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4 more sleeps till the #AtoZChallenge begins! I am so excited. Can't wait to share all the stories I gathered... 😊

(This is not a promo toot. I am genuinely bouncing. I have been prepping this #WomensEpics blog series for a whole year...)
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A while ago I did a survey about epics. I asked people which epics they were most familiar with, and which ones they heard of, or studied in school.

More than 200 people filled out the survey, and I just posted a blog post about the most interesting or unexpected results.

Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2025/03/womens-epics-to-z-epics-in-general.html

#epics #WomensEpics #storytelling #folklore #literature #bookstodon #AtoZChallenge
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In advance of the April #AtoZChallenge I wrote another blog post. This one is about the epics that have women heroes, but I won't include them in the series in April.

To read the list, and the reasons why, visit the blog:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2025/03/womens-epics-to-z-stories-i-wont-be.html

(And if anyone has any suggestions for getting translations for some of these, that would be great 😉 )

#WomensEpics #epics #folklore #literature #storytelling #mythology #books #blogging #bookstodon
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In advance before April's blog series on women's epics, I am curious if there are any that people know, or want to know about. :)

Do you know any epics about women? Name them in comments and I'll tell you if they will be included!

(And by "epic" I also mean sagas, shamanic songs, monogatari, and chivalric romances.)

#WomensEpics #epics #folklore #mythology #storytelling #literature #image
A flowery template with text. "Do you know any epics about women? Name them in the comments, and I'll let you know if they will be featured in my blog series in April!" #WomensEpics
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So I started reading Le Roman de Silence, a 13th century French chivalric romance about a girl raised as a boy in a kingdom where women can't inherit. Her name is Silence, and she goes on knightly adventures.

The author begins this tale of adventure with a 3-page rant about the greed of rich people ruining the world, and then literally says (at least in the English translation) "I just had to get this out of my system before telling my tale."

#storytelling #medieval #WomensEpics
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Who knew that reading Women's Epics for the A to Z challenge was not going to be a challenge because I had to find them... it is a challenge because I have to match them to all the letters of the alphabet 😅 😅
(And decides which ones to leave out...)

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Driving myself half insane trying to locate an English translation of the Manchu epic of Umesiben Mama. There are at least two study volumes in English about it, but no actual text. Honestly this should be illegal. If you publish a whole book about a never-translated epic, include the text!

#GrumbleGrumble #academia #epics #translation #folklore #WomensEpics
#folklore #academia #translation #epics #womensepics #grumblegrumble

I am reading all these theories about how Queen Bertha Broadfoot got her nickname, but honestly I just want her to be a legendary beauty with large feet and leave it at that.

#WomensEpics #history #epics #MiddleAges
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It's always fun to find out that other people in the Middle Ages wrote fan fiction about your country 😆

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The tale of the Nisan shamaness (Manchu)
Ocy-Bala (Altai)
Hi'iakaikapoliopele (Hawaii)
Queen Bertha (France)
Manasa (Bengal)
Chandravati's Ramayana (Bengal)
Umesiben Mama (Manchu)
Repunnot-un-Kur (Ainu)
Nne Mgbaafo (Igbo)
Ashima (Yi)
Juliana (Anglo-Saxon)
Sirin Mama (Sibe)

Note: this list doesn't include the stories I could not find a translation for (see earlier toots for that list)

#epics #folklore #women
#folklore #Women #epics #womensepics

Alright, so I am still working on the list and which ones I'll be able to read, but here is what I have right now
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Agu-Nogon-Abakha (Buryat)
Bidasari (Malaysia)
Cilappatikaram (Tamil)
Matabagka seeks the deity of the wind (Philippines)
Epic of Siri (Tulu)
Tale of Princess Fatima (Arab)
The song of Grotti (Iceland)
Inyan Olugu (Igbo)
Hervor and Heidrek (Iceland)
Silence (France)
Gudrun (Germany)
Mṛcchakatika (India)
Manimekalai (Tamil)
Kundalakesi (Tamil)
#womensepics

Today's #MythologyMonday theme is Sisters.

As it happens I just finished reading the Bengali epic of Manasa, the Snake Goddess. She is an accidental daughter of Shiva. She spends the entire epic trying to gain recognition among the gods, and then among mortals.

She is supported all the way by her sister Neta, who is the perfect balance of intelligence and calculation to Manasa's flares of fury and power. They made a great duo 🐍

#sister #women #mythology #epics #folklore #WomensEpics
#folklore #mythologymonday #mythology #Women #epics #womensepics #sister

My favorite moment from the Bengali epic of the Snake Goddess so far:

A king pissess off the goddess by destroying her altar, so she sends an army of snakes against him. Surrounded by serpents he flees into a haystack to hide - and comes face to face with a chameleon.

The chameleon just shakes its head, and the king breaks down crying. That was the last straw.

Such a fun moment. 🐍🐍🐍🦎

😄

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#WomensEpics that need an English translation ASAP, round two:

- Catakantaravanan: a Tamil epic that elaborates on the Ramayana, but in this story, it is Sita who fights a demon king

- Matabagka Seeks the Deity of the Wind: epic from the Philippines about a girl's heroic journey (this one has an English translation, but only in a thesis manuscript in the UP library)

#WomensEpics #epics #folklore #women #WomensHistory
#folklore #Women #womenshistory #epics #womensepics

My retail therapy is ordering translations of underappreciated epics online late at night.

#reading #bookstodon #epics #folklore #WomensEpics
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The epic I am currently reading described a horny god's state of mind as "a welter of prurient thoughts"

And I am now thinking this could be a great title for... something?

What would you use this phrase for?

😄😄

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The more research I do for this #WomensEpics reading project, the more epics I find out about that need English translations a.s.a.p. Like. Seriously.

#epics #folklore #translation #translator #AmReading #bookstodon
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So by the way, the epic of Princess Fatima was an amazing read. But sadly the longest English translation to date only includes 11 episodes out of 455. And even those in an abridged version.

Who do we talk to about getting a fuller translation?...

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Alright, since many of you asked so excitedly :)

#WomensEpics I have read so far:

Shirin Mama (Sibe people) - warrior girl defeats bandits and rescues orphaned children, becoming a goddess

Chandravati's Ramayana (Bengal) - 16th century retelling from Sita's perspective

Ochi-Bala (Altai people) - warrior maiden fights an evil sorcerer to protect her people

I'm currently reading The Tale of Princess Fatima - an Arabic epic about a warrior woman

#epics #folklore #women #storytelling
#folklore #storytelling #Women #epics #womensepics

I'll be sharing some tidbits on here as I go along :) Would it help to have a hashtag? #WomensEpics ?
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I am reading the Altaic epic about the warrior maiden Ocy-Bala. She is described as "tall from birth", with broad shoulders and a wide back.

Hell yeah, buff lady :D

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