Myth Matters Podcast

  Special episode with guest singer-composer Kelli Scarr! Scarr released her new album Greater Mysteries, a musical journey through the spiraling cycle of transformation, last month. The Sumerian myth of Inanna is one of the touchstones in this beautiful work, … Continued

  She goes downAs we go downWe follow her undergroundHail to InannaWho diedTo become born.— Chant from the writer Starhawk and the Reclaiming Collective This is episode #3 in a four-part series on the Sumerian myth of the goddess Inanna … Continued

  “The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta.” ― Eduardo Galeano, from Walking Words  In this episode I tell the second part of … Continued

  In the first days, in the very first days, everything needed was brought into being and the goddess Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, took her place in the center of the Sumerian pantheon. This myth was recorded at … Continued

  “We need joy as we need air.” Maya Angelou Joy. Joy is my motivation, my desire and object in sharing some poetry with you in this episode. Joy—gladness, pleasure, delight, and rejoicing. Joy, a very precious freedom. How can … Continued

  The final episode in a three-part exploration of the mysterious Baba Yaga, a scary crone in Russian and Slavic fairy tales. Who or what is she? The fairy tale “Finist the Bright Falcon” opens up some interesting possibilities. Transcript … Continued