The Godyssey Podcast

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Mythology, History, Storytelling: the Godyssey podcast is a deep dive into our shared humanity through gods.

Edward Burne-Jones depiction of Arthur sleeping at Avalon, the many attendants and princesses of Avalon mourning and healing him, including his sister, Morgan le Fay
Donn D Crane's The Last Appearance of the Sangreal, showing Galahad receiving the Grail from a saint, who looks extremely Patrick-esque, and three feminine angels behind him, floating. Percival and Bors keep their heads bowed, not quite as worthy as Galahad here.
Lohengrin on his boat pulled by a swan, the boat also swan-shaped, through reeds, in a painting by Walter Crane
A depiction of the Knights of the Round Table from 1470, depicting a scene from the Prose Lancelot.
Five drawings by Howard Pyle put side by side showing the five brothers, with descriptors on notepads: Gawain, the Brave One, has a cool horse; Agravain, the Proud One, Dislikes Gahreis; Gahreis, the Nice One, Kills his men; Gareth, the Noble One, killed by accident; Mordred, the Nasty One, Usurps Throne
A specifically Biblical take on what the world looks like, if science is completely ignored. There is the Primeval Ocean, upon which sits the Earth, built upon the Pillars of Earth. Within the Earth is the Underworld, and rising from the Earth are the Pillars of Heaven. The Firmament rises out of these pillars, holding back the Ocean of Heaven, with the Sun, Moon, and Stars notably on our side of the Firmament. Beyond the Ocean of Heaven, mysteriously arching around the Firmament from the Primeval Ocean, is the Heaven of Heavens, which the image notes is the Heaven of Fire for Greeks and Others. All this in a simple black and white image bound to make all flat earthers swoon.
The Dragon Palace from the video game Okami, which recreates and remixes many myths of Japanese folklore. Here a red and turquoise Japanese palace with coral ornaments is found in the mouth of an oyster shell, as if the palace were a pearl. The sun is distant and fish swim like flocks of birds. The wolf Amaterasu stands before the palace.
An ad for a Korean Jjimjilbang in Hanoi, showing two men and two women in traditional-looking spa clothes, a button brown shirt and brown pants that are loose with towels on their head, with two giving massages to the other more elderly. A fire burns on the wall and they sit on nearby stones, heated by the fire which is illuminated with other lights. Very modern with a veneer of traditional.
A London newspaper cartoon showing Death riding in the foggy Thames in a rowboat, with dead animals all around him; people stand on the shore and watch.
An unknown artist's depiction of a one-eyed bat-winged Popobawa, staring at the viewer as it stands beside a window with bright light, smiling grimly.
Matthew Meyer's depiction of Aka Manto confronting a teen schoolgirl, squatting in a public toilet (out of frame) with no toilet paper. She has asked for red toilet paper, so Aka Manto, dressed in a red cloak and wearing a white mask with the mouth covered, is entering with a knife.
A halo around the moon above winter trees.
A heliotrope cut into an oval, a green stone with orange-red splatterings all over the right side.
A mural showing a Boto Encantado, on the bottom in his dolphin form, on the top in his human form, a man dressed in all white with painfully pale skin, a wicked smile on his face as he looks at the viewer, with young girls in the distance as he approaches the village.
A statue of Ebisu in Kyoto, showing the happy god laughing, holding his rod and a large carp he's caught, dressed as a portly fisherman. A shimenawa is wrapped around his waist, looking fairly fresh.
Sanya's massive Guanyin statue, showing a woman with two bodies, back to back but seemlessly fitting into each other, facing two different directions on top of an island, standing on a lotus platform. A whole museum is underneath her.
Witold Pruszkowski's depiction of a man in red and white finding the fern flower in the depths of a forest, which glows in the midsummer moonlight.
A grave at Glasnevin Cemetery, showing a man sleeping above an above ground crypt, surrounded by pillars.
reneenault's depiction of a black mermaid, her tail bright yellow-gold, her hair dancing in the water as she holds a conch shell, looking back at the viewer with a mysterious look.
An etching showing Publius' crew throwing the crates of chickens into the sea as the Carthaginians approach in the distance.
A statue of Mazu at Meizhou Mazu Temple on Fujian. She stands radiant in worked stone, her dress tied tight, her headdress massive and layered, her face calm and serene.
Robert Seymour's famous depiction of Father Christmas atride a Yule Goat, carrying a bowl of hot porridge and a wine bottle in a basket in the other hand, his son tucked into his arms. He is jolly and wears a crown of holly.
Katsushika Hokusai's depiction of Chinese hero Hou Yi, showing an archer on the stairs of Heaven pointing his arrow directly at the sun, ready to take it out. Which is a big fucking mood, to be honest.
A colored drawing by Loutherbourg depicting a line from Edward Jones' collection of Welsh songs, showing a man inspired playing a massive harp on top of a hill surrounded by Welsh men and women of all classes listening and taking in his awen
The Hyakki Yagyo, the Night Parade of 100 Demons, showing yōkai of all stripes marching across a Japanese bridge at night. Many like the one-eyed umbrella yōkai, are entirely made up by artists.
Frederick Federici dressed in the titular role of the Mikado, from an American production in 1885, three years before his death. He sings while standing sideways, dressed in faux-Japanese splendor.
A depiciton of the Volva of Norse myth, a ghostly woman in a tattered turquoise cloak, potentially topless but not nude, with a dirty skirt. Her face is painted white with black around her glowing eyes, and she holds a bloody heart in her hand over a fire. Three ravens are around her, and the moon glows behind her head like a halo.
I've lost the artist and I'm on my phone. Loki, Thor, and Odin with Asgard behind: Thor looks at Loki, wary of him; Loki and Odin look at the viewer, Odin directly with his one grim eye, Loki sideways out the corner of his eye, finger raised as if he is explaining something. It's a gorgeous rendition.
A painting by artist David Munroe showing a supernatural stag with a Celtic knot necklace wrapped in its antlers, a bright golden moon behind it like a halo, with briar and roses growing in a circle around that in gold.
A depiction of Sang Kancil, the Deer Mouse of Malaysian folklore, from a Dutch-language educational publication in Malaysia. Deer Mouse looks like a Disney-ified version of an actual deer mouse, with big eyes and a goofy grin, jumping through a fairytale forest with snails and mushrooms, with a distinctly more tropical bent.
An unknown artist's depiction of a Marid, rising like a massive vaguely humanoid figure made of waves, its head like a ram at the top; a storm rages above. Mea culpa if this is AI, but it seems a little too well put together to be AI to me.
An unknown artist's depiction of a Bakekujira, a skeletal whale floating at the top of the ocean with the sun on a dark day, waves crashing around it
A photo of Sarah Ellen Roberts beswide an image of her headstone, covered in donated flowers, with someone superimposing ketchup-looking blood on top of the gravestone. The gravestone says In Memory of Sarah Ellen, the Beloved Wife of J Roberts of Blackburn, England. Bor March 6, 1872, Died June 9, 1913. At rest.
Artist L Garland's depiction of a woman with a garland on her head, with two versions of her, one green-blue and above, one orange-brown and below, with the sun above her and flowers on the literal frame around her portrait.
A photograph of the Sphinx at Giza, the Pyramid of Khafre behind it, with tourists looking like little workers
L. Hunt's depiction of Nord as an earthy blond woman, motherly and dressed in white with accents of gold on her person, vines growing from her fingers while her hair spirals into the sun, a tree, likely Yggdrasil in winter, stands behind her; animals spiral into her.
William Blake's carving of the Days of Creation, showing God and the angels above the Firmament, Adam and his sons and Eve below, and then beneath them a hippo-rhino-like Behemoth and the serpentine Leviathan in the water; God is touching the Behemoth to give it life.
Matthew Meyer's Ushi Oni, showing a six legged spider with a bull's head emerging from the water at dawn, its tongue out as if thirsty. Massive spikes come down from its spidery limbs.
Russian girls jumping over a bonfire at twilight in a somewhat blurry photograph.
An unknown artist's depiction of Bride and the Cailleach embracing one another. The Cailleach on the left is an old woman, the night's sky as a halo around her head, dressed in a gray cloak with a translucent dress on her body, which reveals her skeleton from the hips down; her feet are fleshy beneath the dress. Bride meanwhile is a young woman with red hair in white, holding flowers, with the day as her halo, both halos showing the cycles of the moon. A raven flies by as Bride touches the Cailleach's shoulder affectionately while leaning into the Cailleach's hand on her cheek, the two looking at each other admiringly; the Hebrides sit in the background and they are high on a cliff. A thunderbolt sits behind the Cailleach, while a rainbow is behind Bride.
Suzaku, the Japanese name for the Vermilion Bird, flying above the Rashomon of Kyoto, the gate of Suzaku Avenue in old Kyoto that no longer stands.
A dancing group with the morning sun behind them, all in traditional regalia.
Erasmus Castle by day, a sprawling spindly white Victorian manor with blocky sections and a distinctly South African flare in places.
Jess Lauser's depiction of La Planchada, showing a young Mexican woman with short curled hair under a World War I-era Red Cross hat, dressed in white and black to the waist, a massive wooden or gold (hard to tell) cross beneath her praying hands. Though she smiles, her white eyes leak perpetual tears as she prays for those she treats in death.
The famed Faroese statue of a Selkie, a green statue standing on a cliff over the water, standing nude with her selkie's coat coming off of her leg
A Korean depiction of the maxim when tigers used to smoke, showing a tiger smoking atop a mountain with a tabbit checking out his pipe.
Part of the Gundastrup Cauldron, showing a horned human figure with a torc on his neck and in his hand, a snake in the other, separating animals: on his right, a stag and a bull or ram, and on his left a wolf and lion. Strange leafy motifs are throughout
A modern statue of Frey on top of fur. Frey sits cross-legged, penis erect, stroking his beard, with a funny little hat and massive bug eyes. It is not particularly realistic and is likely a reproduction of an earlier statue.
King Minos, as depicted by the Bavarian painter Carl Rahl and the Polish Edward Lebietski. An older man with gray hair in curls, a red band in his hair, sits shirtless and looks at something off-camera, semi-muscled for an older guy; he wears a toga over his shoulders and nether regions.
Rene Bull's massive Roc, flying above Sinbad on his second voyage so close to an Arabic-style port.
A hieroglyphic depiction of the Bennu bird, as a heron with gray wings, a white underbelly, and an Egyptian crown on its head.
An unknown artist's depiction of the bat from the story sitting in a bowl, looking sinisterly at the viewer, a red light behind it. I ran this through three filters to see if it was AI, and apparently it's not, but TinEye was useless for finding the artist.
A vintage photo of Winchester Mansion, showing it sprawling almost like a town of buildings if you don't look too closely.
An unknown artist's depiction of what appears to be a Galician moura encantada, showing a red-headed woman with a white dress combing her long hair and smiling, wearing red shoes; her dress appears to be traditional. Beside her is a red hen with orange little chicks, and orange-amber looking drinking vessels, jars, and cauldrons, which appear to be filled with treasure. A crescent moon is rising as she sits beside a rock. She is Galician because red hair is typical of moura in Galicia, while blond and black hair are more typical in Portugal.
A statue of Nzinga holding an axe, looking determinedly to the horizon.
A hurricane hitting what appears to be a Floridian neighborhood, with palm trees blowing hard in the wind, many bending, and water to ankle height in the streets blowing hard like mist. It is daytime, making this perhaps more stark.
Two statues of Ibeji together, largely identical except one has developed breasts and the other does not; there are subtle facial differences as well, like smile. Both have eyes closed, and while the female appears to have pubic hair and maybe stretchmarks, the male is obscured by the museum tag.
Walter Crane's depiction of Helen on the walls of Troy, holding a fan of gold peacock feathers as she looks down at the Greeks, beside her a Trojan helmet, spear, shield, and spear. Two attendants watch nearby.
A statue depicting Athena leaping from Zeus' head, the god holding his lightning bolt and looking pained, as Athena, fully armored and victorious, holds aloft spear and shield, and uses Zeus' head and arm as the ground from which to launch herself.