Episodes

  • Initiation & Mythology

    Initiation & Mythology
    Nov 13 2024

    Searching out and reading the earliest written sources is one way to learn about mythology. There are many other ways: studying performances, costumes, music, rites, dances of various groups and tribes. Many of these observations were made at the end of the 1800s by anthropologists looking at tribal life when technology was less pervasive.
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  • Dragons in the Bible

    Dragons in the Bible
    Oct 10 2024

    In 1903 a pair of lectures by German scholar Friedrich Delitzsch was published claiming that many stories and ideas traditionally traced to biblical sources have more ancient origins in Mesopotamian mythology. Babel and Bible had a significant impact on the development of biblical scholarship, theology, and German history.
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