This week, on Myths and Legends, we're wrapping up this round of stories of Romulus and Remus,

where we'll learn the hazards of letting birds decide your political system,

and when two 17-year-old strike out on their own to start their own city,

what could go wrong? Except everything. The creature this time is a giant armored

earthworm from Brazil, who started a fight between two 19th-century European scientists.

This is Myths and Legends, Episode 142B, Politics.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly

popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories that might

be new to you, but are definitely worth listening. Previously on the podcast, Romulus and Remus

entered the world, born to Reasilvia, after her father was deposed. A lot of stuff happened,

but the twins were raised as intelligent and capable warriors, who succeeded in helping their

grandfather, the once outcast new mature, which yeah, absolutely sounds like cholesterol medication,

reclaim his throne. The reliancee passed down from the legendary warrior himself, Anius.

Not wanting to step on Grandpa's toes, Romulus and Remus decided to found a city of their own,

about 20 miles away from Albalanga.

Reasilvia watched longingly, as the silhouettes for two sons shrank into the distance,

alone tear quivered and fell after a long blink. For the last 17 years, Rhea believed her

boys to be dead. But then, just the night before, they had miraculously returned. She could barely

understand it at first, believing their existence only after a tearful embrace. And now,

it was only the morning after her world returned, and it was already falling apart in the blink of an

eye. The shepherd's trail behind the boys, and fleeing toward the horizon, along with a number

of locals from Albalanga, believed in a dream that was Rome, put forth by Romulus and Remus.

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