131A-Greek Mythology: Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The origin stories of the Olympians. The creatures this week are the Yule Lads, their mom, stepdad, and murderous cat. -- Sponsors: Check out Bird Box on Netflix! Casper: Ready for a good night of sleep for once? All you have to do is go to http://casper.com/legends and use the offer code LEGENDS and your next favorite mattress will be delivered to your door. -- Music: “Rainday” by Blue Dot Sessions “Pitho Magnus” by Blue Dot Sessions “Min” by Blue Dot Sessions “Betrayal” by Lee Rosevere “Everywhere” by Lee Rosevere “All the Answers” by Lee Rosevere “Gilroy Solo” by Blue Dot Sessions “Campanula” by Blue Dot Sessions

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0:00.0	Real quickly, this is Greek mythology, so there's some violence and some mention of sexual
0:04.5	assault.
0:05.5	For more information, please check out the post for the episode on mythpodcast.com.
0:09.4	This week on Myths and Legends, it's the start of a short series on the origins of the
0:13.3	Olympians from Greek mythology.
0:15.2	If that baby you're watching likes hide and seek, Christ so loud it needs an army to drown
0:19.5	out the noise and can turn you into a bear at will that baby is Zeus.
0:24.4	Your baby is sitting Zeus.
0:26.0	The creatures this week aren't incredibly dysfunctional family, consisting of a mother
0:29.8	that likes to eat children, 13 Christmas themed pranksters who lick things they shouldn't,
0:34.8	and a homicidal cat who is definitely judging your clothing choices.
0:44.3	This is Myths and Legends, episode 131A, sudden but inevitable betrayal.
0:52.8	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:56.0	Some are incredibly popular stories that have surprising origins.
1:00.0	Others are stories that might be new to you but are definitely worth listening.
1:03.6	Today, we're getting into the origin stories of the Olympians from Greek mythology.
1:07.6	I realize we jumped in with Hercules, but we've really never gone into depth about
1:11.3	how Zeus, Athena, Hermes and others came to be.
1:14.5	These stories are outside of any major continuity, so no worries there.
1:18.3	We'll just jump right in.
1:33.4	Maybe Poseidon plopped down into the cavernous darkness.
1:37.1	Well this was the worst birthday ever, but since it was birthday 0, the day was born,
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