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In this week’s blasphemously offensive episode we lift the dress on one of the biggest secrets ever told, (if it's true) the hidden history of Simon Peter, the first Apostle and… according to some sources: synagogue spy; a hidden hand behind the establishment of Orthodox Christianity. On the free side of the show we break down who Peter is according to the "normal gospels" and by the end we will discuss who he secretly was and what he was secretly doing… supposedly. In the extended show we discuss exactly how he pulled it off and take a look at some of the evidence which helps confirm the theory. No matter what faith or worldview you have: I'm sure there’s something to offend you in here. Thank you and enjoy the show! 

On the free show we discuss:
Caesar’s Messiah, Flipped Upside Down
Peter: The Man Who Changed History
The Rock, The Keys, and the First Pope
First to Confess, First to Deny
James, Peter, and Paul
Kill and Eat: The Vision on the Rooftop
The Blow-Up in Antioch
Shimon Kefa, The Spy
Peter Chamor: The Firstling Donkey
Joseph, Esther, Moses, and Yael
The Toledot Yeshu Spy Quartet

On the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
Stealing the Shem ha-Meforash
The Name Carved in Flesh
Heal a Leper, Raise the Dead
Whatever Simon Says
“Jesus Hated Israel and Their Torah”
Turn the Other Cheek as Containment
How the Calendar Got Hijacked
The Tower in the Middle of the City
Bread of Misery, Water of Affliction
The Mystery Fast of 9 Tevet
Did Peter Write Nishmat Kol Chai?
Christian Counter-Spy: Gamaliel

This week’s episode was written and researched by Luke Madrid. He’s to blame. The others read quote and provided original commentary they are responsible for.

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Scripture and early Christian texts:

Matthew 4:18–20; 16:18–19

John 1:42

Acts 5:34–40; 10; 22:3

Galatians 2:11–14

Isaiah 1:14

Exodus 13:13

Judges 4–5 (Jael and Sisera)

Acts of Peter (late 2nd century; upside-down crucifixion request)

Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions (3rd–4th century; Gamaliel as secret Christian)

Photius, Bibliotheca (tradition that Peter and John baptized Gamaliel, Abibas, and Nicodemus)

Jewish legend: Peter as inside man

Aggadata de-Shimon Kefa (אגדתא דשמעון כיפא, “The Legend of Simon the Rock”). Printed by Adolf Jellinek in Beit ha-Midrash, vols. V–VI (Leipzig / Vienna, 1853–78). Also in J. D. Eisenstein, Otzar Midrashim.

English: Alfred Edersheim, “Appendix XVIII. Haggadah about Simeon Kepha,” in The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah.

Version 2 line used on the show: “And this Simeon Kefa is what the gentiles call Saint Peter.”

Toledot Yeshu and the spy quartet

Toledot Yeshu (“The Life Story of Jesus”), medieval Jewish counter-gospel; Peter/Shimon, Paul/Elijah, Yochanan, and Judas/Yehuda as subversive pseudo-converts.

Johann Christoph Wagenseil, Tela Ignea Satanae (Altdorf, 1681) — first printed Hebrew/Latin recension.

Johann Jacob Huldreich (Huldricus), Historia Jeschuae Nazareni (Leiden, 1705) — the recension that puts Simon’s death on 9 Tevet.

Liturgy, law, and the fight over the poems

Nishmat Kol Chai (“The breath of every living being…”) — Sabbath, festival, and Passover liturgy sometimes credited to Shimon Kefa.

Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 580:2 (R. Yosef Karo, 1565): “On the ninth of Tevet we do not know what calamity happened.”

Orchot Chaim: “On the ninth the sages did not write what happened, and it remains a secret.”

Machzor Vitry: rejects the claim that “that scoundrel Simon Peter the ass” wrote Nishmat “when he was on the rock.”

Rashi circle: “the revolting Shimon peter chamor… the error of Rome.”

R. Baruch ben Yehoshua Yechezkel Feivel Frankel-Teomim (1760–1828): manuscript note that Shimon HaKalphus died on 9 Tevet and that a yearly fast was set in Jerusalem.

Modern scholarship and the Roman-psyop foil

Joseph Atwill, Caesar’s Messiah (2005).

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War (the campaign Atwill maps onto the Gospels).

John G. Gager, “Simon Peter: Founder of Christianity or Saviour of Israel?” in Peter Schäfer, Michael Meerson, and Yaacov Deutsch, eds., Toledot Yeshu: The Life Story of Jesus Revisited (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011).

John G. Gager, Who Made Early Christianity?: The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul (Columbia University Press, 2015) — Paul in the same “inside man” dossier.

Maimonides / Iberian conversos — mentioned as the later historical type, not as a single cited book.

Quick reference pages used while writing the notes

Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Saint Peter the Apostle.”

Wikipedia, “Saint Peter”; “Jael”; “Toledot Yeshu.”

Sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, “Aggada of Shimon Kippa,” Versions 1 and 2.

Kathy Howard, “7 Things You Might Not Know About the Apostle Peter.”

Ligonier, “The Significance of Peter.”

Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, “What Is Peter’s Role in the Formation of the Church?”

Lifeway Women, “From Fisherman to Faithful Witness: A Biography of the Apostle Peter.”

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In this week’s episode we wrap up our deep-dive into Nietzsche's era initiating classic: “Beyond Good and Evil” by traversing chapter 3, the religious mood and a handful of his aphorisms in chapter 4; Julian the Philosopher lending historical context and depth throughout.  In the free side of the show we focus on Nietzsche's criticism of Christianity and where, he believes, the proper place of religion ought to be. In the extended show we dive into Nietzsche's aphorisms and discuss both the controversial ideas of “slavery,” what that might mean in context and how if any overlap exists with Anton Lavey’s writings in The Satanic Bible. Thank you and enjoy the show! 

In the free side of the show we discuss:

• Nietzsche’s “big hunt” through the history of the soul — and why a podcast is basically a trophy room for rare ideas
• Christianity as sacrifice: the surrender of freedom, pride, and self-confidence of spirit
• “God on the Cross” as the most daring inversion of ancient values — the Oriental slave’s revenge on Rome
• Religious neurosis and its three dangerous prescriptions: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence
• Why European theism is dying even while the religious instinct keeps growing
• Modern philosophy as secretly (or openly) anti-Christian — but not anti-religious
• The great ladder of religious cruelty: first humans, then nature, then God himself sacrificed to nothingness
• Why real religious life needs aristocratic idleness — and how noisy modern labor breeds unbelief
• The scholar as “arrogant dwarf” who thinks he’s outgrown the religious man
• Nietzsche’s real thesis: religion is a tool — a bond of command for rulers, a ladder for the ascending, and contentedness for the many — not an end in itself

In the extended side of the show available on at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:

• Chapter 4’s blasphemous apophthegms — Nietzsche’s clearest, cruelest one-liners
• The devil as the dumping ground for every quality we were too afraid to give God
• Memory vs. pride (“I did that” / “I could not have done that”) as early shadow work
• Character as fate, duration over intensity, and why attaining your ideal means you’ve already surpassed it
• Sensuality reaching the highest altitudes of spirit, the militant man attacking himself in peacetime, and “Know thyself” as a command to shut up and become objective
• Salting the truth until it no longer quenches thirst
• What Nietzsche actually means by “slavery” (and what he doesn’t)
• How much of this Anton LaVey quietly lifted, restyled, and put in The Satanic Bible
• Julian’s historical context on the whole mess — plus the jokes we couldn’t leave on the free side

This episode was crammed full of Thelema stuff by Luke but otherwise everyone presented their own stuff faithfully and is responsible for their own words.

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The Book of the Law
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In this week’s episode we continue through Nietzsche's Aeonic Philosophy as laid out in one of his all time greatest hits: Beyond Good and Evil. While the first chapter dealt with an era-shattering criticism of classical philosophy which ended upon a warning about, (having killed the old philosophies) the coming of the new philosopher or Free Spirit. As our special guest, Julian The Philosopher adds some much needed historical context and nuance to Nietzsche's words and sets us up to explore the new philosopher, the first spirit and the Ubermensch in greater depth. Who are those people anyway? Still fresh with excitement from the text, Luke (that's me) fixates on the overlap between the hazy image Nietzsche paints and the mystical poetry in Aleister Crowley’s “Book of the Law,” which outlines, in slightly more poetic fashion, a remarkably similar ideal. On the free side of the show we touch upon Nietzsche's hilarious ideas about race which, despite being a little controversial today, we can still have a good laugh about with good humor on our side. In the extended side of the show we explore the Will to Power as it is introduced in the text and how it lines up with Hadit’s words in the Book of the Law. Thank you and enjoy the show! 

In this week’s episode we discuss:
Knowledge vs. Ignorance
The Elect 
A Curse Upon Because
A Case Against Martyrdom
How to Tolerate Idiots
Nietzsche's Ideas About Race 

In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we let our hair down and continue to discuss:
The Privilege of the Strong
Medicine to Some, Poison to Others
Idiots Think in Absolutes (mostly)
You Cannot Trust the “Selfless”
The Sanctity of Appearance
THE WILL TO POWER
The Profound Loves a Mask
The New Philosopher and the Thelemite 

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In this week’s episode we are joined by Julian the Philosopher as our special guest to discuss one of Friedrich Nietzsche's most celebrated and important works of philosophy, his book “Beyond Good and Evil.” If you’ve been following our prolonged discussion with Julian, one big question we are attempting to tackle in earnest is where does Aleister Crowley and the religion of Thelema fall within the moral spectrum found between Homer, Socrates and Fredriech Nietzsche. Because Nietzsche is considered a Thelemic saint we compare passages within Beyond Good and Evil to The Book of the Law while Julian peppers us with historical and philosophical context along with the tea about Nietzsche's utterly tortured love life. As with anytime we’re discussing anything of cosmic importance on this show, the gods try to test us and Julian's electric grid was actively being struck by Thor’s hammer throughout our discussion. This resulted in some unpleasantly low compression at times, so, we ask you to just bare with us and we’ll have it fixed next time. By the end of the free show you’ll have a pretty solid idea of where this adventure is going next time and if you want double the abuse for your brain, we finish the entirety of chapter 1 by the conclusion of the extended episode. Thank you and enjoy the show.

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The Book of the Law
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In this week’s episode we’re joined by Jennifer Billock, an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and the world’s only professional cheese fortune-teller to discuss her craft, how it works and some of the intricacies of using various foods to divine fortunes with. In the first half of the show we break down exactly how Jennifer accomplishes her profound feats of divination from “noisy” cheese like a crumbling blue to almost featureless pseudo-cheese like American. After breaking down the nuance, we continue in the extended show with a real, live reading from Jennifer who examines our own cheese to divine our fortunes, demonstrating in real-time that tyromancy is definitely well beyond being just an amusing novelty and is capable of being uncomfortably profound. I’m sure you’ll want to get a reading from her after hearing this interview so check out links in the description. Thank you and enjoy the show!

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Interview questions by Luke, Mari and Heka. 

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In this week’s episode we conclude our three part journey through the seventeen stages of the heroes journey as laid out by Joseph Campbell in his seminal work “Hero with a Thousand Faces.” In the free section of the show we discuss THE ULTIMATE BOON which we explore in its various manifestations including the traditional narcotic coded drink of the gods and heroes; soma. We also discuss the reluctance to return from the journey (looking at you Odysseus), the magick shapeshifting flight and the occasional need (plot twist) for the hero to be rescued from without. In the extended show we Cross the Threshold and explore what exactly that means, if it's even possible to describe it; which is the next, difficult step which gives way to the journey coming full circle, the work accomplished and freedom rings once more. Thank you and enjoy the show.

In this week’s episode we discuss:
The Ultimate Boon
Signs of Mastery
Surviving the Return
Soma
The Refusal To Return
The Magic Flight
Shokoshimbutsu Mummies
Magickal Transformation

In the extended episode available at http://www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
Crossing the Return Threshold
The Inconsistency Between the Two Worlds
Rip Van Winkle
Master of the Two Worlds
The Bagavadghita
Reconciliation With the Universal Will

This episode was written by Luke Madrid in collaboration with Tim Hacker who wrote the skeleton of the schizo’s journey for each seventeen stages with commentaries. Additional commentaries by Mari Sama and Heka Astra.

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Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. 3rd ed., New World Library, 2008.
https://ia601406.us.archive.org/30/items/Birdsfrogsandmirrors/JosephCampbell%20-%20The%20Hero%20With%20a%20Thousand%20Faces%20Commemorative%20Edition.pdf

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In this week’s episode we embark on part 2 of our journey to slap each and every single one of the Hero’s 1,000 faces as laid out in Joseph Campbell’s titular work that outlines the seventeen phases of the Heroes Journey. We begin the free show by discussing the best phase of the heroes journey, the encounter with the Goddess of the Universe before moving onto the phase where she becomes a deadly temptress which is nothing compared to integrating the Oedipal demon of the Dark Father and his subsequent redemption something something where did my foreskin go? In the extended show we discuss the tenth stage, "Apotheosis" and that takes the entire rest of the episode because, frankly, somebody has to geek out about this stuff! Thank you and enjoy the show :)

In this the free side of this episode we discuss:
Meeting with the Goddess \ The Daughter of Fortitude
The Universal Mother
Woman as Temptress
No Fap / Female Reversion 
Death Sticks
Atonement With the Father
Circumcision 
Drinking Blood Rituals
Initiation into Manhood

In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
The Bodhisattva
Christ and The Father
Androgenic Deities
Perils of Apotheosis
Bloodborne / Dark Souls 

This episode was written by Luke Madrid with inspiration / collaboration with Tim Hacker. Additional commentary by Heka Astra and Mari Sama.

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In this week’s episode we take the first step on the journey through The Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell and discuss, with nerd-like passion, the nuance surrounding each specific stage of the hero's journey as explained in the text. For a podcast that geeks out about symbolism; it doesn’t get much more bread and butter than this. In the free side of the show we make it through the first four stages of the heroes journey: The Mundane World, The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call and Supernatural Aid; touching upon the variety (or lack thereof) you can expect in each stage while using mythology both modern and classic as guide posts along the way. In the extended show we discuss Crossing the Threshold, the tremendous ordeal of being swallowed within the Belly of the Whale and the laundry list of trials each hero faces on their path to either Mordor or tax season. Thank you and enjoy the show.

DISCLAIMER:
I think we need to clear up some confusion. First of all, I’m very tired. Secondly, I’m very tired. Thirdly, the book we’re studying, Hero with a Thousand Faces is by Joseph Campbell but is BASED upon Carl Jung’s ideas of the collective unconscious, the archetypes and the path to individuation by interaction with. When you’re manically alternating between exhaustion and manic excitement it's easy to get the Cs and Js confused ok?? That being said, Jung is quoted numerous times throughout the text. At this point just assume we’ve mixed up the names a number of times during  this specific recording. My apologies. I'll sleep when I'm dead. 

In this week’s show we discuss:
-The World of the NPC: The Office, the Shire and Tatooine 
-The Call to Adventure: Neo, Barbie and Danny from the Shining
-Refusal of the Call: King Minos, Cypher and Luke Skywalker
-Supernatural Aid: Morphes, Beatrice of Dante’s Inferno, Weird Barbie
-Magickal Black-Man Tropes 

In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go further down the heroes rabbit hole (gross) and discuss:
-Crossing the Threshold: Walking Through the Mirror, Entering the Temple, Vagina Dentata
-The Belly of the Whale: Being Pilled, The Trash Compactor, Jonah
-The Road of Trials: John Wick, Hercules, Pan’s Labrynth and Alice in Wonderland. 

This episode was written by Luke Madrid in collaboration with Tim Hacker who wrote the skeleton of the schizo’s journey for each seventeen stages with commentaries. Additional commentaries by Mari Sama and Heka Astra.

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Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. 3rd ed., New World Library, 2008.
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In this week’s episode we explore if there is any truth behind the well loved, pop-psychology meme going around the internet the last few years detailing THE SILENT WAR; a covert struggle for the mind’s of the masses between a decentralized group of marginalized schizo-autists and a loosely affiliated cadre of enfranchised psychopathic elites: or more simply, the secret war between the schizos and the psychos - a theory that proponents claim is as old as time and offers us a new perspective on the dynamics between the hidden genius of charismatic predators who run things from the shadows and the weirdos like us who happen to notice them but can’t seem to get normal people to listen until it's too late. In the extended show we go into even deeper detail on how psychopaths manipulate the herd and some examples of exactly how it works all the way from the geopolitical stage to the work place. Lastly, we talk about how to identify and defend against the psychopath and hits plots. Thank you and enjoy the show! 

In this week’s episode we discuss:
History of the Meme|
The Schizoid Alkaholikier 
Philip K. Dick’s correlaries in Ubik
Autist vs. Schizo 
Masking
What is a Psycho? 

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go even further to discuss:
Schizoposting 
Socioeconomic Theory
Why Success Favors Psychopaths
Political Ponerology 
Institutional Capture 
The Four Features of Bullsh*t
How Psychopaths Actually Drive People Crazy

This episode was written by Luke Madrid with some blue sections by Mari Sama. Commentary by Heka Astra and Tim Hacker was original. 

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Primary Internet / Folk Origin

• Anonymous 4chan /pol/ post, 27 November 2022, thread 406166838, post No. 406171908. (Core text of the “Silent War” meme; the document reproduces and timestamps this as the point of origin before Reddit, YouTube narrations, TikTok, and Instagram circulation.)

Clinical / Psychiatric History

• Binswanger, Kurt. Work on the “schizoide Alkoholiker” (schizoid alcoholic) personality type, circa World War I period. Swiss psychiatrist; describes a constitutional style of intense inner experience, social withdrawal, and emotional distance that sits on the milder end of what later became the schizophrenia-spectrum / schizoid personality continuum. The script treats this as an early clinical analogue of the meme’s “schizo.”
• Kahlbaum, Karl Ludwig. Description of heboidophrenia (1890s). Condition emerging in adolescence/young adulthood that primarily disturbs personality, drive, mood, and social behaviour rather than intelligence; can present with antisocial, irritable, or “psychopathic”-appearing traits that are secondary to an underlying schizophrenic process. The script uses this to illustrate clinical blending of the two poles.

Literary Parallel

• Dick, Philip K. Ubik (1969). Three-class division of humanity (normies / psychics / inertials) mapped by the script onto the Silent War triad (normies / psychopaths / schizo-autists). Psychics infiltrate and commandeer institutions; inertials detect and nullify them.

Philosophical / Socio-Economic Theory

• Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972). Introduction of “schizoanalysis”; desire as productive, machine-like, deterritorializing force that capitalism both unleashes and reterritorializes under profit axioms. The script reads the “schizo” figure as potentially revolutionary rather than purely pathological and notes the book’s deliberately non-linear style as proto-“schizoposting.”

Empirical Studies on Corporate / “Successful” Psychopathy

• Board, B. J. & Fritzon, K. (2005). “Disordered personalities at work.” Contrasted 39 high-level UK executives/CEOs with forensic psychiatric patients using MMPI scales; executives showed elevated “theatrical” psychopathic traits (grandiosity, superficial charm, lack of remorse) at levels rivalling or exceeding clinical samples, without the impulsive violence of the latter. Interpreted as evidence of “successful psychopaths.”
• Babiak, P., Neumann, C. S. & Hare, R. D. (2010). “Corporate psychopathy: Talking the walk.” Study of 203 management-development professionals using PCL-R / PCL:SV; elevated psychopathic traits relative to general population, high on charisma/strategic vision/communication, low on teamwork, management skill, and actual job performance.
• Landay, K., Harms, P. D. & Credé, M. (2019). Meta-analysis (92 independent samples). Weak positive association between psychopathic tendencies and leadership emergence; weak negative association with leadership effectiveness; moderate negative link to transformational leadership.

Political Pathology / Institutional Capture

• Łobaczewski, Andrzej. Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes (English editions mid-2000s; written earlier under surveillance). Central claim that pathocracy arises when a small minority with personality disorders (especially primary psychopathy, plus certain schizoid and “characteropathic” configurations) attain critical institutional influence and select for their own kind. Introduces paramoralisms, paralogic, and the gradual inversion of language and morality. Estimates essential psychopathy ≈ 0.6 % of population plus a larger “penumbra.”
• Stigler, George J. (1971). “The Theory of Economic Regulation.” Landmark essay on regulatory capture: agencies eventually serve the industries they oversee via material incentives, informational access, and cognitive/cultural capture.

Double-Bind Theory

• Bateson, Gregory, Jackson, Don D., Haley, Jay & Weakland, John. (1956). “Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia.” Behavioral Science, 1(4), 251–264. Formalization of the double bind: conflicting injunctions (one negating the other) plus prohibition on meta-comment or escape; chronic exposure argued to contribute to communicative and perceptual patterns then diagnosed as schizophrenia. The script applies this directly to workplace/online dynamics in which the pattern-seer is punished for noticing the contradiction.
• Wikipedia entry on “double bind” (cited in-document for the concise definition of the communicative situation).

Additional Cultural / Literary Allusions (not primary sources but invoked)

• Campbell, Joseph – Hero’s Journey structure (adapted as “The Schizo’s Journey,” stages 0–17).
• Orwell, George – 1984 (paramoral language / inversion of morality).
• Disney’s The Lion King (Scar as archetype of the successful-but-incompetent psychopathic manager).

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In this week’s episode we invite our friend Julian the Philosopher back on the show to discuss the mythic source material from which Christopher Nolan’s new film is based: The Odyssey. We discuss not just Nolan’s new film, but Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, quite a bit of the historical context around these works of epic poetry, how these stories were thought of initially, criticized by Plato, recontextualized by Virgil, translated countless times and transformed into Nolan’s new blockbuster film. As part of our larger conversation, we discuss the dichotomy between the Homeric hero and the Platonic Hero of the mind, considering how each incarnation of the story fits into this framework or not. Thank you and enjoy the show :)

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In this week’s episode we discuss:
-The Homeric Hero
-Nolan’s Odysseus
-The Emily Wilson Translation 
-The Presence / Absence of Gods
-Hanging of the Servants
-The Life and Times of Homer 
-The People From the Sea
-Achilles and the Ethiopian Fleet

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go off script to discuss:
-Virgil’s Aeneid
-The Telegony
-Rome, Ancestors of Troy 
-The Christianization of The Odyssey
-The Boatman Charon
-John the Baptist
-The Sirens
-Philip K. Dick, Christ and the Sacraments

This discussion was impelled by the research and study of Julian Soloninka with additional contributions made by Luke Madrid, Heka Astra, Mari Sama and Tim Hacker. Recorded in unscripted, Socratic discussion style.

I did have notes ready but I did not use them. They are available for our rabbit tier. Good stuff in there. We just didn't talk about it! 

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