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I can't believe April is already over... As usual, it has been a very busy month. I would not have gotten through it had I not scheduled my posts in advance. And I am so glad I did. Women's Epics A to Z has been a whole year in the making, and it was such a wonderful adventure to explore these stories. I am happy that I finally got to share them!26 epics with women as protagonists. Heroes.

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.The Epic of KachwenyanjaHaya, TanzaniaAlright so this letter needed some sleight-of-hand. But luckily, the heroine of this

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.AshimaSani (Yi)The Sani are a branch of the Yi people who live in Yunnan province in China. Ashima's story, sung in a long

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.The Western Campaign of Shirin Mama: The miraculous story of the birth of a goddessSibe people (Northeast Asia)This is

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.Song of the Goddess of the WatersAinuThis one is another epic song collected from the Hokkaido Ainu at the beginning of the

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.Pele and HiiakaHawaiiThe voyage of Hiiaka is one of the most significant stories of Hawaiian tradition, and it is an oral epic

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.The Epic of the Nisan ShamanessManchuThis Manchu epic is dated to the beginning of the 17th century, although it likely

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.Sumiyoshi Monogatari (The Tale of Sumiyoshi)JapanMonogatari literature is the Japanese equivalent of western narrative epics,

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.SilappadikaramTamilCilappatikaram (also spelled Silappadikaram) is the earliest and one of the most famous Tamil epics,

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.Woman's epic: Repunnot-un-kurAinuThis story is another epic song collected from the Hokkaido Ainu at the beginning of the 20th