Speaker 1: Hello, this is let's talk about myths, Baby, I'm living.
Speaker 1: This is the podcast where I tell you crying easy
Speaker 1: stories from ancient Greek mythology. Now with the added bonus
Speaker 1: that I sing the theme song or the title of
Speaker 1: the podcast in general, in the right tune. It's all
Speaker 1: very thrilling. We've had quite the time over the past
Speaker 1: few weeks, haven't we. We've talked about dads eating their kids,
Speaker 1: kids killing their dads. We've talked about flying horses leaping
Speaker 1: out from the stumps of decapitations. We've talked about the many, many,
Speaker 1: many women the King of the gods had sex with
Speaker 1: against their will and consensually. And we've talked about what
Speaker 1: happens when you have sex with a bull and that
Speaker 1: awful hero that arrives to kill the offspring of such
Speaker 1: sex with a bull. And of course we've talked about
Speaker 1: why you shouldn't eat things that gods of the underworld
Speaker 1: give you just as you believe you're about to be freed,
Speaker 1: and why pissing off moms, particularly goddess moms, is a
Speaker 1: really stupid idea. It's been a wild ride so far,
Speaker 1: my friends. I'm not sure why I'm laying everything out
Speaker 1: like this. It's not like it's not about to get
Speaker 1: a whole lot wilder this week. I'm both continuing on
Speaker 1: from previous episodes that related to Crete and starting into
Speaker 1: a new saga entirely because it's all connected, you know.
Speaker 1: This episode also acts as a bit of a counter
Speaker 1: to the awfulness that is theseus. See, the hero in
Speaker 1: this story is actually a pretty good guy, kind of
Speaker 1: like our friend Perseus, not perfect, but also not raping
Speaker 1: and abandoning the resulting pregnant women on the rag, so
Speaker 1: a step up. This also begins a storyline that will
Speaker 1: lead to a recommendation I received from someone who I
Speaker 1: am incredibly jealous of, because I want to live in
Speaker 1: Greece too, and it's simply not fair that I'm forced
Speaker 1: to aside in Canada like a sucker. As I've mentioned
Speaker 1: again and again, ancient Greek myths have endless variations. You
Speaker 1: can read one version of a myth in a book
Speaker 1: or online and one thing happens, and then you read
Speaker 1: another and it has an entirely different event or entirely
Speaker 1: different details, even different characters. Frankly, it's confusing as hell,
Speaker 1: and this podcast is a lesson in choosing which ones
Speaker 1: are more entertaining. It's all very subjective. In this case.
Speaker 1: The story comes from a number of sources. You know,
Speaker 1: books on mythology, textbooks, websites, Wikipedia, you know the drill.
Speaker 1: But much comes from a book by Roberto Colasso. It's
Speaker 1: a book I have in translation from the original Italian,
Speaker 1: and I'll say the title at the end of the
Speaker 1: episode because frankly it's one big spoiler. But the book
Speaker 1: is incredible, one of the most beautiful books ever written
Speaker 1: about mythology. It's not a textbook in the way that
Speaker 1: so many books on mythology are. It's a saga, a
Speaker 1: novel story in a way that's so many books on
Speaker 1: with all g are not. Anyway, that's all useless information
Speaker 1: until I tell you the title of the book, but
Speaker 1: again that will come later. This is episode seven Cadmus,
Speaker 1: Savior of Awful Zeus and guy who can grow people
Speaker 1: from dragon teeth. If you'll recall, in the episode of
Speaker 1: Zeus's General Disgusting nous I introduced a character by the
Speaker 1: name of your Ropa, a troublingly young lady who Zeus
Speaker 1: kidnapped while in the form of a bowl. If you
Speaker 1: don't remember where have you been. That was a great episode.
Speaker 1: Pay attention to come on. Europa, of course, then give
Speaker 1: birth to some children by Zeus on the island of Crete,
Speaker 1: where he unceremoniously left her post kidnapping. One of those
Speaker 1: children was Minos, whose wife, of course, found a super
Speaker 1: creative way to have sex with a bowl. Like I said,
Speaker 1: wild ride. In any case, Europa, who was again pretty
Speaker 1: young when Zeus creepily kidnapped her, as if there is
Speaker 1: a non creepy kidnap ng, had an older brother back
Speaker 1: at home. She had more than one, actually, but we're
Speaker 1: only concerned with the one. Europa's brother is a young
Speaker 1: man by the name of Cadmus, and when Europa was kidnapped,
Speaker 1: Cadmus went searching for his beloved sister. As I mentioned
Speaker 1: when I first introduced Europa, she is a Phoenician princess,
Speaker 1: Phoenicia being an ancient slash mythological region in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: I'm not totally sure how real it was, but it
Speaker 1: is most famous, I think, from being mythological anyway. Specifically,
Speaker 1: Europa and Cadmus's parents were King Agenor, which I don't
Speaker 1: know quite how to pronounce that, but it sounds like
Speaker 1: a character out of Lord of the Rings and therefore
Speaker 1: I love it. And Queen Telefassa also a badass name.
Speaker 1: They're the King and Queen of Tear, a Phoenician kingdom
Speaker 1: if four children, Europa, Cadmus, and two other sons who
Speaker 1: don't matter much, Phoenix and Keelix. When Europa was abducted
Speaker 1: her parents, the King and Queen sent their eldest son, Cadmus,
Speaker 1: in search of their daughter, his sister. Just explaining genetics
Speaker 1: to you now. He was told to bring her back
Speaker 1: safely to Tear, and that he wasn't really welcome back
Speaker 1: if he didn't find her. Not super chill, What can
Speaker 1: I say? Cadmus goes off in search of his sister,
Speaker 1: and pretty quickly he realizes he isn't going to find her.
Speaker 1: Is not clear quite how hard he looks. Basically, the
Speaker 1: most common versions of the myth start after he's given up,
Speaker 1: So what can you do? It's also sometimes said that
Speaker 1: maybe he found out who had taken her and was,
Speaker 1: unusually for the ancient Greeks, smart enough to realize it
Speaker 1: would be best for him not to go up against
Speaker 1: deuce that it, you know, would probably just lead to
Speaker 1: the ruin of them both, and thankfully Europa had a
Speaker 1: pretty chill life in the end, even if it did
Speaker 1: come from very awful circumstances. In the first place, she
Speaker 1: nice family before all the minator craziness happened, and so
Speaker 1: she was probably pretty happy as far as mythological women go.
Speaker 1: While Cadmus is off journeying searching for his sister, quite
Speaker 1: the kerfuffle takes place on Mount Olympus. All the gods
Speaker 1: have left, They fleed the mountain, and Cadmus comes upon
Speaker 1: a cave where Zeus is laying in quite the state.
Speaker 1: I think we have to trust that chronologically, Zeus, having
Speaker 1: kidnapped Duropa, had already left her on crete and then
Speaker 1: gone about his business. Where he now finds himself driven
Speaker 1: from his precious mountain is he? At this point, it
Speaker 1: seems that Zeus had gotten himself into a bit of
Speaker 1: trouble with the monster Typhon. That's where all the Olympians
Speaker 1: fleeing Olympus thing comes into play. Typhon had managed to
Speaker 1: trap Zeus and steal his Adamantine sickle. This is a
Speaker 1: sickle that I'm assuming Zeus inherited from the father he killed,
Speaker 1: because if you'll recall it's an adamantine sickle that Cronos
Speaker 1: uses to cast straight as father or on Us. I
Speaker 1: only recall because I questioned whether that metal was the
Speaker 1: metal that's inside Wolverinea next men, and I still don't
Speaker 1: know the answer. So Typhon uses the sickle to remove
Speaker 1: the sinews from Zeus's hands and feet, which I'm transitting
Speaker 1: to me that basically all his muscles and important guts
Speaker 1: were currently on the outside of his body. You can
Speaker 1: do some pretty crazy and disgusting things to God's without
Speaker 1: them dying perks and downsides to immortality. I suppose according
Speaker 1: to Roberto Colasso's book, the sinews quote formed a bundle
Speaker 1: of dark, shiny stocks, not unlike the bundle of lightning
Speaker 1: bolts that lay beside them, although these were bright and smoking.
Speaker 1: So basically his nasty guts are in a pile nearby.
Speaker 1: He's just staring longingly at everything that would make him
Speaker 1: not a skin sack. I mean. Gross Class's book also
Speaker 1: says it out right. Zeus's body is lying in the
Speaker 1: distance quote an abandoned sack. Again Gross. The sinews and
Speaker 1: general innards were being guarded by Delphine, a girl who
Speaker 1: is half human and half snake, which is something I
Speaker 1: think we've seen a bit too much of in Greek mythology.
Speaker 1: What was with them and snakes hate snakes? So Zeus
Speaker 1: is lying there, all nasty and all this stuff is
Speaker 1: being guarded by snake girl, with Typhon off in the distance.
Speaker 1: Now Typhon, father of all these crazy scary monsters, is
Speaker 1: quite the beast. In Classo's book, he's described as having
Speaker 1: a hundred animal heads with thousands of snakes framing them.
Speaker 1: Who came up with that? So badass? Totally terrifying? Seriously,
Speaker 1: what is with all the snakes? So here's Cadmus, who
Speaker 1: was just minding his own damn business just two seconds ago,
Speaker 1: and now he has to defeat this banana's monster in
Speaker 1: order to save the King of the gods, who's in
Speaker 1: quite the pickle, Quite the pickle. Indeed, Cadmus things back
Speaker 1: to his history, to his childhood growing up in Phoenicia
Speaker 1: and the nearby regions. He thinks about how his father
Speaker 1: brought him exploring to the Egyptian temples, and in those
Speaker 1: temples the priests had quote squeezed into his mouth the
Speaker 1: ineffable milk of books. Now, I just want to repeat that,
Speaker 1: because it's one of the most beautiful phrases I've ever read.
Speaker 1: And its phrases like that that make this book so
Speaker 1: unbelievably just stunning, and it's pros the ineffable milk of books.
Speaker 1: That's how I'm describing my love of books from now on.
Speaker 1: And it was on one of these trips that Apollo
Speaker 1: revealed to Cadmus, and to Cadmus alone, the just music,
Speaker 1: that being just like justice, and this is the music
Speaker 1: that cad misplayed. Now. Cadmus hid in the bushes nearby
Speaker 1: the cave where Typhon was relaxing after having, you know,
Speaker 1: ripped everything from Zeus, and he played this just music.
Speaker 1: Typhon heard the music, and he slowly began to emerge
Speaker 1: from the cave, slowly because he had so many damn bits.
Speaker 1: First a few arms emerged, and then some of his
Speaker 1: animal heads, and finally the one human head he had
Speaker 1: that could speak. It asked Cadmus if he would compete
Speaker 1: with him, Cadmuss pipes against Typhon's thunder. Cadmus he would,
Speaker 1: but that he wouldn't be any good without a liar,
Speaker 1: and as like a liar the instrument and not a
Speaker 1: person who lies, you know, that wouldn't be helpful at all,
Speaker 1: So cadmussit. He doesn't want to compete using only his pipes.
Speaker 1: He says he could make himself a liar if only
Speaker 1: he had some sinews. Typhon, of course, says, oh, how
Speaker 1: lucky I happened to have some extra sinews, you know,
Speaker 1: as you do, and he brings Zeus innards to Cadmus
Speaker 1: for him to make himself an instrument. Okay. Instead, Cadmus,
Speaker 1: being all sneaky sneaky, hides the sinews under a nearby rock,
Speaker 1: and then he hides in the bushes, and he begins
Speaker 1: to play with his pipes, you know, making it only
Speaker 1: seem like he's using this sinew made liar. Typhon strains
Speaker 1: to hear the music, and he's destructed, and Zeus takes
Speaker 1: this opportunity to sneak past him, dragging his body, which
Speaker 1: is basically just like a giant sack of something disgusting,
Speaker 1: out of the cave and over to where Cadmus had
Speaker 1: stored his everything. He puts his sinews back in himself
Speaker 1: because mythology, and he gets his hands on his lightning bolts.
Speaker 1: Now that he has his weapons back, he defeats Styphon
Speaker 1: and he banishes him to live under Mount Etna in Italy.
Speaker 1: And now it's not said outright, and what I've read
Speaker 1: that you know Mount Etna a volcano is a volcano
Speaker 1: because Typhon is living under it. But knowing the ancient Greeks,
Speaker 1: that was basically it. You know, why is that mountain
Speaker 1: spewing smoke and fire? Well, because there's a monster living
Speaker 1: under it, don't you know? It seems so obvious. And
Speaker 1: that is why I would sometimes wish that science wasn't
Speaker 1: a thing. I mean, like science, you know, it's good,
Speaker 1: but what is it really done for us? It certainly
Speaker 1: doesn't have us believe that there's monsters living under volcanoes.
Speaker 1: That would be very cool. Anyway. Zeus is grateful to
Speaker 1: Cadmus for saving him, and so he promises that Cadmus
Speaker 1: can marry Harmonia, a young woman who he'll find on
Speaker 1: the island of Samothrace. Harmonia is the daughter of Aphrodite
Speaker 1: and Aries, the daughter of love and war. She is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite characters, even though there's really minimal
Speaker 1: information about her, but I just find her intriguing all
Speaker 1: the same. What little there is is interesting and different
Speaker 1: from the norm. Her Roman names Concordia to which is beautiful.
Speaker 1: But also I went Concordia University, and so I'm slightly biased,
Speaker 1: though I was never really one for a school spirit,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. Before Kademas heads to Samothrace, though to
Speaker 1: basically meet this woman he's now expected to marry, he
Speaker 1: decides to seek guidance from the oracle. Now, this is
Speaker 1: one of the very very few instances of oracle information
Speaker 1: that doesn't end in total tragedy. So that's really nice,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just so rare. Kademas goes to the
Speaker 1: oracle to ask about his search for his sister, and
Speaker 1: now chronologically, I know he's already given up, but who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe he thinks he should start back up again, like
Speaker 1: you know, a decent brother. Regardless, the oracle tells him that,
Speaker 1: in fact, he should give up his search, So there
Speaker 1: you go, he's over it again. The oracle tells him
Speaker 1: that what he actually should do instead is find a
Speaker 1: cow that has a half moon shape on its side
Speaker 1: and follow it wherever this fancy pattern cow lays down
Speaker 1: to rest. That's where Cadmus should found a city, you know,
Speaker 1: the usual way of determining where you should found your city. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know how common that kind of shape is
Speaker 1: on a cow. I don't know how many cows I've
Speaker 1: actually seen in person, which is a weird revelation to
Speaker 1: have a podcast. I'm sure I've seen some. I must have. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Cadmas finds this cow lucky guy, and he follows it.
Speaker 1: Kadimas ends up in the region of Boetia, where the
Speaker 1: cow will eventually lie down. Now I find myself wondering
Speaker 1: whether Cadmus wanted to found a city. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was already a prince of Phoenicia. I guess he couldn't
Speaker 1: go back there because you know, he didn't find his sister.
Speaker 1: But still, it seems a pretty presumptuous to be, like, dude,
Speaker 1: you've got to found a city where this cow lies down. Like,
Speaker 1: but what if I want to be a philosopher or
Speaker 1: a farmer some other ship? Not an option for Cadmus.
Speaker 1: I guess. So this cow has laid down, it's on.
Speaker 1: Cadmus decides he now needs to sacrifice the cow to
Speaker 1: Athene for like good luck. I guess he's been traveling
Speaker 1: with some men throughout this tale, and we just apparently
Speaker 1: haven't heard of them until this point. He now asks
Speaker 1: them to find water, which he'll need to sacrifice the cow.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know why. I don't want to
Speaker 1: know how one sacrifices a cow in the ancient world
Speaker 1: or even now. The point is he needs water, So
Speaker 1: the men find a nearby sprain, but son of a gun,
Speaker 1: it's being guarded by a pretty vicious dragon, a pet
Speaker 1: of airies. This dragon kills essentially all of cadmus Is men.
Speaker 1: They're either ripped apart by its super sharp things or
Speaker 1: they are squished into goo by its coils. Cadmus comes
Speaker 1: upon this after it's killed everyone, and he manages to
Speaker 1: kill it by throwing a rock at its head, which
Speaker 1: I think means that the men he'd been traveling with
Speaker 1: weren't particularly good at their job of being, you know, warriors.
Speaker 1: How hard is it to throw a rock and hit
Speaker 1: a monster on the head or a dragon whatever. I
Speaker 1: don't think Denior his dragons would be killed so easily.
Speaker 1: I almost snuck in a game with thrown spoiler there,
Speaker 1: but I want you to know I stopped myself because
Speaker 1: I've learned from Pods of America So now Cadmus has
Speaker 1: sacrificed the cow, and Athena appears to him, because that's
Speaker 1: what a sacrifice gets you, which I think is pretty cool,
Speaker 1: though it would also be nice if a god would
Speaker 1: appear without someone having to kill an animal just a suggestion.
Speaker 1: Athena appears to Cadmus and she tells him that he
Speaker 1: should take the teeth from the dragon he's just killed
Speaker 1: and sow them into the ground like seeds. Apparently this
Speaker 1: will make Areas a bit happier because he's currently pretty
Speaker 1: piste that Cadmus, you know, killed his dragon, and it
Speaker 1: will honor the people who had this land before Cadmus
Speaker 1: showed up with a cow planning to found a kingdom.
Speaker 1: It's not clear who these people were, but I imagine
Speaker 1: they weren't psyched having their land taken away by some
Speaker 1: random dude. Following law of stock, Cadmis plants the teeth
Speaker 1: like seeds, and bam, a bunch of super strong warriors
Speaker 1: better than the ones recently killed by the dragon spring
Speaker 1: from the ground. Fully formed and fully armed. With these men,
Speaker 1: Cadmus founds the Kingdom of Thebes, named for the more
Speaker 1: famous and more awesome city in Egypt. Which is of
Speaker 1: course near to where Cadmus was from, and also, you know,
Speaker 1: the ineffable milk of books. And now that he's got
Speaker 1: this sorted, he's ready to have a wife, because that's
Speaker 1: how it worked back then, and wasn't that fun for ladies.
Speaker 1: So Cadmus heads back to the tamith Race and he
Speaker 1: picks up Harmonia, you know, like groceries. I like to
Speaker 1: imagine that Harmonia was pretty cool with this, because this
Speaker 1: guy seems pretty nice and he didn't go around fucking
Speaker 1: shit up or raping women, so you know, he's really
Speaker 1: quite the catch. And for the first time ever, all
Speaker 1: the gods attend a wedding between and a god an immortal,
Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. The mortal is the key point here.
Speaker 1: Cadmus wasn't even a demi god, which frankly makes him
Speaker 1: more badass than the standard demi god heroes like Theseus
Speaker 1: and even my friend Perseus. Given Cadmus is a full
Speaker 1: blown mortal, the gods showing up to his wedding is
Speaker 1: a pretty exciting feat. Much like previous stories, it's entirely
Speaker 1: unclear how the whole gods can't appear to humans without
Speaker 1: those humans bursting into flames issue comes into play. No
Speaker 1: one burst into flames, though, so that's nice. At their wedding,
Speaker 1: all the muses saying, the goddess of victory Nike flirted
Speaker 1: with the God of Love Arrows. See they both had wings,
Speaker 1: so they did a little drunk at a wedding wing flirting.
Speaker 1: This is pretty awesome party. But in addition to all
Speaker 1: the super fun ambrosia and wine filled time, the god
Speaker 1: have Festus showed up with a gift for Harmonia. Like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, Harmonia is the daughter of Aphrodite and Aries,
Speaker 1: the goddess of Love and the god of War. Now again,
Speaker 1: Harmony doesn't have a lot written about her, but given
Speaker 1: that parentage, I picture her as quite the badass. She's
Speaker 1: the goddess of harmony. She's just like the general idea
Speaker 1: of a harmonious earth, and she is a pretty cool chick.
Speaker 1: Although Aphrodite and Aries had quite a few kids together,
Speaker 1: the god of Love Arrows included, they were definitely not married.
Speaker 1: See no one but Aphroditie really liked Aries, except for
Speaker 1: some of his bad guy friends, but you know they
Speaker 1: don't really count. But man, did Aphrodite have a fondness
Speaker 1: for him. She was though married to Haphaestus. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: cover Aphrodite more in depth in a future episode, but man,
Speaker 1: is she awesome. I've mentioned before, but again she's basically
Speaker 1: the only female people never do whatever the funk she
Speaker 1: wants sexually, and all the power to her. Like, Aphrodite
Speaker 1: was actually married to the god Hephestus, who was just
Speaker 1: an old man with a lamp and the god of
Speaker 1: the forge. Pretty boring, and Aphroditi agreed she didn't really
Speaker 1: like him, but I guess she had to stay married
Speaker 1: to him for I don't know mythological reasons or you know,
Speaker 1: women didn't have independence reasons. But she did spend most
Speaker 1: of her time fucking aries because that's what she wanted
Speaker 1: to do, and unlike most other women, there wasn't really
Speaker 1: any issue with that, except for very brief moments of
Speaker 1: Hephestus being jealous, but of course nothing compared to hera
Speaker 1: because the women are always trouble with aries, Aphroditi spawned
Speaker 1: some pretty badass gods, and again that's only her union
Speaker 1: with Aries. She had quite a few other men on
Speaker 1: the side. Just way to go Aphroditi. Hephestus, though he
Speaker 1: didn't love this, So when he brought this fancy schmancy
Speaker 1: necklace to Harmonia as a wedding gift, there was a trick. Now,
Speaker 1: the necklace was a bit over the top style wise.
Speaker 1: It was shaped like two snakes, and those two snakes
Speaker 1: had their mouths wrapped around an eagle that held a big,
Speaker 1: giant jewel, and it was all gold. It's pretty tacky
Speaker 1: but also cool if you think about how you know
Speaker 1: it would have been made. You know, the technical side,
Speaker 1: now it's pretty tacky, but style side, the necklace was trouble.
Speaker 1: It brought bad luck to everyone who possessed it, mostly
Speaker 1: after Harmonia, lucky for her, and she didn't know this,
Speaker 1: which is why it became a family heirloom, and so
Speaker 1: was passed down through generations and generations, and the generations
Speaker 1: of thebes had some pretty bad luck. You'll hear in
Speaker 1: future episodes, but you know spoilers Oedipus and not only
Speaker 1: did this necklace cause bad luck for future generations, all
Speaker 1: future weddings of mortals that the gods attended also had issues.
Speaker 1: One even led to the start of the Trojan War.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Together, a Cadmus and Harmonia founded
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Thebes, and they started a generation of
Speaker 1: mythological characters. They had a bunch of kids Polydorus family,
Speaker 1: I know, Tonoi and a Gavy through the founding of Thebes.
Speaker 1: Cadmus is also credited with bringing the original Phoenician alphabet
Speaker 1: to the Greeks. They adapted it into the ancient Greek
Speaker 1: we know or the linear B I don't remember. The
Speaker 1: point is he is basically given credit for bringing the
Speaker 1: alphabet to the Greeks period, which is cool. The OsO
Speaker 1: brilliant Herodotus pegs Cadmus as living with six hundred years
Speaker 1: before his time, so that's about two thousand BC BC.
Speaker 1: Let's not bring Christ under this. It's hard to say
Speaker 1: whether anyone existed that's actually attributed to being Cadmus, but
Speaker 1: the Greek certainly believed he was real and super awesome
Speaker 1: guy who gave them language in writing. I think Cadmus
Speaker 1: and Harmonia are some of the most underrated mythological characters.
Speaker 1: I mean, they did a hell of a lot and
Speaker 1: they were all around pretty awesome. But frankly, I hadn't
Speaker 1: heard of either of them in all my mythological learning
Speaker 1: until I stumbled upon them randomly later in their lives.
Speaker 1: They were fed up with all the bullshit of life
Speaker 1: and they wanted out, and they traveled to a far
Speaker 1: off land and were turned into snakes, where they lived
Speaker 1: out their lives together in a chill, slithery snake life.
Speaker 1: But the couple may have been awesome and they led
Speaker 1: a pretty good life, but unfortunately their offspring didn't have
Speaker 1: such good luck. See that's where the blame gets put
Speaker 1: on this necklace that Hephestus gave Harmonia. She passed on
Speaker 1: to her children, and they had it pretty tough. For instance,
Speaker 1: their daughter Summily you remember. You may remember her from
Speaker 1: an earlier episode. She's one of the many women that
Speaker 1: Zeus completely sucked over, specifically in the Birth of the
Speaker 1: god Dionysus. You know, Zeus impregnated her and she asked
Speaker 1: him to prove that he was indeed Zeus. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll concede that Samily should have known better, but more so,
Speaker 1: Zeus should have just refused, but I didn't, and she
Speaker 1: burst into flames and died instantly. Zeus reports saved you son, though,
Speaker 1: by sewing him into his thigh. You remember that totally
Speaker 1: normal and not a all insane scenario. There's a couple
Speaker 1: other fun stories, but I'm hoping to put them into
Speaker 1: mini myths. Basically, Cadmus and Harmonia had a great life
Speaker 1: and then everything fell apart from there, which leads me
Speaker 1: to next week's where we'll go into some pretty crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of my god, why do you even
Speaker 1: go to the oracle in the first place. It's totally
Speaker 1: going to suck you over in a little bit of
Speaker 1: Oh my god, she's your mom. As I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: much of this version of the myth of Cadmus and
Speaker 1: Harmonia comes from a book written by Roberto Colasso. It's
Speaker 1: in translation again in the original Italian, and it is
Speaker 1: in its English translation one of the most beautiful things
Speaker 1: I've ever read. It's unreal, it's incredible. Read it. It's
Speaker 1: basically a book of myths, but they weave into one
Speaker 1: another with unbelievable skill. Highly reck commend It is called again.
Speaker 1: There was a spoiler it's called the Marriage of Cadmus
Speaker 1: and Harmonia, so kind of gave it away. It's great though,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Thanks to everyone for listening to Let's talk
Speaker 1: about myths, Baby. Stay tuned for next week's full episode,
Speaker 1: in which I will cover a famous dude you might
Speaker 1: have heard of. He has a complex named after him,
Speaker 1: and I gave spoilers earlier. You know it's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: There won't be a mini myth this week because, as
Speaker 1: you might have noticed if you're paying any attention, this
Speaker 1: episode was late because it was a long weekend and
Speaker 1: I was lazy and got a bit of heat stroke,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's been a time. Also fun fact,
Speaker 1: one of the three brothers who created the Deathly Hollows
Speaker 1: in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows was named Cadmus.
Speaker 1: He had the resurrection stone. Offhand, I can't decide why
Speaker 1: JK used that name, but she rarely did anything randomly,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure there's some badass and brilliant reason for it.
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Speaker 1: if you would rate, review, subscribe, tell your friends, do anything,
Speaker 1: spread the word, tweet at me, Instagram, me, just I
Speaker 1: don't know, get it out there. It'd be cool. I'm
Speaker 1: at miss baby at everything. Just you know, miss baby.
Speaker 1: That's it, my friends. I also want to give a
Speaker 1: shadow to Australia because you guys have been listening the
Speaker 1: hell out of this lately and that feels really cool.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you found it, except for my
Speaker 1: friend's mom who's listening HI. Otherwise, way to go, Australia.
Speaker 1: Thank you all again. I hope you enjoyed this adventure
Speaker 1: into the world of lunacy and madness. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I love Greek mythology I'm living. I love this shit.