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Megan's next soothing story from Mesopotamia! Join her as she reads 'Lugalbanda and the Anzu Bird'. The translation used can be found here: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.2#

The Dun Horse is a Pawnee tale about a poor boy and his grandmother, who find an old horse and take it in. The horse turns out to be magical, however, and improves their fortunes considerably. Like many Pawnee legends – and Native American...

Found In the Grass is a legend of the Algonquian-speaking nations of the Plains Indians and one of the most famous. The story is told in many different versions, but the best-known comes from the Cheyenne and features the child hero Mok-so-is...

Ehyophsta is a Cheyenne legend of the heroine, Ehyophsta, the Yellow Haired Woman, who first brought the buffalo to the people. When she accidentally breaks a taboo, the buffalo vanish until they are brought back later by the two other great...

The Wonderful Sack is a legend of the Cheyenne nation and one of the Wihio tales, featuring the trickster figure Wihio, similar to the Lakota Sioux character Iktomi (also known as Unktomi) of the famous Iktomi tales. Although the date of...

Cave art in the Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne region, southwestern France. Dated to the Upper Palaeolithic period. It depicts a wounded aurochs bull, a man and a bird.

An Inca ceramic dish with a handle in the form of a bird. Peru, 1476-1534 CE. (St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri)

Frankish Bird-Shaped Brooch, second half of 6th century CE. This brooch would have been worn by a woman and is characteristic of Frankish jewelry and fine workmanship.

Bird's-eye view of the Kremlin from the southwest (Moskva River), Moscow, Russia. Photo taken in 1987 by Georgy Nadezhdin /TASS photo chronicle/.

A fragment of wall fresco from a Roman villa depicting a bird. 2nd century CE. (Archaeological Museum, Como, Italy)