My years in Regina, Saskachewan were the true flowering of The FrogWorld. The Great Mediterranian Swamp was the birthplace of at least half of the world's great cultures. Here, one of the many creation myths of this area is explored.

Fertility myths like the creation and destruction myths were also quite popular in The Great Swamp. Draining projects in the late 19th Century, however, seemed to not only to drain the water from the swamp but also the hearts and souls of its peoples.

During the draining of the swamp, much of the art of that area was taken further north to three great museums located in the countries that would correspond to our counties of England, France and Germany. Not surprisingly, none of the work was ever repatriated.

Not surprisingly, rather than an actual threat, this plague was a model of fecundity.

The idea I always loved about Medusa, besides the fact that she could turn anything to clay, and good glazed clay too, is that if all of her hair was replaced by snakes, then ...!

The best way to conquer another town is to go there for an atheletic event and at the end of that event, take all their women back to your own town.

In the FrogWorld after Osiris was cut up by his brother and thrown in a pond, his body pieces were retrieved by a hippo and his wife, Hathor, reassembed his body using strips of pastry. He went on to become the God of Vegetable Fertility. Statues of Osiris are placed in little alcoves by each vegetable garden.

Unlike the our-world equivalent sculptures that only appear to be multi-breasted but actually, according to Herodotus, are necklaced with strings of fat dates, in the FrogWorld, they are actually breasts.

One of the sculptures taken north to the FrogWorld Germany, was this enigmatic portrait which I like to compare to The Mona Lisa.

This is the top, most outside, mask that covered the mummified body of FrogTut. Frogs had the good taste to make their mummy cases out of brightly glazed clay rather than our more mundane gold.

In the later years of FrogEgypt, after they had become a province of Greece, all the good clay stuff was taken back to Greece and the Egyptians ended up inventing portraits to face up their mummies.

The ultimate in Neroic Period mummy cases was this respectful mother-in-law case.