257: Athena
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It’s Girl Boss Time-- We mean, Athena Time. We talk about some cool birds that we like, how Meryl Streep is channeling Athena in most of the movies she’s in, and how weaving is cooler than war, anyway.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of cannibalism, birth, head injuries, fratricide, pregnancy, infidelity, child death, child endangerment, negging, starvation, misogyny, flooding, natural disasters, war, murder, death, and rape/sexual assault.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy diamond to pathology, legends and folklore. |
| 0:34.0 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Amanda and I'm Julia in this episode 257 Athena. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, yep. We're back at it again with fulfilling the promise of Spirits Podcast from Spirits Podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | And I know that a lot of you have been really enjoying these episodes, |
| 0:49.0 | which brings me a lot of delight. |
| 0:51.0 | Me too. |
| 0:52.0 | This is sort of like the Greek cinematic universe, which we're all just like living in in Western society. |
| 0:57.0 | It's like origin stories because you get to see so many intersections of other figures that we studied, |
| 1:01.0 | and other stories that have come up. |
| 1:03.0 | So I love kind of this, like not even a back-to-basics, but like a re-examining of like a record screech. |
| 1:08.0 | You may wonder how I first got here. |
| 1:10.0 | And then let's go back. Let's find out about them. |
| 1:12.0 | It reminds me of when they do background stories on characters from comic books and stuff like that. |
| 1:17.0 | And you're like, well, we're in origins. I'm like, yes, I do want to know how she got those metal on his claws. |
| 1:22.0 | How did I get these scars? |
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