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- Older Than Fire — The Singer Who Sang the World Into Order
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In the Finnish forests, long before there were any people to sing them, there lived a man who was born already old, and who shaped the world not with tools or weapons, but with his voice.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Man Whose Death Was Hidden Inside a Needle
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There is a villain in Slavic folklore who cannot be killed by any ordinary means, because he had the good sense, ages ago, to take his own death out of his body and hide it somewhere else entirely.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Witch's House That Walked on Legs
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Deep in the Slavic forest stands a hut unlike any other — one that doesn't sit still, because it's built on a pair of giant chicken legs, and it turns to face whoever is brave or foolish enough to come looking for it.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Goddess Who Lived in the Volcano
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Every time lava rises on the Big Island of Hawaii, there are people who understand exactly whose temper is showing.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The God Who Went Fishing for the End of the World
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Out on the gray water, far past where any fisherman would dare go, a god baits his line with the head of an ox, because the only thing he intends to catch is a serpent large enough to circle the entire world.
6 min - Older Than Fire — The Spider Who Bought the World's Stories
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In the very beginning, before there were any stories at all to tell, they all belonged to one sky god, and a small, clever spider decided that wasn't fair.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The Feathered Serpent's Exile
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For years the city of Tollan flourished under a god-king who refused to let his people cut out a single human heart in his name.
6 min - Older Than Fire — The Twins Who Outwitted the Lords of Death
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Long before the Maya built their great stone cities, before Xibalba's lords had ever lost a game, two brothers played ball so loudly in the world above that the dead complained about the noise.
6 min - Older Than Fire — The Goddess Who Lived in the Volcano
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!
Every time lava rises on the Big Island of Hawaii, there are people who understand exactly whose temper is showing.
5 min - Older Than Fire — The God Who Went Fishing for the End of the World
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!
Out on the gray water, far past where any fisherman would dare go, a god baits his line with the head of an ox, because the only thing he intends to catch is a serpent large enough to circle the entire world.
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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.