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April 7, 2025
G is for Grottasǫngr (Women's Epics A to Z)
This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.GrottasǫngrIcelandThis story (in prose and poetic form) is part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, and even though it is short,
Published on April 07, 2025 15:00
April 6, 2025
F is for Fatima Al-Amira Dhat Al-Himma (Women's Epics A to Z)
This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.Sirat Al-Amira Dhat Al-HimmaArabicThis book is the longest English translation of this epic, but it is by far not a complete
Published on April 06, 2025 15:00
April 4, 2025
E is for the Epic of Manasa (Women's Epics A to Z)
This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.I know I know, this is a cheap shot for E, but if you have seen how much reshuffling I did with this list, you'd appreciate
Published on April 04, 2025 15:00
April 3, 2025
D is for the Deity of the Wind and Matabagka (Women's Epics A to Z)
This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.Matabagka searches for the deity of the windTalaandigThis is actually a story that is a part of a larger epic cycle called
Published on April 03, 2025 15:00
April 2, 2025
C is for Candravati's Ramayana (Women's Epics A to Z)
This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.A woman's Ramayana: Candravati's Bengali epicBengalIn the late 16th century in what is now east Bangladesh, a woman named
Published on April 02, 2025 15:00
April 1, 2025
B is for Bidasari (Women's Epics A to Z)
This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.Bidasari: Jewel of Malay Muslim cultureMalaysiaThe story of Bidasari is one of the most popular epics in Malaysia (it was even
Published on April 01, 2025 15:00
March 31, 2025
A is for Agu-Nogon-Abakha (Women's Epics A to Z)
This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.Gar'julaj-Mergen and his brave sister Agu-Nogon-AbakhaBuryat This story is a Siberian Buryat epic song or üliger. I read
Published on March 31, 2025 03:00
March 23, 2025
Women's Epics A to Z: Epics in general knowledge
As I was preparing for this year's challenge, reading several epics with women as protagonists, it kept occurring to me how unfair it is that most of these amazing, special stories didn't make it into the general consciousness (as much as I can tell with my Hungarian/American, generally Western educational background). Back when I was in high school, we got a pretty comprehensive look at a few of
Published on March 23, 2025 16:00
March 16, 2025
Women's Epics A to Z: Stories I won't be including, and why
It was surprising how easily I found 26 epics about women for this project. In fact, the more research I did, the more I came across, and the list grew longer. In the end, a few factors decided which ones I added to my A to Z list:- The epic had to be available in a language I can read (English, Spanish, or Hungarian) - Accessible in print or digital format- Possible to get and read before
Published on March 16, 2025 16:00
March 7, 2025
A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal 2025: Women's Epics A to Z!
Honestly, I already revealed this theme last year, but I am doing it again for good measure (for someone who has changed their theme multiple times every year, this is an accomplishment anyway). Also, I have a theme that aligns really well with International Women's Day, so I am announcing a day early :)This is my 13th year participating! In the past 12 years I've always had a theme:Weird
Published on March 07, 2025 15:00