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- Older Than Fire — The Serpent Who Painted the Land With Color
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Long before there were rivers or mountains, the land itself was flat, featureless, and waiting for something to give it shape.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Creator Who Shaped the Sun From the Void
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High in the Andes, long before the Inca built their roads and cities, tradition says the world was already a failed draft — dark, cold, and empty — until a single god walked out of a lake and started again.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Children Turned Into Swans
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In Irish legend, a jealous stepmother once looked at four grieving children by a lake, spoke a single curse over them, and turned them into swans for nine hundred years.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The God Who Hung Himself for Wisdom
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The chief god of the Norse pantheon wanted knowledge so badly that he stabbed himself with his own spear, hanged himself from a tree for nine days and nine nights, and offered the whole ordeal to no one but himself.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Hero Bound to a Mountain for Stealing Fire
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High in the Caucasus mountains, tradition says, a hero is still chained to a cliff face, and once every year a great eagle descends to tear open his chest, because he made the mistake of loving humanity more than the gods thought he should.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Age Before This One Was Destroyed by Water
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According to the Aztec people of central Mexico, the world we live in now is not the first world. It isn't even close. It's the fifth attempt, built on the wreckage of four earlier worlds that each ended in total disaster.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Raven Who Stole the Light
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Before the sun, moon, and stars existed, the story goes, the entire world sat in total darkness — until a trickster with black feathers decided he was tired of bumping into things.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Battle That Made the World From a Slain Goddess
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Before Babylon was the greatest city in the world, its people told a story of how the entire universe was built from the body of a goddess their own god had been forced to kill.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Queen of Heaven's Descent to the Land of No Return
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Long before any Greek queen was said to descend into the underworld, a Sumerian goddess of heaven had already made the same journey — stripped naked, judged, and killed, on her way down to the land from which no one returns.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Father Who Killed His Son Without Knowing Him
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In the great Persian epic of kings, the mightiest warrior in the land meets a stranger on the battlefield, fights him for three days for the honor of his king, and only afterward discovers who it was he had killed.
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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.