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The Aesir-Vanir WarThe First War in the WorldVoluspa calls it the first war in the world. Gullveig burned three times, Odin cast the first spear, and the truce reshaped the Norse pantheon.Event · Norse

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The Battle of BadonBritain's Last VictoryA single line in a 6th-century sermon became the British win historians can't agree on the date or site of — and the victory later tradition gave to Arthur.Event · ArthurianThe Battle of CamlannWhere the Round Table DiedThe battle that ended Arthur's reign: a single line in a medieval annal grew, over nine centuries, into the mutual destruction of Arthur and Mordred.Event · Arthurian

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The Churning of the Ocean (Samudra Manthan)The Churning of the Ocean of MilkGods and demons churn the cosmic ocean with a mountain and a serpent for the nectar of immortality — and very nearly destroy all creation before they get it.Event · Hindu

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The Death of BaldrThe First TragedyThe first tragedy. A god made invulnerable by oath, killed by the one plant nobody asked — the murder that starts the clock on Ragnarok and cannot be undone.Event · Norse

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The Five Suns (Aztec Creation Myth)The World-Ages Before This OneThe Aztec myth of four ruined world-ages before this one, each ended by its own catastrophe, in an order and cast of gods the sources don't agree on.Event · AztecThe Flower Wars (Xochiyaoyotl)Battles Without ConquestRitualized battles between the Aztec Triple Alliance and its nearest unconquered neighbors, fought to take captives — and whose real purpose is still disputed.Event · Aztec

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Inanna's Descent to the UnderworldThe Journey to the Land of No ReturnThe Sumerian myth of a goddess who died in her sister's throne room and returned — at the price of a substitute sent down in her place.Event · Mesopotamian

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Kupala Night (Ivan Kupala)The Shortest NightSlavic midsummer's eve of bonfires, floating flower wreaths and the legend of a fern that blooms once a year - grafted onto the feast of St John the Baptist.Event · Slavic

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RagnarokThe Twilight of the GodsThe Twilight of the Gods. The prophesied end: a killing winter, the breaking of every bond, a battle no one survives — and an earth that rises again.Event · Norse

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The Trojan WarThe Ten Years' SiegeThe ten-year siege of Troy that Homer sang, and the real Bronze Age city at Hisarlik whose ruins keep the question of a historical war unresolved.Event · Greek

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The Weighing of the HeartThe Judgment in the Hall of Two TruthsEgypt's judgment of the dead: the heart set on a scale against the feather of Maat, with oblivion waiting for whichever side tips wrong.Event · Egyptian