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Older Than Fire episodes
- Older Than Fire — The Queen Who Churned the Ocean of Milk
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Gods and demons churn a cosmic ocean together for the nectar of immortality, in an alliance that collapses the moment the prize finally appears.
7 min - Older Than Fire — The Stone That Always Rolled Back
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Sisyphus cheated death twice, and the gods answered with a punishment built specifically to defeat his one weakness: gravity itself.
7 min - Older Than Fire — The Wings Made of Wax
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Daedalus builds wings to escape imprisonment with his son Icarus, whose joy at flight carries him past his father's careful warning.
7 min - Older Than Fire — The Box That Was Never Meant to Open
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Pandora, built by the gods as an instrument of punishment, and the jar she was never supposed to open.
7 min - Older Than Fire — The Seeds That Bound Her to Winter
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Persephone's abduction, Demeter's grief, and the pomegranate seeds that explain why winter exists at all.
7 min - Older Than Fire — The Woman Who Went to Find Her Husband
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Orpheus descends into the underworld to bring back Eurydice, and undoes it all with a single, deeply human moment of doubt.
7 min - Older Than Fire — The Brother Torn Into Fourteen Pieces
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The myth of Osiris, Isis, and Set: a murdered king, a wife who refused to accept it, and the son raised to avenge him.
8 min - Older Than Fire — The Weighing of the Heart
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Ancient Egypt's final judgment: a heart weighed against a single feather, and what it meant to fail.
8 min - Older Than Fire — The Secret Name of Ra
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Isis tricks the aging sun god into revealing the one true name he'd hidden even from the gods, and gains a power no one else in the pantheon holds.
8 min - Older Than Fire — The Grief That Invented Wandering
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: a king, a wild friend made from clay, and the oldest surviving story about refusing to accept that death is simply what happens to people.
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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.