Episodes

This week on MYTH, we’re headed to the Far East for a pair of folktales from Japan.  Both stories heavily feature the peony, but they take very different paths.  The first is the tale of a lonely girl in feudal Japan.  She is to be married to a man she’s never met and she’s not…
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This week on MYTH, it’s a story near and dear to my heart; it’s the Norse account of the invention of beer.  It’s everything you’d expect a Viking story about alcohol to be! It has Odin being a sneaky dick (because sky gods are assholes), Thor doing a bad job of being sneaky, and fights with…
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It’s Halloween time, everyone, and it’s my favorite time of year. As such, I’ve posted the new episode a few days early, so it’s up in time for Halloween weekend. This is Episode 3, Never Go Back to Corpserape Island.  It’s the legend of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, one of the first English settlements…
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It’s the story of Anansi, the half spider trickster god from West African mythology, getting stories for the world. Anansi is the spiritual ancestor of Peter Parker, and this story has it all: giant wisecracking spiders, web-slinging adventures, and instructions on how to catch bad-tempered fairies. Gods and Monsters has a story about a shapeshifting…
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This is the second of the two-part episode on the ancient Greek creation myth.  In this episode, I’ll cover the story of Pandora and her famous box and the creation and destruction of multiple populations.  The Gods and Monsters segment this week covers Empousa, the seductive, fire-haired forerunner of the vampire. Check out this episode!

This is the first of two episodes telling the story of the creation myth of the Ancient Greeks.  It covers the birth of Chaos through the dividing of the cosmos between the Olympians.  On Gods and Monsters, we’ll delve into the history of the Greek God Morpheus.  As always, this episode is NSFW.