Myth Matters Podcast

  “You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”  –Joseph Campbell In this episode I explore the mythic theme of leaving home as a central part of answering the call … Continued

  This is the last episode in a 4-part series on the Sumerian myth of Inanna: Dumuzi’s Dream and The Return. After Inanna ascends from the underworld, she chooses her lover-king Dumuzi as her replacement in the Great Below. Now … Continued

  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