In the Borderlands: Recent Episodes
Mikael Öberg and Torgrim Mellum Stene
Two performance storytellers with a shared interest in liminal spaces explore topics in the borderlands between creativity, mythology and magic.
**Episode seven of our podcast within the podcast – a series of full moon specials, released on every full moon – where we turn our attention to the glowing celestial body that has inspired artists and mystics for millenia.
The Frost Moon shines bright in November skies, and it invites us to look within. We spiral back towards our selves, our bellies, our navels, searching for the center of things.**
REFERENCES
Svipdag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svipdagr
Vishnu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu
Norse creation myth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_cosmology#Creation
**Vǫluspá - The Prophecy of the Seeress from the Poetic Edda is one of the most well known texts from Norse mythology. But how could this oral poem have been performed?
Kersti Ståbi, Swedish folk singer and oral storyteller explored this question in her master's degree. Searching for a way to be a tale-singer in her own mythological tradition, she looked to living practices in Korea, India and Kyrgyzstan. In this episode she discusses this process with us, the interplay between copying and creating, and the paradox of trying to recreate something that's not possible to recreate.**
Kersti Ståbi
kerstistabi.com
The Vǫluspá project
kerstistabi.com/voluspa
Vǫluspá Pansori first listener: Göran Hemberg
Vǫluspá Pandvani first listener: Mikael Öberg
Vǫluspá Pandvani freebass accordionist: Leif Ottosson
Pandvani storytelling tradition clip: Ritu Verma with ragi (first listener) Uday Ram Gandharva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrdPPuTaWag
Manas storytelling tradition clip: Nazarkul Seidahmanov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibtAcZvcgk4
Pansori storytelling tradition clip: Jen Shyu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKg7_gqV-4
REFERENCES
Vǫluspá
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Völuspá
Manas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Manas
Pansori
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansori
Pandvani/Pandavani/Pandwani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandavani
Bifrǫst festival
https://www.bifrostfestival.com
Fornyrðislag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliterative_verse#Fornyrðislag
Hexameter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexameter
Old Norse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse
Walter Ong (Orality and Literacy - book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong
The Singer of Tales (Book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singer_of_Tales
Homeric Question
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Question
Episode six of our podcast within the podcast – a series of full moon specials, released on every full moon – where we turn our attention to the glowing celestial body that has inspired artists and mystics for millenia.
**Dark October is upon us, and the ominous Slaughter Moon takes us for a spin through tales of dismemberment, inklings of werewolves and musings about the nature of light.
REFERENCES**Lucifer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer
Werewolf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf
Robert Graves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves
Iconotropy
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iconotropy
Were
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Were
The Shaman: Voyages of the Soul Trance, Ecstasy and Healing from Siberia to the Amazon by Piers Vitebsky (book)
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Shaman.html?id=WX6UAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Odin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
Shamanism: Archaic techniques of ecstasy by Mircea Eliade (book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism:_Archaic_Techniques_of_Ecstasy
Percival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival
We are happy to welcome our friend Maria Kvilhaug back «In the Borderlands»! This time, the author and historian gives us a fascinating look into her upcoming work – a book presenting a comprehensive list of instances of seidr in Norse sources.
Seidr can be seen as a Norse form of shamanism and the stories Maria shine a light upon in her research paint a far more diverse, gender fluid and colourful picture of old Norse society and religious practices than what we are used to.
Come join us on a journey through spell songs, fate swapping, transgressive trials of initiation and divine intercourse.
Maria Kvilhaug on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/MariaKvilhaug
Maria Kvilhaug's website
https://bladehoner.wordpress.com/author/
Maria Kvilhaug on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/mariakvilhaug/
Maria Kvilhaug on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ladyofthe.labyrinth/
REFERENCES
Þórbjǫrg vǫlva in Saga of Erik the Red
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiðr#Erik_the_Red
Lotte Motz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Motz
Ynglinga saga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynglinga_saga
Snorri Sturluson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snorri_Sturluson
Heimskringla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimskringla
Runes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes
Galdr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galdr
Kjalnesinga saga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjalnesinga_saga
Cinderella
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella
Brothers Grimm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm
Saxo Grammaticus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxo_Grammaticus
Bearskin (fairy tale)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearskin_(German_fairy_tale)
Odysseus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus
Circe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe
Odin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
Gunnlöd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnlöð
Episode five of our podcast within the podcast – a series of full moon specials, released on every full moon – where we turn our attention to the glowing celestial body that has inspired artists and mystics for millenia.It is September, and the Singing Moon invites us to listen. What songs will burst like bubbles from below?
REFERENCES
The Green Man and the Dragon by Paul Broadhurst (Book)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10843042-the-green-man-and-the-dragon
Jean-Jaques Rosseau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau?fbclid=IwAR0ShDw0WTVl4cxU0twE3az-o9kBHtJPSkJMUmg...
Kalendae
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calende#Etymology
På Tungans Tröskel: arktiska dikter från Grönland, Kanada och Alaska (Book)
https://books.google.se/books/about/På_tungans_tröskel.html?id=KdtqAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Knud Rasmussen: Grönländska Myter och Sagor (Book)
https://books.google.se/books/about/Myter_och_sagor.html?id=QkE0wAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Sjæl gør dig smuk: om inuit menneskene (Book)
https://books.google.se/books/about/Sjæl_gør_dig_smuk.html?id=8TxgPAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Brittle one is Torgrim Mellum Stene’s online intuitive genre-bending fantasy novel that he started in 2021. Following the initiatory journey of Brittle, Torgrim writes without planning ahead, instead allowing the story to unfold chapter by chapter in an ever expanding exploration of the world that he first set in motion.
This episode marks the start of book two – its first chapter now available online – and we celebrate this with a conversation about Torgrim’s experiences with intuitive storytelling and writing myth, interspersing it with Mikael’s audiobook interpretation of the chapter. Enjoy!
READ BRITTLE ONE HERE
https://www.brittle.one
TORGRIM MELLUM STENE’S WEBSITE
https://www.kloverknekten.no
REFERENCES
George R.R. Martin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin
Leo Sofer: Stories of the Journey Home
https://storiesofthejourneyhome.com
The Language of the Birds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Birds
J.R.R. Tolkien
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien
Mythopoeia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythopoeia
Hero’s Journey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
Eshu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshu
Elegua
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegua
Cheshire Cat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Cat
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland
Kahlil Gibran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran
The fourth episode of our podcast within the podcast – a series of full moon specials, released on every full moon – where we turn our attention to the glowing celestial body that has inspired artists and mystics for millenia.This time we focus some lunar light on the goddesses Venus andFreyja.
REFERENCES
Venus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)
Bracteate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracteate
Swedish History museum (gold collars)
https://historiska.se/utstallningar/the-gold-room/
Freyja
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja
Brisingamen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%ADsingamen
Ginnungagap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginnungagap
Jörmungandr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jörmungandr
Dwarves in Norse Myth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_(folklore)
Part three of our podcast within the podcast – a series of full moon specials, released on every full moon – where we turn our attention to the glowing celestial body that has inspired artists and mystics for millenia.
REFERENCES
Mantis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis
Chhinnamasta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhinnamasta
Paul Maslov Karlsson is a philosopher, currently writing his doctoral thesis at Uppsala University, Sweden. We talk deeply with him about the concepts of fact and fiction, what their characteristics are, and whether there can be said to exist a meaningful distinction between them.Myth, scientism, art and conspiracy theory are all given their due in this fascinating conversation. We hope you enjoy the journey as much as we did.
REFERENCES
Vladimir Propp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp
Joseph Campbell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
The Hero with a thousand faces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces
Aristotle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
Poetics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle)
Plato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato
Marvel comics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics
Carl Jung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung
Jungian archetypes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes
Richard Dawkins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
The Magic of Reality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_of_Reality
The Rat in the Pizza
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt_af_Klintberg
Hesiod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod
Alexander Baumgarten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gottlieb_Baumgarten
David Lynch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch
Frank Herbert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert
Book: Dune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)
Film: Dune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(2021_film)
Isaac Asimov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
Asimov’s laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
Mimesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimesis
Hans-Georg Gadamer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Georg_Gadamer
Pythagoras
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras
Paul Ricœur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ricœur
Songline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songline
Alan Moore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore
Voice of the Fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_the_Fire
David Icke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke
Akira Kurosawa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa
Rashomon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon
Mikhail Bachtin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakhtin
Fyodor Dostoevsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov
Stoicism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism
Homer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer
Hesiod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod
Torah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah
**Part two of our podcast within the podcast – a series of full moon specials, released on every full moon – where we turn our attention to the glowing celestial body that has inspired artists and mystics for millenia.
REFERENCES**Puck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(folklore)
Yin and Yang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang
Hieros Gamos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieros_gamos
Our thirteenth episode gives some well-deserved mythological attention to the number 13. Torgrim sets off on a 13-minute long quest in search for a more creative perspective on what is often considered to be nothing but a bringer of bad luck.
REFERENCES
Knights Templar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar
Friday the 17th
https://www.thoughtco.com/unlucky-friday-the-17th-3972380
Trayodashi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrayodashi
Lokasenna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokasenna
Prometheus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus
12 Olympians on the frieze of Parthenon
https://www.parthenonfrieze.gr/en/about-the-frieze/
12 Tribes of Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_of_Israel
Chromatic Scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_scale
Kabbalah and the numbers 12 / 13
http://www.betemunah.org/twelve.html
Prime number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
Buckminster Fuller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
Platonic solid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
Mazaalot
https://www.scribd.com/document/451288151/Mazal-Constellation
Dodecahedron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecahedron
Tarot card: The Hanged Man
https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/566f41e69091869557a9d12d/5e83a3061e6cfcf762b87d10_zH1Q2IV1OwlPf6XSZ6enRuK7pt3PAuJMJNy7wxU3UBWMYRt1iecJvcYv348hDOh1mEYJsbgjsGgmR2a6yja-mP8QtTjMiAMmqURg8JaxVHFIPjFe6TKWd9fNp-4Z2dW8JZ9hfEZc.png
Tarot card: Death
https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.wYU1s4Lq3AfRk7mRUwXyAAHaMu&pid=Api
Rune: Eiwaz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eihwaz
The 12 labours of Hercules
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules
Ben Haggarty is one of the world's leading contemporary storytellers, who creates and performs work inspired by international fairy tale, myth and epic. His deep research into ancient stories and cultures also led to the graphic novel series MeZolith with artist Adam Brockbank. Starting from this stone age horror project, we explore all sorts of questions surrounding research and telling (and re-telling) of traditional narrative. Since the age of stone and bone the storyteller has straddled the worlds seen and unseen, giving voice to tales hoary with age, tales that have been revived time and time again by countless mouths and minds before, remade, refound, rediscovered, remembered.
Ben Haggarty's website
www.benhaggarty.com
MeZolith - Stone Age Dreams and Nightmares Book 1
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8100001-mezolith?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ZXbd...MeZolith - Stone Age Dreams and Nightmares Book 2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276075-mezolith-book-2
MeZolith artist Adam Brockbank's website
https://www.adambrockbank.com/
Ben Haggarty’s training videos
https://crickcrackclub.com/the-secret-art-of-the-storyteller/
REFERENCES
Brothers Grimm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm
Mesolithic period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesolithic
Ancient Technology Centre
https://ancienttechnologycentre.com
Doggerland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
Pyrite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite
Vedbek burial, Denmark
https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=32656
Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102324.Swamp_Thing_Vol_1
Book: Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17669062-shaman
Bertolt Brecht
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht
Book: Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Ovid
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine
The Kalevala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala
Language of the birds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_the_birds
The Nart Sagas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nart_saga
Scythians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians
Here begins a podcast within the podcast – a series of full moon specials where we turn our attention to the glowing celestial body that has inspired artists and mystics for millennia.
We are happy to welcome back Jo Blake from episode #3 to talk about her upcoming project The Witness, based on the Gospel of Mary – a 5th century text that casts the teachings of Christ in a different light. Join us for this easter deep dive into gnostic gospels and buried knowledge.
Jo Blake's website
https://www.jo-blake.co.uk
Video trailer for The Witness
https://vimeo.com/617003267
REFERENCES
Gospel of Mary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary
New Testament Apocrypha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament_apocrypha
Carl Jung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung
The Red Book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)
Neolithic site Göbekli Tepe in Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe
Terma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terma_(religion)
Hilma af Klint
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_af_Klint
The Sleeping King
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_asleep_in_mountain
Kalevala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala
Väinämöinen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Väinämöinen
Quetzalcoatl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl
Saint Sunniva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunniva
Goddess Inanna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna
Minoan Snake Goddess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_snake_goddess_figurines
Chakra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra
Nous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous
Goddess Isis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
Abraxas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas
Glastonbury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury
Book: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Jean-Yves Leloup
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/the-gospel-of-mary-magdalene
Book: The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity by Cynthia Bourgeault
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7986010-the-meaning-of-mary-magdalene
Does living psychedelically necessarily mean taking psychedelics? How does dream, poetry and art relate to psychedelic consciousness? How can you share psychedelic journeys and insights in a way that make them meaningful to others?
Prepare to be advised by Amazonian shamans, visionary artist William Blake and the archetypal wise fool!
REFERENCES
The Unbearable Everything – Torgrim’s article about his ayahuasca experience
https://www.mythopoesis.net/2020/04/12/the-unbearable-everything/
Eduardo Kohn interviewed at the World Science Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi66wFfOC-4
Book: How Forests Think
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17718835-how-forests-think
The Eleusinian Mysteries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
Entheogens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen
Devdutt Pattanaik
https://devdutt.com/
Default mode network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network
Shiva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva
Vishnu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu
Theriomorph/Therianthropy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therianthropy
Tryzub
http://symboldictionary.net/?p=894
William Blake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
Book: William Blake vs. the World by John Higgs
https://johnhiggs.com/books/william-blake-vs-the-world/
Hilma af Klint
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_af_Klint
Book: The Alphabet vs the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455992.The_Alphabet_Versus_the_Goddess
Set and setting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting
The Princess who always had to have the last word – folktale from this collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Folktales
Dominic Kelly is a performance storyteller who has ventured deep into the vast landscape of stories that surround the Irish mythological hero Cú Chulainn – so much so that he cycled around Ireland to see all the mythical places found in the Táin, sometimes called Ireland’s National Epic or the Irish Iliad.
We speak about engaging with myth, how stories like the Táin have the potential to ground us in reality, and if there’s a value to violence told well.
Tickets for The Hero Light at Ulverston's Coronation Hall on 17th march 2022
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hero-light-furness-tradition-tickets-245923242037
Dominc Kelly’s blog about cycling the Táin
https://dominickelly.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/cycling-the-tain-the-ulster-cycle-on-wheels-part-1/
Dominic Kelly’s website
http://dominickelly.eu
Folklore of Birds Twitter feed by Dominic Kelly
https://twitter.com/birdsfolklore
REFERENCES
The Táin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Táin_Bó_Cúailnge
Ulster cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Cycle
Fenian cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_Cycle
Mythological cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythological_Cycle
Cú Chulainn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cú_Chulainn
Fionn mac Cumhaill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill
Saint Patrick’s Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day
The Morrígan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morr%C3%ADgan
Asterix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
The sacred bull
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_bull
Minoan religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_religion
Celtic otherworld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Otherworld
Aos Sí
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aos_S%C3%AD
Lugh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugh
Tuatha Dé Danann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_Dé_Danann
Peter Brook’s Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mahabharata_(play)
Jiddu Krishnamurti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti
"All of the drama of divination serves to move the participants out of their normal modes of thinking, shaking them up in order to change their minds because their current understanding of the situation is inadequate."
February 25th 2022 sees the premiere of a brand new collaboration between performance storyteller Mikael Öberg and butoh artist KAI-EN: HRIST – an act of divination. We investigate the ingredients and inspirations for this performance and learn about butoh, Norse Mythology, divination practices and the search for the alive-space in between.
(Divination quote from Philip M. Peek, African Divination Systems)
HRIST event
https://www.facebook.com/events/350993973186278?active_tab=about
KAI-EN Butoh Company website
www.kai-enbutoh.se
KAI-EN Butoh Company FB-page
https://www.facebook.com/KAIENBUTOHCOMPANY
REFERENCES
Tatsumi Hijikata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsumi_Hijikata
Yoko Ashikawa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb7nSr8BnGs&t=71s
SU-EN Butoh Company
https://www.suenbutohcompany.net
Book: Divination – Perspectives for a New Millennium, edited by Patrick Curry
https://www.routledge.com/Divination-Perspectives-for-a-New-Millennium/Curry/p/book/9781138268210#
Book: African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing, edited by Philip M. Peek
https://iupress.org/9780253206534/african-divination-systems/
Book: The Visible and the Invisible by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203348.The_Visible_and_the_Invisible
Our guest Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is a historian of religion and founder of the project Nordic Animism. His PhD "The Stick and the Calabash“ is a result of extensive anthropological research of the Brazilian Candomblé tradition and of how the archetypal energies of gods are manifested there. We talk about trance and possession, conspiracy theories, and modern society’s loss of a subjective relationship with the forces of the world. And underneath it all we ask the question - what exactly is a god and how do you build it?
Nordic Animism
https://nordicanimism.com
Nordic Animism Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism
Nordic Animism Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/Runehr
Nordic Animism Youtube: The Phallus and the Wild Goddess-video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVNKvwobHDI&t=1106s
REFERENCES
THE QUOTE READ IN THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen:
”Defining mythology as symbolism is reductionist in two senses:
1) it shortcuts that slightly too long discussion about how mythology relates to reality in order to uphold and perpetuate a distinctly modern epistemology that interiorizes religious meaning.
2) it is therefore wildly Eurocentric and sees any religious reality from the symbolic perspective because of the compatibility with modern perception and therefore occludes that in most animist, or even religious, perceptions symbolism is only one out of a whole range of devices used to relate to non-human subjects and produce reality.”
John Dominic Crossan:
”My point is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen:
”My point would be that those ancient peoples did not tell symbolic stories that people are now unfortunately so dumb that they take literally. But rather that they told them literally and that we are now dumb enough to need symbolicism to understand them rather than try to grasp the infinitely complex and exquisitely attuned realities that they express."
Candomblé
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candomblé
Orisha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisha
Mana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana
Megin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/megin
Fetishism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetishism
The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_of_Reality
Descriptions of rituals in the Poetic Edda meet mediterranean mystery religions and Carlos Castañeda!
We are joined by Norwegian author Maria Kvilhaug for a fascinating talk about her discovery of The Maiden With the Mead - a goddess of initiation in Old Norse mythology.
Starting out as a master dissertation in history of religions, The Maiden With the Mead will be published in an updated and expanded book version in 2022.
Maria Kvilhaug’s Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/MariaKvilhaug
Website/blog
https://bladehoner.wordpress.com
Publishing company: The Three Little Sisters
https://the3littlesisters.com/shop/?swoof=1&post_type=product&authorname=maria-kvilhaug
REFERENCES
Hyndluljod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyndluljóð
Poetic Edda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda
Krishna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna
Helgi Hjervardsson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helgakviða_Hjörvarðssonar
Rigveda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda
Soma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(drink)
Disir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADs
Garuda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda
Mead of Poetry story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead_of_poetry
Sigrdrífumál
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrdr%C3%ADfumál
Heimdall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimdall
Hypnagogia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
Eleusis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
Herodotus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus
Hyperborea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea
Delos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delos
Temple of Artemis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis
Goddess Isis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
Vanir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanir
Seidr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiðr
Metamorphosis (Story of Lucius)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass
Mithraism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism
Kykeon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kykeon
King Amangong and the Maidens of the Well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elucidation
Toltec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec
Carlos Castaneda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda
Quetzalcoatl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl
Rán
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rán
Hel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_(location)
Haustlöng
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haustlöng
At this time of year, when pork will be served on many a holiday plate, we turn our attention to the pig - an animal both loved and loathed since ancient times. What are its mythological connections?
Join us in the divine muck, where we encounter kings and goddesses from Greek and Norse Mythology, as well as Celtic Druids and a fearsome ghost pig from the Swedish midwinter forests.
REFERENCES
Gloson
https://burialsandbeyond.com/2020/01/02/the-gloson-demon-ghost-pig-of-sweden/
Year Walk
Article by Tommy Kuusela: ”He met his own funeral procession: the Year Walk ritual in Swedish folk tradition”
https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:944806/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Carnival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival
Baba Yaga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga
Frau Holle (also ’the two sisters’-type of story)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_Holle
The World (Tarot card)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(Tarot_card)
Hyndluljod (The Lay of Hyndla from the Poetic Edda)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyndluljóð
The river Lethe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethe
Odysseus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus
Circe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe
”Flowers become flesh becomes bird…”
The first guest on our show is Jo Blake, a performer working across the disciplines of storytelling, theatre and dance. She has written a PhD about her project of unearthing the mythological character Blodeuwedd (flower-face/owl) from the depths of the Mabinogion - a medieval Welsh text regarded as one of the oldest and most complete repositories of British Celtic Myth. We talk about mythic ambiguity, female trickster figures and the importance of making the wrong choice...among many other things!
Jo Blake’s website
https://www.jo-blake.co.uk
Video trailer for Jo's performance Blodeuwedd Untold
https://vimeo.com/303024064
Pdf about Jo’s storytelling course Body, Breath & Story
https://ce0d3962-23fd-4385-84a5-f1c07de41738.filesusr.com/ugd/271cc3_bb1025dfbe46464c80210844a66a569...
REFERENCES
Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Blodeuwedd is in the Fourth Branch)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Branches_of_the_Mabinogi
Robert Bly
https://robertbly.com
Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum
LWA (Vodou)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lwa
The sword from the lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_the_Lake
Snorri’s Edda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_Edda
Voluspa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Völuspá
In the Beginning was the Scream by Henning Kure
https://www.academia.edu/8766740/In_the_beginning_was_the_Scream_Conceptual_thought_in_the_Old_Norse...
Ben Haggarty on commentary - Extract 3: The Storyteller’s Grammar
https://crickcrackclub.com/the-secret-art-of-the-storyteller/
Book: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talk
Odin on the world tree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil
Book: Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56450.Trickster_Makes_This_World
Carl Jung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung
Numinous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numinous
Book: The Soul’s Code by James Hillman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/970831.The_Soul_s_Code
Torgrim Mellum Stene's poem The Fall
http://www.mythopoesis.net/2021/02/14/the-fall/?fbclid=IwAR2WQav06n8Zqy5GlVdWKf5tZo2gqhvwVg_sxeVLJBd...
Marie-Louise von Franz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_von_Franz
A deep dive into the story of the extraordinarily powerful and multifaceted Mesopotamian goddess Inanna, prompted by the recent online release of Mikael Öberg's experimental collaboration with soundmaker Lee Berwick. Prepare for the underworld!
Listen to Inanna by Mikael Öberg and Lee Berwick here
smarturl.it/inanna
Trailer for the performance version with Daniel Rudholm
vimeo.com/82444595
Mikael Öberg's fb website
https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller Soundmaker Lee Berwick's websitehttp://www.leeberwick.com/
REFERENCES
Inanna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna
Hymns to Inanna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna
Burning bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush
Mesopotamia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia
Gilgamesh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh
Lennart Warring & Taina Kantola
Inanna (in Swedish)
boktugg.se/bok/9789173534789/
Interview (in Swedish)
vimeo.com/74611719
Arvet och Arvtagarna: fem tusen år av mesopotamisk lärdomshistoria
boktugg.se/bok/9789127143951/
Diane Wolkstein & Noah Kramer
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns
archive.org/stream/input-compressed-2015mar28a29/done-compressed-2015mar28a29_djvu.txt
Vodou drums
soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/spirits-of-life-haitian-vodou-societe-absolument-guinen
Pandavani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandavani
Video clip of Pandvani performer Ritu Verma
youtube.com/watch?v=kqnnTxN39SI
Pandvani 108
http://pandvani108.com/
Vodou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou
Candomblé
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9
Santeria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa
Yoruba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_religion
The Bacchae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchae
Dionysos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus
Orpheus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus
When Hubble Stared at Nothing for 100 hours
nationalgeographic.com/science/article/when-hubble-stared-at-nothing-for-100-hours
Zecharia Sitchin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin
A conversation around Torgrim Mellum Stene’s online intuitive fantasy novel Brittle one, that leads to a sprawling exploration of mythic imagery through dreams, psychedelics and the Norse creation story.
Read Brittle one online here
Brittle one
brittle.one
Torgrim Mellum Stene's blog
Mythopoesis
mythopoesis.net
Torgrim Mellum Stene's fb websitekloverknekten
facebook.com/kloverknekten
References
John Higgs: William Blake vs the world
John Higgs: The KLF
Aphantasia
Chimera (mythology)
Gremlins
Avatar
The Tower (Tarot card)
Fight Club
Henning Kure: I begyndelsen var skriget
Voluspa: voluspa.org/voluspa.htm
Tryzub: symboldictionary.net/?p=894
Bearskin (German fairy tale)
Robert Graves: The White Goddess
Corpus callosum