Mythos Podcast
1) S01 Episode 1: Fey Worlds
To discover the fey folk, the true fairy of the lore of old, we will travel from the high moorlands of Northumberland, England’s most northern and most sparsely populated county to the verdant hills a...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Earth Lore: The Underworld
Here is the Russian tale of Ivan Bears-Son. With origins in a cave and what seems to be a fated encounter with darkness and then an underworld teeming with light and life, this story has all the mythi...Show More
3) Earth Lore: In the Beginning, Part 2
It is a strange thing to think of death as nutritious, that death can make living things into the elemental stuff of life. But as summer’s verdant life begins to succumb to an inevitable end, as death...Show More
4) Earth Lore: In the Beginning, Part 1
Eggs are an ancient symbol. The magical properties, burial rites and folk beliefs surrounding eggs are many.In this first episode of Earth Lore, a Mythos series that retells ancient myth and tradition...Show More
5) S04 Episode 8: Tales from the Amber Sea Part 2 - The Magic Bird
In Baltic folklore, birds are mediators of heaven and earth, between the living and the dead. Their music is heraldic and their song a prophetic chanting. Birds inhabit and embody the dynamic force of...Show More
6) S04 Episode 7: Mothers of the Underworld
October, in much lore, is a spiritually potent time and the oft stated idea that the veil between worlds is thin at this time holds true in traditional Latvian practice. The living would prepare their...Show More
7) S04 Episode 6: Tales from the Amber Sea Part 1, The Sea Queen & The Fisherman
The mythic origin tales of Baltic amber are full of magic, and the pre-history of the golden-umber resin-stone is no less awe-inspiring. This pine-tree resin was fossilized 45 million years ago, durin...Show More
S04 Episode 6: Tales from the Amber Sea Part 1, The Sea Queen & The Fisherman
36:30 | Sep 24th, 2021
8) S04 Episode 5: The Washerwoman and the Lake Spirits
In this episode, we journey again to Lithuania: we will go to the noble hall of an ignoble count and to a sylvan lake, to meet a washerwoman of great spirit, whose patrons are full of earth and water ...Show More
9) S04 Episode 4: Eglė, Queen of the Serpents
In this episode’s panorama of ancient woodland, northern seas and shamanic underworlds, the world-traversing magic of the grass snake clashes with the bone-deep force of ancestral longing and family d...Show More
10) S04 Episode 3: Goddaughter of the Rock Maidens
Goddaughter of the Rock Maidens. The name of the story lit up my imagination, as did the brief outline of a plot in W.F Kirby’s 1895 English translation of famous Estonian tales. In just a few sentenc...Show More