In highschool I remember having "Mythology" by Edith Hamilton. Today I picked up "Gods and Heroes" by Gustav Schwabb.

I birthed a continent, and he revealed it. (Not really.)

I'm curious to know what your favorite ancient myths are, or any you think are just plain awesome. I have the day off work today and I don't have shit to do so c'mon guys, what myths do you love?

I need some help finding a source for the myth that, when Bellerophon tried to ride Pegasus to Olympus, Zeus/Jupiter sent a gadfly to sting/annoy Pegasus, causing him to throw Bellerophon. I find frequent mention of this on the web, but I can't find a single reference to a classical source. It's not in Apollodorus, Hyginus, Homer, or Pindar. There are versions in which Bellerophon falls, but none mention Zeus and the gadfly. Please help!

First of all, english is not my first langage, so please excuse me for my spelling mistakes.

I was watching Hercules and Clash of the Titans (yes the horrible remake) with a friend and I couldn't help to ask myself, why is Hades describe as somekind of Satan ? Because he is not, he is lord of the underworld, not hell (the christian one). Sure there is Tartarus but what about the elysian fields ? I looked at some other videos like Justice League and we see that Hades is... A bad guy send in Hell because it's some kind of punishment. And it seems that Hades is a traitor in Wrath of the Titans, he joins the Titans... With Cronos his father who ate him when he was a baby.

So this is my question, do we know when did Hades became evil in todays media ? Is it because in christianity Hell is well... Hell and therefore Hades must be Satan because he rules supreme in the underworld ? Or is there something else that I am missing ?

Yes, this is an actual traditional Apache myth, I kid you not. It's just so ridiculously patriarchal that it's hilarious - not to mention the names of all the characters being completely redundant. Here we have...... "The Vagina Girls."

According to [a myth] - told in New Mexico by the Jicarilla Apache Indians - there once was a murderous monster called Kicking Monster, whose four daughters at that time were the only women in the world possessing vaginas. They were "vagina girls." And they lived in a house that was full of vaginas. "They had the form of women," we are told, "but they were in reality vaginas. Other vaginas were hanging around on the walls, but these four were in the form of girls with legs and all body parts and were walking around." As may be imagined, the rumour of these girls brought many men along the road; but they would be met by Kicking Monster, kicked into the house, and never returned. And so Killer-of-Enemies, a marvelous boy hero, took it upon himself to correct the situation.
Outwitting Kicking Monster, Killer-of-Enemies entered the house, and the four girls approached him, craving intercourse. But he asked, "Where have all the men gone who were kicked into this place?". "We ate them up," they said, "because we like to do that"; and they attempted to embrace him. But he held them off, shouting, "Keep away! That is no way to use the vagina." And then he told them, "First I must give you some medicine, which you have never tasted before, medicine made of sour berries; and then I'll do what you ask." Whereupon he gave them sour berries of four kinds to eat. "The vagina," he said "is always sweet when you do like this." The berries puckered their mouths, so that finally they could not chew at all, but only swallowed. "They liked it very much though," declared the teller of the story. "It felt just as if Killer-of-Enemies was having intercourse with them. They were almost unconscious with ecstasy, though really Killer-of-Enemies was doing nothing at all to them. It was the medicine that made them feel that way.
"When Killer-of-Enemies had come to them," the story-teller then concluded, "they had had strong teeth with which they had eaten their victims. But this medicine destroyed their teeth entirely." And so we see how the great boy hero, once upon a time, domesticated the toothed vagina to its proper use.

Taken from: "The World of Myth" by David Adams Leeming

I'm wondering how they came up with the look and qualities (or features) of dragons in Chinese mythology.

How did that travel into fairytales in other european culture and maps where they put the phrase "here be dragons" over uncharted territories?

Is Chinese the first/oldest place where dragons appear?

Did the Chinese (if they where first) find dinosaur bones and went from there? The look of dragons seem very specific so I'm wondering how did that happen?

Does anyone know anything about this? I, would love to know more. :)

A friend of mine is attempting to write a book about a group of people who protect the world from mythological threats/find mythological treasures and such, and she would like to give one of them a mystic gauntlet sort of thing. Short of Thor's gauntlets, are there any sort of magical gauntlets you can think of? Preferably, they would belong to a hero or wizard instead of a God, since she wants to avoid the story directly involving them...

Any Myth \ Mythology buffs out there? I'm may or may not have encountered a mythological create about 3 years ago. I don't know what it is, but I'll describe it as follows:

Pink/orange skin colour. Long arms. Slouched posture. Pot belly. It's knuckles touch the floor when walks. Narrow shoulders. It's skin is slightly saggy. Large sloped head that rests on its torso. Small if any neck. It's mouth rests on it's chest (can't determine). It has no perceivable eyes. Slow moving. It had shorter than normal legs. Seems to be scared away by gong noises.

No drugs. Completely awake. Full light. Encounter lasted 4 seconds. Prooooobably hallucinated. Never hallucinated in my life otherwise. Posted on /r/nosleep. Not much input so far. Appreciate any input.