OK, some other myth sightings I have seen lately:
For one thing, the music site "Pandora" named for the Greek figure. This is kind of an unusual one, I think, as the site probably alludes to Pandora's box, which contained all of the world's horrors, but also hope. If this site is Pandora's box, none of the music there can be much good, right? But I suppose that maybe the music is the hope, which is certainly a good thing. I hope for the latter.
Another interesting note from the scientific world is that of the family of arachnids, the name scientists give to spiders scorpions, tics, etc. The name comes from the Greek myth of Arachne, who challanged Athena to weave better than she could. As punishment, Athena turned Arachne into a spider, where she spun for the rest of her days.
Some more myth sightings: in Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", Valhalla is refferenced.
In the books "A Series of Unfortunate Events" a fictional deadly mushroom features prominently in one of the books, an homage to the Greek monster Medusa.
A game I came across once called Heroscape has many references to mythologies. Valkyrie, elves, dwarves, a troll, a giant, and many dragons are playable in the game, all from Norse mythology, there are also many figures derived from Greek and Roman myths, as well as many more recent science fiction mythologies.
Oh, this is another one, not sure if this is really a refference to myth, but, on the flash cartoon website Homestar Runner .com, reference is made to a "sweet, sweet rainbow bridge back to Free Country USA", which reminded me of the rainbow bridge to Asgard in Norse mythology. It is entirely possible, however, that the cartoon's creators were just trying to be funny with this rainbow bridge.
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