Although a discussion of Einstein’s theories of relativity might be fun, we’re not exactly qualified to cover them—and might have difficulty tying them in with monsters, apart from “monstrous” (i.e., supermassive) black holes—our “monstrous relativity” instead involves the cultural relativity of what might be considered monstrous.
During a recent trip to NYC’s MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), I stumbled across a beautiful little piece of surrealist art by Leonora Carrington. The Surrealists often used imagery from Greek and other mythologies to express the fantastical and dreamlike aspects of the unconscious and irrational mind, and Carrington’s work is no exception.
Several congenital birth defects are named for mythological monsters. Today, we’re focusing on two specific genetic abnormalities, one named for the Sirens and another for the Cyclops.
For one of our first posts, we are very pleased to present this short story by scholar and fiction author Mercedes Aguirre Castro. The story, a modern re-working of a three-thousand-year-old tale, first appeared in its original Spanish as “La escena del crimen” in her edited book Tras las huellas de los mitos: voces femeninas… Read more “Crime Scene”, by Mercedes Aguirre Castro