Welcome to Greek Mythology 101! We’re picking up with the A’s and working our way across many a pantheon. What better way to start than with the much-maligned, much hated, and much made fun of - Ares, the Greek God of War and holder of the title, Angriest Olympian. Find out about the many illegitimate children of Love and War he has with Aphrodite and all the times he gets captured. It’s at least two, which isn’t many but weird that it happened twice.
Read MoreThose Hunahpu boys are back at it, and this time, they’ve found their old man’s sports gear and they are ready for some justice served in the Pitz of Hell (or rather the Pok-a-Tok ball courts of Xibalba). It’s two on Twelve with Xibalanque and Hunahpu duking it out in the rematch of the century against the Twelve Lords of Death who murdered their father and uncle, but the Xibalbans are the only ones with tricks up their sleeves.
Read MoreToday we are talking about the Maya Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the central heroes in the Popol Vuh. If you’ve seen The Road to El Dorado, these are the two Trickster Heroes that Tulio and Miguel are impersonating. These two magical jaguar boys are gonna take down one big, gaudy, god bird and his sons in a mafia style hit ordered by Don Huracan.
Read MoreIn honor of the upcoming movie, The Green Knight, we invite you to the defining tale of King Arthur’s most okayest knight, Sir Gawain. It’s a Christmas story that takes a turn for the weird for Gawain when the party games start involving beheading and jolly green giants. One year later and life gets even weirder for the very-average-but-still-trying-his-best Sir Gawain when the smooching games starts happening.
Read MoreWahoo! It’s-a me, Xolotl, your psychopomp through the nine levels of Mictlan, the Aztec Underworld. Your princess is in another castle, as these levels consist of many rivers, mountains, wind, fog, and an array of errant arrows. Wuh-oh! But don’t worry, so long as you’ve got your spirit dog guide, you’ll be fine, probably. Let’s-a go!
Read MoreWe’re going down, all the way down to Mictlan, the Aztec underworld to take a deeper look at the Gods and Goddess who run the place, including a husband and wife who just want to get flayed and eat stars and a faithful dog god with a more famous flying topside twin.
Read MoreSomebody once told us that we’d be talking to you today about Shamash, the Sun God and a major deity of the Pantheon of the Mesopotamian cultures. Sumerians know him as Utu, Sin knows him as his son, Ishtar knows him as a brother, and we (and the Akkadians) know him, we love, him, it’s Shamash time! He’s taking the Sun Chariot all the way, he’s laying down the laws and the justice, Shamash is coming to an arena near you.
Read MoreBonjour cher! Today we going down the bayou and we gonna find ourselves a Rougarou. This Cajun werewolf is known to haunt Catholic kids and Lent breakers in Louisiana. Go grab your colanders and 13 of anything cause the Rougarou is coming to you.
Warning: Really bad cajun accents and baby shark beats coming your way.
Read MoreAll the way from Scotland, we have the tale of Princess Janet and her sexy elf man Tam Lin. Janet is in it to win it and no fairy queens or sacrifices to hell are gonna stop this lassie from getting her Tam Lin.
Read MoreThe thrilling conclusion of our talk on kings and succession. Good-Boy-Falcon-God Horus and his uncle Storm-and-Sex-God Set take their war for who’s the next King of Egypt from the battlefield to the tribunal court of the Ennead. Now, we will have order in the court of Atum-Ra.
Read MoreListeners! Be prepared! We’re talking about kings and succession. Falcon-God Horus and his uncle Storm-and-Sex-God Set are gonna duke it out for King of Egypt. Featuring awkward family reunions. Boat races. Horny horny hippos. Butt races. And unplanned pregnancies. Ya better yeet that skeet. And for the love of Ra, don’t eat that salad.
Read MoreDRAGONS! Want to know more about the best good boy dragons of pop culture and mythology? We got em both here! We share a few of our favorite dragons and learn about a few of the coolest dragons from China, Japan and Korea. Stick around til the end for our new 2021 Eat The Rich Dragon Mascot. Did we miss your favorite? Let us know.
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Read MoreHeads up! This week we have a ghost story from Japan featuring the nosiest Yokai on this side of the Pacific - the Rokurokubi. Prepare to learn about what really happens to people who crane their necks to listen on the hot goss. But don’t worry about those long necks, it’s the Nukekubi you really gotta watch out for. It’s samurai monk up to bat against bouncing head ghosts.
Read MoreWe are back from a long hiatus with our first recently recorded episode in a long time! Today, we are talking about the Orishas of the Yoruba religion and tradition, as well as their ties to Santeria and other mythologies and religions in the Americas! We’ll dish the hot goss on the coolest spirits/deities/forces of nature in the Yoruba pantheon. And if you stick around to the end, we share a surprisingly relatable creation myth for anyone who’s ever had a bad boss or employee.
Read MoreJoin us for a conversation with gaslamp fantasy author, Barbara Barnett, as we talk mythological inspirations in her recent novel, Alchemy of Glass, her latest follow up to The Apothecary’s Curse. Barbara shares the Greek and Celtic myths that inspired her work, like the Tuatha Dé Danann. We get to hear firsthand how she blends elements of magic, science, history, and myth together to tell wonderfully compelling stories. Also featuring great anecdotes from Barbara’s days going to Comic-Con press parties and more!
Both Alchemy of Glass and The Apothecary’s Curse are available anywhere books are sold! Go check them out!
Read MoreHere we go again! Fa Hai’s gotta catch ‘em all. And by ‘em all we mean one specific snake demon. This time he schemes to catch that demon wife once and for all. But not if Bai Su Zhen and her son Xu Shi Lin have anything to say about it.
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This Valentine’s Day season, we’re bringing back the Myth Love stories! This time, we’re going to ancient China to follow the Immortal White Snake Bai Shu Zhen and her journey to save her man Xu Xian from a terrible fate brought on by the meddling monk Fa Hai, who’s the real snake in the grass.
Read MoreAmateur podcasters and even more amateur cryptozoologists Krista and Christian attempt to enter the world of their friendly neighborhood Goatman of Prince Georges County, Maryland and answer the question — does he have hoof hands for holding axes or ax hands for doing baaaad deeeds?
Also heads up, there is some mention of animal cruelty in the form of four-legged victims of the Goatman so if that’s not your bag you may want to skip some parts, but we’ll let you know when those pop up.
Read MoreIt’s the tale as old as time, the beauty and the Greek. Love is blind for Psyche, who cannot look upon her new husband for some reason unbeknownst to Psyche but beknownst to us. One day her jealous sisters trick her into breaking this golden rule to look upon her husband and setting off a quest for some impossible tasks for Psyche to prove her love to the goddess of love herself, Venus.
Read MoreBaby, it’s a Bad Ra-mance! We’re tackling the Egyptian origin story with our resident Egyptian and editor, Anthony Saweres. He’s giving us the deets on the birth of Golden Egg boy Ra and thus the world of Egypt. Ra the creator is gonna make a whole bunch of good things to serve him while he’s working the Pharaoh biz, until he gets too old and everyone stops respecting him.
So angry Ra makes the powerful Sekhmet to lay down the hurt on man for the dis until she takes the lion’s share of man-flesh and clever Ra’s gotta fix it all with some craft beers.
But the real trick is Isis, who’s gotta know Ra’s real name, the source of his power, and the hook for this episode.
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