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- Older Than Fire — The First Man and Woman Born From Bamboo
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A single piece of bamboo once washed up against the legs of a great bird standing in the shallows, and inside it, the bird heard something knocking to get out.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The War Between Light and Darkness Before Time
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Before there was a single day of history, before there was even the possibility of choosing between right and wrong, two forces were already locked in a war that had no beginning.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Storm God's Battle With the Eight-Headed Serpent
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A god banished in disgrace from heaven found, at the bottom of a river, an old couple who had already lost seven daughters to the same monster, and had only one daughter left to lose.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Woman Made Entirely of Flowers
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Two wizards once built a wife for a man out of nothing but flowers, and the flowers never forgot what they had agreed to become.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Twilight of the Gods
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The Norse gods knew, from the very beginning, exactly how and when they were going to die. They knew the names of the monsters who would kill them. And they gathered their armies anyway, because refusing to fight was never really an option.
6 min - Older Than Fire — The First People Born From a Reed
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Before there were people walking the earth, tradition holds, there was a single reed, and inside it, everything that would ever live was still waiting to be born.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Girl Who Became Mistress of the Sea
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A father once threw his own daughter overboard into an Arctic sea, and cut off her fingers one by one as she clung to the boat, trying to climb back in.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Giant Whose Body Became the World
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In the very beginning, before there was sky or earth, everything that would ever exist was sealed inside a single egg, and inside that egg, something was asleep.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Elephant-Headed Son Made From Clay
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A goddess once stood guard at her own bathing door, so determined to keep everyone out that she was willing to fight a god she had never met, without knowing he was her own husband.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Woman Who Fell From the Sky to Make the World
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Before there was earth to stand on, there was only water, stretching in every direction, and the animals living on it were waiting for something to fall from the sky.
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About Older Than Fire
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Before there was history, there was story — the flood that drowned the world, the trickster who stole the sun, the god who died and came back changed.
Older Than Fire retells the myths…
and folklore of the world, one culture at a time, the way they were meant to be heard.
New episodes weekly.