What better way to start off our study of Greek Mythology than with where it all began? Today, we're reading the Creation story, and fair warning it's a bit hectic.

Incomplete List of Racist Things Involved in the Study of Greece and Rome: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMepTvxf7/

This season's topics are brought to us by “Oh My Gods” by Philip Freeman

Cleopatra has been largely misrepresented in popular culture including the way in which she died. Was it actually by a cobra? Did Octavian get his hands dirty? Did Cleopatra choose on her own accord? In this episode, we read the story of what really happened.

This season's topics are brought to us by "The Mysteries of History" by Graeme Donald.

The history books always love to credit the white men as the people who discovered land even with there being plenty of people of color already on said land. So let's talk about who really discovered Australia and why the history books credit Captain Cook.

This season's topics are brought to us by "The Mysteries of History" by Graeme Donald.

Being that the last episode was all about who discovered America first, I felt it was only right to tell the Anishinaabe legend The Creation of Turtle Island since Turtle Island is what we now know as North America. If you listened to part 14 of the Beneath the Moon series you'll definitely find similarities between Hah-nu-nah, the World Turtle and The Creation of Turtle Island. Before we get into the legend I explain why we see these similarities.

Link to the story: http://dhseagles.kpdsb.on.ca/about/aboriginal/creationTurtleIsland.html

We're talking about who really got to America first. We all know it wasn't Columbus. Multiple groups/people discovered America before he got there in 1492, so why did he ever get the credit?

This season's topics are brought to us by "The Mysteries of History" by Graeme Donald.

To answer the question in the title, not what his autobiography tells us he did. His true legacy may simply be being a swimming pool game that no one knows the origin of. 

This season's topics are brought to us by "The Mysteries of History" by Graeme Donald.

We all know the story of Robin Hood and have he would only steal from the rich to give to the poor, right? Well...turns out he only did this once and the rest of his adventures were a lot more brutal than the average story you'd tell children about.

This season's topics are brought to us by "The Mysteries of History" by Graeme Donald.

It's believed that a Japanese woman who went by the name Tokyo Rose would make daily radio broadcasts to taunt the American Troops fighting the Japanese Army and Navy during World War II. Oddly enough, Tokyo Rose never existed.

This season's topics are brought to us by "The Mysteries of History" by Graeme Donald.

Pope Joan has been the topic of many books and films, but she may have never existed. In fact, she may simply be the product of the Protestant Reformation wanting to anger the Vatican.

This season's topics are brought to us by "The Mysteries of History" by Graeme Donald.

I definitely have some capitalist ideology leftover from nearly two decades of being taught that capitalism is the best economic system (it simply isn't) and I want to talk about how that's been damaging to my mental health as of late.