Fairy Tale Friday--Folk-Lore of the Holy Land

This week's full-text Google Book is Folk-Lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian, and Jewish, collected by J.E. Hanauer and edited by Marmaduke Pickthall.
My favorite sections of this book are:

Judgements of Karakash, page 120
Azrael, page 176
The Underground Folk, page 188
About Coffee, page 290

Courtesy of Wikimedia

Fun Things I Have Done

Last Saturday (i.e. 1/23) Sue and I went to the MFA to see the current special exhibit The Secrets of Tomb 10A.  It showed off the stuff left over after looters took all the bling from the tomb of Djehutynakht and his lovely wife.  We saw lots of wooden model boats and some excellent tomb painting.  We took the audio tour, which was fun.  All you blog-readers should check this exhibit out.
Afterwards we ate at Betty's Wok & Noodle.  Sue's pad thai was too dry, but my peanut noodle bowl was good.
I did not take my camera with me, so I have provided you with pictures of Osiris, in the upper left corner, and Anubis, to the right.

Happy Birthday Sun

Was December 25 really celebrated as the birthday of Mithras Sol Invictus?  Wikipedia says there are doubts.  But since we must celebrate it sometime, it might as well be today.

For You Sun Worshipers Out There

i Learn iMovie

Last Friday America's most offensive church came to Harvard and had a little demonstration near the law school. I decided to take this opportunity to learn iMovie.

My Fifteen Minutes are Over..

...so let me deal with a few questions that came up Friday night. I said I remembered hearing that Bob Dylan had become a lay monk, but I must have been thinking of some other pop singer. He did become a born-again Christian, then later he went back to Judaism ( see him above at the Wailing Wall).

On to Enya. Julie said she was a reclusive living in a castle, which she does. Julie also ventured the opinion that Scott Simon, who interviewed Enya, obviously wanted to "jump on her bones." Could be. Apparently the abundance of Enya-stalkers has forced her to ramp up her home security.