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Uploaded 19-02-26

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00:00 Intro
1:24 Part 1: Magic is Mundane
8:39 Part 2: Magic as a Profession?
14:10 Part 3: Magic as Energy?
22:08 Part 4: Good vs. Evil
27:47 Conclusion



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Uploaded 31-08-22

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Uploaded 13-05-21

Special thanks to Seth Weprin for co-writing this episode. Thanks to Gavi from @Unpacked for reading an early draft.

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Halloween was not always a holiday of candy, costumes, and parties. Its history stretches back almost two thousand years. But what is this history? And what extent can we call Halloween a Christian holiday...if at all?

Uploaded 18-10-16

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Bibliography and image credits:

Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, 2002.

Santino, Jack. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life, 1994.

Souling picture: https://archive.org/details/cheshiresheafbe01browgoog

Oengusso calendar: https://ia802604.us.archive.org/10/items/martyrologyofoen29oenguoft/martyrologyofoen29oenguoft.pdf

Halloween Frolics painting: http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/halloween-frolics-189976

Guy Fawkes Effigy pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:November_Effigies_(6833391028).jpg

Most other images came from Stephen Reid. An artist from the early 20th century who specialized in paintings of Celtic mythology.



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Uploaded 17-08-16

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Uploaded 25-08-22

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Uploaded 18-01-24

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The Nephilim are a mysterious group of beings mentioned in the book of Genesis. But who were they thought to be? Giants? Fallen angels?

Bibliography:
-Loren T. Stuckenbruck, The Myth of Rebellious Angels: Studies in Second Temple Judaism and New Testament Texts (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017).
-Adrienne Mayor, The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2023).
-Wojciech Kosior, “The Fallen (Or) Giants? The Gigantic Qualities of the Nefilim in the Hebrew Bible,” in Magdalena Waligórska and Tara Kohn, eds., Jewish Translation, Translating Jewishness (Boston: De Gruyter, 2018).
-Ronald Hendel, The Landscape of Memory: Giants and the Conquest of Canaan,” "From the book Collective Memory and Collective Identity."
-Ronald Hendel, "The Nephilim were on the Earth," in The Fall of the Angels, pages 11-34.
-Robin Routledge, "The Nephilim: A Tall Story?" Tyndale Bulletin 66.1 (2015), 19-40.
-Annette Yoshiko Reed, "Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature," 2005.

00:00 Introduction
1:31 Ancient Context of Genesis 6
4:00 Ancient Canaanite Giants?
7:18 The Hellenistic Interpretation of Nephilim
9:00 Fallen Angel Interpretation
10:30 Rabbinic Jewish and later Christian Interpretations

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Uploaded 18-05-23

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Imagine a religion that assumes evil will always arise again. Dive deep into the demonology of the Legend of Zelda.

Bibliography:
David Frankfurter, "Master-Demons, Local Spirits, and Demonology in the Roman Mediterranean World: An Afterword to Rita Lucarelli," Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 11 (2011) 126 - 131

Rita Lucarelli, "Demons (Benevolent and Malevolent)" in UCLA Encylopedia of Egyptology," 2010.

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Akko and Haifa are the two holiest cities for the Baha'i Faith. The Baha'i Gardens, located on the slopes of Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel, have become a major tourist site in recent years. Baha'i pilgrims also travel there to pray and meditate at the Shrine of the Báb located in the gardens. Why are these two cities holy to the Baha'is? What is the significance of pilgrimage here?

Uploaded 10-12-18

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Uploaded 22-04-24

Jesús Malverde is a Catholic folk saint particularly popular in Mexico. He has a bad reputation of being a "narcosaint." But is it an unfair stereotype?

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