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myth with Jan Kozak. This is your second time here for the first time actually recording because last time we did half an episode and I forgot to hit record unfortunately.

So we're going to try it again.

So thank you for inviting me for the second time.

Yeah, well I mean, it's, I guess it's welcome back.

Kind of. Kind of. Well, welcome. kind of

welcome slash welcome back do you want to just let people know and who you are just let people know

and who you are what you specialize in yeah okay so so I'm I studied Latin and religious studies and with this I studied also other old dead languages like ancient Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit and old Norse.

And so I spent much more years than usual at the at the university taking more and more courses and so I was very much into these old languages. On the other hand I studied comparative

religion or religious studies and that was always my passion and I studied this at the Charles University in Prague and after my PhD I went on a postdoc to a Bergen in Norway where I focused on body symbolism in all North mythology. There I spent two years,

I organized and organized conferences and workshops and stuff and I you know published some finally also works in English because until then I was you know

publishing books and articles but most of them in check. So I switched to international at that time. And yeah, and from that time on on I'm just a professor in Prague and my focus is on one hand old Norse like the cultural area of old Norse mythology, but because of my, let's say, linguistic, you know, the number of old mostly Indo-European languages that I know I also have the ability to let's say orient myself a little bit into in various related mythologies and cultures, especially Indian and

old Italian, let's say, Roman area.

And but after I returned from Bergen,

I, my whole, you know, the department was at this time in Prague changing a little bit the focus of, until then we were all like this, like focus on all dead cultures,

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