The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places;
but still there is much that is fair;
and though in all lands
love is now mingled with grief,
it grows perhaps the greater.
(J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring)

More Peace & Anti-War Quotes

      MYTH*ING LINKS

An Annotated & Illustrated Collection
of Worldwide Links to Mythologies,
Fairy Tales & Folklore,
Sacred Arts & Sacred Traditions
By Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.

Online since 13 November 1998

My thanks to all for warm wishes and support over these past many years --
if you'd like to see what this home page looked like on 11/13/98, here's that original page.

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Created by: Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.
As of 1 June 2003, retired core faculty member
Mythological Studies Department / Pacifica Graduate Institute
(Home of the non-profit OPUS, housing the libraries/archives of Joseph Campbell,
Marija Gimbutas, James Hillman, & others)
249 Lambert Road // Carpinteria, CA 93013.

As of Spring 2006: Ordinarius (aka "advisor") for M.A. and Ph.D. students
at the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend, Indiana,
affliated with Oxford University in England.

Updates since I left California in 2003

subbing/grubbing blog: [6 December 2008: unfortunately, I haven't had time to maintain this blog as I'd hoped.  I'll announce updates here as they occur.]

..Myth*ing Links Bookstore and. Unshelved Annex..
Latest Updates:
16 October 2009 and 1 September 2009

*  I am available for:
.Dream Coaching / Consulting.
A Testimonial about My Dream Work

*  And  also pastlife/karmic sessions:
..Explore Your Karmic Roots.... .Announcement on Pastlife Sessions: to celebrate the return of autumn (my favorite time of the year,  a time of introspection, a time when the veils between the worlds are thinner) and to attract new clients as well as to welcome back former ones, I am offering a limited time special rate of 1/3rd off.   A 2-3 hour session, whether by phone or in person, will be $100 instead of $150.  This offer is good from Autumn Equinox (22 September) through 7 November 2009. (See Explore Your Karmic Roots for more information on my work.)

Update, 11/3/09: since quieter seasonal energies still drift around us, I am extending the offer for a final two weeks through Sunday, 22 November 2009.

Pegasus, winged horse-son of the much maligned Medusa:
on Mount Helicon, he churned up the sacred springs that fed and inspired the Muses,
and thus, memory and all the arts.
Artist: Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

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as well as google and an alternate search engine for this site,

...This is a PayPal link  to help support this site, for those with the means to help.
All donations gratefully appreciated.

1998: Cyber Nuts & Bolts

*If you're new to websites, please click here: For the Cyber-Challenged.  [Note: instructions apply to PC's with Netscape browsers, but if you have something else, this page will still help you know what's available and what certain things mean.  Hopefully, you'll find a friend who can tell you the specifics of your own system!]
*If you're not seeing a full-sized page because it's trapped as a slice in  someone's  frames, please click here:http://www.mythinglinks.org
*If images don't load fully, hitting the "Reload" button usually solves this.
*If you wish to download art, please be sure to make notes of title, artist & URL for copyright purposes in citing it online (you'll need to do this as a separate action because computers don't automatically include such info in a download).

2006: Artist, Melanie Renn, has created a free online photoshow around a prayer, "As Autumn Returns," that I wrote a handful of years ago for my autumn equinox page.  Her work has a Native American focus and is truly beautiful -- music, art, and words all blend together.  It's at:

http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/uQ4iC2zy

10 March 2009:
Note -- this photoshow will expire on 31 March 2009 -- see it while you can! -- and if anyone could save this for me, I'd be grateful.  My aging computer can no longer get this to play.

<<<NEW>>>
Other recent additions will be indicated by
dated signs in the Table of Contents.

..12 November 2009: a promising but sorely inadequate image (incorrectly titled "Sage Watering the Tree of Life") on my Common Themes: Crones and Sages page has now turned up in a far superior version (correctly titled "Lot Watering the Tree of the Cross"), to which I have added explanatory excerpts and comments.

29 October 2009, pre-dawn: my Halloween/Samain page has now been updated for this year.  Same day, 9:30pm: the Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos page has now been updated as well.

20 October 2009: on the 16th I updated my page: Gender Issues: Why Women Can't Sleep.  I mentioned 10 books in that December 2008 essay, but never provided links to them.  Now I've finally added a new "Books" section at the end so that it'll be easier to find the references (they're now also in the main Bookstore).

16 September 2009: The Autumn Greetings and Lore page has now been updated for 2009 with a new opening essay and art. It covers various celebrations through November and I hope you'll enjoy it.  I'm also announcing (see above) a limited time offer of 1/3rd off on past life regressions from 22 September through 22 November 2009.

11 September 2009: My Shamanism page, untouched since I put a single link on it in 1998, has now been greatly expanded with more links, artwork, and books (including my comments on The Soul of Shamanism by my late colleague, Dan Noel).

.20 July 2009: there is now a companion bookstore page (see directly below) -- the Unshelved Annex -- where special books not yet on other Myth*ing Links pages will be found.

.18 July 2009, 11:30pm: I am officially launching the Myth*ing Links Bookstore tonight.  I have many recommended book links scattered all over my pages, where they'll continue to remain. The Bookstore, however, will eventually have all of them collected together in one place with their original Myth*ing Links' pages noted in case you wish more info and context. Note: pages whose books are now available in the Bookstore will be marked on the site map below with this symbol: .  If you scroll upwards, you'll find updates noted above my opening Pegasus image.

24 June 2009, 4pm EDT: even before I had finished my new Fireflies page (see below), I had already started what I thought would be a brief, quick page on Bees in the World and in Mythology. I was wrong. Three intense weeks of total immersion later, it's finally complete. The page looks at bees in science, amber,  beekeeping, mythology, folklore, literature, ancient history, stars, mead, and even "dumbledore," which is a type of bee (as well as a wizard's name). I hope you'll enjoy exploring this new page over these warm, sunny summer days.

9 June 2009: the new Fireflies in the World and in Mythology page is now complete (see directly below) and I have updated times and dates for the Summer Solstice page.

25 May 2009, 7:30pm EDT: I just launched a new page on Insects in the World and in Mythology.  In addition, I have launched a related work-in-progress page on Fireflies because of its time-sensitive links to the Boston Museum of Science's Firefly Watch (for which I hope many of you will consider being volunteer "Citizen-Scientists," just as I am, as of last summer).

NOTE: To prevent this "New" section from getting too long, I am transferring its additions to an Archival Page.  Currently, this covers from May 26, 1999 to 30 April 2009.  For those who like to keep track of more frequent, nuts & bolts changes, please see my Updates Diary [11/4/04: unfortunately, not updated in ages -- ::sigh::].

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 CURRENT EVENTS / MOVIES:

Many visitors assume that a mythologist like me focuses only on ancient times, but this is incorrect.  I am also passionate about my own times, especially since so many toxic myths and legends from the past continue to influence (and corrupt) today's decisions.  I hope you'll explore this new Current Events page -- a collection from other sites as well as Myth*ing Links relating to the world we inhabit today.

NOTE: many external links in the above Current Events section are updated daily, others weekly.  In these times of shrinking news coverage by mainstream TV networks, it's all the more crucial that we find ways of remaining informed about the deeper issues.  It does help to know how many others share our deep concerns.

In addition to the new Current Events page, below are direct links to 4 of my other pages with clear ties to our contemporary world:

The Three Desert-Born Monotheisms
Wars, Weapons, & Lies: The Dehumanizing Impulse
Artists & Muses: The Creative Impulse
Spring Equinox 2003

20 April 2004: Movies also play an often critical role in "current events," so I'd like to mention  the Spiritual Cinema Circle started by Stephen (Deutsch) Simon (producer of Somewhere in Time and other films).  He attends film festivals all over the world and gets DVD rights to films most of us would never get to see otherwise.  There's nothing to return -- you keep these DVDs.  If you join, you get 3-5 films every month -- some are shorts, others are documentaries, there's always at least one feature length film.  Most are superb. I don't always agree with all their choices but I do really love that they're doing this.  (There's another Circle link at the bottom of this page with further info.)

THE ENVIRONMENTAL CORNER

26 July 2007, Thursday, 10:45pm: This is a new section that collects in one place my Factory Farm / Industrial Agriculture pages plus my environmentally-focused pages, all of which were formerly listed in the Common Themes section.  This new section looks at issues relevant to clean air, water, food, and fairness to the creatures who have been here as long, or longer, than we have and who share this environment with us. If you have bookmarked earlier Common Themes links that are now in this new section, please note that URLs will not change. I have moved them to this new section but have left older URLs intact.

9 December 2008: I have added a new Reuters report to my Environmental Corner page. Here is the opening excerpt, which will give you a sense of how significant and forward-looking it is:

Reuters - The worst financial crisis since the 1930s may be a chance to put price tags on nature in a radical economic rethink to protect everything from coral reefs to rainforests, environmental experts say. Farmers know the value of land from the amount of crops they can produce but large parts of the natural world - such as wetlands that purify water, oceans that produce fish or trees that soak up greenhouse gases - are usually viewed as "free." "Most of our valuable assets are not on the books," said Robert Costanza, professor of ecological economics at the University of Vermont. "We need to reinvent economics. The financial crisis is an opportunity...."

CRONE PAPERS
A Collection of Essays & Other Writings by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.

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.

Note: this is a separate section of Myth*ing Links with its own separate Table of Contents on its portal-page.

10 May 2005, Tuesday, 2:15am: there is now a new subsection within CRONE PAPERS called Notes on Books & Video Games -- this portal page has its own Table of Contents.

<<< Seasonal Links of On-going Relevance >>>

MYTH*ING LINKS' SEASONAL PAGES:
WHEEL OF THE YEAR: 

Winter Greetings & Lore..     .       .Beltane / May Day
Yuletide Around theWorld..       ......Summer Greetings & Lore
Imbolc / Candlemas..........................Lammas
Asian Lunar New Year............ .......Autumn Greetings & Lore
Spring Greetings & Lore...........Columbus Day
Earth Day.........................................Samhain / Halloween
           ...............................................Day of the Dead:

Why There's No Thanksgiving Day Page on Myth*ing Links

<<< Year-round Links of On-Going Relevance >>>

DAILY:
*Environmental & Humanitarian Causes Page-- click on this Myth*ingLinks' site to access humanitarian and environmental causes.  Then click daily on the causes you desire.  You pay nothing -- sponsors do.
*For a detailed calendar covering ancient pagan feasts as well as Judeo-Christian celebrations, see Waverly Fitzgerald's wonderfully folkloric School of the Seasons, updated around the first of each month.
WEEKLY:
*The mythic dimension of astrology has much to say about current events, some chilling, some hopeful. Don't miss Wolfstar's weekly column (usually updated every Monday or Tuesday) on world events & famous people as seen through astrology's mythic lens (backup sites with archives are at: Wandering Star Designs orStar IQ).
MONTHLY:
*The Headline Muse, a handsome, provocative monthly online journal (free) which offers archetypal analysis of headline news, film reviews, current events and cultural trends.  It's published the 6th of each month and includes archives of previous months.
The Remaining links are for "WhenEver":
*I began my Mythic Shopping Page for the 1999-2000 winter holidays but have decided to keep it up year round.
*Asian Lunar New Year.
*Earth Day, which includes environmental issues that are relevant year-round.
*The Kosovo Peace Invocation  -- as important now as ever in that angry, wounded land.

*I was interviewed (11/00) 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.

...My Personal Friends:
Recommended Links to Healers, Writers, & Artists
Added 28 July 2006

Since Myth*ing Links is designed for student research, I have added this section containing online libraries, reference help, literary texts, data on world languages, help on writing research papers (both MLA and APA), information on copyright "myths," movie links (especially for those of you searching for film plots, themes, and/or films representing various historical periods), and also sites simply for word-lovers.

This page for teachers (or for those who homeschool) contains links to mythology, folklore, and general sites with data and lesson plans for grades K-12.  Lovely images come from African-American and Russian artists.  (On 11/1/99, the Open Directory Project designated this page as a "Cool Site.")

Beginning with the superb "Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research,"this section looks at very large and comprehensive collections.

This section includes unannotated links to Pacifica faculty, graduates, & student webpages plus sites on Jung, Campbell, Freud, Eliade, Otto, Hillman, other depth psychologists, mysticism, anthropology, religious studies, archetypal perspectives, foundations for mythology & psychology, relevant journals, books, videos, etc.

8/29/00 -- I have deleted my codes indicating stages of completion for each page.  Only the most recent updates or new pages will be noted.  By "recent," I mean the past 10-12 months.
means the page is music-enhanced -- controls to pause or stop the sound are at the bottom of these pages.
IMPORTANT -- links to more recent new pages under "Common Themes" will not yet appear on earlier pages -- you'll need to return to this home page for the most up-to-date menu.

 Artists & Muses: The Creative Impulse:

 Birds [forthcoming, as of 5/25/09]
       Firebird/Phoenix:

 Creation Myths: Part I: (General scholarship, Australia, Africa, & Multi-cultural)
 Creation Myths: Part II: (India, Japan, Near East, Greece, Rome, Norse, Teutonic)
 Creation Myths: Part III: (North & Meso America)

 Crones & Sages:.11/12/09
        Baba Yaga page:
        Crone Genesis: by Z. Budapest

 Dragons & Serpents:

 Food and Drink: Sacrality & Lore: [Also see above under Animal Guides and below under Latin America]

Lore & History of Chocolate:
Lore & History of Maize

     EARTH:
        Land: Sacrality & Lore:  (mountains, caves, labyrinths, spiral mounds, crop & stone circles, FengShui)
        Earth Day & Environmental Issues: 
        Earth Goddesses & Gods:

        Minerals:   8 May 2004 -- still a work-in-progress

           Bronze [forthcoming]
           Copper
           Diamonds:
           Emeralds [forthcoming]
           Gold
           Iron [forthcoming]
           Malachite:
           Silver [forthcoming]
           Tin [forthcoming]

     FIRE:
        Fire: Sacrality & Lore:  (fire, northern lights, green-flashes, Elmo's Fire)
        Fire & Solar Goddesses & Gods:

     WATER:
        Water: Sacrality & Lore: (water, wells, springs, pools, lakes)

Note: in over 6 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.  You'll find photos & links to his research on this Water: Sacrality & Lore page.

Gender Issues:Women -- "Why Women Can't Sleep" -- Introductory Essay: .10/16/09, 

My opening essay looks at why women can't sleep, labyrinths, Ariadne, and Hero/Heroine Journeys. The following section of annotated links explores the relationship of women to major contemporary issues such as food scarcity, foreclosures, national security, creativity, education, "illegals," and prisons. I have spent nearly three weeks on this page (much more than I ever expected)  because I feel such a personal involvement with these issues. I hope you will also find it of value.

Green Men::
        Who is the Green Man?: by my late friend and colleague, Dr. Dan Noel
Insects in the World and in Mythology: 11 September 2009, 
        Bees: 25 September 2009, 
        Fireflies: ..6/9/09
Money, Wealth & Treasure: .c. 11/07/09, 
        Attachment:Martin Luther King, Jr. on a Guaranteed Annual Income/Wage: . .10/9/09, 

 Music:9/14/00, but still 

 Nature Spirits of the World:

 Reincarnation:
    Perspectives on Exploring Past Lives
    What Is a Past Life?
    Frequently Asked Questions
    Letter to a Child:
    China and Tibetan Reincarnation:

 Rituals of Birthing  [forthcoming]

 Rituals of Puberty:

 Rituals of Marriage:

 Rituals of Death & Dying:

 Rituals of Devic Weather-Working: Introduction: An experimental cyber-ritual.

 Sacred Theatre & Dance:

 Shamanism: & greatly expanded: 10-11 September 2009,
    Wintery Shamanism:

 Star Lore & Astrology: 2/10/01 & 2/21-22/03 -- but still
     Centaurs, Cheiron, Sagittarius:(also listed under Western Europe: Ancient Greek Traditions)
     Mars in Astrology, Mythology, and Science: (also listed under Western Europe: Roman & Italian Traditions)
     Poseidon/Neptune: (also listed under Western Europe: Ancient Greek Traditions)
     Sedna: Goddess of the Arctic Seas and our 10th Planet: (also listed under Indigenous Peoples/North America)

 Symbols, Signs, & Runes:

 Time: (Calendars, Clocks, Natural Temporal Cycles, Attitudes toward Time, & Millennium Issues)

 Trees & Plant Lore: 

 Tricksters, Clowns, Magicians, Jesters & Fools:
      The Archetype of the Magician: by John Granrose, Ph.D.

 Wars, Weapons, & Lies: The Dehumanizing Impulse:
         My Notes on James Hillman's The Terrible Love of War [Conference: 11/8-9/02]
         Anti-War Quotes:
       Peace / War / Health: by Christiane Northrup, M.D.

 Weaving: Arts & Lore: (Cosmic Webs, Spinning, Spindles, Quilts, Clothing)

MYTHOLOGIES
& SACRED TRADITIONS
FOR SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS:

EGYPT & THE SAHARA Portal Page:

EGYPT's subdivisions:

Alexandria:
Amarna:
Art & Artifacts:
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt:
Egypt: General Info, Books, Art Reproductions, Travel, Etc.:
Egypt: through the Eyes of Photographers & Artists:
Hieroglyphs, Papyrus, Texts:
Links to the Links:
Men of Ancient Egypt:
Multiple Category Sites:
Mythology:
Other Archaeological Sites:
Pyramids:
Religious Beliefs & Practices:Ancient, Graeco-Roman, Coptic:
Women of Ancient Egypt:

The Sahara:

Sub-Saharan Africa Portal Page:

FYI: except for the "Sacred Arts" page, this entire section remains largely under construction.  In the meantime, if you check my Search Engine and enter the name of a country or people, you may find links to them scattered throughout my "Common Themes" pages.

Sub-Sahara: General
Sub-Saharan Folklore
Sub-Saharan Sacred Arts

Sub-Saharan Countries and Peoples:

Niger I: The Country:
Niger II: Famine 2005:
Songhay People of Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger,  & Nigeria:
Hausa People of Niger and Nigeria & Fulani People of Mali and Niger:   31 August 2005 -- still 

Asian Lunar New Year:

Asian Arts:
Buddhism, General: 4/1/01 & still
China:
    China and Tibetan Reincarnation: [a reprint]
India:
      Sacred Theatre and Dance (Natya):
      Origins of Sacred Theatre: A Re-telling of Vak / Churning of the Ocean:
Japan:
Korea:
Mongolia
Nepal:
Southeast Asia:
Tibet:
Zen:

Afghanistan (Part I): 
Afghanistan (Part II):
Pakistan:9/17-18/01 & still

Pre-historic Period:Paleolithic to the Bronze Age:
Old Europe: 25 August 2007
European Nature-Based Ways (Wicca):

The Wheel of the Year: 
[This page has links to all my seasonal greetings for the solstices & equinoxes -- also see near the top of my HomePage under "Links of Ongoing Relevance" for direct links.]
The Burning Times:

European Colonialism:

Individuation, Seeing-through, and Liberation:  Depth Psychology and Colonialism,by Helene Shulman Lorenz, Ph.D. & Mary Watkins, Ph.D.
Silenced Knowings, Forgotten Springs: Paths to Healing in the Wake of Colonialism, by Helene Shulman Lorenz, Ph.D. & Mary Watkins, Ph.D.

12 November 2008: a new book by my former colleagues at Pacifica, Mary Watkins and Helene Shulman,  Toward Psychologies of Liberation, has just been published. Please check their Myth*ing Links pages for further information: Individuation, Seeing-through, and Liberation:  Depth Psychology and Colonialismor:Silenced Knowings, Forgotten Springs: Paths to Healing in the Wake of Colonialism. Congratulations, Helene and Mary!

Pan-Slavic Traditions & Beliefs:
Russia Portal Page:

Russian Fairy Tales & Folklore:
    The Stone Flower: [Re-telling of a Russian folktale set in the Urals]
Sacred Ikons:
Music:

The Balkans Portal Page:
Individual Balkan countries/states/kingdoms:

Albania [forthcoming]
Bosnia [forthcoming]
Bulgaria Part I
Bulgaria Part II
Croatia:9/11/01 & 10/21/01 -- still 
Kosovo |||||  Kosovo/Serb Peace Invocation
Macedonia [forthcoming]
Montenegro [forthcoming]
Romania:
Serbia [forthcoming]
Slovenia [forthcoming]
*** For Greece, see under "Western Europe";
for Hungary, see below under "Finno-Ugric Peoples.")

Other Slavic Lands
Baltic States Portal Page:

Estonia:
Latvia:
Lithuania:

Finno-Ugric Peoples Portal Page:

Finland:
Hungary:
(Note: for Estonia, see "Baltic Sates";   for Sami and western Siberian peoples, see "INDIGENOUS: Circumpolar.")
.

Classical Traditions:

Ancient Greek Traditions:

Mythic Themes Clustered Around:
[Note: links to more recent new pages in this section will not yet appear on earlier pages -- you'll need to return to this home page for an up-to-date menu.]

Aphrodite [forthcoming]
Artemis  [forthcoming]
Athena:
Centaurs, Cheiron, Sagittarius: (also listed under Star Lore & Astrology)
Demeter [forthcoming]
Hecate & "Dark" Goddesses [forthcoming]
Hephaestus:
Hestia:
Icarus:
Kore / Persephone:
Medusa & Pegasus:
Pan
Poseidon/Neptune:  (also listed under Star Lore & Astrology)
Prometheus:

Ancient Roman & Italian Traditions:  9/10-13/00

Mars in Astrology, Mythology, and Science: (also listed under Star Lore & Astrology)

Celtic Traditions:
Icelandic, Nordic, & Teutonic Traditions:5 November 2003 & still

The Leylines of Nuremberg:
Pastlife Regression on the Leylines of Nuremberg:
The Norns of Norn Mountain (Nuremberg):

Medieval Life & Times:
Arthurian Themes:
Grail  Lore:
Alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermetics:
Fairy Tales & Folk Lore:

FYI: much in this section remains largely under construction -- however, if you check my Search Engine and enter the name of a country or people, you may find links to them scattered throughout my "Common Themes" pages.

Note: also see "Sub-Saharan Africa";  "The Sahara"; and "Eastern Europe" (for indigenous Eurasian, but  non-circumpolar, peoples)

CIRCUMPOLAR:10/9/00; 

THE AMERICAS Portal Page [forthcoming]

North America Portal Page:

Sedna: Goddess of the Arctic Seas and our 10th Planet: (Also listed under Star Lore & Astrology)

Canada's First Peoples:

Native American Portal Page [forthcoming]

Native Americans of the Southwest:  8/28/02, but still a work-in-progress; officially launched 13 November 2002, but still incomplete.

Latin America Portal Page:

[FYI: this page is linked to my separate Lore & History of Chocolate
and Lore & History of Maize pages--these two pages are also listed above under Common Themes: Food and Drink: Sacrality & Lore]

Meso America & the Caribbean [forthcoming]

Mexico:

Day of the Dead:

South America Portal Page:

Amazonian Peoples:
Andean Peoples:  (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, & northern Chile)
Patagonian Peoples [forthcoming]
Peoples of Other Regions  [forthcoming]

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLES:

MAORI:

PACIFIC ISLANDERS [forthcoming]
.

Tigris-Euphrates River Valley:
      Lilith Remembered: a poem by Kathy Robles
Contemporary Iraq:

Canaan:

Anatolia:

The Three Desert-Born Monotheisms:
      Judaism:
      Christianity:
......Islam
         Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya, an 8th Century Islamic Saint from Iraq:

The Crone Papers: Notes on the Mideast:
       What Can We Do About Terrorism?:  by Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret.
       Deena Metzger's Call for Deliberation.

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.....8 September 2004: About dead & broken links,  it's impossible for me to stay caught up -- some die within hours or days of my launching a new page.  If you find a dead link and really yearn to see what was on that page, several of my readers have sent me the following "time machine" link that has archived 30 billion pages dating back to 1996 -- it's easy to use and really works:  http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

NOTE: I strongly support:... I'm tired of sites that have stopped coding for older browsers. Many of us -- senior citizens as well as countless people in the Third World -- whether through choice or economic pressures -- do not have computers with all the whistles & bells.  I object to those who consider us insignificant and who create sites we cannot access [8 April 2002, 4am].

Privacy Policy: as of 11/5/06, this site uses a Google cookie that collects anonymous traffic data.  I will not (and will not allow any third party to) use this service to track or collect personally identifiable information of Internet users, nor will I (or will I allow any third party to) associate any data gathered from my website(s) (or such third parties' website(s) with any personally identifying information from any source as part of my use (or such third parties' use) of the service.

E-mail Stuff:December 2001 -- FYI: my only active e-mail address is below --
any other e-mail links among my over 200 pages are broken.

[Updated 6 May 2003 & 6 December 2006]:If you have comments, suggestions, or wish to report a broken link,  please e-mail me at : jenks7ATacdDOTnet, replacing AT and DOT with their appropriate symbols after you copy & paste the address into your e-mail.   (FYI: as of 11 May 2004, I removed my direct e-mail link due to relentless e-mail robot-spamming.) Please note that this is a one-woman operation and my free time is quite rare.
If I do not get back to you, it's due to lack of time, not interest. Please don't ask for homework or research help.  I created this huge website and its Search Engines so that you can find answers for yourself <smile>. You will also find resources on my General Reference page.  If you need further help, please check with your own instructors or librarians.   Thank you for your thoughtfulness.

8 August 2004: If you wish to contact me about including your link on my pages, please know that I am at least 2 years behind and have a huge backlog of ungrokked links.  I am not interested in link exchanges or commercial links but I do try to look at all suggested educational and/or academic ones.  You'll need to be patient, however.  As noted above, this is a one-woman operation.  If I do not get back to you, it's due to lack of time, not interest.

...Below is a link to Journey to Wild Divine -- meditative, yet exciting, biofeedback-based video games.  Through my friend Jean Houston, who does beautiful voice-overs at the beginning of the first 2 games, I became the Mythology/Religion/Psychology consultant on game-2, "Wisdom Quest."  I also wrote the novella/journal-style Companion Guide for the 2nd game.  The new owners are no longer offering the $10 PDF download of this Companion Guide but if you are interested in a copy, just contact me directly: jenks7ATacdDOTnet (substitute the appropriate symbols for "at" and "dot"). I love the first two games and highly recommend them.

The third Wild Divine game, "Healing Rhythms," is a series of exquisite settings in which to learn relaxation techniques from Andrew Weil, Deepak Chopra, heart-expert Dean Ornish, Joan Borysenko, and others. I just received my copy and look forward to exploring familiar landscapes (taken from the first two games) in new, healing,  peaceful contexts.

Below is the Spiritual Cinema Circle -- I have been a loyal subscriber since their very first month (April 2004).  For costs, free trial, & gift subscriptions, click below or see their smaller banner (scroll back up to "Current Events/Movies").  Subscriptions help support Myth*ing Links <smile>:

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Finally, if you live in or near Michigan and are looking for creative, elegant landscaping
(as shown in the photo below of a lakeshore estate),
don't miss this neighbor of mine,
Mike Collins at County Line Nurseries:

Whether in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, or Wisconsin,
contact County Line Nurseries and Landscaping
for innovative, unique designs for all your residential and commercial needs.