Episode 7: Great Floods

Spirits

Multitude

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

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Go beyond Noah and the Ark with great flood myths from Mesopotamia, China, Native North America, and more. We dig into flood origin stories, survival strategies, the merits of Prometheus vs. Spider Grandmother, and way too many puns to count.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spirit's Podcast episode 7, Blood Special Edition.
0:04.3	This is not just one myth from one society for you guys.
0:07.8	It's a whole handful of myths.
0:10.2	From all continents, all different times, all different traditions,
0:15.0	explaining something that apparently is very fundamental to human society,
0:19.7	great floods, and great destruction, and exciting renewal. You guys know Noah but I don't think
0:25.6	you guys know these other myths we go from China we go to Africa we go to
0:30.8	Mesopotamia, Europe Mesopotamia Meso America.
0:35.0	We go to Arizona. That's where the Hopi are right?
0:39.0	Yes, we go across the land bridge from Asia to North America folks we're going all the way back and up to the present day to bring you flood myths from throughout the ages.
0:49.0	We'd like to thank everyone who's rated and reviewed us on iTunes we really appreciate you guys going out there and
0:55.5	taking some time to write us up a quick message it's like super nice to read Amanda and
1:00.9	I were just giggling over our most recent one.
1:03.2	It warms the depths of our heart.
1:05.3	It sends a flood of emotion over us.
1:08.1	That was terrible.
1:09.8	Bringing new listeners to the show really is the best way to support us. We also of course have a
1:13.8	Patreon where we're putting all kinds of exciting show notes and sober reflections on our
1:19.5	drunken selves. It is a lot of fun for us to put together our patron only content every episode so we'd love if more of you could join us over there
1:28.0	You only need a donation of three dollars or more to get some really awesome content. Yes, and we hope that we'll see you over there.
1:34.5	Today we are drinking cruiser cocktails in honor of our flood cruise ship type
1:40.0	motif don't question it just go with it.
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