61-Solomon: One Ring

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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According to folklore, King Solomon had a ring. Given to him by God, it allowed him control demons...but it also had some other powers unknown to Solomon, powers that make it essential for fighting dragons, escaping witches, and taking nice Sunday afternoon flights through the country. The creature is a shaggy, mostly-kind monster who is really great at walking on hillsides and really terrible at helping you hang pictures. Sponsor: Loot Crate: check out http://www.lootcrate.com/legends (Code: LEGENDS) for this month's Primal crate, with stuff from Overwatch, Wolverine, Jurassic World, and Predator

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0:00.0	This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, it's the story of the Ring of Solomon and the dragon
0:05.2	of the North. You all know that you might want to seek out some help. If a stranger pops in your
0:09.9	room every night to suck your thumb while you sleep, and that there's really only one situation
0:14.1	where it's okay to take the medicine that a strange man who lives in a cave down by the river
0:18.2	gives you. Then, on the courage of the week, it's a lopsided monster from the American Midwest,
0:23.8	that specializes in exactly two things, walking on hillsides and tragic backstories.
0:34.4	This is the Myths and Legends podcast, Episode 61, One Ring.
0:43.5	On today's episode, we're talking all about the Ring of Solomon. It's a really interesting
0:47.6	story. With the prologue set during the life of King Solomon, the third king of the kingdom of
0:52.4	Israel, Mjuda. He's the son of the probably equally famous king David of David and Goliath
0:58.2	fame. Solomon is known for his legendary wisdom. With the story from the bible,
1:02.8	we're two women, we're claiming to be an infant's mother, so since he couldn't determine who
1:06.8	is the actual mother from each of them saying that they were the baby's mother, he said that they
1:10.2	should just cut the baby in half, so each woman gets half. The real mother gave up her claim on the
1:15.2	baby, begging just to give the baby to the other woman. Don't hurt him. That's how he determined
1:20.0	who the real mother was. He's credited by the bible with bullying the first temple in Jerusalem
1:24.5	and the 900s BC, and it stood until it was leveled by Nebuchadnezzar 2. This time it's personal.
1:30.4	That's dumb. He's Nebuchadnezzar the second. From the book of Daniel and the namesake of Morpheus'
1:35.6	ship in the Matrix, he was a Babylonian king. The first story today comes from a Greek work.
1:41.1	That's believed to have originated sometime in the early first millennium AD, so like a thousand
1:46.0	years after Solomon lived and died. King Solomon had a problem. His chief architect
2:01.9	son was wasting away. Apparently, every night, a demon was coming and taking half the boy's
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