Myth Matters Podcast

The words “this wide, beautiful, crazy world of ours” have been part of my introduction for this podcast for years. In my experience, this is an accurate picture and yet the meaning and context for the descriptors: “wide,” “beautiful,” and … Continued

  A myth from the Aztec creation cycle, the mythology of bones, and what it might mean to be in service to life today. “I have come here only to sing.”– Motenhuatzin, poet from Tlaxcala who witnessed the fall of … Continued

  The Celtic story of Cerridwen and her cauldron calls to me as Halloween/Samhain approaches. She’s a witch in search of a potion and yet, the tug of the story is deeper. Seasonal changes amplify the energies of betwixt and … Continued

  Personal transformation. Do we really want it? What can inspire that deep change, and how far are we willing to go in courting those powers? Transcript of Arachne and the mysteries of transformation Hello, and welcome to Myth Matters, … Continued

  “He is a young god.Mythologically obscure,always just arriving at some new placeto disrupt the status quo,wearing the start of a smile.” –from Ann Carson’s translation “The Bakkhai” In the northern hemisphere we began our collective descent into winter’s darkness, … Continued

  This episode is devoted to the Greek god Dionysus, whom Walter Otto aptly named “the epiphany god,” and his wife Ariadne. Dionysus was called “the Loosener” or lysios in Greek, the loosener of limbs and of minds. The Greek word lysios comes … Continued