Myth America

Myth America | Episode Four | On a Birthday! Today (March 26) is mythologist Joseph Campbell's birthday. It's also my birthday! - I thought I'd share a musing on the nature of birthdays - mythically, imaginally, metaphorically. On mid life,

Join us for a really cool conversation with longtime music executive Chris Hensley, from our Myth America vault…this show was recorded live on WIOX Community Radio 91.3 FM on January 26, 2016. Among hundreds of other artists, Chris spent years working with both the Eagles and David Bowie. Shortly after David Bowie and Glenn Frey’s deaths in early 2016, Chris and I explored metaphors about the death of heroes – icons – archetypes – and how this music created identities for an entire generation,

Early March, and spring is maybe, just maybe, on the horizon. The light is changing, and there is a new song in the woods. We think of robins and crocuses as the harbingers of spring, but in the arboreal forests of North America, the chickadee beats them to the punch. Join host Leigh Melander for Episode 3 of the Myth America podcast, Chickadees and Small Wonders in the coming of Spring, as she explores how the tiny chickadee can open a sense of spring – and a sense of how we build story in ou

Mythos & Logos We like to delineate, us humans. We want things to be different. And we want our way to be better. - That tends to takes us to defining the world in binary ways - pitching what we see as rational and empirical understandings against st...

Are we living in mythic times? Myth sits in the paradox of being both/and. It is true and untrue. It is metaphor – meta – carrying, phor – across – making meaning by moving from the literal to the abstract, the concrete to the intuited. The ancient Greeks, and then Romans, said that myths were the things that were most and least true simultaneously. As Sallustius (a 4th-century writer, a friend of the Roman Emperor Julian. He wrote the treatise On the Gods and the Cosmos, a kind of catechism of