(Content warnings for talk of blood, sex, dismemberment, and spiders)

This month on Cleyera, we discuss yokai, talk about our favorite yokai, and discuss some of the favorites our listeners submitted via Twitter! Here are a few links to things mentioned on air:

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Recorded live on the air at Nyri's Twitch channel (twitch.tv/riversidewings), we talk about the intersection between our faith and our queer identity. This live-streamed recording was done in conjunction with Queers Fight Transphobia's June 2022 fundraiser for the Transgender Law Center.

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We hold forth about the old and new iterations of the heavily Japanese-inspired Magic the Gathering Kamigawa block, and about popular depictions of Shinto in general. Shoutout also to Kaitlyn Ugoretz who recently spoke to both of us in the making of her article "Do Kentucky Kami Drink Bourbon?," which you can read by clicking this link.

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It's the syncretism episode! In which we talk about the afterlife, Shinto-Buddhist syncretism, and how our engagement with it in our individual faiths varies.

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Akemashte omedetou gozaimasu! Join Zoe and I in our discussion of the New Year in Shinto, major ritual and festival considerations, otherworldly beings, and what mochi has to do with all this.

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In Cleyera: Conversations on Shinto Episode 2, Zoe (Cora) and I talk about Shinto shrines, terms, some ways that shrines are created, and what shrines are and are not.

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Welcome to the first episode of Cleyera: Conversations on Shinto. Zoe (Cora) and I, two friends and practitioners of Shinto in the anglosphere, talk about their faith, its cultural, historical, and other contexts, and try to bring knowledge and community to others.

In this inaugural episode, we talk about some major terms relevant to Shinto, questions of Great Nature and kegare, discuss some of where we're coming from, and touch on some directions for future discussions.