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For satuaries. For centuries, they have been trying to keep us where they want us.

Why do demons disappear when you die?

And yet humans leave these nasty skeletons behind.

Within our children back.

Welcome to the Authority, Sl Slate His Dark Materials Podcast.

It's season one, episode two, The Idea of North.

We're Slate's Resident Scholars of Experimental Theology.

I'm Dan Koes, and my demon is a prairie volle named Gilda.

I'm Laura Miller and my demon is a sea otter named sake.

Hi Laura. Hi Dan. In this episode, Lyra stays in a very swanky Airbnb, but something is crawling in the walls.

Episode 2 takes us up to about page 102 of the Golden Compass,

but it also presents the show's first major divergences from the original text divergences that we're going to talk about a lot today.

And we're going to go in depth on demons. What are they? What do they represent? Why are they so adorable? Why does that Magisterium guy's beetle demon crawl on his face like that.

That is horrible.

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