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Ideas and forces the myths treat as real: fate, cosmic order, and the shape of time.

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Bifrost (The Rainbow Bridge)The Burning Bridge to AsgardThe burning rainbow bridge from earth to Asgard. Strongest thing ever built, guarded by Heimdall - and fated to shatter under the riders of Ragnarok.Concept · Norse

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The Eight ImmortalsThe Baxian of Daoist LegendEight Daoist immortals — a beggar, a drunk, a girl, a courtier, a flute player — who cross the sea by their own strange powers instead of by boat.Concept · Chinese

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The Four SymbolsAzure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black TortoiseThe four beasts of the Chinese sky — dragon, tiger, bird and tortoise-and-snake. A star map first, a mythology second, and both for over two thousand years.Concept · Chinese

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The Lotus-EatersThe Flower-Eating MenThe flower-eating men — Homer's gentlest disaster, a people whose food is no weapon and yet erases the desire to go home.Concept · Greek

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The Nine RealmsThe Worlds of YggdrasilThe Worlds of Yggdrasil. Norse sources count nine worlds on the world tree — but no medieval text ever lists them, and the familiar roster is modern.Concept · Norse

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The TitansThe Elder Gods Before OlympusThe twelve children of Sky and Earth who ruled before Zeus. Cronus, Rhea, Oceanus, Prometheus' line — and the ten-year war that buried them in Tartarus.Concept · Greek

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WyrdThe Weave of FateThe weave of fate. The Germanic idea that what happens has already turned — laid down at a well by the norns, binding gods and men alike.Concept · Norse