The Moon
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Look up at the night time sky. See the moon? Human beings have been doing the exact same thing for centuries, and there’s plenty of moon deities to show for it. So we’re rounding up some of our faves for a truly celestial episode.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of animal death, pregnancy and birth, virginity, societal misogyny, sex, heteronormativity, genitals, vomit, physical injury, regurgitation, social hierarchy, conspiracy theory, and menstruation.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 21. The moon. I'm very excited about this episode. I really like the reason we're doing it. And I think we touch on a lot of really cool areas and a lot of good myths like we usually do in roundups. |
| 0:23.1 | We love a roundup. I always get so excited when that's what we're recording that day. I'm glad. I'm glad. I know the |
| 0:27.7 | audience also loves roundups. So this makes me happy Jacob, Chonda, James, Jenny, and John. |
| 0:39.0 | Ooh, quite a Jay week. And our supporting producer level patrons who support each week we treasure |
| 0:43.4 | and value and keeps the show going. Alicia, Allison, Deborah, Hannah, Jane, Jessica, |
| 0:47.9 | Kinzer, Jessica Stewart, Keegan, Neaselkins, Liz, Megan Lingar, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Polly, Sarah, Skyla, and Samney, Todd, and Julia. |
| 0:54.6 | Those legend-level patrons we love so much. |
| 0:56.4 | Audra, Drew, Jack Marie, Key, Lada, who had a deal with some import tax issues this week. |
| 1:00.8 | So thank you, Lada, for your patience. |
| 1:02.3 | You're a star. |
| 1:02.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:03.6 | Mark Morgan, Nickle Royalty, Renegade, Sana, and BMEY up Scotty. If I had the power to do so, I would name a crater on the moon after each and every one of you. |
| 1:12.1 | There are certainly enough. That's a good idea. |
| 1:14.7 | And, Julia, I know that you have been doing a ton of reading this year. What do you have to recommend this week? |
| 1:18.7 | Oh, Amanda. Amanda. I feel like I've recommended Sarah Galey's stuff on the podcast before. |
| 1:26.0 | They're an excellent writer. They do a lot of speculative fiction, |
| 1:29.0 | which I'm a big fan of. And I just started last night reading their book The Echo Wife, |
| 1:34.4 | which is about a scientist in the field of genetic cloning who finds out that her husband |
| 1:41.9 | is having an affair with her clone. Whoa, I love it so much. |
| 1:46.9 | And that's just the beginning of the story. It gets much more intense later on. I'm about halfway |
| 1:51.9 | through at this point. It's very, very good. Highly recommend. And I have a feeling it's going to be |
| 1:55.8 | a quick read. It's a bit on the short side, but it's very digestible is a good way to describe it. |
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