Lessons from the Lore!: Recent Episodes
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This most recent episode of Lessons from the Lore might be the best. Or worst. It’s the first one where I struggled with something out loud and wound up feeling like I reached the next step in my ladder of understanding. I could tell you what that was, but they you’d have no reason to listen…
So, it’s been a while since I’ve recorded a Lore Lesson. (Lesson from the Lore? I figure I’ve got to get to ten episodes before I start trying to take the podcast too seriously.) But, it’s been on my mind and, since I had a bit of time today, I got it done. This episode begins…
As I’d been contemplating the stories of Persephone and Demeter — or, by their Roman names which I use in my practice, Proserpine and Ceres — I thought I might as well share the little bit I got from the lore in a Lesson from the Lore. What really impressed me about the story is…
In this little snippet of the Iliad, we hear me ramble too much (need to tighten up my focus!) but more importantly, we witness a brief interaction between Achilles, the young and arrogant hero, and Athena. From it, I try to moderate my expectations on what it means to have a relationship with a God…
So, this is the beginning of Lessons from the Lore, my attempt to study the lore with the intent to see what I can learn from it. Really, for lack of a better idea of where to begin, I’ve decided to start this as just me reading through the Iliad, looking the the relationships between mortals…
The name “Pilot with Persephone” almost sounds like the Hellenic version of “Jesus take the wheel” but that’s not it at all. What this is the pilot episode of a project I’m thinking hard about starting. (I.e. have started, am thinking about committing harder to.) Eventually, this would be in podcast format and would feature…