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Mythillogical Podcast

Jan 24, 2024

So folks, it’s been a while! On today’s episode Crofty and Charles journey to the land of the rising sun, to examine the head of the Japanese pantheon and mythical ancestress of it's Imperial family, Amaterasu. Together they examine her earliest appearances in Japanese myth, along with wider theories as to her...


Sep 8, 2023

In the second part of their examination of Fairies, Charles and Crofty tour the fairy ruins and otherworlds of both Ireland and Scotland. Here they delve too deeply into the unique fairies and pagan gods that call those nations home, and explore some of the darker sides of how fairy belief was treated in centuries...


Aug 25, 2023

In the first episode of a two parter, Charles and Crofty run the risk of being trapped in fairy land on a quest to understand the origins of its famous denizens. Together they trace the history of these mysterious creatures throughout Britain and Ireland, examining how they evolved from elusive elves in Anglo Saxon...


May 28, 2023

Who's that figure standing at the crossroads? After following Anansi’s journey from Africa to the New World, today’s bonus episode sees Charles and Crofty investigate two other trickster figures who were brought from Africa to the Americas, the gods Eshu and Legba.

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May 14, 2023

Today Charles and Crofty discuss the enigmatic trickster, Anansi the Spider, tracing his origins on the fringes of West African society and religion, to his evolution into a symbol of slave defiance and rebellion in plantation Jamaica.

 

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