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Mythology hides its heroes in plain sight, dressing a warrior in silk before it lets him pick up a sword. A mother disguises her son as a girl in a palace full of women, and a trumpet blast is all it takes to reveal the boy who will die at Troy. That single moment says everything about this show: gods testing mortals, prophecies nobody escapes, and choices that cost exactly what they promise to cost.

Mythology: Gods & Monsters is a narrated documentary podcast, no host, no chatter, just one complete mythology story per episode, reconstructed in careful detail from ancient sources and the scholarship built around them. Each episode stands alone. You get the full arc of a myth or legend, from the strange rule that sets it in motion to the ending that made it endure for thousands of years, whether that ending is triumphant, tragic, or simply unresolved.

The show moves freely across greek mythology and beyond it, drawing on mythology from cultures far outside the Mediterranean world. You will hear how Zeus watches his own son Sarpedon die at Troy because even gods answer to fate, how a king sits frozen on a chair in the underworld and cannot rise, how a divine smith turns grief into a slaughter of skulls and stolen gold. There is room here for ancient mythology that predates the Olympians, for the dragon-slayer Siegfried and the betrayal waiting for him, for guides with three eyes and cheats who win kingdoms through nerve rather than glory. Gods and monsters share the stage equally, because in these mythology tales neither side plays fair.

If you want legends told with texture, tension, and enough historical grounding to feel real rather than recited, this mythology podcast is built for you. New episodes release regularly, each one a self-contained world you can enter cold. Subscribe now, so the next piece of mythology finds you the moment it drops.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Fantascienza
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  • You, on the Ayre at high tide: who would you leave behind?

    You, on the Ayre at high tide: who would you leave behind?
    Oct 24 2026
    A tidal causeway forces a choice: on a high spring tide the Ayre will cut the village in two-who do you leave when the sea decides?

    You, on the Ayre at high tide: who would you leave behind?

    In this episode, we follow the landscape and lives of Hoy to show how geography, history and weather shape decisions in a small island community. Through ancient tombs, towering cliffs and wartime defenses, we ask what it means to live where the sea defines your routes-and your risks.

    Person: Eight men who left Longhope
    Location: Hoy and the Ayre causeway
    Date: 17 March 1969
    Feature: Dwarfie Stane; Old Man of Hoy; Ward Hill
    Event: Passage across the Ayre restricted by high tide

    - Eight men departed Longhope on 17 March 1969 while a community of four hundred watched them go.
    - The Ayre is a natural tidal causeway linking Hoy to South Walls that was passable only at low tide for much of the island’s history.
    - The island houses a five-thousand-year-old chambered tomb, the Dwarfie Stane, carved from a single block of sandstone.
    - Hoy’s Ward Hill rises to 481 metres and the island’s cliffs, like St John’s Head, plunge hundreds of metres into the sea.
    - Scapa Flow and military installations, including Martello towers at Longhope, transformed parts of Hoy into major wartime concentrations.

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    23 min
  • If you held the hoard, would you keep the name?

    If you held the hoard, would you keep the name?
    Oct 23 2026
    A monk in 920 replaces an old name; when a hoard shifts in the Nibelungenlied, the name Nibelung moves too-what would you do if a name moved with treasure?

    If you held the hoard, would you keep the name?

    In this episode, we trace how a single name-Nibelung-moves through centuries of texts, people, and translations, shifting meaning as it travels from real Burgundians to mythic treasure-holders. The episode asks what identity becomes when language and ownership separate the name from its original bearers.

    Person: Gundahar
    Date: 437
    Text: Nibelungenlied
    Language change noticed by: monk copying Waltharius around 920
    Place: Rhine / Burgundian kingdom

    - A monk copying Waltharius circa 920 encounters the name Nibelung and substitutes a phrase meaning "worthless fellows."
    - The historical Burgundian king Gundahar dies in 437 in a catastrophe that becomes foundational memory for Germanic peoples.
    - In the Nibelungenlied, two princes named Nibelung and Schilbung argue over an enormous hoard that cannot be fairly divided.
    - Siegfried attempts to judge and divide the treasure, fails despite effort, kills the princes, and takes both the hoard and the name.
    - As the hoard moves to new holders (including the Burgundians), the name Nibelung transfers with it, becoming property rather than lineage.

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    26 min
  • The Name You Would Have Spoken to Save Yourself

    The Name You Would Have Spoken to Save Yourself
    Oct 22 2026
    A trapped hero in a Cyclops' cave uses one syllable as a weapon to survive-what would you have called yourself to stay alive?

    The Name You Would Have Spoken to Save Yourself

    In this episode we follow the moments when language becomes the only tool left to a man trapped with a giant. We lay out the choices, the preparations, and the narrow practices that make escape possible-what does it cost to be clever enough to survive?

    Person: Odysseus
    Event: Blinding of the Cyclops
    Location: A cave in the land of the Cyclopes
    Period: circa eighth century BCE (Homeric shaping)
    Topic: ATU 1137, The Ogre Blinded

    - Sailors row into a barn-sized cave only to find it sealed from within and inhabited with pens of lambs and racks of cheese.
    - Odysseus waits, sharpens an olive stake in the Cyclops' fire, and hides it while counting and watching through the night.
    - He offers undiluted wine from his own stores until Polyphemus drinks three times and asks the strangers’ name.
    - Odysseus tells the Cyclops his name is “Nobody,” a deliberate misdirection timed to exploit the giant’s neighbors and habits.
    - Survivors cling to the undersides of rams to slip past the blind Cyclops’ hands and the stone rolled across the cave mouth.

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    26 min
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