26 July 2007, 10:45 pm: I have launched a new section tonight and shifted all my Factory Farming / Industrial Agriculture pages, plus environmentally-focused (non-mythic) pages (formerly in Common Themes), to this new section: The Environmental Corner. Hopefully, this will make it easier and faster for readers to access this material. See below, between Current Events and Crone Papers sections, for the permanent placement of this new section.

22 June 2007, 4:20 am: tonight I am launching a new page, Rituals of Marriage. I had hoped to complete it earlier this month, since June is the traditional month of weddings, but my life has simply been too hectic. I still have 4 links yet to grok, but most of this page is now complete. I hope you will enjoy it.

20 June 2007, 12:40 pm: I'm very late this year but my updated Summer Solstice page has finally been launched.

19 April 2007, 9:55pm: for the many chocolate lovers out there, all the broken links on my page,LATIN AMERICA: THE LORE & HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE  have now been updated. In my Common Themes: Animal Guides section, I am launching another science page from Stanley Cooper, a companion to the one on food-pathogens that I introduced on 6-7 March 2007. This time it's Behind the Odors From Factory Farms: What the Nose Doesn't Know. If you live near one of these huge farms filled with confined animals, you'll know what I mean. If you don't, your food supply, air, and water are still being seriously impacted.

17 March 2007, 1:50am: my newly revised Spring Equinox page is now online with a new essay and updated times, dates, & links. And yes, it's finally stopped snowing (see directly below), at least in SW Michigan <smile>. Wee buds are just barely visible on my pear, rowan, & other trees. Bulbs too are emerging. Spring blessings!

6-7 March 2007: I'm launching a new page tonight in the midst of yet more snow in SW Michigan (it really hasn't stopped for more than a day or two since mid-January). This page in my Common Themes: Animal Guides section looks at detailed, stunning scientific evidence concerning the pathogens in our food. I have named it: How & Why Are Pathogens Getting Into Our Food Supply: Cherchez la merde!..The page is a sobering collection of annotated links from Stanley Cooper, a man trained as a scientist and engineer. If you're wondering why spinach, peanut butter, lettuce, meat, and so many more foods are now being contaminated, you don't want to miss this new page.  Why would a mythologist like me care about pathogens in food (aside from the fact that I eat food like everyone else)? Isn't that the business of biologists, molecular chemists, and other such scientists? Yes, of course it is. My work is more focused on deities and demons from around the world. Yet when I look at the impact on our lives of manure-spawned bacteria from inhumanely-raised livestock, at the "demonic" corporate greed that fosters such practices, and at the passionate environmentalists trying to open our eyes to the dangers, the boundaries blur between the denizens of science and the denizens of myth. So this topic turns out to be very much my own turf and I am proud and grateful to be able to present Cooper's work. I hope you'll visit this page and explore the serious implications.

31 January 2007: The Asian Lunar New page for the Year of the Fire Pig (starting 18 February 2007) is now online at: http://www.mythinglinks.org/LunarNewYear2000.html.
February 14, 2007: mid-afternoon today, I added the following announcement about this page (which got nearly 47,000 hits on last year's Lunar New Year):

Due to heavy traffic last year, this year the page will be on hiatus from mid-2/17 to mid-2/19 -- I just can't afford the extra gigs for that 48 hour period. My apologies for any inconvenience.

25 January 2007: the Imbolc/Candlemas page for February 1-2, 2007 has now been updated. The Greek/Pan page has a new section on Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun" ballet.

15 January 2007, 4:15am: I just launched two new pages, both under Common Themes: "Animals."  One is Pigs in History, Religion, Culture, and Art. The other is Firebird/Phoenix, a page I actually started two weeks after 9/11, but never completed.  I forgot it for over five years. I rediscovered it only a few weeks ago and finally completed it. I have also updated my shaman-friend Kate's page with her new 2007 schedule of classes in Sedona, AZ -- her first class begins later this month.

Christmas Eve 2006: the regional-focus page, Yuletide Around the World, only had a few broken links but all are now updated. 10 December 2006: I have two new pages to announce tonight in addition to my updated 2006-2007 Winter Greetings & Lore. One new page is Wintery Shamanism -- it looks at "Cold" as a person, a spirit, a deva, a presence, but growing more vulnerable because of climate changes. The other new page is Kore / Persephone in my Ancient Greece section. I hope you'll enjoy these <smile>.

6 November 2006, 3:35am: After 4 years, I've finally finished adding my notes and comments on James Hillman's The Terrible Love of War conference in Santa Barbara, November 2002. Many issues raised by him in 2002 are even more relevant today.

11 October 2006, 3:30am: I just launched a new and somber page for the October 12th American seasonal holiday: Columbus Day.

25-26 September 2006: the Halloween/Samhain and Dia de los Muertos pages have now been updated for this year.

27 August 2006: I have added a new topic to my Common Themes, East & West section: Reincarnation. Its essay-series looks at the concept, theories, history, personal experiences, and my own work for the past thirty-some years as a pastlife regression facilitator.

24-25 August 2006: The 2006 Autumn Equinox page is now updated with a new essay and art. It covers through the Thanksgiving season (but with separate pages for Halloween and El Dia de los Muertos).

28 July 2006, 1:30am: I have just added a new page: My Personal Friends: Recommended Links to Healers, Writers, & Artists. I hope you'll check this out.
19 June 2006: the Summer Solstice page has now been updated with a new opening essay and art.
I have also updated the Grail page.

21 March 2006: My Springtide page explores many celebrations in addition to Spring Equinox. I have also just completed a page on Judaism -- it includes links to Passover and Haggadah texts.

18 January 2006: the New Moon on January 29th will usher in the Year of the Dog. My Lunar New Year page has now been updated. Also, six years after I "rescued" it, illustrations have finally turned up for The Archetype of the Magician: by John Granrose, Ph.D. (also listed below under Common Themes: Tricksters).

16-17 December 2005, 12:25am:  I'm running very late because I put so many things on hold to complete the Wild Divine's "Companion Guide" (see above).  However, I have finally updated my Winter Greetings & Lore page, plus my Yuletide Around the World and Mythic Shopping pages.  Enjoy!

27 September 2005: back in February, I created a new subsection under Common Themes / Animal Guides on the madness of "factory" farming.  There are now more than a dozen (mostly brief) pages in that section, too many to include here.  So I've just added an INDEX for Factory Farms / Industrial Agriculture Pages for those who wish to explore further.

16 September 2005: the updated Autumn Greetings & Lore 2005 page is now online.

31 August 2005 / 1 September 2005: for the past intense month, I have been working on African pages for the first time since I launched this website in 1998.  They are tragedy-driven because of the famine in Niger, and yet I found much in creating these pages that gives reason for hope: strong, creative people live in West Africa -- and always have.  But current American and former colonial powers need the will and common sense to address the damage they have done to these peoples, these lands, in the name of "progress," which is to say, greed.  Wealthy Middle Eastern countries owe them a debt as well.  Here are the 4 new pages: Niger I: the Country; Niger II: Famine 2005; Songhay People of Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, & Nigeria; and Hausa People of Niger and Nigeria & Fulani People of Mali and Niger.

1 August 2005: today's Lammas page is now updated.

10 May 2005: My CRONE PAPERS section (see below) now has a new subsection: Notes on Books & Video Games. So far, there are only two entries but more will follow, time permitting.  Please see above (under my personal announcements) for further information on the Wild Divine video game or click here for my review of it: The Journey to Wild Divine.

20 March 2005:  the Springtide 2005 page went up a week ago but I didn't finish updating a handful of broken links until today.  It's now finished -- enjoy the season <smile>.

20 February 2005:  After I moved to Michigan from S. California nearly two years ago, I was horrified to learn that an industrial dairy "farm" was being built barely three miles from town.  I became part of a local group of concerned citizens and created a webpage to inform people of the risks.  I kept the page private, only for local residents.  But as the wealthy farm owners' glib promises to be faithful stewards of the land fell apart within weeks of their arrival, and E. coli readings in our field-tiles, ditches, and streams soared, I've decided to go public with that page and to add others as well (some are reprints of news items and will only be found linked to the first two pages below).  Industrial agriculture threatens much, much more than a few rural communities, as many respected experts on human health, economics, and environmental issues have been warning for years.  The food many of you eat comes from these "farms" -- you deserve to know the dangers and terrible costs of a blight that can turn whole regions into ghost towns (see what's happened to Iowa at the second link below) and threatens this nation unless we can convince our legislators to stop pandering to the wealthy and to protect the rest of us.  Here are the new pages:
Industrial Agriculture: Local Michigan Edition
Industrial Agriculture: National / International Edition
and finally, a marvelous, hopeful syllabus from a philosophy professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI:
SYLLABUS: Peaceable Kingdom: Transforming Our Relationships with Animals
Note: these pages will also be found in my COMMON THEMES: Animal Guides section along with other relevant, more mythically-focused pages.

30 January 2005:  seasonal regulars will already have discovered this but, for all others, my Imbolc/Candlemas page has now been updated & expanded for this year's February 1-2.

22 January 2005: my updated Lunar New Year page is now online -- since February 8-9, 2005 marks the beginning of the Wood Rooster year, the page has new art and a number of new links.

11 December 2004:  In ancient Greece, tonight's New Moon would have marked the beginning of a month devoted to Poseidon, the god of oceans, rivers, lakes, and springs.   Of all the sites I've been grokking for Myth*ing Links since the spring of 1998, the one with the most stunning implications is that of Masaru Emoto's work on water -- links are included on my Common Themes / Four Elements: Water: Sacrality & Lore.  Appropriately for Poseidon's month, I have now updated the April 2001 version of that page.  Note: there's now a DVD of Emoto's photographs and also a just-published Water Crystal Oracle.

3 December 2004, 1:55am: My updated 2004 Winter Greetings page is now officially launched with a new essay and art for this year plus new subsections for Faunus, Poseidon, Las Posadas, and Yemaya, all of whose celebrations fall during this Yuletide season.  My Yuletide Around the World page has also been updated.

21 August 2004, 9:26pm: My 2004 Autumn Greetings and Lore page is now online with a new essay, art, and additional links.  When I began this seasonal page in 1999, its focus was on the autumnal equinox -- many of the page's links still reflect that focus.  But over the past five years I have added so many other autumn harvest festivals (e.g., Greek, Slavic, Japanese, Native American, Thanksgiving, etc) that I realized tonight that the page has really become about the season of autumn as a whole.  I hope you'll enjoy the links related to this larger perspective as well as those focused on the equinox. (Note: separate pages still exist for October's Halloween and November's Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.)

17-18 June 2004, 12:58am:  The updated 2004 Summer Solstice page is now online with a new mini-essay and art focused on Athena, her olive tree, and her lost music..

15 May 2004, 1am:  In addition to Diamonds (see below), the new Mineral section (also see below) now has a second page: Malachite.  Since my favorite fairy tale, Russia's "Stone Flower," is about malachite, creating this page has been a special pleasure.

8 May 2004:  The new opening "portal" page on Minerals, mentioned below, is now officially online.  It's still a work-in-progress but already has many annotated links and images.  Since it may be awhile before I have time to grok the last 17 links, I've decided to launch it "as is."

30 April 2004, 2am:  My Beltane page is now updated with new links.  I have also written a new essay, Through the Sacred Fires: the Animals of Beltane -- this lengthy essay contrasts the honor once given animals with the factory farming practices of today; the myth of Cadmus and a cow is explored as well as a Romanian variant of Cinderella in which a kindly cow replaces the Fairy godmother.  I have also been working the past month on a new series about minerals.  So far, only Diamonds is online but others will soon follow.

20 April 2004: it will be Earth Day again in two days and I have updated my page.  A single day to honor earth, her creatures, and her natural resources is not enough, of course, especially given the relentless attacks of the current administration upon the environment.  Let's all try to do something sane and caring on the 22nd.

18 March 2004: the recently discovered 10th planet has been named for the Inuit Arctic sea-goddess, Sedna, a very hopeful sign.  I've created a new webpage exploring the science as well as the mythology connected to Sedna.

14 March 2004:  I'm a little late this year but my new Springtide Greetings & Lore page for 2004 is finally on line with a new essay, much new art, and a new section on Persian New Year.

30 January 2004: in my on-going series on Greek and Roman deities, I have just launched a new graphics-rich page on one of my favorites, Poseidon / Neptune.  It looks at the Sea-god's myths, attributes, loves, and depictions in art.  It also includes a section on the science of the planet Neptune as well as a fascinating astrological link to "Neptune in Aquarius" (which is where it will remain until 2011-2012).

22 January 2004, 10:22pm: the past two weeks I have spent a good deal of time putting together three pages on leylines and Nuremberg.  The first, The Leylines of Nuremberg, looks at Hitler's occult use of three major leylines (Grail, Siegfried, & Destiny) converging in Nuremberg.  The second is a report on a Pastlife Regression Session that looks at the medieval and current condition of those lines.  The third, The Norns of Norn Mountain (Nuremberg), offers background information on the Norns plus a brief picture essay on Nuremberg.  I hope you'll take a look -- the implications are profound and the material, as one reader writes, is "spellbinding."

20 January 2004, 9:45pm:  the Lunar New Year page for 2004 has now been updated with many new links.  The Year of the Monkey begins tomorrow (21 January) in Asia and Thursday (22 January) in the United States.  It ends in early 2005.

24 November 2003, 2:21am: my Yuletide/Winter 2003-2004 page has been updated with a new essay and links for this year.  The Mythic Shopping page of my favorite "picks" has new links -- plus I've finally added photos of items I discuss.  My long-neglected Icelandic, Nordic, and Teutonic Traditions has been greatly expanded and more is yet to come.

22 October 2003, 3:22pm:  Pages recently updated and expanded: El Dia de los Muertos; Green Men; Celtic Traditions; and Fairy Tales & Folk Lore.

15 October 2003, 2:35pm:  In addition to my essay, Perspectives on Exploring Past Lives, I have now added a Frequently Asked Questions page on the topic of reincarnation.

3 October 2003, 7:40pm:  I have finally redesigned and updated my Celtic Traditions page for the first time since it was launched with the rest of this site 5 years ago.  There are new images and a large number of new links.

25 September 2003, 4:35pm:  Since many of you keep asking about my workshops (now that I'm "retired"), I'm happy to announce a workshop I'm doing in St. Joseph, Michigan on 20 December 2003 called Damaged Voice: Healing the Silencing of the Feminine -- it will include slide presentations on Medusa as well as the Hindu goddess, Vak.  Please click on the title for further details.

6 September 2003, 9:38pm (EDT): my newly revised Autumn Equinox page for 2003 is now online.  Instead of my usual opening essay, I am debuting the work of an extraordinary poet, Marian W. Love.  Don't miss this one.

26 August 2003, 2am: in recognition of the planet Mars' "close encounter" with Earth on 27 August 2003, I just launched a special Myth*ing Links page -- a Newsletter reprint by astrologer Melissa Stratton on Mars in Astrology, Mythology, and Science.  Her astrological insights are rich and deep, her myth section is taken from a private e-mail I sent her, and her science reprints and links are first rate.

13 June 2003, 3:45am: If you've been wondering why there's been so little activity on my website the past few months, my newly revised Summer Solstice page will explain.  It also offers wonderful new art and updated links for the season.

6 March 2003, 4:55am: The Springtide/Spring Equinox page has now been updated for this year.  As usual, the page keeps the same URL as previous years.  (Last year's page has now been archived with a new URL.)

26 February 2003, 2:30pm:  In a time of growing war anxiety, a friend e-mailed me an essay by internationally recognized Dr. Christiane Northrup earlier today.  It rang so clearly, gently, and wisely that I decided to create a special webpage for it in my Common Themes, East & West section.  The message is timeless. That it should be heard right now may be profound "spirit-medicine" for all of us:
Peace / War / Health.  Update -- 7 March:  At the request of her organization, I have removed Northrup's text from my site.  She feels that protecting her words is more important than having people read them.  I find that such an attitude vitiates the sincerity of her message.

30 January 2003, 5pm: This year, Lunar New Year (see entry for 12 January, below) coincides with the ancient celebration of Imbolc/Candlemas on February 1-2.  I just finished annotating 14 new links on Brighid, various Imbolc rituals, and much seasonal lore connected not only with Ireland but also with cross-cultural celebrations held elsewhere at this time of the year.  I hope you'll enjoy exploring these.

23 January 2003, 1:15pm: as an adjunct to my current Pacifica Graduate Institute course, "Egyptian and Near Eastern Sacred Traditions," I am re-designing (and updating broken links) in my Egyptian section (under Africa); those already completed are indicated with an  sign.  [Note: as of 2/16/03, this section is now complete.]

16 January 2003, 2:40am: I have launched a new page tonight, this one devoted to Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya, an 8th century Islamic woman-saint from Iraq.  Her values and teachings are especially relevant today as warclouds loom closer.  There is also now a separate page on Christianity, its links transferred from the 3 Desert-Born Monotheisms page.

12 January 2003: My Lunar New Year page is now updated for February 1, 2003 -- on that date we begin the Year of the Water Goat.

12 December 2002, 11:21pm:  In addition to my Winter Greetings & Lore page, launched 11/1/02, I have now updated my page for Yuletide Around the World as well as my Mythic Shopping page.

13 November 2002, 11:58pm: tonight, Myth*ing Links, which I first launched Friday, 13 November 1998 just before midnight, begins its fifth year on the web.  Each year since 1998 I have celebrated this anniversary by launching a special page.  Unfortunately, this year has been especially hectic and even though I started my celebratory page over two months ago, it's still a work-in-progress.  Nevertheless, there's enough here to warrant launching it "officially": it's in my Indigenous Peoples category -- Native Americans of the Southwest.  I hope you'll enjoy exploring its grokked as well as its ungrokked links.  And I thank my many visitors for your continuing loyalty to this mythic site.

1 November 2002, 2:40am:  In many Old World traditions, winter begins sometime between late October to early November -- that's why Winter Solstice/Yule is called "Midwinter" (despite the fact that many of us think winter doesn't begin until 12/21-22).  In light of this, I'm launching my 2002-2003 Winter Greetings & Lore page tonight, beginning with a handful of important November links, including Ramadan (which begins around November 6th or 7th, depending upon moon-sightings).  I hope you'll enjoy browsing this lengthy, graphics-rich page.

24 October 2002, 1:30am: my Halloween/Samhain page has now been updated for this year.

28 August 2002, 2:45am:  As 9/11 nears, like many, I'm increasingly concerned about the inflammatory rhetoric of nationalism and war coming out of certain quarters in Washington.  Last year's tragedies should not be milked to inflict new tragedies on other innocents.  That is the theme of my just-published Autumn Greetings & Lore page for 2002.  My opening essay looks at Bush, Iraq, and the role of Ares, Hebe, and the mortal physician, Paian, in Greek mythology.  (Note: some internet service providers -- e.g., AOL -- use cached pages to save load times; since this year's URL is the same as last year's [which has now been archived under a different URL], you may need to hit your "Reload" button in order to access it.)

2 August 2002, 1:15pm:  Related to my new Iraq page (see directly below), Kathy Robles also sent me her powerful, haunting poem, Lilith Remembered, about the ancient Near Eastern goddess' anger and compassion.  I was deeply moved by it and, with her permission, have created a page for it.

28 July 2002, 3:02pm:  For months I have been deeply concerned over what we are not being told by Washington about plans to attack Iraq.  Four days ago a friend, Kathy Robles, sent me two chilling links involving massive deceptions on this issue and  I felt a growing urgency to create a new webpage -- it's still a work-in-progress but I wish to launch it as soon as possible: The Near East: Iraq.  Please don't miss this one -- time could be short. [Note: also check the re-designed Current Events page for other news updates on this issue.]

26 July 2002, 11:40pm: A wise, evocative essay, Who is the Green Man?, by my colleague, Dr. Dan Noel, is now re-printed on a new Myth*ing Links page.  It's fairly short, illustrated, and well worth enjoying.  It's listed under Common Themes: East & West -- Green Men.

25 July 2002, 12:50am: My updated and newly expanded page for the seasonal celebration of Lammas(August 1-2) is now complete.  ////  As the "dog days" of summer near, if you're tired of summer re-runs, you might want to buy some videos of recently discovered Russian films, beautifully translated/subtitled by my friend Leah Hertz.  The films are at Portable Festivals -- my favorite is The Soloist, about a middle aged woman trying to find her "voice" in a world of Russian folk music, failed romances, and ancient Slavic magic spells.

23 June 2002, Sunday, 11 am: after weeks of work in rare moments of free time, I am launching a new section, CRONE PAPERS: A Collection of Essays & Other Writings.  The collection comes from my various page-introductions scattered throughout Myth*ing Links.  There are currently 13 pieces in the collection with more to be added as time permits.  Gathering them in one convenient place will make them more accessible to the many readers who have asked me to do this.

21 May 2002, 2am: I have just put my Summer Solstice 2002 page online.  It opens with a unique combination of ancient Egypt, thanks to artist Sandra Stanton, and monotheism, thanks to Rev. Charles Henderson, a Princeton-trained Presbyterian minister. This page has taken many hours of work, and yet, in a way, it "created" itself with grace and ease.

28 April 2002, Sunday, 1:45am: My May Day/Beltane page is now newly updated and reorganized for 2002.  Perhaps we all need to dance and feel the Maypole's joyous exuberance during these painful, difficult times.

22 April 2002, 6:55am, PDT, Earth Day:  I have created a new page called Current Events.  [See below for more details.]

7-8 April 2002, 3:30am: the Earth Day (22 April) page has now been reorganized and updated for 2002.  It includes rich resources for Earth Day as well as year-round environmental issues.

Easter Sunday, 31 March 2002, 12:30pm: In my e-mails this morning, I found this quiet, yet urgent group-message from author Deena Metzger, a friend of mine (and sometime-colleague at Pacifica Graduate Institute).  She asks for wide distribution of the message to the media, on websites, in public gatherings, and in any other ways we can think of.  I've created a page for it on my own website because her approach resonates so closely with what many of us are feeling at this dangerous point in history: Deena Metzger's Call for Deliberation.

Passover/Good Friday, 29 March 2002, 12:14am: Sometimes a page keeps building its momentum even after I've officially launched it.  This means that ideas keep churning in my brain, and new links & images keep falling into my lap that cry out to be recognized.  That is what has been happening the past few days on my Rituals of Death & Dying page (see directly below).  So, I have reorganized the page and added new sections, including "How Death Came Into the World," "African and African-American Traditions," and "Reincarnation, Rebirth, Spiritualism, Necromancy, and Other Evidence for the Survival of Consciousness after Death."  I have also added many new links to pre-existing categories from 5 days ago when I first launched this page.  Since the page has now more then doubled in size, I am "re-launching" it tonight.

Palm Sunday, 24 March 2002:  I added a new page today under the "Common Themes, East & West" section: Rituals of Death & Dying.  The page looks at cross-cultural rituals, beliefs, and traditions (beginning with Neanderthal times).

5pm Monday, 11 March 2002:  the updated spring equinox 2002 page, Springtide Greetings & Lore, is now online in time for March 20th.

Friday, 1 March 2002: here are more thought-provoking links on the "refusniks" and other Jewish peace movements in Israel & the USA (also see my previous entry below): Yesh Gvul:  http://www.yesh-gvul.org/english.html
Jewish Voice for Peace:  http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/[The following link is their news group]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jewishpeacenews/
Jewish Committee on the Middle East:  http://www.jcome.org/

Wednesday, 19-20 February 2002, 1:22am:  I'm a news junkie.  I watch ABC, NBC, and CBS daily, shuttling between them.  I also watch the BBC and Canadian broadcasts on cable TV.  Unfortunately, although the BBC and CBC are reporting on this, the major USA networks aren't covering Israel's "Refusniks."  An online Arabic network is.  You need to know about this huge & tremendously important movement.  Please, please look into this: here's the link: http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020219/2002021928.html
[Later, 6:23pm]:  Here's another bright ray of hope about thousands of Israelis who were part of a peace rally in Jerusalem on 28 December 2001 -- again, there was no coverage in the media:
http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org/past%20events/20011228/Jerusalem/sunshine.htm

Friday, 1 February 2002: in honor of February as "Black History Month," my second new page of the New Year is another powerful, provocative, but ultimately hopeful and inspiring 2-part paper, Silenced Knowings, Forgotten Springs: Paths to Healing in the Wake of Colonialism, by two of my colleagues at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dr. Helene Shulman Lorenz and Dr. Mary Watkins (also see below under 11 January 2002). Although much of the focus of this paper is on Black history in the United States, the agonizing impact of European Colonialism and the "globalization" of the entire Third World is ever-present.  This page by two noted depth psychologists offers ways of confronting and healing the disastrous fragmentation of colonialism.  I have illustrated the paper with images from many exciting artists whose work resonates with the depths probed by Lorenz and Watkins.

Thursday, 31 January 2002: my page for Candlemas/Imbolc (and other early-mid February celebrations) is now updated.

Friday, 11 January 2002:  My first new page of the New Year is a powerful paper that two of my colleagues at Pacifica, Dr. Helene Shulman Lorenz and Dr. Mary Watkins, have given me permission to reprint for Myth*ing Links: Individuation, Seeing-through, and Liberation:  Depth Psychology and Colonialism.  These two noted depth psychologists look at issues of European Colonialism and argue that personal growth is flawed and shaky without a larger communal context.  Many of you will resonate deeply with this work.  I have illustrated it -- images include exceptional work by MorrisoN. (FYI: this new page is listed under "Europe," below.)

Saturday night, 11:15pm, 30 December 2001:  according to the Asian Lunar New Year calendar, the 2002-2003 Year of the Water Horse doesn't begin until 12 February 2002.  However, since so many people are going to my current Lunar New Year page looking for it, I have archived the 2001-2002 Year of the Metal Snake and transferred its former URL to the Horse Year.
(Note: I first updated the Snake Year page with an additional passage from Shelly Wu about the closing months of this Snake Year -- in retrospect, it fits the aftermath of 9/11 with eerie accuracy.)

Tuesday-Wednesday, Christmas night, 3:50am, 25-26 December 2001: when I'm working on a new page, sometimes I refrain from launching it for 2 or 3 weeks, depending upon how many annotations I'm juggling.  The page just published tonight is an exception.  I started it nearly six months ago in early July but held back because I was worried it might be too personal.  I wanted the clarity of more distance, so I waited until after the summer quarter.  Then 9/11 happened and I was swept into creating new pages and changing one webhost after another.  Tonight I took another look, made some minimal changes, annotated 2 new links, and decided it was time to launch this new page in the Greek deities section: Prometheus.

Sunday night, 11:45pm, 23 December 2001:  I have re-designed, updated, and expanded the Near East's Anatolia page and Europe's Pre-historic Period: Paleolithic to the Bronze Age page.  If you're reaching my site via mythinglinks.org, you'll already have seen my new entry page with some of my favorite epigraphs.  If you're coming here from elsewhere, you might want to click on that link <smile>.
 

Thursday night, 8pm, 6 December 2001:  I have just updated my Mythic Shoppingpage with more new links.  These are my own personal "likes" -- since I'm a mythologist, and love my field, my tastes naturally tend towards the mythic <smile>.  If you like the "look" of my site, you might also enjoy my shopping choices (disclaimer: I get no kick-backs from anyone -- mine is a non-profit site).  Hint: if you like Harry Potterand Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, you'll probably also enjoy browsing through some of these links -- some of their treasures look as if they could have been used as props in these films.

Sunday, pre-dawn, 2 December 2001, 1:40am:  I just launched my latest page -- Near East: Islam.  It covers general resources on the Islamic religion, Islamic arts & sciences (including medieval alchemy), Ramadhan (this includes and adds to the Ramadhan resources on my new Winter Greetings & Lorepage), Sufism, Sufi mystics, and women in Islam.  It's an elegant page that I've loved working on.  I hope you'll visit it.

Tuesday, 13 November 2001, 7:07pm:  Today, the 3rd year anniversary of Myth*ing Links, I have launched the new Winter Greetings & Lorepage for 2001-2002.  It includes an expanded section on Ramadan, which begins around 17 November this year (depending upon New Moon sightings).

Tuesday, 23 October 2001, 9am:  I have created a special index of Myth*ing Links pages connected to the events of 11 September 2001 -- see above.

5 September 2001:  Themes on my recent Romanian and Hungarian pages (see directly below) also impact the entire Central & Eastern European region.  I have therefore added an expanded addendum to my essay on the Central & Eastern European Portal Page and added two links from historians about the West's tragically ignorant role in incubating modern wars (which continue to flashpoint in our nightly newscasts).  After WWI, the West dismembered the region and stitched the bodyparts into Frankenstein's poor monster with a total disregard for the region's ancient ethnic and religious complexities.  (It's an odd and telling synchronicity that Frankenstein and Dracula both emerged into Western consciousness at about the same time.)

I include my hope that primary and secondary school teachers will subversively begin teaching humane, creative "leadership skills" (a.k.a. Cheiron-the-Centaur skills) to our young in an attempt to create a new generation with more wisdom and common sense than their elders.

Lest all this sound too "heavy" for you, I've also included music links from the region with great MP3 downloads, for those of you who know what MP3s are (and I don't) <smile>.

2 September 2001:  Tonight I am officially launching my new Romania page -- it includes Romanian history (covering issues also considered on my recently expanded Hungary / Transylvania page -- see below), culture, art, folk traditions, and, of course, lore on Dracula and vanpires.

28 August 2001: For the past ten intense days (in whatever time I could spare from grading papers and sleep-needs), I have been working on my Hungary / Transylvania page.  I began the page over a year ago, but had to abandon it with a ton of ungrokked links at the bottom of the page.  I finally returned to it this summer when a Hungarian webmaster complained.  The site is now huge, filled with great links to history, lore, folk art, and vibrant images from many sources.  I hope you'll enjoy it.  (Note: if you're looking for Count Dracula and vampires, you'll have to wait a few days for my forthcoming Romania page.)

18 August 2001: my Autumn Equinox Greetings & Lore for 2001 is now online (I kept the same URL as last year's & moved the 2000 page to an archival URL).  In addition to annotated links from previous years, I've added new ones related to harvest festivals of the Navajo and Pueblo Peoples of the American Southwest.  The page features a "Sacred Corn"painting by Sandra Stanton depicting the Navajo deities, Changing Woman and Natseelit, the Rainbow-goddess.  My opening essay is about Changing Woman as Holy Child, maiden, mother, crone, and artist.  I hope you'll enjoy it <smile>.

8 July 2001: I have updated, reorganized, and added a handful of new links and images to my Common ThemesNature Spirits page.

1 July 2001:  In 3 years of gathering and grokking links from all over the world, I've found many that are now personal favorites of mine.  Yet for simple, stunning significance, none compares with the work of Japanese researcher, Masaru Emoto, on water.  Note: I now own Emoto's book myself and have provided a new link with ordering information on my Common Themes / Water: Sacrality & Lore page.  I'm calling your attention to it in case you haven't seen this page yet.

17 June 2001:  over the past 2 weeks I have redesigned and greatly expanded my popular Common Themes, East & West: Sacred Theatre & Dance page.  It includes annotated links to theatre/dance in Asia (India, Nepal, Japan); the Middle East (ancient Egypt, "belly" dance, Sufi dance); Europe (Greek, Bulgarian, also medieval miracle & mystery plays); and the Americas.  There's a special section I wrote on Zuleikha, the "Storydancer" -- if you've ever seen her perform, you'll fully understand my enthusiasm!  Finally, there are many "General & Cross-cultural" links (including a great site on masks worldwide).

12 June 2001:  although the URL remains the same, my Summer Solstice page has now been updated and revised for this year -- it includes a new essay as well as many new images. (Last year's page has been archived but can be reached from this year's page.)

10 June 2001: I have been taking a detour from my Four Elements pages to complete a new page, India: Sacred Theatre and Dance.  I look at general lore, myth (quite fascinating!), and history.  I also include links to many of India's stunningly beautiful dance forms.

27 May 2001: 2 pages from my original November 1998 launch have now been redesigned and greatly expanded. These are the Earth Goddesses & Gods page and the Air, Wind, & Sky Goddesses & Gods page.  Both are now among the new Four Elements section of "Common Themes, East & West."

8 May 2001: The Fire & Solar Goddesses & God page (see under 4/23/01) is now largely complete with links to Pele, Brigit, Hephaestus, and more to come.  There's also a new Greek page with more on the god of fire and metalworking (he's the only Greek god who works), Hephaestus.

25 April 2001, 7:50pm: My Alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermetics page, which has been limping along with only one link for the past 2.5 years, has now finally been expanded wth many great new links.

23 April 2001, 1:26am: I'm still reorganizing the Common Themes area around the new Four Elements section.  In addition to the recent Water page, there are now two new "Sacrality & Lore" pages -- one for Fire(general fire lore, Northern Lights, Green Flashes, St. Elmo's Fire) -- this one is complete.  The other is for Air(wind, sky, storms, clouds, weather lore) -- this one will get many more links in the near future.  I'm working on deities of the four elements too, but much is still under construction there.

12 April 2001, 1:30am:  my apologies to those who have been trying to get through to this site the past three days.  A sudden increase in traffic put the site over its monthly quota of 6000 MB so its host took it offline Monday morning, 4/9.  Red tape prevented its reinstatement until a few hours ago.  In the meantime, I updated the Earth Day page for 2001.

I also reorganized a portion of the Common Themes, East & West section to include the 4 elements: earth, air, fire, and water -- along the way, I added a new page here: Water: Sacrality & Lore -- of special interest on this new page are 4 links to exciting data and photos from an amazing Japanese-English book, The Message from Water by Masaru Emoto.  Don't miss it!

1 April 2001: I've spent much of the past two weeks expanding my Buddhism page -- adding many new links and images.  The page focuses on general themes, including the "Lotus Sutra" and Bodhisattvas like Avalokiteshvara, Kuan Yin, White Tara, and Green Tara.  I still have a handful of links left to grok, but the page is nearly complete and worth a visit.

21 March 2001: I launched a new Common Themes: Animal Guides page today, the first day of spring, Of Cows and Madness.  It's how a mythologist looks at deeply disturbing issues underlying Mad Cow disease and Hoof (Foot) & Mouth disease.

19 March 2001: after three weeks of intense work grokking many new links, my China page (see below) is finally finished.  I begin with my delight in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and offer links to that film plus Chinese cinema in general; then I move to links on Martial Arts; History & Culture; Gender Issues (some fascinating, albeit disturbing, links here); Mythology and Lore; Religion & Philosophy; Art; Language & Literature; and, finally,  Multi-Category Sites.  The range is very broad -- there's something for everyone here, even including an interactive I Ching that I like.

1 March 2001: after recently falling in love with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I started working on my ASIA >> China page.  It's nearly done now -- you might wish to take a look. <smile>.  [Update, 8-15 March 2001: found an earlier cache of bookmarks for this page so still working on it.  Please keep checking back.]

22 February 2001: my annual Spring Greetings & Lore page has now been updated for 2001.  (Note: I kept last year's URL but updated data for this year -- a few more links will be added over the next few weeks.)

8 February 2001, 2:30pm: on today's Jewish feast of Tu B'Shvat, "Birthday of the Trees," I am launching my first new page of 2001, Wars, Weapons, & Lies: The Dehumanizing Impulse.  The page begins with a look at contemporary war and weapons in the context of ancient wars and "magical" weapons (e.g., Arthur's sword).  It then offers illustrated links, annotated at length, to organizations trying to sift through governmental lies in an attempt to engender more tolerant, less toxic ways of handling conflict. This is a "companion page" to the last new page of 2000 launched on Christmas Day, Artists & Muses: The Creative Impulse.  (I call them "companion pages" because when creativity is thwarted, unnurtured, and/or repressed, the shadow-side of our creativity erupts and begins dehumanizing -- ourselves and others.  Too often, this is what leads to violence and wars.)
(FYI: for a beautiful essay on today's Jewish celebration of Tu B'Svat, "Birthday of the Trees," see: http://www.nas.com/jpcolbertart/seasons/tbshvat.html.)

31 January 2001: in preparation for the light and fire feasts beginning tomorrow, 1-2 February, I just updated my Imbolc/Candlemas page.

17 January 2001: in exactly one week (1/24/01), it will be Lunar New Year 2001-2002 and the Year of the Metal (Golden) Snake begins -- I just finished updating the Asian Lunar New Year page to reflect this.  (Note: the URL remains the same, but the art and some of the content has changed.)

Christmas Day 2000: out of the blue, a new page suddenly sprang up full-fledged today and demanded to be given form and an immediate launch.  So I did it <smile>.  It's a new Common Themes, East & West page: Artists & Muses: The Creative Impulse.  Happy Yuletide!

21 December 2000: I just added a new section called "Holiday Blues" to my Winter Greetings 2000 page.  Also, don't forget the seasonal "companion page": Yuletide Around the World

16 November 2000: In preparation for my folklore classes in the winter and spring 2001 quarters, I've just completed a major update (with a dozen new annotated links) of my European Folklore & Fairy Tale page.

13 November 2000: Today is MythingLinks' second anniversary.  The project has been an exhausting but richly satisfying venture.  To mark the occasion, I'm launching a new page in my Greek theme-clusters series:
Centaurs, Cheiron, Wounded Healers, Sagittarius.
Additionally, at the bottom of this home page, I used to have banners & links for the Hunger Site, Rainforest Site, Kids AIDS Site, Kids Survival Site, Breast Cancer Site, and several great animal and environmental sites -- for your convenience (and to trim loading times), I have now transferred these to a new page of their own: My Good Causes Page.

9 November 2000: I was recently interviewed for an article on goddesses, "Oh, Goddess!" by Laurel Kallenbach for gaiam.com -- here's the link if you'd like to read it: http://www.gaiam.com/gaiam/0,1267,ArticleDetail:learn:16:439,00.html.

31 October 2000:  In the old Celtic calendar, tonight, Samhain, marks the beginning of winter.  Thus, honoring my Celtic ancestors, and overlapping my still-current Autumn Greetings page, tonight I'm launching my Winter Greetings 2000 page.  I hope you'll enjoy exploring its many cross-cultural links and images on cold winter nights <smile>.  Since the page is quite long, I split the cross-cultural regional links this year and gave them a separate page at:
Yuletide Around the World -- these links cover Scandinavia, Russia & Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the New World, "Down Under," as well as Yuletide Mummers, Foods, and Trees.

13 October 2000: In my Common Themes section there are now two new pages: Food and Drink: Sacrality & Lore (topics include mead, ale, beer, wine, ancient & medieval foods, the sex life of dates, & more) and Symbols, Signs, & Runes (for this page, I found an especially good selection of links on the ancient swastika symbol).

11 October 2000: one of my most popular pages is the Halloween/Samhain page.  All year round, a surprising number of people from all over the world visit it.  I've just updated and expanded it with a handful of new links -- also a slightly spookier background <smile>.  Enjoy.

9 October 2000: I just launched my Indigenous Circumpolar Peoples page -- the few links there are superb ones; time permitting, more will be added over the coming months.

8 October 2000: On my just updated European Opening Page, I have added an exceptional link to a website that looks at the mythic theme of the "Rape of Europa" and how it relates to Europe in general.   On my just completed Baltics Opening Page, you'll find many new folkloric links plus 3 stunningly timeless, mysterious sculptural works by young Latvian artist, Roberts Diners.

5 October 2000:  For over a week now I've been upgrading and expanding my page on Baltic lands, in general, as well as on the new pages for individual Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.  There's a good deal on each of them and you might like to take a look.

17 September 2000:  Still on the music theme (see directly below), today I did a major update on my heretofore much-neglected Russian Music page.

14 September 2000, just past midnight: I just activated the new Music page (under Common Themes, East & West).  I'll slowly be adding more links, time and tired eyes permitting <smile>; ungrokked links will be found at the bottom of the page, in case you wish to explore further on your own.

6 September 2000: I'd like to call your attention to the Headline Muse, an excellent monthly, free, online journal which offers archetypal analysis of headline news, current events and cultural trends.  It comes from writer and professor, Laura Shamas, who is also currently a doctoral student in the Mythological Studies Department at Pacifica Graduate Institute (see above).

28 August 2000: I've reorganized my Ancient Greece page, splitting off the mythic clusters into individual pages.  Everything now loads faster and is more conveniently located.  The Mythic Theme Clusters include: Athena, Icarus, Medusa & Pegasus, & Pan -- others are forthcoming.

18 August 2000: my new Autumn Equinox/Mabon/Harvest page for 2000 is now online; all the art work has changed, as it will every year, & all of last year's still-active links have been revised and updated.  I plan to add a few more new links over the upcoming weeks, so please keep checking back.  Since this autumn 2000 is a presidential election year in my home-country of the United States, I've also included my thoughts on the mythic aspects of this process.

8 August 2000:  I'm now featuring the artwork of Francene Hart on my cyber ritual for Weather-Working  introductory page (as well as on the links page).  Her work blends amazingly well with the content.  She's a visionary artist who lives in the Wisconsin woods and works with "sacred geometry" -- I hope you'll take a look at what she does.  It's very powerful.

27-28 July 2000: since the seasonal harvest feast of Lammas, or Lughnasa, on 1-2 August is only a few days away, I've tried to steal a little time from other pressing duties to expand the minimal page I started last year.  I've added 4 new annotations, 2 of which include surprising data on ancient feminine connections to this feast of the Celtic god, Lugh.  At the bottom of the page are many ungrokked links on lore, rituals, etc.  I hope to get these annotated over the next few days.  In the meantime, you might enjoy exploring them on your own.  [Note: 7/30/00 -- the page is now complete.]

25 June 2000:  As my spring quarter course, Folklore & Fairy Tales, nears its completion, so too does my Western European Folklore & Fairy Tales page.  I've been working piecemeal on it in what limited time I've had, more work still remains, but it's already greatly enlarged with many new links and images.  I hope my students will find it useful in working on their research papers and that others will enjoy it as well.  P.S. It includes links to Harry Potter's author, J. K. Rowling, one of my favorites.

12 June 2000: with droughts, fires, and unusually potent storms so much a part of the news, I'm going way out on a limb in creating a new series of five linked pages -- an experimental cyber-ritual for weather-working.  It begins with my explanatory essay, Weather-Working: Introduction.  [Update 8 August 2000: I'm now featuring the arkwork of Francene Hart on this introductory page (as well as on the links page) because it blends so amazingly well with the content.  She's a visionary artist who lives in the Wisconsin woods and works with "sacred geometry" -- I hope you'll take a look at what she does.  It's very powerful.]

4 June 2000: Troubled by the escalating plight of Mayan descendents in Mexico's Chiapas region, I've activated my Indigenous Peoples >> Mexico page.  Much more remains to be done on this page but today there are 4 excellent links to large websites, most on the ancient Maya but one also includes detailed, current information on Chiapas.

29 May 2000:  My Summer 2000 Greetings, Lore & Customs page is now online.  (If you live in the Bay area, don't miss the special link for a major SPCA conference July 8-10, 2000 called Kinship with All Life: Exploring our Sacred Relationship with Animals and Nature.  Bernie Siegel, Matthew Fox, Jane Goodall, and many others will be featured speakers.)

28 May 2000:  I completely redesigned my general Reference page (I needed its previous opening image for my upcoming Summer Greetings page).  At the end of that page, I've added 4 great links on movies, especially for those of you searching for film plots, themes, and/or films representing various historical periods.  I hope you'll enjoy the new look.

20 May 2000: over the past month, in preparing a new lecture for my spring "Folklore & Fairy Tales" class, I fell in love with Finland's marvelous epic, the Kalevala.  Inspired by my research, I finally activated the Finland page -- located under Eastern Europe >> Finno-Ugric Peoples.  [5/31/00: With the addition of more links, the page is now finished.]

9 May 2000: this morning when Dr. Alice Root, a former student of mine, sent me the URL for her exceptional new site on the therapeutic/mythic use of donkeys and horses in helping disabled children, I knew I needed that link on my website as soon as possible, which meant that it was finally time to launch my Animal Guides page in the COMMON THEMES section.  It is now online with a handful of links, including Dr. Root's -- don't miss it.

1 May 2000: In honor of May Day / Beltane, I'm pleased to announce a delicious new page, "Crone Genesis," by famed Hungarian, wiccan author, Z Budapest, as a Mything Links' exclusive.  It can be reached via the COMMON THEMES: Crones & Sages page.

12 April 2000:  I've finally activated the links under INDIGENOUS PEOPLES for North America and Canada's First Peoples.  Also, the Beltane/May Day page is now complete.

6 April 2000: When I realized that 22 April 2000 is the 30th anniversary, as well as the 30 year Saturn-return cycle of Earth Day, I knew I had to create a special page for it.  The page includes links focused on Earth Day 2000 as well as on environmental issues that are relevant year-round.  The page opens with intriguing astrological data on this time period.  Perhaps it's no coincidence that, in the Christian calendar, the date this year also falls on Holy Saturday, that strangely quiet "limbo" day, between-the-realms, wherein miracles are brewed, only to erupt in a garden the next dawn.  The page has music ("Greensleeves") and Joanna Colbert's haunting "Artemis."

25 March 2000: In honor of Lady Day, I've added a new page to the COMMON THEMES section: Rituals of Puberty.  So far there are only a half dozen links -- 4 of them look at powerful Apache and Navajo rituals for young women.

9 March 2000: I've created a special page, rich with Russian illustrations of Baba Yaga, for an essay by an anonymous author on Russia's crone-goddess, Baba Yaga.  This can be reached from my Crones & Sages page in the COMMON THEMES section.

6 March 2000: a few mornings ago, in a fit of whimsey after a sleepless night, I made a new page: Graveyard for Lamented Links.  The page includes some of my thoughts on the ephemeral nature of webbing.

2 March 2000:  The Springtide Greetings, Lore, & Customs 2000 page is now online -- check the lore calendars from Waverly Fitzgerald and the Alpine Shaman for wonderful cross-cultural spring celebrations beginning early in March and running throughout the season until mid-June.  (The page also has music & exquisite spring-goddess illustrations.)

20 February to 2 March 2000: the Near East's lengthy Anatolia & Central Asia page is now complete -- it includes sub-sections on Turkey's Catal Huyuk, Hittites, Scythians, Amazons, the Caucasus, Huns, and much more.

11-20 February 2000: since I'll be teaching a new course on Ancient Near Eastern Traditions this summer, I've started working on that heretofore neglected portion of my website for the sake of my summer's students.  The original Near East Opening Page (which now has music -- an ancient Hurrian Hymn) has now spawned three regional subdivisions: Tigris-Euphrates,Canaan, and Anatolia & Central Asia.  I've also added a new Near Eastern page called The Three Monotheisms.  Much is still in-progress -- please keep checking back.

24 January 2000:  I have added new links to the February 1-2 Imbolc / Candlemas page.  I have also created a new page for the Asian Lunar Year: the Year of the Dragon, beginning February 5, 2000 until early 2001.

2-10 January 2000: for over a year my Trees & Plant Lore page has only had 7 links and one small image.  As a "tree person," I wanted this to be the first completed page of the new millennium -- and now it is, with a total of 39 links and many new images.  Categories covered include European & Cross-Cultural Lore; Entheogens; Ethnobotany & Folk Medicine; Wine; and Endangered Forests, Plants, Crops. [Update 17 January 2000: at the bottom of this Tree Lore page, I just added Waverly Fitzgerald's beautiful site on the Jewish Feast of Trees, Tu B'Shvat -- this year it falls on 22 January -- just a few days away.]

29-30 December 1999:  Floods, Storms, Rainbows, & Other Weather Wonders
now has an additional 14 links -- and is complete.  For why, of all my many unfinished pages, this one had to be finished by year's end, click on the link.  The answer surprised me too.

25 November 1999:  My 1999-2000 Winter Greetings page is now online.  In addition to the greetings, I've also included a great many annotated, illustrated links to early December feasts (Chanukah, St. Nicholas, Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Lucia); winter solstice (rituals, goddesses, the Holly King, etc); other winter celebrations (Christmas in Europe and the New World, European mummers, the Pueblo Turtle Dance, Kwanzaa, etc.); seasonal foods; and much more.  Enjoy the art, music, words and spirit!  [Update 12/16/99: because I love to share what I love, I've added a brief last-minute Mythic Holiday Shopping page to this Winter Greetings page.]

13 November 1999:  This evening marks the first anniversary of my Mything Links website.  The site has grown greatly during this time, both in new pages and in new visitors.  In the past three and a half months alone, over 6,000 people have visited this home page.  To celebrate all this "webbing," I've just launched a new page under "Common Themes": Weaving: Arts & Lore.  The page looks at cosmic webs, spinning, spindles, clothing, and much more.  Please take a look -- and celebrate with me!

30-31 October 1999:  Under "Common Themes," there's an outstanding new page this evening on mountains, wells, springs, pools, lakes, caves, labyrinths, spiral (& other) mounds, crop circles, stone circles (e.g., Stonehenge, etc), & Feng Shui.  It's called: Landscape: Sacrality & Lore

18 October 1999: Various requests from teachers have resulted in a
Teachers' Reference page; it focuses on sites for those who teach in primary or secondary schools (or for those who homeschool their children).  Lovely images come from African-American and Russian artists.  [11/1/99: this page has just been designated a "Cool Site" by the Open Directory Project.]

10 October 1999: The long-promised East European page, Pan Slavic Traditions & Beliefs, is now online.  It has many great links, both scholarly and general, as well as beautiful folklore images (including firebirds, Baba Yaga, and Vasilisa).

6 October 1999:  Especially for people like me who are "time-challenged" -- i.e., always late -- there's now a new page under "Common Themes," this one on Time.  It looks at calendars, clocks, cycles, attitudes toward time (& its discontents), & millennium issues.

4 October 1999: Under "Common Themes" there's now a major & beautiful new page on Nature Spirits of the World with many links and art images.  It looks at scholarly essays, reference resources, and great worldwide stories about fairies, elves, gnomes, sirens, mermaids.

23 September 1999: Under "Indigenous Peoples," there's now an imporant new page on Australia's Aboriginal Peoples.  It looks at their history, art, music, plant-lore, language, and beliefs in Dreamtime and Songlines.

20 September 1999:  In time for my autumn European Sacred Traditions course, I just made major additions to the "Old Europe" page -- a term used by Marija Gimbutas to designate a region of Eastern Europe where a unique Neolithic culture predated incursions from patriarchal, nomadic warriors.  Since Gimbutas' archives are housed at Pacifica Graduate Institute, updating this page takes on special meaning for me.

18 September 1999: The Jungian-oriented Special Interest page for the Pacifica Community now has many new links for depth psychology, religion, myth, etc.  The recently added Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead page now has music, "Aztec Flute" -- the music is very slow-loading, but worth it.

5 September 1999: There is a new page, The Wheel of the Year, where my seasonal greetings as well as the four "between" feasts may be found. The Autumn Greetings page has additional links plus a special link to a new page for Samhain (Halloween). I also created a new page for a related, but distinct, tradition in Mexico, the Day of the Dead.

31 August 1999: music + 2 new links (one on Krishna, Pan, dervishes & the Pied Piper) have been added to the Tricksters, Clowns, Magicians, Jesters & Fools page.  [A 3rd link on magicians and 2 new images added 9/25/99.]

25 August 1999: until now, my Ancient Greece page had one link and one image.  After days of work, it now has major changes, including about 3 dozen links and many new images.  It's a bit slow-loading (due to all the art), but I hope you'll enjoy it. /// My Sacred Theatre, Dance, & Ritual page has a new link to a webpage I designed for one of our Pacifica doctoral students, Dina Franz. The page is called "Children, Shootings, & Communal Dance." I created it, with her permission, because I feel her insights are important.

14 August 1999: The past few days there's been a chill in the air along the southern California coast and the stores are filled with "Back to School" sales. It feels like autumn, although the autumnal equinox is nearly six weeks away. In Russia's Ukraine, autumn already began on August 2nd with the feast of St. Ilya. So today, I'm putting my Autumn Greetings on line. In addition to my invocation, it includes a magnificent painting of an ancient Slavic goddess, a haunting Hungarian love song, and a small collection of excellent seasonal links (with more to come in late September).  Above all, it contains a link to the important Hunger Site, especially relevant in this approaching harvest season.

5 August 1999: I've further expanded the scope of the original "Floods" page (see 8/2/99 entry) -- it's now Floods, Storms, Rainbows, & Other Weather Wonders. This allows me to include such phenomena as St. Elmo's Fire, the aurora borealis, and "green flashes." I've added 14 additional links and 2 new images, including Sandra Stanton's eerie, haunting "Rainbow" from 1984.

4 August 1999: Yesterday the Sacred Theatre, Dance, & Ritual page had one illustration and zero links. Today it has 10 illustrations and 29 links. Enjoy!

2 August 1999: The Floods, Storms, & Rainbows page finally has several links plus lovely art from Hungarian-born artist, Judy Racz.

1 August 1999: I've moved Crones & Sages, which used to be under Western Europe, to Common Themes (I've kept the original URL for the sake of bookmarked files & search engines). This page now has great new art & links.

31 July 1999: I've made major changes to the Creation Myths page, including adding 17 new links and many new illustrations.

28 July 1999: There are now three new pages: a separate Reference Page (see above) with many new links as well as two links that used to be located above; Cross-cultural, Multi-regional, Interdisciplinary Collections which includes "The Voice of the Shuttle" as well as several new links; and Pages of special interest to Pacifica faculty, students & colleagues(these include links to Jung, Campbell, depth psychology, & several foundations for mythology).

20 July 1999: Summer solstice may be a month past but its energies are now widening and flowing into the ancient Celtic, communal, joyful, early harvest feast of Lammas, or Lughnasadh, on August 1st.  Thus, I've added 2 new links for Solstice and another 2 for Lammas on my Summer Greeting page; I've also added the lyrics for the music on this summer page.

17 July 1999: I have added 3 of Sandra Stanton's Egyptian goddesses to my Egyptian pages: Isis is on the Religious Beliefs & Practices page, Sekmet on Mythology, and Nut on the Women of Ancient Egypt page. I've also added her Diana/Artemis and Black Madonna to the Earth-Based Ways (Wicca) page. (Note to my students: Sandra is currently doing the paintings for my book, The Green World Oracle: Listening to the Voices of Sacred Trees & Plants.)

16 July 1999: near the bottom of the Burning Times page, I added two important new links and updated a third.

12 July 1999:  Announcing yet another new Latin America page, Lore & History of Maize.  This is a companion piece to the page on cocoa/chocolate.

10-11 July 1999: Announcing a new South American page: Andean Peoples (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile). There's still much more to add to this page in the months ahead, but this is at least a start. (Note: like most of my pages, it's rich in graphics so please be patient while it loads.) The new South America page, uploaded on July 1st with a special focus on the Amazon, has now been split so that I could move the Amazon material to its own page: Amazonian Peoples.

2 July 1999:  Inspired by Sandra Stanton's extraordinary, vital, earthy, indigenous goddesses, I have replaced what was just a single painting of hers with seven of her goddesses on my Indigenous Peoples page.  Enjoy!

1 July 1999:  Under my revised Indigenous Peoples' page, there is now a new Latin America page....Since cacao/cocoa/chocolate played a significant religious role in Meso-America as well as South American, I've created a seperate Latin American page for the Lore & History of Chocolate.

19 June 1999: After many trials with several services that worked poorly, I finally found a search engine from whatUseek that will allow you to type in a name, theme, location, etc and receive a thorough report on where (or if) my website has what you seek.  It's located above under "Notes" (below my name), guarded by two dragons.

18 June 1999: My Summer Solstice greeting is finally on-line (after a 10-day computer crash). The page includes artist Joanna Colbert's wonderful "Eve, the Gardener." Also included is a link to a Native American Peace and Prayer Day scheduled to coincide with summer solstice. This is a powerful time of the year and the focus on peace is crucial. [Note: my Spring Equinox greeting can now be found under Europe's Earth-based Ways.]

May 30, 1999: My long-neglected Dragons & Serpents page now has about a dozen new links and an additional illustration of a mystic serpent-woman.

May 28, 1999: The Balkan page now includes a link to Bulgaria, a fascinating land in whose mountains Orpheus and Dionysus are said to have lived.  Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains gave the entire region its name.  Also, her conversion to Christianity is viewed as the beginning of the "civilizing" of the region's Slavic peoples as a whole.  Bulgaria's festivals and lore are rich and wonderful.

May 27, 1999:  There is now a new Eastern Europe page on the Balkans -- much remains under construction, however. (Several other changes have also been made under "Eastern Europe" -- see Updates for specifics.)  This new Balkan page is now where you'll find Judith Brownlee's powerful Kosovo/Serb "Peace Invocation", which in turn is linked to a second page containing e-mail correspondence on Kosovo & Serbia (with 17 excellent, but unannotated links to the conflict there); this second page also has two ancient Slavic/Eastern European goddesses by artist Sandra Stanton.  Reaction to these pages continues to be phenomenal.

May 26, 1999: The mythic dimension of astrology has much to say about current events, some chilling, some hopeful. Wolfstar's engrossing syndicated column has been listed on my Star Lore page for months now, but here is a direct link: http://www.wstardesigns.com/astrology/column.html-- and as a backup, if this one is down, try Halloran's Astrological Software site [double-click in the upper right hand corner under "Weekly NewsScope"]: http://www.halloran.com/astnews.htm