Myth Matters

By Catherine Svehla

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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.


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