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I live in Israel and I hold an M.Phil. degree in literature from the London University, having studied both Hebrew and English languages and literature for B.A.. I taught these subjects before I became a full time writer. My main interest is mythology, but I write also fantasy and science fiction stories, novellas and books, and had many of them published in print and on the Net, both in Hebrew and English. Among works of mine published on the Net and in print are Minstrel in the Forest and The Myth of Tristan and Isolde.
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Dividing the year into seasons, and marking those seasons with festivals, is the custom of all humans on the face of the earth. The year can be divided according to the cycles of the sun, the moon, the rains, certain stars and farming activities, after which different calendars around the world have been founded.
The article interprets the Mid English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as being based on the myth of the cycle of Nature that contains a story of life, love, death and resurrection. It refers particularly to the Old English mythological character of the Green Man.
Goddesses of war can be also goddesses of death, goddesses of fertility, of earth and of the underworld. They can exist where no women go to war, but they hold human life in their hands.
Swans have appeared in Indo-Eruopean legends for time immemorial and used in modern literature like Yeats' poetry, Andersen's fairy tales and the story of Chaikovski's Swan Lake. They present a variety of symbols, from beauty and etherial flight to death and wisdom.
A man needs an enemy, who is his opposite in character and a rival for similar goals. This idea has appeared throught the ages both in myth and in modern literature.
The article, Blond in Myth and History, shows the connection between the Sun worship, the various shades of the color gold, human migration and present day admiration of blond hair.
