Orishas
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week, we get excited about religious traditions and physics, which is… on-brand for us. Julia teaches Amanda about the Orishas of the Yoruba tradition with the help of liminal spaces, our Ocean Mom, your own personal deity, and reflections on third culture kids.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a drunken dive into myths and legends. Every week we pour a drink and learn |
| 0:05.4 | about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. This is episode 73 or |
| 0:11.3 | Reeshes. Yeah, it's going to be a good one. I'm excited for this. There's so much we didn't cover, |
| 0:16.9 | but I am very excited to, in the future, cover even more. |
| 0:24.2 | Yeah, we got into some pretty cool discussions as we always do. |
| 0:29.1 | But I've been thinking in particular about this kind of mythological, like the larger kind of cosmology of it for days and days after we recorded. |
| 0:31.9 | So I'm excited to share it with all of y'all. |
| 0:34.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.0 | And also excited to welcome a few new members to our community on |
| 0:38.8 | Patreon. Jessica, Kylie, Buster, Erin and Tila, Vinny, Caitlin, and Evie, welcome so, so much. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome, welcome. Welcome. Welcome so much. What does I mean? Lay out snacks for you. |
| 0:51.2 | And thank you, as always, to our supporting producer-level patrons who never forget to bring a snack to a party. |
| 0:56.6 | Neil, Philip, Julie, Christina, Josh, Eey, Jessica, Maria, Cammy, Lindsay, Ryan, Lynn, Mercedes, feel fresh, and Deborah. |
| 1:03.7 | Yes, you guys are awesome. |
| 1:06.7 | And finally, thank you to our legend-level patrons. |
| 1:09.2 | So buggy, Rachel, Sandra, Ashley Marie, |
| 1:11.2 | Leanne Davis, Ashley, Shannon, and Cassie get physical stuff from us every single month, |
| 1:16.5 | packed with our own hands, brought to the post office by our own sweat and tears. And it is, |
| 1:22.1 | it is very cool. We love choosing those gifts for you every month. So if you've been a patron for a long |
| 1:26.0 | time and you're thinking, huh, that would actually be pretty awesome to get a little care package from the spirits team to me. |
| 1:30.9 | It's always a great time to up your pledge. And that's at patreon.com slash spirits podcast. |
| 1:36.2 | Yeah. And if you are a legend, you are the spirits of song and dance that we know and love. |
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