Older Than Fire

Older Than Fire

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Older Than Fire episodes

  • Older Than Fire — Episode 24

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    Two infants are left beside a river to die, a wolf feeds them in the wilderness, and the city they build will begin when one brother kills the other.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Older Than Fire — Episode 23

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    A princess sees the city burning before the first torch is lit, but every warning she gives becomes another reason for the people around her to call her mad.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Older Than Fire — Episode 22

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    A hunter steps into a hidden grove and sees the goddess at the water, then loses the human face that could have asked forgiveness before his own hounds mistake him for prey.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Older Than Fire — Episode 21

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    A woman stretches a thread between her fingers and makes a cloth so truthful that the goddess watching her cannot bear to see what the pattern says about power.

    1 hr 2 min
  • Older Than Fire — The Woman Who Opened the Jar

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    A woman stands beside a sealed jar filled with every misery the gods can imagine, and the world will spend centuries blaming her for opening what was placed in her hands as a trap.

    59 min

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…