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Greetings, myth lovers! For the upcoming we are asking: what are your favourite mythology-themed ?

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Let's swap some awesome recs, all right? 😊
Your host @AimeeMaroux is looking forward to all your reports! 😚

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Photo of a used books store in Edinburgh packed from top to bottom with books. At the end of a bookshelf corridor, we see a man standing with an open book in his hands.

Thank you, myth lovers, this wraps up our emoji game 🤗
This is your host @AimeeMaroux signing off 👋
Join @independentpen next week for a new theme!

If you arrived from or : welcome to and please, share your myths with us! 💖
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A group of three emojis headed with the words "Guess That Myth" in red, Greek-style letters. On the left is the wine glass emoji, in the middle the bee emoji, and on the right is the trophy emoji. The bottom has a small #GuessTheMyth in red letters on the left and www.eroticmythology.com on the right, as this used to be a weekly game on Aimée's Twitter.

Thank you, myth lovers, for your stories about beaches!
This is your host @AimeeMaroux signing off 👋
Join us next week here on for a new theme! And if you recently arrived from or : welcome and don't be shy and share your myths with us! The more people the better 💖

For more waterside , tune in for @swampsunday on Sunday!

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Ancient Greek vase painting of the underworld ferryman Charon in his boat with Hermes, the guide of souls, standing at the shore with a newly deceased shade.

A tale from Benjamin Lacombe's Japanese myth books volume one and two:

📕Geistergeschichten aus Japan

📕Japanische Geister und Naturwesen
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The fisherman, Urashima Tarō rescued a turtle that took him to the undersea Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) where he fell in love with Princess Otohime.

After a few days, he wanted to return home and she gave him a parting box.

When he arrived on land, he did not recognize his village or anyone there. Asking around, he realizes that almost 100 years had passed.

Miserable, he opened the box and immediately turned into an old man (in some cases- to dust) as the years caught up with him.

Art by the illustrator, Benjamin Lacombe. Japanese myth features heavily in two of his works which I have only seen in German/ Italian so far!

His books feature the stories as told by Lafcadio …

Image by Benjamin Lacombe shows a Japanese fisherman on a small boat. There is a massive wave towering over him with red and green fish heads poking out and a woman made of water/shaped out of water is staring down at him.