mythpodcast.com was hit pretty hard by bots overwhelming the site over the past few days, leading to the site and member feed being down. Everything *should* be fine now, but please let me know if you have any other issues.
Reminder: Myths and Legends is now every other week, so there will not be an episode today. Next episode comes out 1/15/25!
Some missing/overlapping audio in the member episode this week. It's been fixed and reuploaded, so if you haven't listened you might want to redownload!
Some reports of explicitly adult/NSFW advertisements on this week's show for the ads that aren't recorded by us. If you hear a company that fits that description let me know here or at jason@mythpodcast.com, and we can fix that.
Slight issue on my end that led to the member feed not updating until this morning. Sorry about that. If you refresh you should see the ad-free episode 382.
Anyone else having this problem where the episode stops randomly and won't restart? Seems to be limited to Apple Podcasts and episode 378 (but also possibly the most recent episode).
I accidentally repeated a story this week! Oops! It was the second one.
If you downloaded it within the first twelve hours, you can re-download for a new second story.
And yes, this was just a plan to juice those download numbers and not embarrassing and distressing and leading to me losing a whole day of work finding/writing/recording/editing/re-uploading a new story. You got me.
I would love to never use Twitter (refuse to call it X) again, so if anyone can help me with the pronunciation of the name “Snati”, apparently a common name for a dog in Iceland, I would be super grateful.
Oh no. I listened to "Monster Mash" too many times for a bit on this episode and now I kind of like it. What have I become?
If you're not seeing the latest episode in your M&L feed, I *think* I fixed it. Refresh and it should update as normal.
If that doesn't work, please resubscribe/re-follow.
If *that* doesn't work, please let me know so I can figure out which feed isn't redirecting.
Thanks!
--J
The gods apparently have an undo button...and angry tortilla griddles that took out the first humans.
It's the beginning of the beginning in the Popol Vuh. We'll meet a macaw who thinks he's the sun, a metal band lineup of underworld beings, and see the birth of the hero twins, who are destined to go up against the batman.
The creature is the Snallygaster, the answer to the age-old question of what happens when a Cthulhu bird gets drunk?
https://www.mythpodcast.com/15742/320a-popol-vuh-origin-story/
Think you can beat fate? When Subramanya learned that his two siblings had a terrible destiny, he started on a decades-long quest to free them from their future. Will he be one of the first in folklore to win against destiny?
A very helpful listener translated the passages from French re: the kid's foot doorbell from episode 316. It means, literally, deer's foot.
It makes about the same amount of sense, which is to say, almost none.
New episode! The story of why you shouldn't get drunk and throw church bells into a pond. You might awaken an ancient evil that can only be defeated by baked goods.
Ep 307: Pie Hard, out now!
Allll the places you can subscribe: https://mythpodcast.com/listen
The story of the Bird of Sorrow, from Turkish folklore, has love, loss, gratitude, people trashing coffeehouses, genie girlfriends, and elaborate pranks involving not being able to take off your pants. It's a big week.
Episode 305, out now!
New episode! There are witches, fairy creatures, ogres, and monsters lurking among us. What do they want? What drives them from their lair?
Well, mostly they just like to party.
Two stories from Celtic folklore, out now!
