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Afam Okereke

Billionaires Club

Work in progress(...)

audiovisual

YEAR: 2003

COUNTRY: Nigeria

TAGS: Sacrifice Underworld

Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Christian Williams

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (Series, S00 - Season Zero)

Title of the Works: Hercules: the Legendary Journeys – Hercules and the Amazon WomenHercules: the Legendary Journeys – Hercules and the Lost KingdomHercules: the Legendary Journeys – Hercules and the Circle of FireHercules: the Legendary Journeys – Hercules in the UnderworldHercules: the Legendary Journeys – Hercules in the Maze of the MinotaurThe Hercules: The Legendary Journeys franchise, starring Kevin Sorbo in the titular role, is best known for the te(...)

audiovisual

YEAR: 1994

COUNTRY: New Zealand United States of America

TAGS: Afterlife Alcmene Amazons Centaur Centaurs Cerberus Charon Chiron/Cheiron Deianeira Elysian Fields Hades Hera Heracles / Herakles Hercules Hippolyta Immortality Iolaus Katabasis Labyrinth Lernaean Hydra Lydia Minotaur Nessus Omphale Prometheus Sacrifice Sea-Serpent See monsters Styx Troy Twelve Labours of Heracles Underworld Witches Zeus

Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Christian Williams

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (Series, S00E02): Hercules and the Lost Kingdom

This film’s narrative finds little direct precedent within ancient mythology but draws upon several identifiable themes/tropes for inspiration. After successfully saving a village from a giant, Hercules is approached by a messenger who asks for the hero’s help: his people have been forced out of their home-town, the “lost kingdom” of Troy. Zeus reveals that Hera caused the disappearance of Troy and, in order to find it, Hercules requires the “true compass”. &n(...)

audiovisual

COUNTRY: New Zealand United Kingdom

TAGS: Deianeira Hera Hercules Lydia Omphale Sacrifice Sea-Serpent Troy Zeus

Soliey Mbezenyuy

Myth of the Origin of Lake Wasibel

A long time ago in the days of the forefathers, the chief priests from all the communities in Banso gathered at the king’s palace to offer their usual annual sacrifices to the gods. After some rituals and incarnations had been performed, the Gods revealed to them to perform subsequent rituals in the motionless waters in Wasibel. The chief priests and notables were confused, because there was no such water in Wasibel. They offered more sacrifices to the gods for them to reveal the exact loc(...)

oral

COUNTRY: Cameroon

TAGS: Gods Gods and mortals Mythology Myths of origin Sacrifice

Shoo Rayner

Olympia (Series, Book 5): Swim for Your Life

Swim for Your Life is the fifth in author-illustrator Shoo Rayner’s Olympia series of chapter books, which show what life was like for ordinary children in Ancient Greece. It features a boy named Olly, whose father runs the gymnasium where the great athletes train, and who dreams of being an Olympic champion. In Swim for Your Life, the athletes are preparing for a swimming race, and making sacrifices to the river god, Alfeios (Alpheus). Olly and Spiro, his rival, have the mo(...)

literary

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Alfeios Alpheus Artemis Cerberus Olympia Olympic Games Orion Sacrifice

Shoo Rayner

Olympia (Series, Book 7): On the Ball

On the Ball is the seventh in author-illustrator Shoo Rayner’s Olympia series of chapter books, which show what life was like for ordinary children in Ancient Greece. It features Olly, whose father runs the gymnasium where the great athletes train, and who dreams of being an Olympic champion. In On the Ball, the athletes are having a break from their training, and playing a Spartan ball game called episkyros, for a bit of fun. Olly watches excitedly as they play, and the rul(...)

literary

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Episkyros Eurydice Olympia Olympic Games Orpheus Sacrifice

Terence (Terry) David John Pratchett

Pyramids

Pyramids is set in the fictional Djelibeybi (or the Djel), the tiny, powerless remains of an empire whose only importance is as a strategic block between its neighbours, Tsort and Ephebe. Pteppic/Teppic, the crown prince, has been training at the Assassin’s Guild in Ankh-Morpork. Returning to the kingdom following his father’s death, Teppic discovers that he has no real power, and the real ruler is Dios, the ancient high priest. After an unfortunate series of misunderstandings in whi(...)

literary

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Aesop Ancient Religious Practices Aristophanes Aristotle Athens Cleopatra Democracy Egypt Egyptian mythology Founding Legends Greek mythology Greek philosophy Homer Plato Ptolemaic Egypt Pythagoras Roman mythology Sacrifice Sparta Sphinx Symposium Thermopylae Trojan Horse (wooden) Trojan War Warfare Xeno

Mo Willems

Sheep in the Big City

A male (thus, referred to as “he” during the whole show) sheep – called Sheep, escaped from his owner, Farmer John, because a certain military organization (The Top-Secret Military Organization) owns a sheep-powered ray gun invented by The Angry Scientist (a scientist persistently called by mistake The Mad Scientist by the other characters, which of course makes him angrier). Sheep is the only sheep that can power the ray gun, because the weapon has a hole exactly his size. Thu(...)

audiovisual

YEAR: 2000

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Arcadia Calydonian Boar Centaurs Erymanthian Boar Greece Greek mythology Medusa Sacrifice

Emeka Hill Umeasor

Super Woman: Part 1 and Part 2

Work in progress(...)

audiovisual

YEAR: 2014

COUNTRY: Nigeria

TAGS: Rituals Sacrifice

Marie-Christine Kappu Mandi

The Curse of Twins [La malédiction des jumeaux]

In the Far North region of Cameroon, the village of Djafado faces a severe period of famine and a wave of deaths caused by drought. The sentence of the gods is clear: "it is the twins who are responsible for the drought" and only a sacrifice could bring the village out of its sufferings, and the only person who has twins is the chief of the village. He does not hesitate to conform to the will of the "so-called gods", and burns his twins alive under the gaze of their horrified(...)

literary

YEAR: 2008

COUNTRY: Cameroon

TAGS: Mythical creatures Mythology Sacrifice Witches