The Cauldron, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On a mundane level, a cauldron is nothing more than a great cooking pot, but it takes on supernatural dimensions in various myths and legends. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the history of cauldrons and their links to tales of witchcraft, rebirth and the mandate of heaven.
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| 1:48.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. |
| 1:52.0 | And I'm Jim McCormick, and we're back with part two of our series about Cauldrons. |
| 1:57.0 | That's right. In the last episode, we talked about Cauldrons, mostly an introduction to the idea of the Cauldrons, both a mundane tool for heating water and making soup, but also getting in a little bit to the idea that, okay, this is something that also ends up taking on sacred and supernatural characteristics in various traditions. |
| 2:20.0 | But for the most part, we talked about soup technology, which in and of itself is pretty fascinating. |
| 2:27.0 | Yeah, we pondered the foggy, distant prehistory of salmon soups in Japan. |
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