Mythology and Folklore

1) Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament of the World's Religions     I first chose this topic, well mainly because of the photograph in the twitter feed. The staircase with colorful sayings written on the face of each stair just seemed to pull me in. The Wiki article was about how the Swami traveled to the west in 1893 and visited Chicago's Art Institute for the Parliament of he World's Religions. 2) Hinduism     It, being the religion background of the Swami, I decided to dive more into Hinduism next. This Wiki article delved into many facets of where and what the Hindu religion is. The belief revolves around certain aspects, these being;  ethics, continuing of the life cycle, karma, and that each has his or her own path to walk. 3) Karma     I continued on my search with clicking on a link to karma. I am not a follower of the Hindu religion by any means. I am however a believer in karma. As I believe and what the article discussed about was ho...

1) Will-O-Wisp          I started here because of a post on our class twitter page. It was a post compiled of many different moonlight/nighttime lighting events and the pictures were catching my attentions. I chose the will-o-wisp over other frankly because I had never heard of it before and I had heard of others, for instance the northern lights. 2) Chir Batti        I then was navigated to this site. I was taken here by a link underneath the image below because, well I mean look at it. It's crazy! The site had to deal with folklore in the Asian region that had to deal with the will-o-wisp light. crazy will-o-wisp picture 3)  Will-O-Wisp      I then clicked on a link that was suppose to go into detail about scientific reasoning's behind the strange light. This took me back to the original will-o-wisp story but prompted me to the bottom of the page. Here I read about certain molecules that when in the right co...