Mythic Meanderings 1: Myth, Mind, and Metaphor

This episode took on a life of its own. Simply put, it is a look at several mythologies in which I explore such elements as time, creation myths, the nature of the gods, and the nature and construction of the other. It ranges freely across several different bodies of thought—Sumerian, Christian, Hindu, Daoist, Greek, Roman, and Celtic—and therefore gives a taste of the way I hope to address the humanist approach to myth throughout this series. As a humanist and an atheist, of course I do not believe in any of the gods I discuss, but what I find interesting and useful in them is the light they shed on the minds from which they emerged, and on the differing mental and social paths down which they might lead. Of course, a single podcast that I've always intended to keep under an hour is not enough to address such a wide array of material in detail, and in fact, there were other questions I also wanted to ask, and other narratives I wanted to explore, such as the Norse Ragnarok myth. These will show up next episode, in Mythic Meanderings 2.