mythology

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: The Queer Classicist: Imagining Trans Aphrodite Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire: Bettany Hughes [...Read More...]

Goddess of sex workers, Our Lady of the Castration Foam, the walking embodiment of orgasm herself—Aphrodite was one of the most powerful goddesses in the Olympian pantheon. [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Venus and Aphrodite: History of a Goddess by Bettany Hughes Hesiod’s Theogony (Hugh G. Evelyn-White translation) [...Read More...]

If you know anything about Aphrodite, then you know she is the ancient Greek goddess primarily associated with love, beauty, sex, reproduction, and passion. She was also the [...Read More...]

Become a Patron!   Here are the sources that enabled us to put together ths episode. First, just a reminder that you should all pick up Daniel Ogden’s The Werewolf [...Read More...]

The werewolf myth as we know it today generally involves getting bitten by a werewolf, transforming during the full moon, and being very susceptible to silver bullets. But [...Read More...]

Dads who devour their children. Disembodied baby heads. Corpses that stand up on the battlefield to prophesy doom. Women who return from the grave to carry on steamy affairs. [...Read More...]

The Pictish Beast is a mysterious animal carved on Pictish standing stones. Nobody knows what kind of animal it is. But it must have been really important to the Picts, as [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Wow, what a wild ride! Here are some pictures of the Pictish Beast: Genn’s sources include: Scotland.org: Scottish Myths and Legends: The Kelpie [...Read More...]

This week, we’re taking a deep dive into Welsh mythology from a queer, feminist perspective with the phenomenally talented Welsh artist Mari Catrin Phillips of MythsnTits. [...Read More...]