Quick disclaimer, there's the mention of suicide, sexual assault, and some adult themes this week.

Please check out the post on mythpoggas.com for more information.

This week, on myths and legends, we have a few stories from Greek mythology,

where we'll see competitive weaving, the storage of all the evils in the world and ancient

Tupperware, and get helpful interior decorating tips on how to arrange the heads of your enemies.

The creature this time is a sinister, zombie-like goat who will hunt you to the ends of the earth.

As long as you don't walk up a slight incline, it doesn't do hills.

This is Myths and Legends, episode 165, a tangled web.

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,

and others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening.

Today, we're back in Greek mythology, with a group of standalone stories.

Don't worry about where it fits in with our current narrative, it's outside of all that.

We'll jump into the Kingdom of Lydia, and modern day Turkey,

until the rare ancient world story of a self-made woman.

Known throughout the cities of Lydia, there was a woman.

She wasn't known for her place of birth or bloodline, but her skill,

she had been born to a humble mother who died in labor, and a father who died when she was

barely into her teen years. The older women of her village were kind.

They taught her skills that they had learned, the ones that it would take to be an attractive

prospect for marriage, though it was kind of a tragic joke, with no family, no dowry,

and existing on the kindness of her community. The woman, named Arachni, would never marry.

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