South African Rain Queens
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We feel a storm coming! Find out what the X-Men, tempests, and royal succession debates have in common as we learn about the Modjadji, the long line of queens ruling the Balobedu people of South Africa’s Limpopo Province. Politics is fun when it’s matriarchal and magical, people.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast episode 18, South African Rain Queens. |
| 0:04.4 | Yes. |
| 0:05.3 | We're so excited. |
| 0:06.2 | Oh my God, this episode's going to be so good. |
| 0:07.5 | You know us. |
| 0:08.1 | We love a good, strong matriarchal mythology. |
| 0:11.2 | I know, Arizuli, who will my love be? |
| 0:13.7 | My love is destroying a patriarchy. |
| 0:15.4 | Anyway, we would love to welcome all our new listeners again and to thank a few of you who have tweeted at us and sent us |
| 0:21.9 | fan art god we love fan art we really love fan art guys we just want to plaster our walls with your |
| 0:26.7 | fan art it's so nice i know and i have a apartment that's bigger than one room now so i have even more |
| 0:31.7 | walls to put it on so shout outs to caroline maguire ricky spanish sophia haley thomas Thomas, Marty Williams, Todd Faulkner for the super, super sweet shoutout on his own podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | Brian Givada, Moshe, and Zach Carlyleff Illig for the Selke and Kelby fan art. |
| 0:48.5 | The Selke's had great teeth. |
| 0:50.2 | Oh my gosh, I was so pumped. |
| 0:51.5 | We're going to put it on our Facebook page. |
| 0:52.6 | So find us over there at Spirits Podcast on Facebook, on Twitter, on Patreon, all the places. |
| 0:56.6 | If you guys love the show, please rate and review us on iTunes. |
| 1:00.0 | It helps other people find spirits and creates more spiritors and more drunken mythology for us to share. |
| 1:05.3 | And who wouldn't want to live in that world? |
| 1:07.0 | Everyone does. |
| 1:07.5 | Without further ado, enjoy Spirits Podcast episode 18, South African Rain Queens. |
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