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Welcome to Myth Matters, a thought-provoking exploration of the role myth plays in contemporary life life and the intersection of myth, creativity, and consciousness. Host Catherine Svehla PhD. shares her knowledge of mythology and depth psychology to find insight and explore possibilities. Member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation MythMaker℠ Podcast Network.
Learn more at www.mythicmojo.com and keep the mystery in your life alive.
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National Poetry Month: Humor and the unexpected turn
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Fate, free will, and 3 Swords
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Apr 04, 2024 |
The Bhagavad-Gita and yoga of awareness with Gabriella Nagy
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Mar 15, 2024 |
Fee-fi-fo-fum: Outwitting the Ogres in Life
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Mar 01, 2024 |
The Problem of the Return and the End of the Hero's Adventure
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Feb 09, 2024 |
Answering the Call of 2024
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Endings and Beginnings: Odin's Quest for Wisdom
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Living your heart's desire: The Tale of the Doomed Prince
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Dec 01, 2023 |
Beowulf and why we need Monsters
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Nov 17, 2023 |
Mythic Sensibility: The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran
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Oct 27, 2023 |
"Those Who Live Beneath Us": Sedna the Inuit Woman of the Sea
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Oct 13, 2023 |
The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill and the Salmon of Knowledge
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Sep 22, 2023 |
Mythical Bonds: Dogs, Kinship, and the Irish tale of Fionn and the Birth of Bran
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Sep 07, 2023 |
Churning the Cosmic sea: Joseph Campbell, meaning, and the rapture of being alive
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Aug 11, 2023 |
Myth, science, and the creation story: Mr. g by Alan Lightman
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Aug 04, 2023 |
Gates of Babylon: The Enduring Legacy of Ancient Creation Myths
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Jul 20, 2023 |
Creation Myths: In the beginning
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Jun 30, 2023 |
Myths of the Father
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Jun 16, 2023 |
A psychology of craft: the shirt of stinging nettles
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May 26, 2023 |
"The Wild Swans"--- Powerful Words and Living with Wings
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May 12, 2023 |
The World's Wife, Contemporary Myth Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
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Apr 28, 2023 |
Myth, Poetry, and the Power of the Word
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Apr 11, 2023 |
Athena, goddess of Reason ?!
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Mar 23, 2023 |
Myth, History, and the Woman Warrior
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Mar 04, 2023 |
Free to Love: Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid
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Feb 17, 2023 |
2023 and the Year of the Rabbit
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Jan 27, 2023 |
Christian saints, Norse gods, and magic mushrooms: myths of Santa Claus
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Dec 22, 2022 |
A Winter Story: Raven Steals the Light
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Dec 08, 2022 |
Questions, Connection, and Perceval's Quest for the Grail
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Nov 26, 2022 |
Prince Lindworm and the Unembraceable
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Nov 10, 2022 |
Meeting the Baba Yaga: Witches, magic, and mystery
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Oct 29, 2022 |
Psyche and Eros: Our Initiation through Aphrodite
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Oct 13, 2022 |
Love and Soul: The classical myth of Psyche and Eros
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Sep 29, 2022 |
What Love Inspires: The Greek Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
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Sep 14, 2022 |
Briar Rose: Rethinking the hero and the 13th fairy
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Sep 02, 2022 |
Conscious Evolution: The story of Abu Kasem's Slipper's
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Aug 19, 2022 |
Ecological Consciousness and "The Queen Bee" fairy tale
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Aug 05, 2022 |
Wonder and "Valemon the White Bear King"
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Jul 18, 2022 |
Mysteries of Self, Other, and the Greek myth of Narcissus
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Jul 06, 2022 |
Our Quest for Self: "The Six Companions" fairytale
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Jun 16, 2022 |
Celebrating the World: "The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Listening to our animal kin
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May 19, 2022 |
Fables, frogs, and philosophy
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May 06, 2022 |
A Strange Feather: 10 Poems for perspective and peace of mind
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Apr 21, 2022 |
With the night falling we are saying thank you: 10 poems for National Poetry month
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Apr 07, 2022 |
A Terrible Love of War, a Culture of Peace
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Mar 17, 2022 |
A Not Just About the Ukraine
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Mar 04, 2022 |
Sometimes you've got to laugh
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Feb 18, 2022 |
Trickster lessons and "Don't Look Up"
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Feb 04, 2022 |
"The Shadow" Knows Everything
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Jan 21, 2022 |
The New Year and Happily ever after
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Dec 30, 2021 |
Winter Solstice and the energy of regeneration
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Dec 18, 2021 |
Iron John part 2 Owning your gold
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Dec 02, 2021 |
Iron John and finding the wild man
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Precious Bones- Aztec mythology in the 5th world
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Cerridwen's cauldron of inspiration
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Oct 21, 2021 |
The myth of Arachne and the mysteries of transformation
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Oct 07, 2021 |
The Bacchae: How do you imagine the dark?
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Sep 23, 2021 |
Into the Labyrinth and the myth of Ariadne's Thread
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Sep 10, 2021 |
The Greek god Dionysus and the titanic
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Aug 20, 2021 |
Styles of Imagination and Mythic Methods: Zeus and titanism today
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Aug 06, 2021 |
Power, justice, and the Greek. myths of Zeus, Far-seeing Ruler of the gods
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Jul 22, 2021 |
Meaning is magic: the trickster Hermes and radical change
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Jul 05, 2021 |
Make Room for Magic: Celtic tales about fairies
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Jun 24, 2021 |
Ask the Dwarf
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Jun 10, 2021 |
Radical Change and The Water of Life
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May 28, 2021 |
Leaps of faith: The story of "Jumping Mouse"
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May 13, 2021 |
Beyond Conventional Wisdom: Poetry and the Imaginal Realm
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Apr 29, 2021 |
Poetry and Soul, A conversation with Brian Michael Tracy
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Apr 15, 2021 |
April fools
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Apr 02, 2021 |
Eternity in an Hour: Urashima Taro
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Mar 18, 2021 |
Stories that Disturb Us
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Mar 03, 2021 |
A world without stories and the trickster Anansi
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Feb 18, 2021 |
Shipwrecks, Donkeys, and Holy Fools
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Feb 04, 2021 |
Dumuzi's Dream and the Regions of Kindness (Inanna myth 4)
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Jan 06, 2021 |
Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, episode 3 in a 4-part series
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Dec 24, 2020 |
Inanna and Dumuzi: Her Honey Man (part 2 of 4)
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Dec 10, 2020 |
Quest for New Metaphors: The Sumerian Myth of Inanna part 1
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Nov 28, 2020 |
Imagination and Hanging by a Thread
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Nov 12, 2020 |
The King and the Corpse
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Oct 20, 2020 |
How to escape the "nothing but"-- practices and gifts of the symbolic life with Rohini Walker
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Oct 08, 2020 |
Once Upon a Time and the Crisis of "Nothing But"
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Sep 24, 2020 |
Mythic Animals: wonder and shadow in the Other
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Sep 10, 2020 |
The Roaring in Your Ears
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Aug 27, 2020 |
Two Jatakas: A thought experiment in bodhisattvas and heroes
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Aug 07, 2020 |
Women, Power, and the Right to Speak Out
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Jul 23, 2020 |
Heroes, Buddha, and How to Read a Myth
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Jul 07, 2020 |
Allies: Being One and Finding Them Through Soul
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Jun 20, 2020 |
Soul and Your New Story: Stepping Into the Fairy Glen
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May 22, 2020 |
A moment of respite: Clever Manka
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May 07, 2020 |
Creativity, Faith, and the Turning Tide
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Apr 23, 2020 |
Meanwhile, The World Goes On
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Apr 14, 2020 |
Drinking the Waters of Life, and the five sons of King Eochaid
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Apr 01, 2020 |
Joyful Participation in the Sorrows of the World
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Mar 13, 2020 |
Loki and Chaos in a Quantum Cosmos
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Feb 28, 2020 |
Finding Perspective As Things Fall Apart
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Feb 14, 2020 |
The Valiant Horse and the Soul Life
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Jan 17, 2020 |
Thieves, Tricksters, and Golden Plums
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Dec 20, 2019 |
The Trapdoor to Gratitude
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Dec 05, 2019 |
Gilgamesh Part 3: Crossing the Waters of Death
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Nov 15, 2019 |
The Sumerian Myth of Gilgamesh Part 2: Humbaba and the Cedar Forest
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Oct 31, 2019 |
Gilgamesh Part 1: The Creation of Enkidu
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Oct 17, 2019 |
Perceval: Wandering in the Wasteland
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Oct 03, 2019 |
Life is an Adventure: Perceval's Grail Quest
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Sep 19, 2019 |
The Greek God Pan: Nature or Human Nature?
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Sep 06, 2019 |
Wandering Aengus and Singing the Swan's Songs
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Aug 22, 2019 |
Reciprocity and Right Relationship: Reflections on “The Queen Bee”
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Aug 09, 2019 |
Taking Flight: The Conference of the Birds
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Jul 25, 2019 |
Poseidon and the Best Laid Plans
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Jul 11, 2019 |
Fate, Free Will, and Being Human: Insights from the Greek Myth of Oedipus
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Jun 27, 2019 |
Knowing Thyself: The Greek Myth of Oedipus
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Jun 14, 2019 |
Artemis and Your Place in the Family of Things
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May 30, 2019 |
Moonstruck with Selene and Hecate
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May 16, 2019 |
Love and Beauty: The Greek Myths of Aphrodite and Eros
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May 02, 2019 |