How Mesoamerican culture inspired The Legend of Zelda
Sofia Davies-Jurado analyses the impact that real-world cultures, such as Mesoamerica, had on the world of Zelda's open-world games
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Six Crimson Cranes: an attempted fusion of cultures & fairy tales
Once upon a time, a princess, pampered and raised in the lap of luxury since birth, is exiled from her kingdom when her wicked stepmother transforms her six loving brothers…
Rites, ritual and renewal: the religious significance of Halloween
Evie Sproat explores the Celtic festival Samhain, Halloween’s earliest ancestor, in which the human world was believed to fuse with ethereal plains of ancestral and demonic spirits.