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Inclusive Heathen podcast containing a healthy dose of geekery, a fair bit of cake and a hint of queer, by Suzanne Martin, the Gytha in Jeans, and a Coffee-Powered Druid called Kate Coldwind. Welcome around the virtual campfire!
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Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
Episode 82 – Mimir and Memory
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“One for the lasagne, one for me” – Garfield - https://tinyurl.com/y8r95svk
“One for you, six for me.” - Quark and Rom on payday, Star Trek Deep Space 9, episode ‘The Homecoming’
Beowulf – the very first word: Hwaet! https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/listen-beowulf-opening-line-misinterpreted-for-200-years-8921027.html
Seamus Heaney’s version, which starts with ‘so’, you can hear the poet reading his own work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaB0trCztM0
Audi – Latin imperative form of ‘to listen’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_alteram_partem
Ingimundr – Guthmundar Bishops Saga – the wandering book chest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%B0mundar_saga_biskups
Icelandic Church history – the hunger-stirrer/ Here’s the link to the book: https://tinyurl.com/yala6zvx
Chapter 3: Writing as a means against oblivion.
That bee thing: ‘cella’ Jons Saga Helga – here is info on the titular Jon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_%C3%96gmundsson
Casks of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe: https://www.poemuseum.org/the-cask-of-amontillado
Munin, raven of Odin: https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/hugin-and-munin/
Havamal verses: about wisdom and memory https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html look at verses 5, 6, 10, 18 and 75
Memorials at death https://www.lifeinnorway.net/viking-funeral/
Skalskaparmal – writing guards against forgetting - https://is.cuni.cz/studium/predmety/index.php?do=download&did=62028&kod=ARL100252
The Kings Mirror – socratic question and answer format – conversations are written down so they aren’t forgotten http://oaks.nvg.org/kingly-mirror.html
Mimir – hostage exchanged from the Aesir to the Vanir, decapitated by them. https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/mimir/
Goliath and the Nephelim – giants in Abrahamic stories https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/hebrew-bible/who-are-the-nephilim/
Mimir’s Well: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mimisbrunnr
The course Kate took on procedurally generated memory: "The Mind is Flat" – a short course available at intervals on Futurelearn. Futurelearn courses can be undertaken for free (or you can pay for a certificate) https://www.futurelearn.com/
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – film, books, radio, all slightly different stories with the same major events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
The reliability of eyewitness testimony in court cases: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/teaching/myth-eyewitness-testimony-is-the-best-kind-of-evidence.html
How to find us online
Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
Episode 81 – Storytime: Gifts for the Gods
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- (Passive) Resistance is futile – repeated catchphrase from the Borg, Star Trek Universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg
- “Well, that escalated quickly” From Anchorman – the Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/that-escalated-quickly
- Six Degrees of Separation: https://www.sciencealert.com/are-we-all-really-connected-by-just-six-degrees-of-separation
- Kevin Bacon, Actor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000102/
- ‘Yan, Tan, Tethera’ The beginning of a sheep counting rhyme used by shepherds (and used for counting knitting stitches), especially in Northern England (with variants in other counties) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera
- Counting in Turkish: (Suzanne’s pronunciation is slightly off…) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZZuMG9qlE
- Counting to 10 in Latin: https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-latin/en/lat/
- Idris Elba, Mcavity in Cats the film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5697572/
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/
- “Good boy, Edmund.” Blackadder Series 2, ‘Money’
- Vivaldi: Antonio Vivaldi, composer: https://www.classicfm.com/composers/vivaldi/
- How to find us online
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Episode 80 – Coded and Cipher Runes
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"How did he do such fantastic stunts with such little feet?" Blazing Saddles (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/
Titanic (1997) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Jurassic Park (1993) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
“But I have never seen a vision...” Interview with a Vampire: the vampire chronicles (1994) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/characters/nm0000104
“I like not these feelings” Paraphrased from “I like not this news, bring me better news” Blackadder series one, The Queen of Spain’s Beard http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/one_queen.shtml
Nursemaid in the giant castle – from the Journey to Utgard (we totally did a double episode on this, but if you’d like to read instead - http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/mythology/myths/text/thor_utgard.htm)
Whosoever shall draw the sock from this stone… paraphrased from Sir Thomas Mallory – King Arthur and His Knights
Bait and Switch (which Suzanne misheard as Beighton Switch) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bait-switch.asp
Sean Bean – Actor with a career in theatre, radio, TV and film: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000293/
All Saints ‘Never Ever’ (1998) – ‘the alphabet runs straight from A to Z’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Ever_(All_Saints_song)
“This is where the story really starts” The Goon Show, Dishonoured (series 5 episode 12) first broadcast December 1954 http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e12_dishonoured
Morecombe and Wise film: The Intelligence Men (1965) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059315/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
Battleships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)
‘Happy little trees’ from the painter Bob Ross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross
Bryggen in Bergen – the bearded faces and the fish scales. There’s a few other ways of coding listed on this site: https://www.arild-hauge.com/esecreter.htm
TTFN – brought into popularity in Britain in 1940 through the character Mrs Mopp from ‘It’s That Man Again’ https://www.abbreviations.com/TTFN
Steganography - https://securelist.com/steganography-in-contemporary-cyberattacks/79276/
The microdot in the Roger Moore Bond film – now we look it up, it’s a Sean Connery Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’ (1967) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062512/ Roger Moore’s eyebrows are still independent though.
Havamal verse 143/144 ‘Do you know…? - https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html#runes
The runes coded in short and long lines are sometimes known as Ice Runes. Rotbrunna Stone reads ‘Airikr Huik’ = ‘Erik + to cut/carve/scratch/chip in stone with a chisel’ so Erik carved (these runes). For a picture of the stone, head here, the coded runes are the bottom right of the ribbon. http://www.runesnruins.com/runes/u1165.html
Sigtuna inscription ‘kiss me’ https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/02/jotunvillur-code-cracked/
The handwritten manuscript: Ggallen Cod 270 4to
Valsta Stone – mixes twigs and lines to encode runes, you can see a drawing of the inscription here: https://stonecircles.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/deciphering-secretrunes/
The font in Kareby Church, is a ‘read runes right’ inscription, there’s another at Gol Church. Kareby reads ‘interpret you who can the name Orklaski.’ From Norwegian Runes and Runic inscriptions by Spurkland https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1QDKqY-NWvUC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=The+font+in+Kareby+Church&source=bl&ots=PrUEPYQGzc&sig=ACfU3U0T43aURoVSwyKVLqzPQvYsxxjB5Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJtNGjyefoAhVUilwKHQT4DIkQ6AEwAHoECA0QKQ#v=onepage&q=The%20font%20in%20Kareby%20Church&f=false
‘The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’ A pangram or holoalphabietic sentence https://people.howstuffworks.com/14-pangrams.htm
Caesar Cipher http://practicalcryptography.com/ciphers/caesar-cipher/
Added twiddly bits on the Torvika A and B inscriptions: (under T in this alphabetical list: https://www.arild-hauge.com/einscription.htm
Rotation Cipher, eg Rot13. A Caesar Cipher with a 13 place shift
Jotunvillur Code proposed by PhD student Jonas Nordby at the University of Oslo in 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/12/ancient-viking-code-deciphered-runologist-jotunvillur
(and the quote from the professor can be found at the bottom of this article: https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-forskningno-language/mysterious-code-in-viking-runes-is-cracked/1396525 )
Linear A and B, and the translation by Michael Ventris: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the-code-the-decipherment-of-linear-b-60-years-on
Rosetta Stone - a stone inscription with the same decree written in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Ancient Greek https://blog.britishmuseum.org/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-rosetta-stone/
Hieroglyphics, and story of translation- Thomas Young’s initial work in 1814 looking at cartouches, built on by Champollion in 1822: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/how-hieroglyphics-were-originally-translated/
Enigma Machine – breaking the codes used in WWII (there’s a whole history here) https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/hist.htm
The Franks Casket: https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=92560&partId=1
“This is not Sparta” 300 film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film)
Ogham https://www.omniglot.com/writing/ogham.htm
How to find us online
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Episode 79 – Theological Reflection - Odr and Odin
Things we talk about in this episode
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Meadow ambience by various contributors at www.ambient-mixer.com, assembled by Minerva (not that one (presumably - sorry if so, Your Wiseness - although given it's seeing use as a battlefield here it's not inappropriate since she's also a war goddess)).
- Kate and coffee at breakfast.
- Social distancing - This episode was recorded during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
- “I will take these cotton balls” - It turned out it was totally Robin Hood: Men in Tights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKXSKhUu0gM) and not Cannonball Run at all - but if you do want some outtakes from Cannonball Run, you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avis_OWEZlI&list=RD1TtZgs8k8dU&index=24 )
- “Chamberlain is friend to gelfling” The Skeksis Chamberlain from The Dark Crystal - Age of Resistance: https://darkcrystal.fandom.com/wiki/SkekSil
- “All them little holes in your nut.” The Goon Show episode: The Man Who Never Was http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s08e21_the_man_who_never_was
- “The plays the thing, therein you’ll catch the conscience of the king” Hamlet https://www.shmoop.com/shakespeare-quotes/plays-the-thing/meaning-then.html
- “She who is my wife.” Vulcan Ambassador Sarek introducing his second human wife Perrin in Star Trek the Next Generation. Season 3, episode 23: ‘Sarek’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarek_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
- “Oooohhhhh, the claw...” Toy Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT8If2VABWQ
- Diana and Artemis http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-between-greek-goddess-artemis-and-roman-goddess-diana/
- Pascals Wager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S93jMOqF-oE
- References to Odr in the mythology:
- Poetic Edda: Voluspa stanza 25 and Hyndluljod stanza 47
- Prose Edda: Gylfaginning chapter 35, Skaldskaparmal chapter 20, 36, 49 and 75
- Heimskringla: Yinglinga Saga chapter 1
- Darmok – Star Trek: The Next Generation episode https://intl.startrek.com/article/one-trek-mind-deciphering-darmok
- Scrabble: word spelling game: https://scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us
- The Butterfly Effect – here you can find it discussed with deterministic chaos and fractals:https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/02/13/chaos-theory-the-butterfly-effect-and-the-computer-glitch-that-started-it-all/#fd42cb469f6c
- Fatherland - Robert Harris https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0089WCFAY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
- Gas Lit Empire series – Rod Duncan https://www.angryrobotbooks.com/shop/year/2017-books/the-fall-of-the-gas-lit-empire-boxed-set/
- How to find us online
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Episode 78 – Ship Burials
Things we talk about in this episode:
- Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
- Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
- Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- Snow White - “Someday my Prince will Come” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0niwn2pOEno
- “You silly twisted boy, you.” Runnig joke from throughout The Goon Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show_running_jokes
- “I got better” Monty Python and the Holy Grail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
- Pop Tarts https://www.kelloggs.com/en_US/brands/pop-tarts-consumer-brand.html
- Naptha https://www.britannica.com/science/naphtha
- 300 (2006) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416449/
- Two-Man Luge - https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/winter-olympics-doubles-luge-is-raising-a-lot-of-questions-and-we-have-answers/
- “The dead don’t bury themselves” quote from Mike Parker Pearson, archaeologist specialising in funerary archaeology, and someone who taught Suzanne archaeology. Try his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Archaeology-Burial-Michael-Parker-Pearson/dp/0750932767
- The Scar Boat Burial, Sanday, Orkney - http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/index.html
- The Scar Whalebone Plaque - http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/plaqueimage.htm
- Greek Triremes - https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/ancient-greece/trireme/
- Port an Eline Moir - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/oct/19/viking-burial-ship-found-scotland
- Ritually bent Viking swords - https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/catalog/view/51/234/2167-1
- Snape Cemetery - http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report95/
- The Black Grave, Ukraine - https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/black-grave
- Vendel, Sweden https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/07/06/viking-grave-discovery-in-sweden-leaves-archaeologists-stunned/#12bce2fe5e57
- Sutton Hoo https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/sutton-hoo-and-europe
- Tripods TV series (1984 - 1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086818/
- Trickle down economics https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trickledowntheory.asp
- Oseberg – if you want to go have a peek before we do a double episode on this one, head here: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/
- The Drakken – a replica ship that is huge and currently sailing: https://www.drakenhh.com/ They do a newsletter that you can sign up for.
- The Viking – a replica ship based on the Gokstad viking ship: http://historyofvikings.com/first-viking-ship-replica/ sailed the Atlantic ocean in 1893
- Magnus Magnusson replica – nope, he wrote a book, the one Suzanne was thinking of was the Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl https://www.kon-tiki.no/expeditions/kon-tiki-expedition/
- Ibn Fadlan’s account of a Rus Chieftains funeral http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/PSJibnfadlan.html
- The funeral in Beowulf:http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs2003a/Yesenia&Vivar/funeral.htm
- That lad who discovered the comet… the one Kate was thinking of was a planet: https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-intern-wolf-cukier-new-planet-third-day-2020-1?r=US&IR=T (and another one who discovered a planet: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/11/scoolboy-work-experience-discovers-planet )
- How to find us online
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Episode 77 – Rune Spotlight - Jera
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Marquis of Bath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Bath
Marquis of Queensbury: proposed the Queensbury Rules, which form the basis of modern Boxing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Douglas,_9th_Marquess_of_Queensberry
Marquis de Sade: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-marquis-de-sade-180953980/
Imperial Clipper- Elite Dangerous https://www.elitedangerous.com/
Jumping the Shark - -when a long running show changes in a significant manner: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JumpingTheShark
MIFFS Podcast – have just started recounting the Norse myths in their mythology podcast – Norse ones start at episode 95 onwards.
Continuously variable transmission: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-tech/101267/what-is-a-cvt-gearbox
T800s: from the Terminator franchise - https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/T-800
“What we do in life, echoes in eternity” From Gladiator (2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDpTc32sV1Y
The March of the Sinister Ducks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGL8Fx6SOjg
Windmills of your Mind: here’s the version from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXFh-mYh2dQ
Morecombe and Wise Christmas Special in 1973 had a version of Windmills of Your Mind with Hannah Gordon https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0651160/
Fractals in nature: https://www.diygenius.com/fractals-in-nature/
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146316/
Auguries of Innocence by William Blake: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43650/auguries-of-innocence
“I can’t carry it, but I can carry you.” Samwise Gamgee to Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings Return of the King. http://www.councilofelrond.com/moviebook/6-03-mount-doom/
“A time to sow and a time to reap” The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:2
My Grandfathers Axe/ The Ship of Theseus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzKH8_EXG3Q
How to find us online
Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Episode 76 – Meditation for Njord
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- Train Simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Simulator_(video_game) We underestimated – there’s over $8k of downloadable content in this game...
- Gromit chasing a penguin on a train - The chase scene from Wallace and Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrmZIgVoQw4
- The Train Chase from Ant Man (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxJNpBZmksM
- Wotsits: cheese flavour maize snack: https://walkers-snacks.co.uk/walkers-wotsits
- Little blue guys with red hair – the Wee Free Men – first appearing in the 30th Discworld book from Sir Terry Pratchett https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/the-wee-free-men/
- Epsilion Eridani, now called Ran: https://www.universeguide.com/star/sadira
- Thazi’s Eyes – a twin constellation fro norse Astronomy: http://www.digitaliseducation.com/resources-norse.html
- Can the Mountains Love the Sea? Our storytime episode from November 2017 telling the story of the marriage of Njord and Skathi https://tac.podbean.com/e/frithcast-episode-22-can-the-mountains-love-the-sea/
- How to find us online
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Episode 75 – Using Mantras and Short Prayer
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- “The plays the thing...” Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2.
- Bismillah – Arabic: https://wahiduddin.net/words/bismillah.htm
- Ecclesiastical hours - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_Hours
- Retail Chaplains - http://www.retailchaplains.org.uk/
- You are free to use the mantras in this episode in your own personal practice, let us know how you get on :)
- How to find us online
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Episode 74 – The One With 20 Giant Cats
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- “Exits stage left” Bluebottle, from the Goon Show
- The Watershed: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/advice-for-consumers/television/what-is-the-watershed
- Cracked: https://www.cracked.com/
- Cats: https://www.catsthemusical.com/
- The Rise of Skywalker (2019): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527338/
- “Walking uphill both ways….” ‘When I was your age’ trope - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhenIWasYourAge
- Diablo - https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Diablo_(Game)
- Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
- Mirror Universe – from Star Trek: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mirror_universe
- Pokemon Trainer – from Pokemon: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Trainer
- “We were set upon by like, five, ten, twenty big… huge lads” From Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (1991)
- Smudging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudging
- Ghostwatch https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41740176
- Starks – from Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/House_Stark
- Obelix – from Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
- Road Runner from the Wile. E Coyote cartoons https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Road_Runner
- The guards in the Count of Monte Cristo: to escape from the Chateau D’If Edmond Dantes has swapped himself for the body of his friend The Priest, and put himself in the body bag to be thrown over the cliff. As he gets thrown off the clifftop, he grabs the keys at the Wardens belt and takes the Warden with him (2002)
- Captain Mal Reynolds, naked on a rock: from the opening of Firefly episode 11 ‘Trash’ https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Trash
- Terrordogs – from Ghostbusters https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Terror_dogs_(Type_of_Creatures)
- Doppleganger https://www.britannica.com/art/doppelganger
- Jedi and the dark side – from Star Wars https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-101-servants-of-the-dark-side
- The saga with the 20 giant cats in is Vatnsdæla saga which you can find an article about here: https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2014/08/25/they-are-a-gruesome-lot/ here https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/vatnsdaela-saga/ and here
- https://www.usask.ca/english/icelanders/applic_Vatns-Grettla.html
- ‘Three coins in a fountain’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Coins_in_the_Fountain_(film)
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Wednesday Jan 01, 2020
Wednesday Jan 01, 2020
Episode 73 – Lifestyles of the Rich and Faithful
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- The Great Conjunction, Chamberlain and Aughra, both from the Dark Crystal (1982): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/
- Geralt, from The Witcher (book series and TV series) https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Geralt_of_Rivia
- Superman, character from DC Comics: https://www.dccomics.com/characters/superman
- “Panem Tomorrow, Panem Forever” From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00F51BBV6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
- Farewell Angelina – Joan Baez - the earworm is yours now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcwP2ulxDdY
- Graffiti from Pompeii: http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
- Thing 1 and Thing 2 - Dr Zeus: https://seuss.fandom.com/wiki/Thing_One_and_Thing_Two
- Global Heathen Survey: http://www.heathenhof.com/world-wide-heathenry/
- North of the Wall – from Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Beyond_the_Wall
- Tiny Houses, such as Tumbleweed: https://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ and a good article here: https://www.countryliving.com/home-design/g1887/tiny-house/
- Skyrim, Elder Scrolls game: https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/skyrim
- Havamal: https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html
- “Be Excellent to each other” from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/
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