Demeter | It's All Greek to Me

Spirits

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The goddess of compost has finally made an appearance on our podcast: Demeter. Strap in, and find out what we mean when we whisper: “An ear of grain, cut in silence”.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of insects, sex, death, strained familial relationships, abduction, cannibalism, animal death, violence, fire/burning, and drug use.

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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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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Steards podcast to Boosy Dive into Mythology, Legends, and Folklore.
0:07.7	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:10.9	I'm Amanda.
0:11.5	And I'm Julia.
0:12.6	And New Year, New Us, new episode structure, we are jumping right into the episode.
0:17.5	You'll hear our checking in our recommendations for books and movies and podcasts to listen to. And all of the other stuff that we have to say in the middle of the episode. You'll hear our checking in our recommendations for books and movies and podcasts to
0:21.8	to listen to and all of the other stuff that we have to say in the middle of the episode in our
0:25.3	refill break. So without further ado, Julia, let's jump into episode 265, Demeter.
0:31.4	Well, Amanda, I'm going to invite you to come on a journey with me, right? So close your eyes.
0:36.7	And I want you to picture yourself
0:38.5	in the ancient Greek countryside. I look great with a toga. Okay, you do. Oh my God, absolutely.
0:44.3	I love it. There are these rolling hills and mountains. You have these fields of green and gold
0:50.3	with the Surulian sea beyond. But in the hills of Greece, you will come across another type of
0:56.8	golden field waving in the breeze, and that is a field of wheat and cereals. I love cereals.
1:03.1	Julia, bread's my favorite food. I know. Bread's so good. I feel bad for people who can't eat
1:07.8	gluten. I understand. I have many family members who are gluten intolerant,
1:11.3	but man, bread's so good. Bread's good. Cereals are good. I'm in it. I'm here. I'm smelling the breeze.
1:17.1	Well, Amanda, these fields of cereals were central to this week's goddess, Demeter. So for the Greeks,
1:24.1	via Edith Hamilton, the first cornfield was the beginning of settled life on
1:28.7	earth. That was the quote from Edith Hamilton. I love that. And just for some context, when we talk
1:35.3	about Demeter, who is referred to in the the theogony as the corn mother, when we're talking about
1:40.7	corn, we're not talking about like corn on the cob or maize as we understand it, because obviously Europe in the time of the ancient Greeks didn't know what that type of corn was.
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