Somebody 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 MoreJoin us for a wild ride in Ireland as we hop on the back of a tricksy Pooka for Pookapalooza 2021. We’re going all over the Emerald Isle to find shape-shifting tricksters who like to take drunk people for wild rides down to Demon Holes. Next stop: tales of Viking-fighting High Kings, Easter Bunnies, and yes, sexy furries.
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 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 MoreIn this Grimm Scary Fairy Tale, we find out that Death is actually not a bad Godfather as he helps his plague doctor Godson heal everything from the Plague to Lycanthropy. Watch out though. When you try to cheat death, werewolves in the forest aren’t your only problems!
Read MoreWe’re on the hunt for a good ole fashion Greek tragedy story of a heroic hunt. Along the way we learn that Atalanta is the very best, like no one ever was, don’t forget to role call every single god during the harvest festival, and what happens when you try to go against the 3 fates. All to do with one feral hog.
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.
Read MoreTwue love brings us togedder twoday.
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 MoreSláinte! In this episode, learn about the most famous Irish warrior of Celtic Myth, Finn McCool! We recall back to our past episode where Finn got into a fight and accidentally created the Isle of Man and inadvertently, the Giant’s Causeway and now we’re going to give you the origin story on old Fionn Mac Cumhaill! Hear the very Game of Thrones-like circumstances of his birth and how the boy got so smart with the help of some great Druid and Fianna mentors and a thumbsuckingly delicious accident involving hazelnuts and a giant salmon!
Read MoreLast time, we covered the first four ages and their epic ends at the hands of the gods, extreme elemental forces and Jaguarnado! Now, we bring you into the Fifth age of the poor and brave sun boy, Nanahautl, and the rich and cowardly moon boy, Tecuciztecatl.
Read MoreTime to get some knowledge about the Aztec Creation myth and the first four ages and what went wrong every time. Spoiler alert: the gods are gonna wreck shit. We gonna bring you back to the very beginning, when Ometeotl made the gods out of the primordial void, and then we gonna about the first four suns and the four Tezcatlipocas. Every age begins and ends with one of the elements, like hurricanes, floods, rains of fire, and best of all — the JAGUARNADO!
Read MoreThe first week of June was Rusalka week. May is considered Mermay in the art community. Coincidence? We don’t think so! If you take away one thing from this episode about Murderous Slavic River Wenches, it’s that they are always down to party.
Read MoreHello Listeners! We are back from our long hiatus (we took a vacation), you know how it goes. We have a special treat for you fine folks, we are joined today by Adam DeCollibus, author of the new novel, Caravan. Adam joins us in talking about story inspirations and what keeps a young writer going at it when they are new to the craft.
Read MoreHide yo kids and stay away from waterways and woods and roads because La Llorona is out catching kids. She’s hunting for hijos today to get into those pearly gates. We drink Pisco, trash on the name Martin, and admit we’re too scared to see the Curse of La Llorona, but we gonna tell you folks about the weeping boogie-woman.
Read MoreWe ain’t foolin’! It’s our 50th episode! Can you dig it?! We take a celebratory tickleback shot and start talking one of our favorite trickster gods and all around friend of man, Anansi. Coming all the way from the Ashanti people in Ghana in West Africa. Let us spin you a yarn of two Anansi stories: How the Trickster Spider god got all stories and you’re gonna carry that weight, ant.
Read MoreIn this episode we talk two tales of two lovers. Starting out is Pyramus and Thisbe who met through a glory hole?! And later we draw the parallels to the most well known doomed star-crossed lovers story: Romeo and Juliet. That once again proves Shakespeare stole it from the French, who stole it from Italy, who stole it from Greece, who stole it from Babylon.
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 MoreTo Hell and Back Again, a Bards tale by Orpheus of Thrace. Orpheus would do anything for love, and he would do that. Go to hell with Orpheus in pursuit of his lost love, Eurydice. He’ll prove that true love and love songs conquer almost all, even death as he plays his lyre and sways the crowds including Pluto, Proserpina, Charon and Cerberus. And if that don’t touch your heart, then you might be a murder-lusting Maenad Bacchus groupie.
Read MoreHello and welcome to the year 2019! For our first episode of the new year, we have got a new year’s Oni demon coming to you from Japan to scare the willies out of all the bad kids out there. Better beware, the Namahage is out there and he knows you didn’t stick to your resolutions!
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