Willing & Fable

This week we discuss an amazing archer and a seductive sidhe

In this episode Rowan and Tracey will be talking to you about what happens when mortals face off against the Gods. Whether it be God speaking to Noah in the bible, Arachne battling it out with Athena, or the Furies torturing terrible humans, Gods in mythology have a way of finding their way to speaking to and interacting with mortals.

Sources

Pronunciation

https://chinesepod.com/tools/pronunciation/section/17

https://www.thoughtco.com/four-tones-of-mandarin-2279480

Mythopedia

https://mythopedia.com/chinese-mythology/gods/hou-yi/

https://mythopedia.com/chinese-mythology/gods/chang-e/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Yi#Lore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Meng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e

Encyclopedia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Xiwangmu

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hou-Yi

Autumn Festival

https://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/mid-autumn-festival-story.htm

China Knowledge Mythology

http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/personsdijun.html

http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/personshouyi.html

WikiDiff

https://wikidiff.com/mortal/god

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aos_S%C3%AD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wanderings_of_Oisin

TimelessMyths.com

https://www.timelessmyths.com/celtic/aboutceltic.html

History.com

https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/celts#:~:text=The%20Celts%20were%20a%20collection,religious%20beliefs%2C%20traditions%20and%20culture.

Encyclopedia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Butler-Yeats#ref205490

Irishimbasbooks.com

https://irishimbasbooks.com/the-truth-about-leannan-sidhe-or-leannan-si/

MaryJones.us

https://www.maryjones.us/jce/leanansidhe.html#:~:text=William%20Butler%20Yeats%20saw%20the,muse%20%2D%2D%20this%20malignant%20fairy.

Fairy and Folk Tales of Irish Peasantry - Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33887

Celtic Mythology - An Introduction to the Tuatha Dé Danann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6mazAiTHTs

Shortly after we recorded this episode a news story came out about the violent arrest of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations Chief Allan Adam. Resources can be found in the notes below for education and support.

This week we talk about the third sin in our seven deadly sins series, the sin of Wrath

In this episode we talk about a wicked war god and gruesome goddesses.

First Nations Education and Support

https://www.acfn.com/

https://www.firstnations.org/ways-to-give/

http://www.firstnations.de/fisheries/kwakwakawakw.htm

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1307460755710/1536862806124

Sources

Lelooska: The Life of a Northwest Artist by Chris Friday https://books.google.com/books?id=9loN_C1QT7wC&pg=PA254&lpg=PA254&dq=tseka+ceremony+kwakiutl&source=bl&ots=z6L_p38b41&sig=ACfU3U0rFYjz9gHSevtdoxKXNHBlEruiSg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi07rfZ0vDpAhVYhXIEHdoxB_4Q6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=tseka%20ceremony%20kwakiutl&f=false

Kwakwaka’wakw and Potlatch https://umistapotlatch.ca/notre_peuple-our_people-eng.php

Winalagalis https://mythic-engine.obsidianportal.com/wikis/winalagalis

Wikipedia Winalagalis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winalagalis

Wikipedia Sisiutl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisiutl

Wikipedia Kwakwaka’wakw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakw

Encylopedia Britannica Kwakiutl https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kwakiutl

Christianity.com on Wrath https://www.christianity.com/wiki/sin/what-is-wrath-the-meaning-of-this-deadly-sin.html

Encyclopedia Britannica Furies https://www.britannica.com/topic/Furies

Encyclopedia Britannica Chthonic https://www.britannica.com/topic/chthonic

Ecyclopedia Britannica Orestes and the Furies https://www.britannica.com/topic/Orestes-Greek-mythology

Ancient History Encyclopedia Furies https://www.ancient.eu/Furies/

Study.com Furies https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-furies-in-greek-mythology-symbols-names-story.html

Wikipedia Linear B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B

Wikipedia Erinyes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes#cite_note-auto2-18

Wikipedia Demeter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demeter

This week Rowan and Tracey dive headfirst into two flood myths you’ve probably heard about before, but most likely not in this detail!

Check out this episode to learn more about Noah’s Ark and Atlantis.

Sources 

Timaeus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaeus_(dialogue)

Infographics Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cVdPoZ61I

History Atlantis

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/atlantis

Wikipedia Atlantis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis#Timaeus

NatGeo Atlantis

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/archaeology/atlantis/#close

Timaeus

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html

Flood Myths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth

Flood Myths List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths#Africa

Here’s What Nobody Told You About Noah’s Ark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JRBKYdnhzY

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_in_Islam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_flood_narrative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euhemerism

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/14/internationalnews.archaeology

Smithsonian Magazine:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-fleet-ancient-ships-discovered-black-sea-180964978/

The New Yorker: Myth and Realisim in Noah’s Ark

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/myth-and-realism-in-noahs-ark

Jewish Theology Seminary

http://www.jtsa.edu/noahs-repetition-and-contradiction

The Christian Science Monitor

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issues/2010/0428/Doubt-cast-on-Noah-s-ark-found-in-Turkey

Bible Gateway:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+5%3A32-10%3A1&version=NIV

Crash Course Episode #12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blFaiB5kj6I

Crash Course Episode #16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA3j5_vKQfc

Definition of a Cubit

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/cubit

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s Twitter

https://twitter.com/TheRaDR

Chabad.org

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/246609/jewish/The-Story-of-Noah-and-the-Ark-in-the-Bible.htm

TW: Sexual Assault In this episode, Rowan and Tracey channel their quarantine laziness into discussing stories centered around the sin of sloth.

Do you know Rip Van Winkle or the original version of Sleeping Beauty?

Sources

Wikipedia Sloth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_(deadly_sin)

Encyclopedia Britannica Rip Van Winkle https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rip-Van-Winkle-short-story-by-Irving

Wikipedia Rip Van Winkle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle

Great Northern Catskills

https://www.greatnortherncatskills.com/arts-culture/rip-van-winkle

Legends of America

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ny-ripvanwinkle/

Ranker: In The Original Sleeping Beauty, The King Is A Sexual Harasser Who Forces Himself On The Princess https://www.ranker.com/list/details-from-the-original-sleeping-beauty/genevieve-carlton

7 Reasons Why Laziness is a Myth https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/contemporary-psychoanalysis-in-action/201510/7-reasons-why-laziness-is-myth

Sleeping Beauty from Pitt.edu

https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0410.html

The Myth of Laziness

https://medium.com/@MikeSturm/the-myth-of-laziness-6a91889329f7

Wikipedia: Fairy Rings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring#cite_note-61

The Dullahan: The Irish Headless Horseman https://celticmke.com/CelticMKE-Blog/Irish-Headless-Horseman.htm

In this episode, Tracey and Rowan explore Creation Goddesses and their roles in the beginning of the world...and possibly the end of it? Explore the stories of Tiamat and Izanami and Izanagi.

Sources

Wikipedia Mother Goddess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_goddess

Encyclopedia Britannica Mother Goddess https://www.britannica.com/topic/mother-goddess

Encyclopedia Britannica Lahmu and Lahamu https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lahmu-and-Lahamu#ref233798

WikipediaTiamat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamat

Oracc Museum http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/tiamat/index.html

Ancient EU https://www.ancient.eu/article/225/enuma-elish---the-babylonian-epic-of-creation---fu/

“God as a Man Versus God as a Woman: Perceiving God as a Function of the Gender of God and the Gender of the Participant”

https://womrel.sitehost.iu.edu/REL301%20Women/GodAsManVsGodAsWoman.pdf

Goddesses Of The Ancient World: Legends Of Powerful Religious Deities

https://www.magellantv.com/articles/goddesses-of-the-ancient-world-legends-of-powerful-religious-deities

“Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No Bullshit Guides to World Mythology”

https://smile.amazon.com/Cory-OBrien-ebook/dp/B0099CTXZ8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1K5B5Q3JFE0MC&dchild=1&keywords=zeus+grants+stupid+wishes&qid=1589402093&sprefix=zeus+grants%2Caps%2C219&sr=8-1

Shakti: A Universal Force

https://chopra.com/article/shakti-universal-force

Goddesses Of The Ancient World: Legends Of Powerful Religious Deities

https://www.magellantv.com/articles/goddesses-of-the-ancient-world-legends-of-powerful-religious-deities

YouTube: Little Art Talks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3MKdJjQeOw

YouTube: See U in History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1QksqU5ZaQ

YouTube: Extra Credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPo-TvgiGc&t=36s

Ancient History Encyclopediahttps://www.ancient.eu/Izanami_and_Izanagi/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izanami

The first episode in our series on the seven deadly sins, Pride. We talk about an arrogant artist, a gloating goddess, and a haughty hunter.

Black Lives Matter Resources:

Please check out this Anti-Racism Resource Doc compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020. To quote the page itself, “This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.” It is filled with clickable links to utilize.

Below, you’ll find some of the resources we’ve started with.

Donate:

ACLU

The Bail Project

NAACP

National Bail Out

The Okra Project

Watch:

13th (Ava DuVernay) on Netflix

American Son (Kenny Leon) on Netflix

Dear White People (Justin Simien) on Netflix

Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) on Available to rent

King In The Wilderness on HBO

See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) on Netflix

The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) on Hulu with Cinemax

When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) on Netflix

Read:

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard To Talk To White People About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Listen (Podcasts):

1619 (New York Times)

Code Switch (NPR)

Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

Pod Save the People

Sources:

Mythic Series by Ted-Ed (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvUHcsZOhJ8 See U in History (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoMJm-Les6Q Mythology and Fiction Explained (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9pr2Xxaagw Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/Narcissus-Greek-mythology Greek Mythology https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Narcissus/narcissus.html

Hello! We are Rowan Hall and Tracey Harrison and we’re the hosts of the Willing & Fable Podcast. Each week we blend history, mystery, and mythology to bring you the spooky stories you wish they taught in school.