Posts tagged Odin
Ep 80 - For a Few Dragons More

BAD DRAGONS! Want to know more about the worst bad boy dragons of pop culture and mythology? We share our rankings of the best of the worst dragons from Babylonian, Arabic, Norse and Greek mythology. We got world serpents, hydras, pythons, and greedy dwarf princes turned into dragons. Did we miss your favorite dragon to hate? Let us know.

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Ep 72 - Orishas: Big Hero 7

We 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.

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Ep 60 - Norse November: The Mead of Poetry

We drink from the mead of poetry to bring you this story that features, trickery, murder, shapeshifting, and more misdeeds, all to get a sip of some sweet sweet honey words. Our boy Odin won’t let some giants stand in the way of being a know-it-all.

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Ep 41 - Holiday Classics: All I Want for Saturnalia is Yule

Yule want to listen to this episode and our upcoming holiday classics! This episode is Yuletide and Saturnalia all in one. We hope you are ready to lose your togas and don your pileus caps! Gather your wine and your wassail, take a seat and light the log and party for at least a week to celebrate Saturn and the Golden Age of Man in our favorite Roman Holiday, Saturnalia!

We're not limiting this classic re-release celebration to Classical Rome. No sir! It's not a Yuletide party until you've ridden your Sleipnir with Odin all the way up and down the heims for a raucous season of the hunt.

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Episode 15 - All I Want for Saturnalia is Yule

Yule want to listen to this episode and our whole Holiday party pack of episodes coming to you in the month of December! It's Yuletide and Saturnalia all in one this week. We hope you are ready to lose your togas and don your pileus caps! Gather your wine and your wassail, take a seat and light the log and party for at least a week to celebrate Saturn and the Golden Age of Man in our favorite Roman Holiday, Saturnalia!

We're not limiting this celebration just to Classical Rome. No sir! It's not a Yuletide party until you've ridden your Sleipnir with Odin all the way up and down the heims for a raucous season of the hunt.

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Ep 14 - Baldur's Fate

Jealousy, betrayal, shapeshifting old women, and death! this week we've got it all when a death in the family sets off a chain reaction for doomsday in a "you're probably wondering how I got here" moment."

This week we wrap up Norse November thinking about all the Ragnarok and Vikings in our lives. Remember this Thanksgiving that even though you may have to spend it with your distant relatives, at least you don't have an uncle Loki plotting to kill you and set off the apocalypse.

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Ep 13 - Ragnarok and Roll with Brian James, author of Mjolnir

This is big! This is the end of the world as Snorri Sturluson knows it! Just in time for Marvel's new Thor Ragnorak movie, we have our own Ragnarok world-changing event with our first guest ever, Brian James, author of the new novel Mjolnir and all-around great guy and knower of Norse things.

It's the end of the line for Odin, Thor, Loki, and the rest of Asgard and all the gards as we know them! You'll hear the real deets on what happens when Surtr and the gang say hi for one last ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny!

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Ep 7 - Livin La Vida Loki

Loki is anything but low key in these tales of offerings and offspring. You want fantastical dwarven-crafted gifts for the Gods and Goddesses? Loki's got em. You want apocalyptic nightmare monsters that will destroy everything in Ragnarok? Loki's got em. You want to know the down low on Loki? We've got you.

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