Maya Creation Story
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, we break down the Maya creation story, as told by the Popol Vuh and learn that actually, the fourth time's the charm. Amanda asks the important questions, like why did the gods create humans, and would you still love her if half her skin was gone? Julia has an existential crisis about babies and marriage, and tries to come up with some ideas for monkey sociology.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, a production collective of indie audio professionals. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spears Podcast episode 67, Mayan Creation Story. |
| 0:03.9 | Yeah, boy. |
| 0:05.2 | I know. |
| 0:06.0 | People have been asking for the Central America and South American myths. |
| 0:10.7 | Yeah, probably more than any other. |
| 0:11.9 | I want to come through for you all. |
| 0:13.3 | Yes. |
| 0:13.7 | Want to come through. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm very, very excited to share this with you guys. |
| 0:18.6 | But you know what, Jules, I'm also excited to just give some shine to the people who help |
| 0:23.6 | us make the show happen every single week. |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.7 | So thank you so much to our supporting producer level patrons to Neil, Philip, Julie, Sarah, |
| 0:30.5 | Christina, Josh, Eey, or Maria, Cammy, Lindsay, Ryan, Shelby, Lynn, Mercedes, Phil, |
| 0:35.0 | Catherine, and Deborah. |
| 0:36.2 | Y'all are great. |
| 0:37.6 | We would totally let you see things. |
| 0:41.4 | That's a, you'll understand. |
| 0:43.2 | You'll understand. |
| 0:44.2 | And I feel like every time I do that, it's a really, really vague one. |
| 0:48.3 | And then I just have to be like, you'll understand. |
| 0:51.0 | You'll get it. |
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