Of Epic Proportions:
A Blog on Myth and Mankind

"I long to learn the songs the demons sing as they swoop between the stars, or hear the voices of the olden gods as they whisper their secrets to the echoing void." - Robert Bloch

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Playing Games withe Great Old Ones: A Lecture by Justin Mullis

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Its been a long time time since I've made a post here at Of Epic Proportions . The reason for this is that for the past year my time has...

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Rare Exports

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In my last blog post on the history of Santa Claus I mentioned how researchers such as Phyllis Siefker and Jeffrey Vallance have argued that...

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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Santa Claus: The Man, the Myth, the Monster

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With Christmas just around the corner it seems now is as good a time as ever to tackle what is perhaps the biggest Christmas myth of all. No...

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Stallo

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Having already introduced readers of my blog to Krampus the Christmas Devil (who I am happy to say is gaining popularity in America, having...

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Krampus on the Colbert Report

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Last Christmas I introduced readers of my blog to Krampus ; Santa's demonic yuletide companion of Old World Alpine tradition. Luckily th...

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Justin M...: ...has a BA and MA in Religious Studies from UNC Charlotte. This blog, Of Epic Proportions, was used as an outlet for his research into realms of religion and popular-culture during his time as an undergrad at UNCC and is currently no longer active. Since then Justin has spoken at the 2010 North Carolina Religious Studies Association and the American Academy of Religion in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019. In 2018 he served as part of the AAR steering committee on religion and monsters. Just has also published several essays on the subjects of H.P. Lovecraft, Star Wars, Japanese kaiju movies, My Little Pony and cryptozoology from the perspective of a religious studies scholar. Justin's complete CV and a sample of his publish research can be found here: https://uncc.academia.edu/JustinMullis

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