205: The ‘Hades’ Guide to the Greek Underworld
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Right this way! We’ll be your tour guides through the Greek Underworld this episode as we talk about the new game, Hades, as well as the chthonic gods, hot Furies, sleepy lads, and who this Zagreus guy is, anyway.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of ritual sacrifice, animal death, death, cannibalism, child death, dismemberment, implied drug use, war/battles, misogyny, and guns.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirit's Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.4 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.5 | And this is episode 205, your guide to the Greek underworld. |
| 0:13.4 | I am very excited to talk about this. |
| 0:15.6 | We haven't talked about like solely Greek mythology in a very long time, |
| 0:20.4 | and now is the perfect time to talk about it because of the video game Hades. |
| 0:25.0 | Taking my timeline by Storm. |
| 0:27.0 | I love it. I love it. I'm all about people learning about mythology and getting really excited about Greek mythology for the first time since they were like 12 year olds who got really into crystals. I'm into it. |
| 0:39.0 | Yes, as a partner, Eric Silver has been playing through the game many times, he will gasp |
| 0:43.8 | and be like, oh my god, my new buff is like this interesting sword. |
| 0:47.1 | And it seems like they take a lot from mythology. |
| 0:49.3 | So I'm really excited that I got to learn about this through this really fun and contemporary lens. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, I think you're going to really enjoy it, especially if you're like, I don't get what that's a reference to |
| 1:00.4 | while you're playing the game. Don't worry. We'll explain it. |
| 1:03.3 | Right on. Well, before we get there, we have to welcome our newest patrons, Sam, |
| 1:07.6 | Jessica, Zoe, and the Campi Vamp. What a fun name. Thank you so so much for |
| 1:12.3 | using your hard-earned human dollars to support our podcast on Patreon. |
| 1:16.2 | You make it possible for us to do this, for this to be our job and for us to bring you a new episode every dang week. |
| 1:21.2 | And thank you as well to our supporting |
| 1:23.0 | producer level patrons, Alicia, Allison, Deborah, Hannah, Jen, Jessica, Keegan, |
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