Underworld

Natallia Bashava , Siarheĭ Kavalioŭ , Kanstantsin Veranitsyn

Taras on Parnassus [Тарас на Парнасе (Taras na Parnase)]

This play is a presentation of the classic Belarusian poem Taras on Parnassus.To meet the needs of the production, the dramatist integrates the events of Taras’ family life into the plot of the classic poem Taras on Parnassus (Taras, a forester, got lost in the woods while hunting and found himself at Mount Parnassus, where he met the pantheon of ancient gods). The daughter of Taras and Paraska is getting married, but her father does not approve of her fiancé. According to the idea (...)

audiovisual

YEAR: 2004

COUNTRY: Belarus

TAGS: Augean Stables Bacchus Ceryneian Hind Cupid Erymanthian Boar Hebe Hera Hercules Hydra Jupiter Mars Naiad Neptune Nymphs Parnassus (Mount) Saturn Satyr(s) Stymphalian Birds Venus Vesta Vulcan Zephyrus Zeus

Kanstantsin Veranitsyn

Taras on Parnassus [Тарас на Парнасе (Taras na Parnase)]

After a long usual journey through the forest, Taras, the forester, the main protagonist and narrator of the poem, falls into a pit and finds himself on at the base of Mount Parnassus. A little Cupid (“curly-headed, like a sheep” with a quiver of arrows and a hefty bow) guides him to the top. Taras passes a large group of writers climbing the mountain (he notices that not everyone is allowed to enter) and finally gets to the top where he realizes that he is surrounded by Greek gods w(...)

literary

COUNTRY: Russian Empire

TAGS: Bacchus Cupid Hebe Hercules Jupiter Mars Naiad Neptune Nymphs Parnassus (Mount) Saturn Venus Vesta Zephyrus Zeus