[caption id="attachment_17325" align="alignright" width="300"] Festival procession in Kandy, Sri Lanka. (Photograph by Joseph Campbell, 1955. From Asian Journals — India & Japan, copyright © 2002 and 2018 by Joseph Campbell Foundation. All rights reserved.)[/caption] As we...

[caption id="attachment_17152" align="alignright" width="300"] Cornhusk mask of the Seneca (Iroquois) "Bushyheads" or Husk Face Society. The masked members appear at the Midwinter Festival to dance among the people and, remaining mute, beg for food (Photo...

[caption id="attachment_7347" align="alignright" width="300"] Winter Solstice at Stonehenge (Photo by Mark Grant. Used through a Creative Commons license.)[/caption] The winter solstice approaches and soon the sun’s course will reach its lowest noon altitude and its...

The title of this MythBlast is borrowed from the title of this Mark Strand poem: ______ Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of the light. You wake and the candles...

It is high summer in the Catskill mountains of New York where I live: green, lush, blooming, sparking with life. It’s an enchanted time. Every morning I walk my dogs in our meadows and life...