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In the royal court of Hastinapur, the eldest Pandava prince Yudhishthira loses his kingdom, his brothers, and finally his wife Draupadi in a rigged game of dice against the Kauravas. When the Kaurava prince Dushasana attempts to humiliate Draupadi by disrobing her in front of the entire assembly, she appeals to Lord Krishna for divine protection. Through a miraculous intervention, Krishna...
When the sun god Ra cursed the sky goddess Nut so she could not give birth on any day of the year, the wise god Thoth intervened. By winning moonlight in a game of chance with the moon god Khonsu, Thoth created five extra days that existed outside the standard calendar. On the first of these intercalary days, Nut gave birth to Osiris, the god who would eventually become the lord of the...
King Oedipus of Thebes discovers that he has unwittingly fulfilled a horrific prophecy by killing his father, Laius, and marrying his mother, Jocasta. Upon the devastating revelation of his true identity and the source of a plague ravaging his city, Oedipus blinds himself in a fit of grief and shame. The story concludes with his fall from power and his request to be exiled from the land he...
When the Greek fleet is stranded at Aulis by a lack of wind caused by the goddess Artemis, King Agamemnon is forced to choose between his ambition and his daughter's life. To appease the goddess and continue the voyage to Troy, he lures Iphigenia to the camp under the pretense of marriage to Achilles, only to prepare her for sacrifice. At the final moment, Iphigenia accepts her fate for the...
While traveling toward the Western Heaven, the monk Tang Sanzang is captured by seven spider spirits disguised as beautiful sisters who trap him with magic silk. After a series of comical and dangerous encounters involving the Monkey King and Pigsy, the pilgrims must face the spiders' brother, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord, to save their master.
Amphiaraus, a noble seer and warrior of Argos, was forced into the ill-fated Seven Against Thebes expedition by his wife's betrayal. During the final retreat, as he was about to be struck down, Zeus split the earth open with a thunderbolt to save his honor. The hero was swallowed whole by the ground, becoming an immortal oracle and healing deity at the site of Oropos.
The legend of Tripurantaka tells of Lord Shiva’s cosmic battle against three demon brothers—Tarakaksha, Kamalaksha, and Vidyunmali—who ruled three invincible flying cities made of iron, silver, and gold. These cities, granted by a boon from Brahma, could only be destroyed when they aligned once every thousand years and were struck by a single arrow. Shiva, assuming the form of Tripurantaka...
Daji, the fox-spirit consort of the last Shang king, brought the empire to ruin through her cruelty and enchantments. When the Zhou forces finally conquered the capital of Zhaoge, Daji was sentenced to death. However, her supernatural beauty and charms were so potent that no executioner could bring themselves to strike her until Jiang Ziya intervened with a divine artifact.
After reaching adulthood, Horus, the son of Osiris, challenged his uncle Set for the throne of Egypt before the divine tribunal known as the Ennead. For eighty years, the two gods engaged in magical contests and legal battles while the gods of Heliopolis debated the rightful heir. Ultimately, with the intervention of Osiris from the underworld and the wisdom of Isis, Horus was crowned king,...
This tragic myth recounts the curse of the nymph Echo, who could only repeat the words of others, and her unrequited love for the beautiful but vain Narcissus. After rejecting Echo and many others, Narcissus is cursed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool on Mount Helicon, eventually wasting away and transforming into the flower that bears his name. The story serves as a classic...