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- 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 Woman Who Flew to the Moon
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Every autumn, when the moon is at its fullest, families across China and much of East Asia look up at the sky and remember a woman who swallowed a potion meant for two and floated away from the earth forever.
6 min - Older Than Fire — The Archer Who Shot Down Nine Suns
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Ten suns rose into the sky on the same morning. Crops burned, rivers dried, and the earth cracked open. Only one archer had the skill to bring them down, and he paid for it with his own immortality.
6 min - Older Than Fire — The Woman Who Patched the Sky
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When a quarrel between the gods cracked the pillar holding up heaven, the sky tore open, fire raged across the land and floods rose without end. The one who repaired it was the goddess who had made humanity out of mud.
6 min - Older Than Fire — The Fisherman Who Opened the Forbidden Box
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A fisherman spent three days in a palace beneath the sea. When he came home, his village was gone, his family was long dead, and in his hands he held a box he had promised never to open.
6 min - Older Than Fire — The Sun Goddess Who Hid in a Cave
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When the sun goddess walked into a cave and rolled a stone across the entrance, the light of the entire world went with her, and eight million gods gathered in the dark to work out how to bring it back.
7 min - Older Than Fire — The Twin Gods Who Made the World From a Corpse
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Izanagi and Izanami create Japan together, until death separates them and a broken promise in the underworld changes everything that follows.
8 min - Older Than Fire — The Princess Who Argued With Death
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Savitri follows Yama, god of death, on foot to reclaim her husband, and wins not through force but through patient, relentless argument.
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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.